• NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.

Who should be the new James Bond? (merged with "Brosnan Quits" Thread)


log in or register to remove this ad


I would have to say that I am a classic bond fan with Goldfinger being my favorite. I love the Connery bond movies except for Diamonds are Forever. They seemed to have a harder edge than the later Bond movies. Connery's Bond could be a swave charmer one minute and a pretty vicious agent the next. The Moore Bond movies started to get a bit too campy for me. Though I still enjoyed them with Live and Let Die being my favorite.
 

Considering that I couldn't bring myself to even see the last Bond film, this does not make me optimistic. Bronsnan was, IMHO, a very good Bond. He was better than pretty much all of them (except maybe Connery). However he only had one good movie (I liked Goldeneye), and a bunch of weak ones. If someone could have given him some decent scripts, it could have been a wonder to see.

buzzard
 


Joshua Dyal said:
No, no, that one was View to a Kill -- a case where the theme song was much better than the movie. :(

Hey any movie with Tonyan Roberts AND Grace Jones can't be all bad ;) .

My favorite James Bond Movie is also The Living Daylights, though it's a close call with that and Goldfinger.
The Pierce Brosnan ones have been hit and miss for me and the last one being almost all miss.
 

Whisperfoot said:
There comes a time to just retire a movie franchise, and I think Bond has gotten to that point.
Another option would be to ditch the whole notion of Bond as a contemporary spy and film any new movies as period pieces, set back in the 1950's, during the early years of the Cold War.
 

*sigh*

Brosnan had the potential to be the best Bond ever. Unfortunately, the scripts he got were crap. I'm definitely in the camp that the franchise should be retired.
 


Pierce Brosnan quits the role of James Bond

As now reported in many news sources around the World (including: Chicago Sun Times & MKKBB), CBn can now confirm from its own sources close to the negotiations for Bond 21 that Pierce Brosnan will not be returning to the role of James Bond.

Brosnan had previously stated that he was good for five, perhaps six films, tying him with Sean Connery’s term with Eon. This no longer seems to be case.

Brosnan has stepped into the role of 007 four times (Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day). Each film he made did better in the global market than the previous one, with DAD being second only to Thunderball in adjusted total worldwide gross. Die Another Day also saw the theme song nominated for two Grammy Awards and featured an acadamy award winning actress (Halle Berry) as the main Bond girl.

However, Brosnan's term was not without controversy. Some fans felt that Bond had gone too far into the world gadgets and pop culture, while others complained about poor plots and dialogue. Brosnan himself was injured in each of the films he made, hurting his back in the final fight sequence of GE, having his face cut open in TND, getting burned in the back while filming TWINE, and most famously, hurting his knee while filming the hovercraft sequence in DAD.

Negotiations finalising Brosnan’s Bond 21 contract are said to have ceased, and the search for the next James Bond is well underway. Though no replacement has been found at this time, filming of Bond 21 is still reported to begin in early 2005. Eon Productions is said to be waiting to make an announcement until Brosnan’s successor is named.

But even when the sixth James Bond steps into the gunbarrel, for many Bond fans young and old, Pierce Brosnan’s tenure will cast a heavy shadow over those that follow for he succeeded in entertaining millions. CBn wish Mr. Brosnan all the best for the future, and all the best to the forthcoming Bond number six.

Source: http://www.commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/2264-1.shtml

Should be interesting to see who is the next guy to fill in 007's shoes. I thought Brosnan did a pretty good job as Bond. Connery is still the best, but Brosnan was far better than Lazenby or Dalton, and probably on the same level as Moore.

Thoughts from other Bond fans?
 

Into the Woods

Remove ads

Top