"my link saw something that night"
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 9:09PM • The next James Bond will be... Damian Lewis? Our first ginger 007 you guys! Rumor only but I could see that happening. [Mirror]
• It's weird that there's not a definitive feature about the airplane-building Wright Brothers. Steven Spielberg wants to make one as it turns out. Seems like a good fit, no? [/Film]
• Life on the red planet? There's water at least. Did Fox pay NASA to announce this the week before the opening of The Martian ;) ? [The Guardian]
• Rising star Jonny Beauchamp says he owes everything to Roland Emmerich. Oh noooo. Tough debt. Also there's a photoshoot [Interview magazine]
• "I was being talked to like I was a silly pop singer." Grace Jones is still quotable/fabulous/singular. Just released a memoir [Time Out]
• "I've got tea. I've got cookies. No cake!" I cannot tell you how often my best friends and I quote The Log Lady from Twin Peaks. RIP Catherine Coulson [Wired]
• "Marlene Dietrich believed her pussy was magic" is the first sentence of this article so you know you want to read it. Why can't we get a biopic about THESE anecdotes? [Pajiba]
• Is this really Frank Grillo (from Captain America: Winter Soldier) younger & NSFW? [OMG BLOG]
• Everyone in the world has forgotten that Disney was going to make an Enchanted sequel. Except Disney apparently. It's going to be called Disenchanted. I shudder to think of the web exploding with "who should replace Amy Adams?" articles [Coming Soon]
• "we were certainly looking for shots that told the story without a lot of cutting." - Roger Deakins on point of view and action sequences in Sicario [The Film Stage]
• First image of Woody Harrelson as LBJ in Rob Reiner's forthcoming biopic [Empire]
Image of the Day
Thor and The Vision making out from the Avengers: Age of Ultron gag/blooper reel. Love the elegant placement of Thor's hammer. The best part of the image is surely that man about to shoot in the corner.
P.S. My favorite part is Elizabeth Olsen dropping her accent when she messes up a line.
Video of the Day #1
The Revenant gets a new nearly 3 minute trailer. I won't be watching it because I love the teaser so much (previously discussed, the one with all the heavy breathing) and I don't want any more information in my eyeballs before seeing it than we've already gotten. The reaction online seems breathless/"MASTERPIECEY"! but one should never bank on trailers to tell you what the finished quality of a movie will be, only to tell you whether it looks like you must see the movie. The last trailer that fooled me with "oh, this will be a masterpiece, hands down!" was Little Children (2006) and that's where I learned my lesson once and for all that the art of cutting trailers into 2-ish minute expressive gems was an entirely different art form (a beautiful art form if you don't give too much away) then making a 2 hour movie.
Video of the Day #2
"Bitch Better Have My Money" Barbershop Quartet Quintet style with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Reader Comments (16)
Omg. You are really avoiding finishing the chart update!
Leo has graduated from Dead Wives Club to Dead Sons Association.
Oh my god, I just cannot see Nicholas Brody being James Bond (and I love Damian Lewis!)
Keep Craig, or just get Tom Hardy.
Damian Lewis is 44. Daniel Craig is very likely to make another film before he goes, that means 2/3 before Craig's final film and another 2/3 before the next guy takes over. No way do they cast an actor in their late 40s.
Even if Craig doesn't go on, I still think they'd be crazy to cast an actor in their 40s at the start of their run.
"Even if Craig doesn't go on, I still think they'd be crazy to cast an actor in their 40s at the start of their run."
Me too. Especially now that filming action scenes is a lot more demanding for actors than it used to be.
Ages on release of their first Bond film:
Connery - 32
Lazenby - 30
Moore - 46 (older than Connery! Madness! Over 60 when he made his last 007 film)
Dalton - 43
Brosnan - 42 (they tried to cast Brosnan a decade earlier)
Craig - 38
Wasn't Frank Grillo on "Guiding Light" in the 90s? I remember him being an inappropriate crush in my youth.
I think they'll go young and maybe reeboot it.
I think Rob James-Collier would make a great Bond.
Mikey67 -- not so. all the charts are updated now :)
Daniel Craig is doing at least one more and he may continue after that. All rumours are baseless speculation, especially for actors in their 40s. Start naming actors in their late 20s/early 30s and you might stumble on someone.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/30/daniel-craig-james-bond-film-role-spectre
I always think of Bond as being older than your typical male action movie character, and it's certainly easier to imagine in a post-Taken world. Damian Lewis is an unexpected choice, but I can see it. I love Tom Hardy, but I have hard time picturing him as Bond for some reason (though I think he's more likely to get the part).
Tom Hardy should be the next Bond he has the looks and the ball for the part... yes La Dietrichs pussy was magic enough to make gay men swoon... Mr Grillo should keep taking off his clothes.
thefilmjunkie: Tom Hardy is a perfect Mad Max, is on retainer for the future entries of that franchise, and also wants to do stuff that artistically satisfies him. (Which means he'll almost certainly be a bit too busy through the change over.) I'd actually guess, if he feels comfortable heading back to franchise fare at that point, that Andrew Garfield gets it, and he would be better than either Hardy or Lewis.
Alternate Bond candidates: Matthew Goode, Charlie Cox, Julian Morris, Theo James, Jamie Dornan, Dan Stevens.
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