# Orlando Bloom (Legolas) positioned to be next James Bond -- Good idea or bad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954 "2004-03-28T19:13:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954/81 "2004-04-06T14:01:11Z")
> [@lillalette](#): > > **Lamia** , I read “John Garfield” as “James Garfield” and I was trying to figure out exactly how old your mother was that she would have him on her list of hotties. Or even why he’d be on there. Just to clarify, that was **yosemitebabe** ’s mom, not mine. My mother is more of a Rutherford B. Hayes woman. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954/82 "2004-04-06T15:05:20Z")
Jeremy Northam! Jeremy Northam! Jeremy Northam! Oh, I suppose that Jackman fellow is worth watching, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954/83 "2004-04-06T15:19:07Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I think Alexis Denisof (Wesley on AtS) should be the next Bond, therefore, Orlando is a horrible idea. Denisof is an inspired choice … I can go along with that. He’s about the right age (38) to pick up the role after Brosnan’s run ends. Also, Denisof has capably demonstrated on _Angel_ that he’s capable of portraying the hard edge many here like to see in their James Bond. Clive Owen … I’m sure he’d be acceptable. He just screams “villain” to me. Then again, he’s getting a turn as [King Authur](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349683/) later this year, so that will be a good chance to re-evaluate Owen’s screen presence. As for Bloom, I could see him picking up the Bond role in 15-20 years. He’ll need extra time to age as he looks so boyish. The choice of Bloom isn’t as bad as some here are suggesting – it’s just not his time yet. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954/84 "2004-04-12T19:45:56Z")
> [@Green Eyed Stranger](#): > > I think Orlando Bloom would be good in a _Bond : Year One_ sort of way. Young fresh faced Royal Navy Lieutenant (or what ever is the lowest ranking officer is in the Royal Navy) is recuited by MI6, and we watch the transformation from idealist to killer. Charming killer, but killer none the less. Looks like you’re onto something there. > [@](#): > > [BBC News](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3618627.stm) > Bond to return - as a schoolboy > > James Bond, the nation’s most famous fictional spy, is to return next year for a new mission - as a teenager. > > Set in the 1930s, the books will tell the story of the future 007 and his schoolboy adventures at Eton. > > Actor and novelist Charlie Higson - best known for his work on TV’s The Fast Show - has been commissioned by Penguin Books to write the prequels. > > The first book will see the schoolboy Bond travel to a Scottish castle, where, according to Penguin, a wealthy American has been conducting “some very disturbing experiments”. > > It will also describe his struggle to come to terms with the deaths of his parents in a skiiing accident - an event often alluded to in Fleming’s books. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954/85 "2004-04-12T20:19:24Z")
> [@II Gyan II](#): > > I heard a rumour about Clive Owen as the next Bond. Me too… But the more I think about it, the more I’m thinking I read it more as a flippant remark by a reviewer who was reviewing _Beyond Borders_. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954/86 "2004-04-12T21:38:19Z")
Orlando Bloom, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law - all good actors, but all too feminine in appearnace and behaviour to be a convincing Bond. Bond is as macho as they come. But the ‘macho’ actors that have ben suggested, like Colin Farrel, are just too rough - could you imagine Colin Farrel looking at home in a tux at an Ambassador’s reception? _Without_ him ending up drunk face down in the souflle? All of them are too young, too. I can’t think of anyone else though, and haven’t seen anyone suggest anyone appealing so far yet. It can’t be an American actor, because Bond is just supposed to be damn British, doncha know. An actor from the, ahem, colonies could pull it off, especially if they changed their accent. He has to be over 35 (and look it), rough-hewn _and_ debonair (the diamond and the rough), dark-haired, good-looking and charismatic. Who fits that description? Good thing Brosnan’s staying on an extra year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orlando-bloom-legolas-positioned-to-be-next-james-bond-good-idea-or-bad/236954.md?page=4)