# 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:** 2
**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, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/21 "2004-07-28T10:09:44Z")
I merged the two threads on this topic. ---
**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, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/22 "2004-07-28T10:10:48Z")
There’s another thread on the front page where people are speculating. I personally think Clive Owen would be perfect. Or Bruce Campbell. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/23 "2004-07-28T11:11:18Z")
According to [AICN](http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18051), it’s Eric Bana. They’ve been wrong before, though. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/24 "2004-07-28T11:24:16Z")
I think that \*\*Alexis Denisof \*\* (aka Wesley from Buffy and Angel) would be good. Okay, technically he’s American/Russian, but he does do a good British accent. ---
**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, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/25 "2004-07-28T11:51:43Z")
I’ve heard people suggest Christian Bale, I think he’d be great too. ---
**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/26 "2004-07-28T11:59:45Z")
How about Jude Law? ---
**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, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/27 "2004-07-28T12:17:37Z")
I can’t picture a blonde Bond. And Jude Law is a little too much of a pretty boy, in my opinion. Perhaps in a decade or so he, like Farrell, will have the look. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/28 "2004-07-28T14:10:39Z")
I’ve been a proponent of Clive Owen as next Bond for a while, though sometimes I’m concerned about his acting chops. Ewan Mcgregor MIGHT be able to pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/29 "2004-07-28T14:19:56Z")
My first choice, Sean Bean, is obviously disqualified. As I summon all the Buffy fans, squealing with glee, into the thread… James Marsters. Kenneth Branagh. Mel Gibson’s probably too old. Speaking of heresy: Elizabeth Hurley. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/30 "2004-07-28T14:23:23Z")
If it was up to me I’d pick Clive Owen, but not after making sure the script was a spy movie and not a collection of explosions and product placements. Pierce Brosnon was an excellet Bond, unfortunately he was in rather lackluster Bond movies. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/31 "2004-07-28T15:02:19Z")
Thank goodness no one has said Hugh Grant. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/32 "2004-07-28T15:41:41Z")
“Yes. Ah… so. You. Blofeld. That’s-- that’s really not necessary, is it? No. It’s not. No more world domination plans, there been quite enough of that, I’d say. Your gun, put it down, over there… I don’t want to, er, get rough with you? We’ve had quite enough excitement today without you needing to be such a blasted nuisance.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/33 "2004-07-28T15:47:58Z")
[Jason Statham](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005458/) if he can manage a credible English accent. He did a great job of being Bond-ish in “The Transporter” and he’s got good martial arts chops. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/34 "2004-07-28T15:56:03Z")
Richard E Grant, if only to get him away from those godawful Argos ads. Actually, how about one of the McGanns? I always thought Brosnan would be a good Bond and was really pleased when he got the role; then suddenly I have been bitterly disappointed with his performance. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/35 "2004-07-28T16:34:12Z")
New Bond? Firth. Colin Firth. Ooooooh, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/36 "2004-07-28T16:41:32Z")
On the subject of Colins: Colin Farrell is too young Colin Firth is not a bad idea; not a bad idea at all. But my vote goes to Colin Salmon - he’d be pretty swoonworthy and swashbuckly. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/37 "2004-07-28T16:44:26Z")
Ian McKellan in… _ **Bond: 2045** _!!! ---
**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:** [July 28, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/38 "2004-07-28T16:45:53Z")
[Jeremy Northam](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000562/). I could get behind Hugh Jackman, though he doesn’t seem he’d be as smooth as Northam. He might be more of a Timothy Dalton-esque Bond. _shudder_ ---
**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, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/39 "2004-07-28T17:09:35Z")
Carey Elwes! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234/40 "2004-07-28T17:17:13Z")
I really like the idea of Adrian Paul as the next Bond, but he doesn’t have a shot in hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-play-james-bond-after-brosnan/257234.md?page=3)