Bond - who's next

[Un Pilier]

Idris Elba would make a great Bond, but I’d insist on a role for Alice too if they bother to ask me.

Who the fuck is Alice?

:D :D

[Hugo]

I read a couple of Fleming's novels many years ago and from recollection the character was I believe a Swiss-Scot. I'm genuinely surprised that the franchise is still going, I have not watched one of the films since Pierce Brosnan retired from the role.

There’s a back-story to that. Fleming was still writing the books when the films started getting made, and he really didn’t approve of the studio casting Sean Connery in the role. Until he actually saw Dr No, and he was so impressed with Connery that he wrote in the half-Scottish half-Swiss ancestry in his later books.

At least that’s the story I’ve read. Someone else will probably come along with a Snopes link or similar to say it’s rubbish and the dates don’t match, but hey, it’s a good story.

That's brilliant! I love these types of quirks and oddities.

[New guy]

I’d have loved them to cast Idris Elba, as was rumoured at one point. He’s 47 now though (good age!) so maybe the time has been and gone.

Possibly too old now but I agree, he would have been a good suave, brooding, manly Bond.

There would, however, have been a whole load of bullshit from the PC Gone Mad brigade about our unfeasibly competent fantasy super spy having an unrealistic skin colour.

I fail to see the hype about him. I thought that he was beyond wooden in Luther - there is no way that I can see him with the charisma to carry a franchise. He reminds me of early Matthew McConaughey - a perfectly decent actor being shoehorned into lead roles that don't play to his strengths.

I feel like he plays the same character in everything he's in.

[Nols]

Ticks the black lesbian box though.

Giggitty




Elba quite clearly played a very different type of character in the Wire.

[New guy]

Ticks the black lesbian box though.

Giggitty




Elba quite clearly played a very different type of character in the Wire.

I haven't seen the wire tbf.

Everything I've seen him in he plays a variation of Luther.

[lilyw]

Idris Elba would make a great Bond, but I’d insist on a role for Alice too if they bother to ask me.

Who the fuck is Alice?

I think she lives next door ------------------------------------------------------------------------>

She's gone now. She moved away in a big limousine

[Akkerman]

I haven't seen the wire tbf.