The Next James Bond

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Rumours are being banded about that Pierce Brosnan is ready to announce he's retiring from the role of James Bond after the next movie.
Which means the task of finding the next Bond actor. This is probably the most important decision in the whole industry. If they get the wrong actor, they screw up the entire Bond franchise.
IMO Mr Brosnan is the best Bond actor there has been.

A couple of names that are circulating as possible unners are:

Clive Owen - WHO?
Jude Law - PLEASE GOD NO!!??
Hugh Grant - TOO POSH!
Russell Crowe - A GOOD REPLACEMENT!!


The person that seems such a natural choice to be Bond in my mind is the class Keiffer Sutherland. A yank I know, but he could muster an English accent I'm sure - after all, his Dad's British!!
 
Clive Owen is awesome - he would be a perfect Bond.

He was Chancer in the show of the same name, and also played the smooth-as-all-hell driver in the BMW net adverts.
 
I have never, ever seen a James Bond film in my life. However, if Clive Owen was to be the new Bond, I would be the first in the cinema queue. He is sex on legs ;)
 
Kiefer Sutherland? Dreadful idea. Ditto Hugh Jackman, Mel Gibson and Jean-Claude Van Damme. :)

Of all the names being bandied about, the only one I'd really like to see in the role is Clive Owen. He's just very cool, and would revitalise the part. He's gone into overdrive denying he has been approached, but I think he must be in with a shot - and he must be interested, too, judging by both Croupier and the BMW thing. The latter was practically a screen test. Like Dalton, he has the brooding intensity of Fleming's original character, like Dalton he also has the acting chops. Unlike Dalton, though, he's capable of being light convincingly - in his roles in Close My Eyes, Chancer, Croupier, Gosford Park, he manages to bring a very nice wry deadpan cynicism that's perfect for Bond. He's like Brosnan in some ways, but with a greater intelligence and not such pretty looks. He'd be the first unpretty Bond since Connery. As Martin Campbell, who directed Goldeneye, said of Owen recently, he looks like if he hits someone, they would stay down.

I think Brosnan has been a great Bond in some mostly pretty crap Bond movies - he was a much better Bond, for example, in The Fourth Protocol. I reckon Owen would demand better scripts, and that he would get them. He has very rarely done crap and as a younger man, he'd be able to do what Brosnan did first film out and get a new lot of teenage boys on board. But he'd also get many more people. I think we'd see a darker, more brutal, more 60s style Connery Bond, and I think it could attract a lot of people who never normally watch these films, and return the franchise to something it hasn't provided in decades: decent thrillers. The first 20 minutes of Die Another Day showed that it can be taken in that direction. Ditch the invisible cars, the crap special effects that look like a Fox's Glaciers Mint ad and the dreadful plotting. Give us an intense spy thriller with Clive Owen in the role, and bring 007 back to life. It's the only way forward.
 
It will be Clive Owen I think...

The actors big name appeal doesn't matter... It just has to have the name Bond... and not blow like the last two bond films did... God were they turkeys!

they haven't learnt from the late 80's movies no doubt
 
Russell Crowe? No way! The actor playing Bond has to have the right attitude in real life as well as on screen and he does not.
 
I happen to think Clive Owen would make a great Bond...Hugh Jackman and Guy Pierce as well.

BTW...Keifer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland are Canadian not a yank or British. Donald Sutherland was born in St. John's, New Brunswick, and Keifer's maternal grandfather is famed Canadian politician Tommy Douglas.
 
Keifer was born in London but would still be a bad choice. Clive Owen is a few years away yet, neeRAB to get a bit more world weary, just like Brosnan would not have been right if he had come straight from Remington Steel.
 
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