New James Bond

[Dark Jezter]

Orlando Bloom is too young and too much of a pretty-boy to play James Bond. I definately wouldn't pick him unless I was trying to sell the James Bond franchise to 14-year-old girls.

Of all the choices I've seen in this thread, Clive Owen gets my vote.

 

[Stormfalcon]

Hugh Jackson? Heath Ledger? Good actors, but not British. They've already proved that a non-Brit doesn't do well.

Funny, but I thought that a Scot named Sean Connory handled himself quite well in the role..

 

[takyris]

Ewan could do it. Take some of the dark stuff we saw in Trainspotting, the moments of raw intensity combined with utter disconnection from standard morals (Bond has no trouble getting his white hat a bit dirty if it gets the job done), and combine it with the suave self-assurance we (er, I, maybe) saw in Down with Love, and then add enough of the action-scene capability that we've gotten used to in the Star Wars films (sure, a lot of it is CG, but he's shown that he can follow choreographed fight movements well and with emotional sincerity, at least, in my mind), and you've got a pretty darn good Bond.

And my wife, who watched Down with Love with me, was, by all appearances, quite satisfied with Ewan in a tux -- which is, of course, an enormously important prereq for Bond-ism -- or, what should we call it? Bond-age?

 

[Dark Jezter]

I don't know if Enchantress and some of the other Bond fans in this thread were here a few weeks ago when I posted my Favorite Bond Movie poll, but here's the link if you want to check it out. There's some interesting Bond-related discussion in that thread.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Funny, but I thought that a Scot named Sean Connory handled himself quite well in the role..

Yeah. Sean - Scot. Pierce - Irish. George - Aussie. Timothy - Welsh. and...

Roger - English.

And of course: James - English.

 

[Frostmarrow]

So now we are eager looking forward to an American, an Indian, or a South African dude.

 

[Thanee]

Well, Robbie Williams, of course!

Uhm... uhm... Vin Diesel?

Bye
Thanee

 

[dpmcalister]

Funny, but I thought that a Scot named Sean Connory handled himself quite well in the role..

Hate to burst your bubble but Scotland IS part of Britain!

And of course: James - English.

Actually, if you read the novels he's half Scottish/half Swiss!

 

[Chimera]

Ah yes, the things one's mind puts together as the eyes scan past the thread titles.

We are Borg....James Borg...

 

[Stormfalcon]

Hate to burst your bubble but Scotland IS part of Britain!

Not quite. They're part of the United Kingdom. They're not part of Britain (which is the dominant part of the UK). In fact, I would not be the one to tell a Scot that he's actually British. They tend to be peevish about such matters...