The James Bond Thread
Discussion
I really can't see Idris Elba as Bond. Don't get me wrong I really like him in Luther and he was even fairly watchable when he did a show about cars but Bond's looks are described in some of the books and Idris doesn't really fit these descriptions (as looking like Hoagy Carmichael). That's not me being anti-PC, that's him not fitting the descriptions the original author described.
If people are so hung up on Elba playing a Bond role and want it to happen, wouldn't it be fairly easy to kill Bond off and assign Idris Elba a different "double o" number and have him take off from where Bond left. That way you could still have the same set up, gadgets, Q/M/Moneypenny etc etc
If people are so hung up on Elba playing a Bond role and want it to happen, wouldn't it be fairly easy to kill Bond off and assign Idris Elba a different "double o" number and have him take off from where Bond left. That way you could still have the same set up, gadgets, Q/M/Moneypenny etc etc
chrisga said:
I really can't see Idris Elba as Bond. Don't get me wrong I really like him in Luther and he was even fairly watchable when he did a show about cars but Bond's looks are described in some of the books and Idris doesn't really fit these descriptions (as looking like Hoagy Carmichael). That's not me being anti-PC, that's him not fitting the descriptions the original author described.
If people are so hung up on Elba playing a Bond role and want it to happen, wouldn't it be fairly easy to kill Bond off and assign Idris Elba a different "double o" number and have him take off from where Bond left. That way you could still have the same set up, gadgets, Q/M/Moneypenny etc etc
I would say that Timothy Dalton is closest to Ian Fleming's description of Bond.If people are so hung up on Elba playing a Bond role and want it to happen, wouldn't it be fairly easy to kill Bond off and assign Idris Elba a different "double o" number and have him take off from where Bond left. That way you could still have the same set up, gadgets, Q/M/Moneypenny etc etc
chrisga said:
nonsequitur said:
I would say that Timothy Dalton is closest to Ian Fleming's description of Bond.
I also think George Lazenby was pretty close.Ian Flemings sketch of Bond:
Hoagy Carmichael:
Timothy Dalton:
George Lazenby:
And his brother Peter
I always though Bond was just a glamorous version of Ian Fleming and his job and tastes and likes and dislikes with aspects of his brother thrown in.
El stovey said:
Bonds just an imaginary character though. What any future bonds physically looks like has little importance to me. He probably should be attractive to woman though and British but that’s about it in my view.
Yep an imaginary character than I imagine in a certain way already. Beauty of that being that is different to how anyone else sees him I guess.IMO if Bond was a new character then by all means, anyone could play him/her, but as we know a bit of background about him, personally I think I still need them to be believable in the role they are fulfilling. But I understand others may take different things away and the actual person playing the character may be less important than the story/action. As i mentioned before I'm sure there are no ends of spin offs that could occur just using different double 0 numbers if you need different actors to reprise similar roles.
chrisga said:
El stovey said:
I always though Bond was just a glamorous version of Ian Fleming and his job and tastes and likes and dislikes with aspects of his brother thrown in.
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