It’s so obvious what will happen. Dalton will get selected again and Brosnan will do some cool Diet Coke commercials.
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Don’t say no
A PR agent definitely didn’t say that
Im definitely not looking forward towards the the film he’s promoting and DEFINITELY hasn’t read the book.
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And i definitely cant tell you the killer…
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This Rose-Marsh fella could be an intriguing choice for Bond.
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Just wait till the new Guinness series comes out. At least three of the cast will be touted as Bond
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He has a more experience than Lazenby did but the from nothing to everything stories are similar: “In 2020, Scott began his career as an actor after leaving his call centre job.” It would be insane to think a regular Joe blending in to civilian life, not long in the profession, could beat out more established names, Scott Rose-Marsh or otherwise.
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I look hopefully forward to an out of left field choice that we all don’t expect, like Rose-March or similar. I personally would prefer to have no real knowledge of who he is other than he’s been featured in productions that have stayed below the radar and impressed everyone behind the scenes. This is definitely a change from when I expected Cavill to be a logical “safe” choice. I’m ready for different and daring now.
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The best thing about Brosnan getting cast as Bond is clear. I would be younger than Bond again!
A personal reflection: As you approach your mid-thirties, you start to notice that fewer and fewer athletes are older than you but there still are some action stars around in the movies. Once you get to your late fifties like me, you’re screwed.
Neon lights are now flashing that I am old! And my knees can attest to it. As Leonard Cohen once said, “I ache in the places where I used to play”.
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I think I may be in a similar place, ready to be - hopefully - pleasantly surprised. My problem is, I’m actually still undecided what a left field choice at the moment would be. Rose-Marsh may look ‘different’ - but isn’t he more or less Craig-different, just with a new flavour? And wouldn’t he likely be styled in much the same understated ruggedness, so that in effect we get Craig 2.0?
I could just as well be wrong, they could style the hell out of him but his depiction could be more on the charming side and his fighting style outmanoeuvring adversaries like Moore used to. Would that still work today? Would I appreciate it more than a fighting machine Bond as we’ve seen over the last almost two decades?
Be that as it may, I’d much prefer to be won over than be bored by an ‘obvious’ choice. Last time we were in this place few people had their money on the outsider, most preferring names with a then higher profile, Jackman Butler Owen and the like. Impossible to say where that might have landed us with CASINO ROYALE and subsequent films. But it would certainly be nice if the reveal and the final film could once more generate such a sense of starting afresh, unlimited potential and possibilities as CASINO ROYALE. A future - and one not entirely predictable.
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Brosnan is what the franchise needs right now. They need, in the era of Moneypenny and Q stealing the spotlight from an increasingly irrelevant Bond character, to create a buzz around the character and franchise. Brosnan would do that. He saved the franchise once, he can do it again.
We don’t need another reboot, which is all but certain to come if they go younger. Buck the expectations, cast someone older, and really lean into the harder edges of Bond that Brosnan always talked about wanting to tap into.
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Plus, they’d create endless Thursday Murder Club cross-spinoff potential and offer Aston the opportunity to break into Zimmer frames and walking chairs. That’s good money to make!
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I would be all for Brosnan returning as Bond. I am someone who doesn’t care for age in the slightest, even less so in movies. It would actually be a great way to bring back the original loose timeline and make this series fun again. Just back to business as usual, some good makeup and special effects, and we’re good to go. The next Bond can be much younger again while continuing the loose timeline, who cares, I didn’t when Dalton replaced Moore. That was the fun this series used to have and that is how you make it continue.
It would actually get my excitement back for this series, because I am not at all excited for the Craig era 2.0 with another self-contained arc with an origin story, emotional struggles and a victim Bond.
Also, I love Brosnan’s Bond. The man has more charisma and Bondian charm than all the hundreds of names mentioned over the years combined. The only names mentioned that would excite me are Aidan Turner and Theo James, as they actually come close to my idea of James Bond based on the novels and the (first 20 EON produced) movies, which is what I personally want for the next Bond. But then again, with Villeneuve’s favorite era clearly being the Craig era, I am not really expecting something that would be my cup of tea. But who knows, I am hoping for the best for this series I love.
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The probability of Brosnan again as Bond is like, zero, but if it happened, I would be there day one of course.
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I have been very vocal in my dislike for Brosnan as Bond. I went from being excited for his casting to disliking most of his decisions on interpretation (I realize that a lot of that comes down to script and directors who share in that blame). I actually breathed a sigh of relief when he was replaced. Yet, time has done an odd thing. I find myself really enjoying him in everything he’s done post-Bond, even to the point of genuine admiration; I am now excited to see his name attached to an upcoming movie and seek out those films. Over time it’s made me reevaluate his Bond tenure and, while he’s still my least favorite, I can appreciate him much more now than I did during his heyday and am happy to see his career remain so active and rewarding. But Bond again? No thanks. At least for me.
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The problem of Brosnan returning isn’t the CBn staff and members, nor the general fanbase. We’d likely all watch it at some point. The problem is getting the youngsters into theatre seats, the 13-18 crowd that doesn’t discriminate between Brosnan, Craig and Connery - because they all don’t feature in their social media feeds.
The next Bond has the thankless task to lure a generation into cinema that grew up entirely online…
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Indeed, and one generation that might not even have been watching Craig as Bond in the cinema at all.
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Interesting; because it’s Bond I would expect to be there Day 1 - although I appreciate that this is actually saying it doesn’t matter who the actor is. Which, come to think of it, it probably doesn’t. If I was there Day 1 for the Brosnans, films I didn’t like but I definitely was, then it’s not the actor luring me in.
I realise this makes me sound quite mad, or not remotely interested in anything else the given actor does or has done, which is doubtless what it is.
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I think a lot of that fateful summer of 1977 recently - the summer Elvis would die, the Landshut would be hijacked and THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW would also hit cinemas, starting a decades long cult in arthouse theatres. I was 10 years old and ‘James Bond’ was a non-entity for me and most of my friends, vaguely obscure. If it hadn’t been for Moore’s promo appearance in Am Laufenden Band most of us wouldn’t have cared for TSWLM one bit (let alone buy those strange books, vaguely semi-kinky stuff from the corner where Playboy and similar periodicals were located at the newsagents, instead of our usual comics).
Only that brief clip in the nation’s favourite Saturday evening game show made us kids aware of what would arrive at German cinemas that August. And hadn’t they cleverly chosen action and fisticuffs, we likely still wouldn’t have cared.
This is the task now, create an urgent need in youngsters to find out about BOND 26, get them to watch the film at the cinema and become instantly addicted for more.
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When it could take a couple of years for a movie to open in other countries.
THE GAUNTLET
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
BLACK SUNDAY
OPENING NIGHT
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE
PADRE PADRONE
SALO
ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY
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