Agreed. Here are publicity shots of another candidate from the far reaches of the British Empire.
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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Dougray Scott is awesome, oh I wish they would pick him.
With everything going on with the film world nowadays, it wouldn`t surprise me if they made him play a "gay" Bond.
You did know that James Bond was secretly gay, didn`t you?
I thought Brosnan was the one who chose to leave?
As long as they don't pick a black as Bond's woman... otherwise, it'll be "Barbershop"...
Mandingo was a stupid movie.
I think Revrund Al would be poifect choice.
Russell Crowe would be better....
Agreed. Here are publicity shots of another candidate from the far reaches of the British Empire.
I feel a bit sorry for all these wannabees, Sean Connery IS James Bond. The rest are poor copies.
JMHO
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Timothy Dalton was a great Bond, I wish they had kept him.
Now he can say "An African-Briton in Greenwich. Good thinkin' Bond."
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No way. Horrible. You and I have to fight now! *LOL*
There were rumors he had a fan.
BTTT
That's the best suggestion so far:
They actually could do an entire series on a gracefully aging James Bond; back to do sophisticated good stuff for queen and country, in the meantime introducing new Watsons and new Mrs. Riggs as up and coming stars for yet another series.
Unfortunately, Hollywood's imagination runs as far as the next anti-Bush rally and no further.
The much more likely PC Bond will make the same marks as did Star wars 1 & 2 (4 & 5?):
meaning heavy duty money losers.
How's about "Bond's Gate" for the next non-Flemming (ersatz) 007 flick? They could have their selected spokesperson spend four or five hours boring us all by repeating Tom Cruse 'mission unwatchable' computer augmented stunts while being chased by Brittany Spears wanna-bes [but certainly not dwarfs, gigandos, bald headed gays, or fat ladies] and end it all with a studio staged crash into the Pentagon.
Whoopee!
Staged violence with an 'appropriate' purpose....
LOL the best Apu episode was when Homer was helping him study for his citizenship test.
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