Barbara seems intent on killing the franchise.
Complete Re-invention = trash
Idris said he isn’t going to play Bond, ever.
Idris said this week that he had no desire to play the character as he “is” Luther and wants to do those movies.
I’d like Tom Hardy myself.
Bond! Trans Bond!
My pet peeve. The Brocollis control the use of Bond, except for Casino Royale and Thunderball. So when they make a movie they call it “official 25” etc. But that leave out the farcical Casino Royale with Niven and Sellers and the Connery starring Never Say never. So there are 27 Bond films in the can, not 25 and the next one will be 28 no matter who produces it.
Media: stop letting the Brocollis miscount the number of movies.
Also, in 1954 Casino Royale appeared as a live play on American TV and starred Barry Nelson and Peter Lorre.
They’re still making these? What for, the movies have sucked since the Connery/Moore era ended.
The Bond is Female.
Complete reinvention = Vaginated Bond.
I would love to see a new Bond series start in the mid-1950s and work its way up to the “Swingin’ ‘60s,” as Fleming’s books did. Setting the series in that period would be a bonanza for creative writing, production design, photography, costuming, you name it. The actors would probably love playing in a “period piece” as well.
It would be fun to see the development and return of some of Q’s gadgets (Little Nellie, anyone? The original Aston Martin DB5?), and the evolution of continuing characters like M and Moneypenny. The occasional cameo appearance of a young Queen Elizabeth and / or Prince Phillip would be, as they say, smashing. If handled well, with good stories and kinetic action, I think audiences would really flock to something like this.
A “period” series like that sets up so many possibilities. Even tossed-off, offhand dialogue could be loads of fun. I could picture, for example, Bond and Felix Leiter having cocktails in Jamaica:
FELIX: Did you see that cable this morning? I had to laugh, it was so unbelievable.
BOND: I missed it. I had a rather late night.
FELIX: What else is new? It concerned the murder of Hans Schmid. You know of him?
BOND: An agent with the Gehlen Organization ... Really a detestable fellow. I can’t say I’m surprised someone thought he might be worth a bullet.
FELIX: (Leaning in) Maybe this might surprise you, James. He was beheaded ...
BOND: That does seem a touch excessive.
FELIX: ... by a bowler, with a razor-sharp brim.
BOND: (Actually surprised) Well. That is a new one. I wonder if Q might make one in a Harris Tweed?
As I say, the possibilities seem really endless. :)
Homosexual fighting Global Warming. Good Riddance James.
The next James Bond will be black, a woman or a tranny (or a black woman tranny). White male actors need not apply.
Next Bond ? It’ll be Scaty Abrams.
The next Bond film should star Daniel Craig (a few years prior to the death) in a remake of Live and Let Die with the drug being fentanyl, and light brown people replacing dark brown people.
The remake theme would be as the original, only with Sting as the vocalist.
Really, they need to do fifties Bond, and the first story needs to be a book-accurate Moonraker, with the bridge game, Nazis, submarines and that fantastic three-way car chase.
Female, black, transgender. HAS to be by Hollyweird standards.
Richard Madden could do it. Loved him in Bodyguard.
I have not seen a Bond film in like 15 years, it is unlikely I will again unless Christopher Eccleston is cast.
Invent your own hero and leave Bond alone.