The Future Of James Bond

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

So, is this Fassbender fellow any good? I haven't seen anything he's been in yet. Maybe Steve McQueen should be hired for BOND 25 and help Barbara really push the envelope by making the first NC-17 Bond film. The could call it: SHAMELADY.

I've seen Fassbender in a few flicks - EDEN LAKE, FISH TANK, Steve McQueen's HUNGER and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - and I think he's a good actor (he's never really knocked me on my ass, though), but I have a hard time seeing him as James Bond. To be fair, though, many people (myself included) were saying precisely the same thing about Craig in 2005. Indeed, Craig and Fassbender seem very similar actors. I can imagine them going for the same roles.

Fassbender's performance in the last X-MEN movie is said by some to be very Bondian, but I wouldn't know because I have no interest in seeing the thing.

Fassbender's performance in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS is practically an audition for the Bond role. But yeah, the movie's a bit rubbish.

Fassbender would've been an excellent choice in 2005 at 28-29 years old (just what the CR script called for). After the Craig ends in 2014-16 or so, MF will most likely be a top Hollywood leading man and too busy for Bond.

GeneralGogol wrote:

Fassbender would've been an excellent choice in 2005 at 28-29 years old (just what the CR script called for). After the Craig ends in 2014-16 or so, MF will most likely be a top Hollywood leading man and too busy for Bond.

Don't know if he'll be too busy for Bond, but he'd be too old to do the 28-29 year old version of the script as you mentioned, and he'd certainly be too old to play an even younger James Bond. If we're going back to the days of hiring an actor in his early 40's to assume the role then Fassbender would be the right age.

Need to see more of him though before I can tell whether he'd be any good.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

GeneralGogol wrote:

Fassbender would've been an excellent choice in 2005 at 28-29 years old (just what the CR script called for). After the Craig ends in 2014-16 or so, MF will most likely be a top Hollywood leading man and too busy for Bond.

Don't know if he'll be too busy for Bond, but he'd be too old to do the 28-29 year old version of the script as you mentioned, and he'd certainly be too old to play an even younger James Bond. If we're going back to the days of hiring an actor in his early 40's to assume the role then Fassbender would be the right age.

Need to see more of him though before I can tell whether he'd be any good.

Of course he'd be too old for that type of Bond, but I agree that in his 40s he could pull off a dangerous, experienced Bond very well - perhaps even a continuation of the Craig Bond (ie. in the sense of characterization and style of films, like how GE felt part of the Dalton era to an extent).

For Bond's future, Eon need only look to 007's past.



If you enjoyed that, shame on you. Make no mistake, you won't be getting a Christmas Skype from Prisoner Monkeys and there's no greater opprobrium than that.

An absolutely appalling display that left me sickened and horrified. So much so that I felt the need to watch it again.

Call me a filthy, abusive misogynist, but I do love when Bond chokes the girl with her own bikini.

There used to be a fan video on YouTube of Bond's slapping synced up Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up", but it looks like particular video has been deleted long ago. Too bad.

What happened to that Connery pish-take on YouTube that MOO7RE liked so much? Featured Connery raping one of his leading ladies and Cubby Broccoli making a very half-hearted attempt to stop it.

I'd argue that a lot of the best 007 videos on YouTube came around during CASINO ROYALE's release. Of course, many of them are now deleted because there was no way those videos with copyrighted material would have lasted nearly decade. My first Bond related upload was merely a trailer, and that got deleted too. I think things have gotten a lot more lax in later years because all my 007 videos are still up. At least, MGM isn't being pricks about it like CBS.

Speaking of stuff that would never happen today, here's this:



If George Lucas is a fan of DAF, EON shouldn't be ashamed.