Posted on 05/09/2023 6:35:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tom Hanks has made the suggestion that Idris Elba should be selected to play the next iteration of James Bond. Elba has been linked to the famous Ian Fleming character for some time now but has kept quiet on the matter. His new film, Luther: The Fallen Sun, sees his character order a martini, which some fans viewed as something of a Bond audition.
In response to the martini scene, Elba told the Radio Times: “My Bond audition? Oh my God, no! I’ve been saying for years, no… The martini line is a bit cheeky, isn’t it?”
Meanwhile, Hanks backed him for Bond, telling the BBC: “Understand this, James Bond has a licence to kill. I would issue that licence to Idris Elba just based on the work that I’ve seen him do.”
Hanks has also opened up on his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, saying: “I have pulled every single one of those moments of behaviour myself on a set… Not everybody is at their best every single day on a motion picture set…”
He added: “I’ve had tough days trying to be a professional when my life has been falling apart in more ways than one, and the requirement for me that day is to be funny, charming and loving – and it’s the last way I feel.”
Pussy Galore, Honey Ryder, Holly Goodhead, Alotta Fagina - oops! Sorry. That last one is from Austin Powers!
I think Matthew Lewis could pull it off. Weird but true.
How about a remake of “Shaft,” starting Dylan Mulvaney?
Hanna Waddingham
Ernie Hudson
Posted this awhile back on another Bond thread. I think this could be a great “re-invention,” but without “re-inventing” at all, really.
I would love to see a new Bond series start in the mid-1950s and work its way up to the “Swingin’ ‘60s,” as Fleming’s books did. Setting the series in that period would be a bonanza for creative writing, production design, photography, costuming, you name it. The actors would probably love playing in a “period piece” as well.
It would be fun to see the development and return of some of Q’s gadgets (Little Nellie, anyone? The original Aston Martin DB5?), and the evolution of continuing characters like M and Moneypenny. The occasional cameo appearance of a young Queen Elizabeth and / or Prince Phillip would be, as they say, smashing. If handled well, with good stories and kinetic action, I think audiences would really flock to something like this.
A “period” series like that sets up so many possibilities. Even tossed-off, offhand dialogue could be loads of fun. I could picture, for example, Bond and Felix Leiter having cocktails in Jamaica:
FELIX: Did you see that cable this morning? I had to laugh, it was so unbelievable.
BOND: I missed it. I had a rather late night.
FELIX: What else is new? It concerned the murder of Hans Schmid. You know of him?
BOND: An agent with the Gehlen Organization ... Really a detestable fellow. I can’t say I’m surprised someone thought he might be worth a bullet.
FELIX: (Leaning in) Maybe this might surprise you, James. He was beheaded ...
BOND: That does seem a touch excessive.
FELIX: ... by a bowler, with a razor-sharp brim.
BOND: (Actually surprised) Well. That is a new one. I wonder if Q might make one in a Harris Tweed?
As I say, the possibilities seem really endless. :)
Idris is 50. Other actors played Bond into their 50’s - Connery, Moore, Dalton.
IIRC elba is uber lib.
Not woke enough. Bond can only be played by a crippled, gay, transexual midget.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Idris Elba as James Bond at all - he might be the best actor to ever take on the role.
If they ever do a movie on Tom Hanks’ life story, I want Idris Elba to play him.
That would be cool.
I think Snoop Dog should play Tom Hanks in a bio pic.
Nice
That would be brilliant!
Why not?
It’s the way of the future. No one will notice, since,we’re all the same color now, and we’re all the same gender too.
In the next movie about the life of George Washington, Whoopie Goldberg will play George. Nobody will notice the difference.
Anyway, James Bond is dead. He's no longer allowed to act like an alpha male and sleep with woman. So what's the point? Time to kill the franchise.
He'll be good except he's top old. He's 50 now. James Bond is supposed to be in his 30s. Mayne early 40s (but that's pushing it). But Hollywood is woke now so they would fail to take advantage of Idris Elba's talents.
Very true. Wait till we see John Adams performing oral sex on a tranny Thomas Jefferson.
James Bond is dead, the woketards in pedowood killed him off.
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