Never say, Never...
An American who could have played James Bond 
An American who did play Jimmy Bond 
I'm an American. Damn right!
I think that it may have to do more with his thinning hair and waning career.
Not only that, but they only allow MALE ACTORS to play him. Bigots!
You should have heard Cage scream when he found out he couldn't play Ray Charles!
And, I might add, only adults! And are they prejudiced against ugly, fat men? You bet they are! Where's the ACLU?
This is "The Onion," right? I thought we weren't supposed to post from there.
Bond's a Brit (or a Scot). Live with it, Nic.
I don't think the Broccoli's own the rights to every Bond story. The story to Thunderball I think was stuck in litigation for years, and another production company did the film as 'Never Say Never Again.'
Cage has clout: get the rights to Thunderball and show the Broccoli's you can do it better.
Though I really think the Bond franchise should be shelved for 25-30 years, it's just too stale.
Does Cage intend to fake an accent, or just play it as some kind of rogue American in her majesty's secret service?
"You can cast a good Brit actor to play Bond but you can never cast a bad American pseudo actor who got into films because of nepotistic Hollywood log rolling practices and his uncle Francis Ford Coppola to play him. "I think that is totally unfair."
You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows and you don't have to be real smart to be an actor.
Uh, scuse me dude, but, uh,...life's not uh,..fair. Get a clue.
I think it is unfair my skin dolor hurt my chances to play Ray Charles in that movie. =o)
The Britts want 007 and Harry Potter to be played by Britts. I heard Spielberg was pushing for Haley Joel Osment to be Harry Potter, but Rowling insisted the role has to go to a Britt kid.
OK... just pointing out that George Lazenby was Australian.
Never say, Never...
An American who could have played James Bond
An American who did play Jimmy Bond
Can't do the accent, eh, dude?
Then there's Ewan MacGregor who, apparently, can do ANY accent.
And then there are James Marsters and Alexis Denisof, who can do (to me) dead-on British accents.
Jealousy's an ugly thing.
Dan