I’d pay to see that!
“Oh, hi Q”
Not exactly tabloid trash perhaps. But nothing very substantial either…
He insists he has put Bond behind him and no doubt that is true. But every now and then he is reminded of the bruising. Last month he went to see Claire Denis’s High Life and was especially taken by Robert Pattinson’s performance. “And it was so bizarre, because I was sitting there thinking: ‘Oh my God, they should get him to be the next Bond.’” Isn’t Pattinson a bit too young for the role? “No, no,” he scoffs. “He must be in his 30s. How old was Connery? He’s ready now.”
A certain cape and cowl now ruling him out would suggest this is the right place for it.
Should emphasise I mean that entirely in scheduling - WB want him as Batman for a trilogy, he won’t be free when the role of Bond is.
Well, I suppose that paragraph is not a serious suggestion; rather it illustrates how Boyle keeps getting back to the topic…
Boyle is drumming up publicity for his current film which does not score with critics or audiences.
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If Pattinson wasn’t already cast as the next Batman and also in Nolan’s TENET, then it may be reasonable.
Having said that, it’s still infinitely more likely than Idris Elba being the next Bond.
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Pattinson would also have fit into the known-but-not-too-known category we assume Eon would recruit their lead from.
As we see, even seasoned directors like to play ‘cast the next 007’…
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Not so much tabloid trash as clickbait we-don’t-look-back-in-anger Oasis cover…
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Would have been interesting.
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I’m still in two minds about this story. Clickbait website kino.de gave it a second infusion yesterday, making it sound as if Deaver had been the first to suggest Pearce for a ‘Carte Blanche’ adaptation.
But if Pearce really had ‘chats’ (with whoever it might concern) that must have been significantly before Deaver’s 2011 continuation - also Deaver’s Bond was relatively youthful; Pearce would probably have been a bit older than what Deaver envisioned. But I can see Deaver imagining a young Pearce while writing it.
How serious - or not - this chatting business really was we’ll likely never find out. But tone and emphasis of the films CASINO ROYALE and beyond would probably have been a good deal different from what we got.
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I remember Pearce’s name being discussed back in the day as Brosnan’s successor. These are semi-clueless writer doing guesswork on things other people know, and making up a bogus speculation based on absolutely nothing and wrong conclusions – Pearce certainly didn’t need Deaver to speak up for him, as he’d been on the list before, and I’m almost certain that Eon never even heard about Deaver saying that.
Klickbait indeed…
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Eh, I don’t really see it with Pearce. If I remember correctly, Clive Owen was far and away the (tabloid) favorite for awhile to succeed Brosnan until Craig was announced.
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There was Bana, there was Butler, there was McMahon, then Scott, O’Loughlin, Jackman, Owen, Isaacs, Pearce, McGregor and surely half a dozen other names that escape me right now. It’s possibly easier to list the few actors the tabloids - or us fans - didn’t push at one point or another.
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Not to mention Adrian Paul, Sam Worthington, Henry Cavill, or somehow Goran Visnjic.
But like theSpectre, I don’t see Guy Pearce as James Bond. He’s more of a villain or even an ally. He doesn’t scream 007 to me.
And another thing in that article, it mentions Pierce Brosnan being fired, which is wrong. Brosnan wasn’t fired. His contract simply wasn’t renewed. Big difference.
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Well, this is how firing is done. „We‘ll let you go to pursue new challenges…“
Fact is: they did not want him to go on, they wanted to choose another path, and it was their right.
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They
Have
Never
Cast
Bond
Without
Having
A
Director
So this was just a slow news day
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Will forever be Mike from Neighbours for me and I suspect also for a particular generation of the UK public and therefore wouldn’t have been taken all that seriously as Bond anyway, even if he has gone onto much better things.
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I still wish Brosnan got one more proper film for a proper send off. It’s kind of crazy that Craig is the only Bond in 60 years to get a definitive end to his tenure. Even Moore didn’t when A View to a Kill was clearly going to be his final film. As it is, at least we did get Everything or Nothing post-Die Another Day, which Pierce counts, as do I, as an official entry in the Bond canon and his last “film”.
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So then here’s the question - is killing Bond the only way to achieve a definitive end to a tenure?
I mean every other route, be it continuing as normal, resigning from the service, retiring, presumed to be dead, etc, has been done with Bond coming back from it.
Now, I’m not saying there needed to BE a definitive end to his tenure, but if that’s the route you wanted to go with having an overarching story arc - Casino Royale began it - was the end of NTTD the only way they could have ended it?
In other words, is a hero’s death the only way to bring a definitive end to a character like James Bond?
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