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[Double-0 Six]

Found this news item on the NTL homepage (http://www.ntlworld....ment/540886.php):

Action hero Harrison Ford said he would love to play the "bad guy" in a film, but said he never gets any offers because villains never get the lead role in Hollywood movies.

The 61-year-old actor said he would enjoy the challenge of a bad guy role for a change of pace.

"Certainly, but in American films the bad guy is never the central character, but instead the counterpart to the hero," said Ford, when asked if he wanted such a role.

"So I never even get offers for roles like that. Although it would definitely be fun because the bad guys can really go all out in their scenes. But as just an ordinary hero, I can't go all out."


How would you feel about Harrison Ford playing a Bond villain, if that's the type of role he's looking for?

I think if it's handled properly, he could make a damn good villain, along the lines of an Elliott Carver or another tycoon type character with a secret desire for world domination ... I doubt it'll ever happen, but what do you think to the idea?

[Tanger]

I reckon he'd be OK but there wouldn't be too much action because he is too old. I still can't see Indy 4 getting made.

[ChandlerBing]

Harrison as a bad guy is just wrong. I walked out on What Lies Beneath because of how wrong that movie was. Ford is an icon. He's a commodity. People like him because there are certain roles they want to see him in. Same way John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart were icons in the roles people wanted to see them in. There are actors, character actors, and there are icons. People didn't want to see Ford in K19. I am still puzzled as to how What Lies Beneath made so much money, but hopefully you'll see what I mean.
Wait, another example. Pierce Brosnan has made a good career out of playing charming sophisticated rougues. When he gets down and dirty like in Grey Owl or Tailor of Panama, people turn their heads.

[Bondian]

Double-O Six your on the right track with Harrison Ford being involved with the Bond Movies. The problem is he is a Celebrity ACTOR and his masculinity would make poor ol Pierce look so vonerable like a slab of Doner Kebab. If you noticed all of the Brosnan Baddies have been almost wimps. Also he would act Pierce off the screen with his stage prescience.
I still believe that Bond should be an unknown and I would change James Bond instead of the Directors every Movie. Besides how can James Bond survive over 40 years without ageing?.
Bond needs to be real hence Harry is a good choice, but what about the others?.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

if done right i would love to see it happen, i think he could make a very good bond villain, he could even be better then carver but the story would have to be great for that to happen

[DLibrasnow]

I think he would make a great Bond film...
What's wierd is that I saw a publicity still of Ford in a tux in the early 1980s and thought he would make a great 007.

[jwheels]

He is my favorite actor, and I would love to see him in a Bond movie, playing a character that he hasen't really ever played.

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by jwheels57
He is my favorite actor, and I would love to see him in a Bond movie, playing a character that he hasen't really ever played.

I remember the shock that ran through the audience at the conclusion of the movie "What Lies Beneath" when he


SPOILER ALERT




When he turned out to be the villain.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow


I remember the shock that ran through the audience at the conclusion of the movie "What Lies Beneath" when he


SPOILER ALERT




When he turned out to be the villain.

i remember how shocked i was as well, i was floored

[DLibrasnow]

The whole audience gasped at the screening I was at....People were so used to seeing him play the good guy....

He had played a villain before in "The Conversation" also, but that was before he had struck it big.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

i wonder how he would do in a bond film, is he to big a star to play a bond bad guy,? is his name to big, would it distract from the film

[DLibrasnow]

Well Bond movies have had big name actors play villains...We had Christopher Walken in AVTAK, Max Von Sydow in NSNA, Louis Jordan in OP and Christopher Lee in TMWTGG.