How about Denzel?
I recently saw the Branagh Much Ado About Nothing. He'd be a fine choice. Not very quippy, but the part didn't call for that.
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Fred Pete - Aug 02, 2004 8:40:26 am PDT #1927 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2004 8:46:28 am PDT #1928 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nothing against Denzel or Yun Fat, but isn't a big part of re-casting Bond to make him younger again? I think they are each too old to just be starting as Bond. You need a 35-40 year old, so he can do Bond for 10 years.
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2004 8:49:03 am PDT #1929 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A thousand years from now, the heads of studios will meet in a special room to pick the next James Bond. Folks will know when the new Bond has been chosen by the color of the smoke coming out the building's chimney.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2004 8:51:00 am PDT #1930 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nothing against Denzel or Yun Fat, but isn't a big part of re-casting Bond to make him younger again?
I have a sneaking suspicion that's not the big obstacle in their way.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2004 8:53:50 am PDT #1931 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have a sneaking suspicion that's not the big obstacle in their way.
This is why I should be in charge of everything. "It's not that he's Chinese, it's that he's too old!"
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2004 9:53:10 am PDT #1932 of 10001
brillig
I really don't care so much about who's going to be Bond. Is Judi Dench going to continue as M, and what about Q?
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2004 9:56:09 am PDT #1933 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is Judi Dench going to continue as M, and what about Q?
Let's satisfy everyone! Chow Yun-Fat as M, and Don Cheadle as Q.
Although, really, they really need Kevin Weisman as Q. Cause.
sumi - Aug 02, 2004 9:56:35 am PDT #1934 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
There was a movie with Clive Owen AND Alan Rickman?
Also, to me Clive Owen looks to thoughtful to be completely thuggish -- but I'm not English and I don't get the accent thing.
Scrappy - Aug 02, 2004 10:01:16 am PDT #1935 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It's called Close my Eyes I think. Clive is naked in it, a lot. Not a great film, but, you know, naked Clive and some interesting clothed moments as well.
ETA--I saw Intimacylast night. It starts a Mark Rylance, who is a very well-respected stage actor who does the occasional movie. This film had an actual blow job (or I guess shots of one) in it on release, which caused a big stir at the time, but it was cut for cable TV. It's about a couple who meet once a week for anonymous sex, until, inevitably, it all goes bad. Rylance and Kerry Fox, the female lead, were both very good, very nuanced, and the always brilliant Timothy Spall is excellent but the film didn't ultimately seem to amount to much. Once you get past the, wow, these sex scenes are very realistic, aren't they? factor, the rest of the story is awfully slight with delusions of profundity.
Burrell - Aug 02, 2004 11:06:44 am PDT #1936 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I don't know Eric Bana from Adam, so I can't really opine on what kind of Bond he'd make, but I do think that either Jackman or Owen could have filled out the tux nicely. Ah well.
Saw Down with Love the other day. Very cute!