They could keep Craig as Bond if he was up for a cameo since his character apparently quit at the end of the last movie, thus setting the stage for a new 007.
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You had me at Peter Lorre.
However- the 67 Casino Royale had several women as Bond.
“ The film’s tagline: “Casino Royale is too much… for one James Bond!” refers to Bond’s ruse to mislead SMERSH in which six other agents are pretending to be “James Bond”, namely, baccarat master Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers); millionaire spy Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress); Bond’s secretary Miss Moneypenny(Barbara Bouchet); Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet), Bond’s daughter by Mata Hari; and British agents “Coop” (Terence Cooper) and “The Detainer” (Daliah Lavi).”
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The real question is, will the new 007 share James Bond’s Baccarat skills?!?
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“Huit a la Banque,” sounds dirty.
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They could - but part of me wants her to walk into the office throw her hat on the hat stand and flirt with Moneypenny without missing a beat or explaining anything.
The Daniel Craig cameo solution is probably more robust solution for a foundation of the movie.
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Just wait until they find out she likes her martinis stirred, not shaken.
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That’s like claiming your croque monsieur is too cheesy. The novels were cheesy-by-design, with occasional meanders into seriousness. The 1967 Casino Royale was pretty much a comedy, with David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen. If anything, you could criticize the post-Connery/Moore Bond movies as being too serious to be consistent with the source material.
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Nerve appears to have been touched.
Even when you designate Roger Moore, I still read it in my mind with Sean Connery’s voice.
Given that the literary Bond was Scottish (and Swiss on his mother’s side), it lends credence to the perspective that Connery is the ultimate Bond.
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i was hoping for idris elba, but this will do q, this will do…
I thought the pick was a good one. A serious damaged bond was an interesting change.
But also, his build and presence reminded me of Sean Connery (if someone had a go at him with Nair). His outfits at moments invoked the Roger Moore Bond.
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as long as it’s a good movie i don’t care. iirc there was a bunch of whining about captain marvel, i went to see it at alamo and it was good.
lady ghostbusters was not good, and i didn’t like that, just like i didn’t like the other matrix movies we don’t talk about
but imho when people get weirdly angry about lady ghostbusters but don’t yell at the wachowski siblings it betrays some bias
tldr: yes, maximize the butthurt, it gives me nourishment
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which spider man specifically there;'s been so many
Fun fact: Fleming retconned Bond’s Scottish ancestry into the books after Connery’s debut as Bond.
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My response to Daniel Craig’s casting;
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Craig is my 2nd-favorite Bond behind Connery.
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Behind Connery, it’s Pierce Bronson for me.
Remington Steele, forever.
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The second actor to portray Bond, in a radio adaptation of Moonraker, may be familiar to British Boingers of a certain age:
I shit you not.
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Neat.
Like some here i’ve never been a fan of the franchise at all but this might encourage me to go see my first bond film in the cinema. Personally, i think that the score has often made the films watchable and if you take that out you’re not really left with much of worth.
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It was Remington Steele that stopped Brosnan becoming Bond eight years earlier: he was offered the part, but NBC held him to his contract.
But that meant we got Timothy Dalton, who was objectively a better Bond.
*ducks*
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