Pierce Brosnan to return as Bond in 'Casino Royale?'

Daniel Craig looks like an east end thug (so does Clive owen) or a fisherman.

Hardly Bond material!
 
Erling said:
my personal favorite is and remains Timothy Dalton.

:eek:

/em call the lynch mob :D

I thought the choice of Dalton for all the 80s Bond films was somewhat fitting, the 80s were actually that bad :rotfl:
 
Timothy Dalton was OK,but Roger Moore was just a ladies man too much and made the films more of a comedy and not enough seriousness!!
The Irony is that one of my all time favourites is a Roger Moore one.Pierce Brosnan imho is the best so far and certainly equal to Sean Connery.
 
Brosnan has been a pretty good Bond. I think we'll see him back in the role. Roger Moore used to play this "hold-out" game almost every time a new movie was announced.

Have to throw my hat into the Dalton ring. A superb Bond, and brought several interesting layers to the character -especially in "License to Kill"- that none of the others have managed. He was in the process of actually giving the franchise the grit and edge it so badly needed after Moore and still needs today.

A shame that we didn't see more than two movies from Dalton. :(

"Die Another Day" - a fun romp, granted, but moved as far away from Bond territory than any entry to date. Also, the over reliance on CGI in that movie took much of the excitement from it. The thing that made earlier Bonds so exciting was knowing that most of those stunts were performed for real, and they blow away any CGI generated action any day.

Ironically some of the best are from the Moore era. The ski jump in "The Spy Who Loved Me", the freefall parachute flight in "Moonraker", and the Citroen car chase, the mountain climbing sequence and the ski chase on the bobsled run all in "For Your Eyes Only", to name but a few... :smashin:
 
http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-04-07/

Gosh Daniel Craig seems closer now.

But man, looking at the photos of him in imdb, he looks more like suited for thug roles than hero roles.

Barbara Broccoli, give me a break!

Wasabi
 
the_pauley said:
Have to throw my hat into the Dalton ring. A superb Bond,

A shame that we didn't see more than two movies from Dalton. :(

"Die Another Day" - a fun romp, granted, but moved as far away from Bond territory than any entry to date. Also, the over reliance on CGI in that movie took much of the excitement from it. The thing that made earlier Bonds so exciting was knowing that most of those stunts were performed for real, and they blow away any CGI generated action any day.

Ironically some of the best are from the Moore era. The ski jump in "The Spy Who Loved Me", the freefall parachute flight in "Moonraker", and the Citroen car chase, the mountain climbing sequence and the ski chase on the bobsled run all in "For Your Eyes Only", to name but a few... :smashin:


agree with Dalton. He was IMO very good as Bond and I wish he had got a few more, but to be honest I think Brosnan just shades it.
Die Another Day was WAY to removed from Bond for me. Sure it looked good, and had all the CGI that audiences demand now adays, but for me the producers are in danger of making this legend unrecognisable from what Broccoli intended. For me Connery was Bond (nothing to do with him being an Edinburgh boy as well), and Brosnan is close second. For me Moore was better suited to the 'Dukes of Hazzard' although to be fair I did enjoy 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and also 'Live and Let Die'.
Also I just watched TSWLM and the ski-ing really hasn't dated well. But these were the days, I really enjoyed that movie.
 
Also I just watched TSWLM and the ski-ing really hasn't dated well.
I'm not talking about the ski-ing, I'm talking about the ski-jump off the mountain that turns into the parachute jump. Nothing dated about that - still breathtaking :smashin:
 
Another name that I haven't seen touted, but can see in the role:
Denzel Washington.
Discuss...

(As for past Bonds: Connery best followed by Brosnan)
 
I'm looking forward to seeing Dalton again on tv (still haven't been bothered enough to buy the Bond set on dvd. Too many other things to spend money on, like beer).

I do remember liking the slightly darker Bond after the over the top comedy of Moore.
Sure Connery was great but having grown up mainly with Moore as Bond, it was refreshing to watch Dalton and Brosnan.
Brosnan's my favourite.

I think future Bonds have to be either British or from a relatively recent British colony. Just for the whole essence of the Bond character.
 
RE: Denzel Washington

Well, I think he'd certainly be able to pull it off, he's a fine actor. But he'd never do it, he's big a star for the role IMO and I could never see him in a franchise movie. He seems like an actor who enjoys playing vastly different role. So while I could see him in bond type film I can't see him wanting to do a whole series of them.

As to weather i'd mind seeing him play bond, I wouldn't bother in the slightest. I'm not that much of a James Bond fan and i'm black so I wouldn't mind. As to how other would react to such a choice i'm not too sure.
 
A Bond has to be from the english isles, and white.

I don't mean that racist, but tradition is that it is a white english man.
 
James Bond English!? :rotfl: Well ONE was

Sean Connery - Scottish
George Lazenby - Australian
Roger Moore - English
Timmothy Dalton - Welsh
Pierce Brosnan - Irish

and if you have to include David Niven he was a Scot too
 
...and not forgetting Barry Nelson who was American!
 
I fisrt thought of Denzel Washington when trying to think of an American for Bond. I wasn't specifically trying to come up with a black Bond. I would agree that Bond has to be British, and certainly not with a strong regional accent. I don't see why Bond can't be black - rather Washington with an English accent than, say, Schwarzeneggar (OK, stupid example).
 
I reckon they could do a movie where Bond dies and Colin Salmon (played Charles Robinson in last few Bond films) could save the day/get revenge.

Of course it's unlikely studio execs would be brave enough to kill Bond (even though they killed Kirk).
 
Kenny Glasgow said:
James Bond English!? :rotfl: Well ONE was

Sean Connery - Scottish
George Lazenby - Australian
Roger Moore - English
Timmothy Dalton - Welsh
Pierce Brosnan - Irish

and if you have to include David Niven he was a Scot too

He's said English isles and let's face it that includes Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand... The Empire may be dead but England is the reason that there is a great in Britain :D

deny it if you will but history speaks for it's self and without us the scots would all still be wearing kilts and eating porridge :rotfl: :rotfl:

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only joking guys ;)
 
He's said English isles and let's face it that includes Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand...
Hmmm...

Can't seem to find The English Isles in any atlas. Can see a British Isles but Scotland and Wales don't look too much like islands...

;) :devil:
 
You know who I think would be perfect for the next James Bond...Jason Isaacs

He played a super spy in The Tuxedo and Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies.....he has the right build and I think he could pull it off quite easily.

I also think Ralph Fiennes could pull it off too. But yes, have to agree, Pierce Brosnon has been a great Bond, I also like Tim D (Jason Isaacs would be quite similar I think, but with a bit more humour perhaps). Any thoughts?

The worst option would probably be Colin Farrel, great actor (his performance in Phonebooth was superb I thought), but not Bond in my opinion.

EDIT: Jason Isaacs IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005042/
 
Same thing to an Englishman :smashin:

But yes, i meant British Isles,

Anyone from scotland, ireland, england etc etc is fine.

But an American playing a english spy agent :suicide:
 
Timothy Dalton brought a much needed "grittiness" back to the world of Bond, in his two outings (and it is a shame we didn't get to see more, as he's been the most like the Bond of the Fleming novels).

I've loved the Pierce films, but if you look at Goldeneye, he's pouting his way through that movie (someone pointed that out to me and only saw it when I re-watched it!), and Die Another Day was a BAD CGI-fest, alhtough the nods to the earlier films were extremely well done.

They shouldn't go for a "name" as the next Bond e.g. Colin Farell.

I'd love to see what Jason (not James!) Isaac's would do with the part - I think he'd be great.

T.
 
Has definately got be a no-name actor for this, a named star is goinog to bring too much baggage with them from their previous films.


You need someone who the blokes want to have beer with and the women have to wring their knickers out when they think of him.


I've just spent the past 20 minutes looking at the titles in my collection to see if I could see anyone who would be suitable and the only actor who came close enouhg in my mind was Mark Dacascos.

Obviously he can handle the physical side of things and he's not exactly John Merricks unmarriable brother.
 
the only problem is that he doesn't look classically English which the role requires.

I wouldn't mind seeing Mark Dacascos as a bad guy in a Bond film or given a chance in a leading role of a big Hollywood action production.
 

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