# Who should play James Bond after Brosnan? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234 "2004-07-28T03:03:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealTronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RealTronic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealTronic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/1 "2004-07-28T03:03:14Z")
At least according to an interview in Entertainment Weekly: [http://www.ew.com/r0/ew/HomepageTopStory/in?/ew/report/0,6115,673018\_10\_0\_,00.html](http://www.ew.com/r0/ew/HomepageTopStory/in?/ew/report/0,6115,673018_10_0_,00.html) You have to sign up to read it, here’s a short summary though: > **[ComingSoon.net - New Movies, Movie Trailers, TV, Streaming, Anime & Video...](https://www.comingsoon.net/)** > > New Movies, Movie Trailers, TV, Streaming, Anime & Video Game News Too bad, I thought he had a few more films in him, and Brosnan definately was a really really good Bond - matching Connery IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/2 "2004-07-28T04:53:49Z")
Any suggestions? My personal choice would be Adrian Paul of the ‘Highlander’ series. He has the looks and the charm to pull it off. He’s just around the right age, also, and he’s athletic enough to do the stunts. But that’s just me. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/3 "2004-07-28T04:58:27Z")
Off the top of my head, I could picture Eric Bana as Bond. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/4 "2004-07-28T05:02:06Z")
Brosnan is Bond now? What ever happened to George Lazenby? ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/5 "2004-07-28T05:12:53Z")
[Clive Owen](http://bassoatesino.clarence.com/archive/images/030607artu01.jpg) from King Arthur and those BMW films. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/6 "2004-07-28T05:28:13Z")
Grace, you beat me to it. Clive Owen, all the way. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/7 "2004-07-28T05:31:15Z")
Russel Crowe would be a good Bond. Second choice: Colin Farrell. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/8 "2004-07-28T05:38:01Z")
Adrian Paul would be good. He even looks like Sean Connery. [Jack Davenport](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202603/) might pull it off. He can be suave and sophisticated, but I don’t know how he’d do with the action aspect. [Alastair Mackenzie](http://www.coribright.com/TopTwenty/alastair.htm) of [Monarch of the Glen](http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/tv/monarch/) could probably do the job. ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/9 "2004-07-28T05:47:18Z")
I think Crowe is too burly and Farrell too boyish. In 15 years or so, Farrell would be better suited. Remember, Bond must have that air of worldly sophistication that a younger man can’t pull off. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/10 "2004-07-28T05:48:01Z")
I nominate [Jason Isaacs](http://imdb.com/name/nm0005042/), currently playing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies. Isaacs has already effectively played a James Bond parody (without sliding into camp, mind you) in _The Tuxedo_ and I can easily see him doing the “real” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/11 "2004-07-28T06:07:23Z")
I hird Clive Owen. I’d never seen him in anything until King Arthur but that one move was enough to make me think he wold make a good 007. I think I read in EW that he’s never been approached as has been rumored though. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/12 "2004-07-28T06:08:37Z")
Guy Pearce would be a plausible choice IMO. He is the right age and has the Bond look. From what I saw in _Memento_ and _L.A. Confidential_ he certainly has the talent. OK, he is Austalian, but born in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/13 "2004-07-28T06:24:46Z")
I disagree about the Bond look. I just looked at Pearce’s photos on IMDB and he has these hollow, sunken-looking cheeks and a too-severe bone structure. He has what I’d describe as “rugged” facial feaures; handome in their own right but not appropriate for a Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/14 "2004-07-28T06:42:23Z")
[Hugh Jackman](http://imdb.com/name/nm0413168/) IS the next Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/15 "2004-07-28T06:42:23Z")
Pearce’s look can change quite a bit, the guy in _Memento_ looks nothing like his characters in _L.A. Confidential_ or the more recent [_Rules of Engagement_](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0160797/Ss/0160797/4?path=gallery&path_key=0160797). I get your point though, at times he does look too angular for Bond. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/16 "2004-07-28T06:47:31Z")
I like Hugh Jackman best. I never get much support for this, but I would LOVE for Sean Connery to come back and do another bond movie. I don’t expect them to try to make him young or anything… but I would like to see a bond movie with him coming out of retirement, or perhaps he’s heading up the agency, but has to go out into the field again. That’d be cool! E3 ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/17 "2004-07-28T06:51:14Z")
In the spirit of _Never Say Never Again_ it could be called _Oh No Not Again_. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/18 "2004-07-28T06:59:52Z")
Clive Owen would work. Also Carey Elwes. I’d love to see Johnny Depp do Bond, but he wouldn’t sign on for that kind of commitment. ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/19 "2004-07-28T07:01:39Z")
Depp is American, though. It’d be heresy. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/20 "2004-07-28T10:03:15Z")
I agree: Brosnan’s my favourite bond, after Connery of course. So, let the speculation start!! Who could be the new Bond? Ewan McGregor has a shot, I think. Colin Farrell too, I suppose - though I’m not too fond of him myself. And he’s a tad young at this stage. Any other guesses? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234.md?page=2)