[Armedanddangerous]

The 007 movies come out around Christmas now, thus the next one would be out December 2005. So, we aren't likely to see Hugh until at least 2007, IF it comes to pass.

Frankly, Pierce is the second best Bond, behind Connery. If you have read the original Fleming novels, you know that he portrays Bond not as a smart alec romeo, but a cool, cold blooded assasin who does his job not because he likes it, but because he knows it has to be done.

That's why I could never take Roger Moore seriously.

If Jackman could generate a real English accent, then I think he could pull it off.

[hutton]

And Jackman is a pretty serious actor.

He could end up even being better than Brosnan because he has a good physical presence as Bond (which is important in fight/chase scenes)

Plus is solves the question of how to get the ladies to see a James Bond film..

[Heyworth]

Connery always projected a more working-class edge under a veneer of polish and civilization. You could almost guess at a background where he joined the military as a ranker and was spotted and groomed to be a stone killer. There's a scene near in Goldfinger near the beginning where you can kind of see that his polish is studied, not inborn.

Moore (the worst) and Brosnan (fair), always seemed to have been born with silver spoons in their mouths and to approach the job more as a hobby. Feh. Jackman might be good.

Did anyone ever see "The Tailor of Panama"? Great Brosnan performance as what James Bond would probably be like in the real world--a complete scumbag.

[LanPB01]

The fact that Ian Fleming portrayed Bond as cool and cold blooded is why I liked Timothy Dalton. In fact, Dalton is probably the only one of the lot that actually went back and read some of the Bond books in preparation for the role.