Alternate Actors To Play James Bond

If we go with a full-on reboot... Idriss Elba. OK, he wouldn't make much sense if we were staying with the 'canon' (not many people of African descent in British intelligence during the 1950s and 60s), but with a reboot... Give him a decent backstory, a military background (Falkands, maybe, or Gulf War 1) before getting recruited by intelligence... Basically, a new Bond for a new century, one grounded in more recent British history.
 
Now that you mentioned Avengers, what about Ralph Fiennes, he has the rugged look of some one who has his way with the ladies but also a warn face that shows an agent who has seen his fear share of action.



How about in 2003, Pierce Brosnan, declines to do a fifth film claiming Die another day, was his last, the idea of a new Bond film is taken up by Mel Smith.

Cast
Hugh Laurie as James Bond.
Joely Richardson as Helen Back, an NSA agent.
Stephen Fry as M.
Tony Robinson as Q.
Miranda Richardson as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
Bill Nighy as Prince Michael, 3rd in line to the throne.
Maggie Smith as Queen Anne II of Great Britain
Rowan Atkinson as Prince William of Wales, 1st in line to the throne.
Tim McInnerny as Prince John, 2nd in line to the throne.
Emma Thompson as Princess Elizabeth.

Plot: After the failed "assassination attempt" on Prince Michael, the royal family is thrown into more grief, when his two older brothers are killed in a suspected IRA bombing.

However at the end it turns out, Prince Michael, had planned the whole thing as to get him self onto the throne, when this is found out a week before the coronation, he is sent to prison with his sister Princess Elizabeth, becoming Queen Elizabeth II.
Except for Rowan Atkinson,:eek::eek: I'd say :cool:
 
I think the who point with the rest of the team would disappear if you remove Rowan Atkinson. Obviously this would be a parody...

Not necessarily I do remember him being on a chatshow at the time the first series of Black Adder came out saying that he wanted to be a baddie in a Bond movie so he could say, "Not so fast Mister Bond!"

And he was in Never Say Never Agin, admittedly in a comedy part.

Both were in the early 1980s before he did a series of credit card commercials where he played a proto-Johnny English.
 
Oliver Reed as Bond from OHMSS until The Living Daylights.

If he doesn't get Bond then he replaces Bernard Lee as M in For Your Eyes Only until his death.
 
Not necessarily I do remember him being on a chatshow at the time the first series of Black Adder came out saying that he wanted to be a baddie in a Bond movie so he could say, "Not so fast Mister Bond!"

And he was in Never Say Never Agin, admittedly in a comedy part.

Both were in the early 1980s before he did a series of credit card commercials where he played a proto-Johnny English.

He might perhaps have been Q. After all, John Cleese did the role a couple of times.
 
He might perhaps have been Q. After all, John Cleese did the role a couple of times.

I'd prefer Stanley Unwin, Wilf Lunn, or Johnny Ball. "Bond think of a number between one and ten!":D

Or Raymond Baxter as M or Q. If he was Q then Michael Rodd and Judith Hann as his assistiants and James Burke as the villain.

Unwin and Desmond Lewellyn were both in Chitty! Chitty! Bang! Bang! Which was a book written by Ian Fleming and Eon Productions made the film. IIRC Roald Dahl who also did the script for You Only Live Twice wrote the script for Chitty also!

That also makes me think of Ronald Helpman and Benny Hilll as potential Bond villains.
 
Anyway, it wasn´t just that he had Rowan Atkinson on the list that made me write the remark about a parody, but that he included all his companions from the Blackadder series.
 
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