I had no idea. Now, that would have been miscasting of Himalayan proportions. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is a favorite since grammar school days.
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Iâm not sure what they were thinking. âWe need someone who can play an outlaw while keeping the audience on their sideâ? For sure Alan Haleâs Little John wouldâve looked impressive standing next to him. (Interesting trivia: Hale played Little John in three different films including his last, 1950âs Rogues of Sherwood opposite John Derek ((husband of Ursula Andress and later Bo Derek)) as Robin. Some 28 years had passed since his first time in the role in 1922, opposite Doug Fairbanks.)
Whenever I imagine Cagney in those tights and that cap, I get more of a âPuckâ vibe.
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And the deadline article stating all the same, just for kicks:
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They have not started anything, they are enjoying the money, they rather wait on the Amazon contract being waterproof⊠and when it becomes inevitable they will give us the old Bond we know and⊠you knowâŠ
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Indeed. The Craig era was a reaction to Bourne that arguably went on past its relevance. Along the way, multi-film arcs became a big deal thanks to Marvel so the franchise veered somewhat in that direction. Then superheroes who have daughters and die became a thing, so we got NTTD. If they were filming today, Iâm sure theyâd be going for a Mission: Impossible vibe, but since filming is still two years off, Babs is completely right to say no one knows what the next Bond entry will look like. Itâll all depend on what other popular films are doing two years from now.
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Avatar?
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Thatâs my only fear: having the Bond franchise feeling the need to react to something (Bourne,.Marvel, socially correct, etc).
Bond movies ARE the ones who should be setting up the mood for the genre in the movie industry. And they shouldnât be worried about being nice, or pc, or complying with woke or MeToo and so onâŠ
I mean, in the midst of all these âpeace-love-be all you can beâ movements we had Joker which was the complete opposite and an absolute success.
Stick to Fleming, stick to the 60 years of tradition and character build up, go big on action sequences and try not to kill him againâŠ
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Advising them not to try and kill Bond again is good advice.
I think the imperatives of âstick to Flemingâ and âstick to 60 years of traditionâ are trickier, but still manageable. You may dismiss worrying about being pc or concerns about race or sex, but the Joker was not trying to serve as an aspirational as well as narrative character.
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Iâll be honestly surprised if those sequels go over big, but in 2016 I learned in the most painful way possible not to say something crazy can ânever happen.â
Assuming you just mean recasting Bond with CGI (as opposed to actually making him blue), Iâm not convinced thatâs out of the realm of possibility (though likely not as soon as 2025). Just think of all the headaches youâd save by not dealing with egos and inflating salaries and critics carping on how many wrinkles and sags your lead actorâs piling on.
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Still trying to get my head around Cagney as Robin Hood. It ainât workinââŠ
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It is a mind bender
When I first heard about the Cagney thing (I have a multi-disc edition with loads of extras), I almost fell off my chair. One really has to wonder about what impact to movie history this film would have made⊠
A rare photo of Cagney doing promotion for the film in lead up to production (Basil Rathbone is also pictured)âŠ
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Who? 
Well that wasâŠdifferent.
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Heâs very young and âprettyâ. Bond doesnât always need to be Craig/Connery âcraggyâ (to abuse a term) but he does need to have some history and mileage in his facial features. Maybe in a few years, Iâll feel differently.