Legolas/Will Turner to be next James Bond?

Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:42 am

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds13932.html

Dear gawd, to attract younger fans? For the love of all that is good and holy, they're gonna nerf Bond and he'll be known as James Bond Jr.!!

As much as I like Orlando, he cannot and must not be the next James Bond!

Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:51 am

Yeah, I like LOTR, I thought Bloom did a good job, but he'd fit the role of James Bond as much as Pierce Brosnan would fit the role of Legolas.

-Bagginses

Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:01 am

I heard that Christian Bale was up for the role of bond... but he got the role of Batman instead...

Clive Owen might be good... he was in The Bourne Identity, and Croupier...

They should probably find somebody somewhat unknown for the role, like Connery was when he got it...

Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:38 am

Clive Owen is definately the man for the job. Croupier was an awesome flick.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:28 am

NO WAY! Ian Fleming will be turning over in the grave.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:51 am

They're doing it to appeal to the female audience.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:45 am

Bloom was good in LoTR but as James Bond...HELL NO!

Sun Mar 21, 2004 2:38 pm

I blame this on all of the teenyboppers who screamed at the theater whenever this guy showed up on screen during the LOTR films. It's all their fault!

Seriously though I find this very hard to believe unless they're possibly going back in time with Bond's character. Or maybe it won't be until 10 years before the next Bond film gets filmed?

Sun Mar 21, 2004 2:41 pm

How can you go back in time with James Bond? He's been the same age for the past 40 years.

-Bagginses

Sun Mar 21, 2004 2:52 pm

Originally posted by Bagginses
How can you go back in time with James Bond? He's been the same age for the past 40 years.

-Bagginses

By all accounts, he should be in a wheel chair by now..and be in Viagra ads.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:43 pm

Originally posted by Bagginses
How can you go back in time with James Bond? He's been the same age for the past 40 years.

-Bagginses

Well try to come up with a better explanation besides "increasing female interest" for the Orlando Bloom decision.

When I said "go back in time" I mean something along the lines as the character's early years possibly before he becomes a fullblown secret agent. (think of how Jack Ryan's character was handled with the Tom Clancy series) Yes it still sounds silly but not as silly as Orlando Bloom playing a secret agent in his 40's when he isn't even 30 yet.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:07 pm

Originally posted by CrazyBri
When I said "go back in time" I mean something along the lines as the character's early years possibly before he becomes a fullblown secret agent.

Maybe a movie on how he joined MI-6 and becamed the secret agent he is now? Just a half-assed idea of mine.

EDIT: Just thought of something. What about bringing back SPECTRE (Special Executive for counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) if it's possible? Although it's highly unlikely because of these reasons:

1. In the 1981 film "For Your Eyes Only" in the pre-titles sequence there is a man that looks exactly like Ernst Stavro Blofleld who controls a helicopter Bond is in after the pilot is electricuted. Bond eventually gets control of the helicopter, grabs the wheelchair he is in, and drops him to his death. Bye bye Blofeld. Oh well, at least Mr. Bigglesworth wasn't dumb enough to fall in a smokestack.

2. If Blofeld was brought back for some reason, Kevin McGlory who was the producer for the 1983 film "Never Say Never Again" now owns the rights to SPECTRE and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

"This organisation does not tolerate failure."

Brownie points to whoever can name the first Bond movie that quote was said in.