VILLIAN: Soon you will be dead Mr. Bond.
DREW (BOND):Well, aren't you going to tell me your evil plan to take over the world?
VILLIAN: Haha! I'm not falling for THAT old trick.
Posted on 12/02/2004 6:32:50 PM PST by aculeus
A leading black actor, 6ft 4in Colin Salmon, emerged last night as a front-runner to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in the next 007 adventure.
Noted for a deep, commanding voice, the 41-year-old actor already has a recurring role in the Bond series as Charles Robinson, M's suave chief-of-staff.
The chance to promote him, while startling, would not be unexpected. The Broccoli family, who are casting the film, the 21st in the series, are said to fear that the films have become anachronistic.
They told Brosnan they wanted to "go in a new direction".
Initially, this was taken to mean that they were turning away from the special effects and high-tech gadgetry to update Casino Royale, Ian Fleming's first Bond book.
The feeling is that despite the vast profits from the last movie, Barbara Broccoli, whose father Cubby made the early Bonds, and Michael Wilson, her step-brother and partner at Eon Productions, are anxious to make a more hard-boiled thriller.
Speculation about Salmon, who was born in Luton, stems from a sudden rush of unusually large bets on him. Warren Lush, a spokesman for Ladbrokes, said yesterday: "They have come out of nowhere, with sums like £500 apiece. These are huge bets for what is really a novelty wager.
"The suspicion is they may be being placed by people, or spies out there, in the know. So we have temporarily closed the book on the next Bond, as we don't want to get out fingers burned."
Until now, the favourite was Dougray Scott, whose play, Becket, closes in London's West End in a fortnight. Ewan McGregor was also a runner until he accepted his latest stage role.
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VILLIAN: Soon you will be dead Mr. Bond.
DREW (BOND):Well, aren't you going to tell me your evil plan to take over the world?
VILLIAN: Haha! I'm not falling for THAT old trick.
From Thunderball as he finds Lucianna Paluzzi in his tub.
If you have ever known any real MI6 agents...you'd know that most of them are gay anyway...
LOL!
And yes, i remember that you get to keep Mel!
I don't know. Barack Obama's mother is White and he has brown eyes. I think it's a freak of genetics. Cool, but freaky.
Is that the guy from Miami Vice?
LOL. That's not water filling the tank it's the Cleveland Bond wetting himself.
Yep, let's have a homosexual Bond. That would be a fun episode. Or, a Bond who is blind. That's good for diversity.
Genetics can get a little wacky. My mother reminds me of this fact all the time *LOL*
NO THANK YOU! A gauranteed money loser!
yeah. I think the actor they're talking about looks like him.
*gack*
Even now, as we are typing... the man is relentness in his pursuit of justice.
Excuse me, I don't mean this to be racist, but James Bond is NOT a black man. How ridiculous this is.
Bill Clinton as the first black Bond? No thank you. Think of it, all the Bond girls would be fat chicks.
What?!?! Tim...you like Tim as James, shaken not stired, Bond...holy smokes!
Ok..you can have him. Anthony Hopkins is mine, however. (I saw his latest angiogram *LOL*)
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