NPR

Yer Man wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:52 pm

Un Pilier wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:04 pm 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?

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:48 pm

Hugo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:57 am 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.

lilyw wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:48 pm

robmatic wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:48 am

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:58 pm 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.

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:33 am
Ticks the black lesbian box though.

Nols wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:06 pm

Hellraiser wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:33 am
Ticks the black lesbian box though.

Giggitty




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

ASMO wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 5:18 pm

Yer Man wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:52 pm

Un Pilier wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:04 pm 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------>

New guy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:34 pmI haven't seen the wire tbf.