He could do it.
Sorry, Tom, but you’re far from the first to suggest Idris.
Hanks is a little late to the show. Idris Elba has been floated as a replacement for Daniel Craig for quite a while now. I believe the man has said he’s not interested. I like Elba, wouldn’t mind seeing him as Bond. It might get me to go back to watching the series, but I could give two-shits what Hanks feels on the issue.
Hollywood ruined Ian Fleming’s conception of James Bond after the first two or three Connery films.
It has rapidly descended into a complete fiasco.
Yawn. How predictably woke.
They don’t want a Bond for one movie, so Elba isn’t a consideration.
They want a guy that can be around for at least 10 years.
So Tom Hanks has his opinion. WGAF?
Elba already said no. He said he is Luther full stop. Hanks is just virtue signaling his bonfides as an asskissing azzhole.
Henry Cavill would be great but film makers don’t like him because he likes to be true to the source material and that means they can’t make Bond a fag.
Too old.
Tom Burke.
No American is going to have a great amount of influence.
The author wrote his physical description for that role.
Anything straying from that would be yet another case of
what they call ‘Blackwashing’, where you take a well known ficticious character who has always been white, then suddenly flip the script, making him black so as to score PC points; as with The Little Mermaid.
Besides, two on the short list include Tom Hardy and Henry Cavill. Someone widely different just wouldn’t be Cricket.
I don’t think I could care about anything less than who Tom Hanks wants to play the next James Bond.
I think Matthew Lewis could pull it off. Weird but true.
How about a remake of “Shaft,” starting Dylan Mulvaney?
Hanna Waddingham
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. :)
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.
I think Snoop Dog should play Tom Hanks in a bio pic.