summerisle

I read in the paper at the weekend that the screenwriter on the new Bond Film, Casino Royale, is writing the film for a younger Bond (28 was mentioned [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img] )

Could this be because they cant get anybody of the right age (40ish) to play him? Or have they in mind somebody totally wrong like Orlando Bloom????? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]

Fellwanderer

Oh God [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif[/img]

Looks like he must be aiming for the pre-teen market where anyone approaching 30 is merely clinging on to life by their fingertips [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif[/img]

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samkydd

Bond:They'll probably get some youth from a soap to play Bond, and a load of others as supporting cast:

Moneypenny: Hi-yah Jimmi, bet you can't get your baseball cap on to that coathook from there?

Bond: No f***in' problem but I'm keepin' it on know what I mean!

Moneypenny: M's expecting you, like ten minutes ago, you're to go straight in.

Bond: Whatever! I so don't wanna go on any mishuns this week, Q's fixin' me up wi a test drive o'
that new Vauxhall Corsa. It's got aircon, alloys and MP3 n' stuff! Dead wicked like, and a
colour coded body kit!

Moneypenny: Well don't keep the old misery guts waiting. Fancy a shag later on, I've had me clit pierced!

Bond: Oh aye that sounds dead good. I'll show you the new tattoo I've 'ad on my arse!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Steve Crook

That sounds frighteningly plausible, especially if Moneypenny has that annoying High Rising Terminal questioning intonation imported from Aussie soaps.

Steve

samkydd

The new breed of soapsters are a lot less talented than the old breed, many of whom came from backgrounds in the theatre and film and knew how to play a character. If you took a load of the under 30s from all the soaps and put them in a room chatting, guaranteed you'd either fall asleep within ten minutes or bang on the door pleading to be let out!

So when they've tired of the routine of working in soaps ie. getting up early every day, and they've made enough money for the obligatory tacky sports car and cocaine habit, some drooling pillock of a producer decides to find "a suitable vehicle for their talent" and sets about creating a TV series or remake to accommodate the individual "next big thing" soapster!

Now you and I would think that "a suitable vehicle for their talent" would be working on a dustcart or selling hot dogs from a caravan in a lay-by, but no, they get a TV series all to themselves and go about proving that they are really as crap as you first thought!

After the ratings for the new series drop from say 3 million one week down to members of their immediate family the next, they eventually find their rightful home doing adverts for indegestion tablets, plus Celebrity Millionaire and Stars in Their Eyes once a year, and of course the panto season with an explanatory paragraph on the posters explaining who he or she is and what soap they were once in years before!

So soapsters doing Bond would naturally be the next move towards the total destruction of the film and television industry, after all it only took a few short years to destroy the music industry, and now I'm excited listening to new rock bands from Stockholm for goodness sake! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img]

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

samkydd

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"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Marky B

Hi summerisle,
I'm just as bad for reading speculation in the papers,but my criticism is not aimed at you,it is at the producers of the Bond franchise for allowing the speculation to go out of control. I doubt Cubby Brocolli would have allowed this situation to have gone this far. It is getting ridiculous that no one has been chosen to replace Pierce Brosnan and we are still getting denials from the actors mentioned to replace him,and then in another breath in another part of the world they say they might be interested.
I'm a big fan of the 007 movies and I was getting interested in the prospect of a Bond less dependent on gadgets (anything to get rid of John Cleese's Q/Basil Fawlty),but using more of his quick thinking (like Jason Bourne) and I agree summerisle they should be looking at someone circa forty (don't forget,he is an ex-Royal Navy Commander) to fill in the role. However,if the speculation is right,then I for one will be reluctant to see the new film.
To sum up,though,I think Barbara Brocolli and Michael Wilson should give out some sort of press conference on what future lies ahead for cinema's most profitable movie franchise.
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Steve Crook

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img]-->What makes you think that the producers have any control over it?

The newspapers can make a big story out of a tiny whisper of a rumour from the studios.
And if they don't get that whisper, they will just make it up.

Modern newspaper writing is closer to writing fiction than journalism.

Steve

Wolfgang

I think Orlando Bloom would be good. He has proved his talent in films like Lord of Rings, Troy and Pirates of Caribbean. Sean Connery was only three years older when he made Dr No.

Fellwanderer

Yes - but Sean Connery looked much older than 32!

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summerisle

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img]-->perhaps its time to wind the whole thing up. i would prefer to see the old fashioned espionage type film that requires a brain to watch rather than another bloody die hard clone

the article i read wasnt press speculation but an interview with the screenwriter in question. a link to the story on the bbc website is below. every cloud has a silver lining though, as he also said "No Q, no gadgets!!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...lm/4256024.stm

Fellwanderer

Then, of course, the espionage film could not realistically [a misnomer if ever there was one] be set in the present.

I agree with you though - much better to see the skillful use of intelligence than a quick wham, bang... [no, I'm not completing that samkydd!]

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samkydd

I think Jenny Agutter would have made a marvellous Bond girl, or even a Moneypenny!

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Fellwanderer

Pheew! Glad my blood pressure is normal and I have a very low pulse rate [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/innocent.gif[/img]

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