I think I’m among a select few who’d rather have Craig leave and have a young Bond on the next outing,I miss the youthfulness Goldeneye, CR and QoS brought to the series
You’re far from alone - even the excited, optimistic Craig fans are happy for this to be Craig’s definitive finale, with Bond #007 to follow in film 26.
Absolutely! I’ve been an ardent Criag-as-Bond proponent since seeing him in Love Is The Devil way before he was cast.
And I ’m very disappointed that his run has been sparse thanks to all the behind the scenes shenanigans.
However, he’s now getting on a bit (aren’t we all), so unless they write a Bond movie about a 00 in his 50s (such as Pearson’s biography), then I think it’s time to hang up the walther.
I think if Ethan Hunt can happily be on his way to 60 without it making any difference then Bond can too. If he’s up for it I’d happily have another Craig film: he’s still looking great.
Perhaps we ought to be careful what we wish for. The older ones among us may remember the Moore years and how he impersonated Bond for us. To the point where it seemed there could be no Bond film without him. But of course time doesn’t care about our feelings and there’s a fair chance one film more may be one film too many.
I’ve said it on another thread but HD is very unforgiving to Moore in both Octopussy and A View To a Kill. Even if it’s turned around quickly mid fifties will push Craig into that territory.
Precisely.
In terms of making sure the actor remains age-appropriate, Moore is a lesson in when to end a Bond actor’s tenure. He should have stopped with FYEO - it acknowledged his age, but was still able to convince us he was capable.
Of course, it’s possible to make an action spy thriller with an older actor, especially if the character’s age is a theme. But I suspect that Bond movies are still too fixed in a formula for that to be ‘acceptable’ (to studios, to fans, whoever).
Tom Cruise is a rare example - he (and consequently the M:I series) should be viewed as an outlier to the standard deviation.
I’m very happy for Craig to quit at 50ish. Beyond that I doubt he’ll be right for it. Of course, NTTD will prove the case, whether for or against…
Cruise is an anomaly - - nobody looks that young for so long, and nobody does these crazy stunts.
Since I have turned 50 recently I would love to see Bond be an aging hero. I don’t mind Connery nor Moore having played Bond for so long. Bur the films profit from another actor unless they repeat themselves.
Who they choose as the next Bond will say a lot - whether Bond becomes this series about the tension between old and new, nostalgia butting up against the new guard. Given how quickly the Craig series morphed from “young agent” to “too old to spy” is definitely interesting
Haha yes that part of SF really annoyed me when I first saw it; my headcanon had to retroactively impose a specific age on CraigBond in CR/QoS, which I’d never had to do for any Bond actor before.
I guess that the official continuity now adds greater stress on Vesper’s reading of Bond on the train? He had a military career for some time before joining MI6.
My head canon had to play around with Bond going from young, wild, out of control agent to over the hill, jaded, washed up agent in only 6 years. It’s made harder by the fact SF is only Craig’s third film. I have to do some mental gymnastics to make the timeline work. Putting Goldeneye 2010 and Bloodstone, and even Carte Blance with its continuity errors, into his continuity help.
https://twitter.com/JamesBondBR/status/1164269282374688770?s=20 Daniel’s stuntman already in action in Matera!!
Now we know what those wires on the cranes were for in a previous set of photos.
I wonder if the new de-aging process that Martin Scorsese is using for THE IRISHMAN would ever come into play.
I love a bit of Ives Klien in my Bond movies 
I wonder if he might be doubling for somebody else - that outfit, especially that giant tie knot - doesn’t look like something DC would wear…
Please no ! I don’t care for it at all, it looks odd particularly because DeNiro is so iconic , plus he moves like an older man and the face doesn’t match, at least in the trailers
Totally agree. Really doesn’t look like Bond.
I will let you and the community know how the process strikes me after I see the film at the New York Film Festival (it is also closing the London Film Festival). There seem to be some snags about the commercial release:
I look forward to hearing your observations
