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[Agent 0011]

i'm right w/ ya chandlerbing....tell Eon to had it over to us and we'll give them a winner...wonderful if it is any way to let them see our amazing ideas? i really think that would be a spectacular bond w/ by far the most amazing cast....let's just right it now!!!!! ;>P

[rubixcub]

By coincidence, I thought of a few more over the weekend. In addition to those I've already mentioned (and which have been mentioned by others-

Sir Ian McKellen
Brendan Gleeson (Mickey Abraxis in "Tailor of Panama", Lord Johnson-Johnson in "A.I."; friend of Brosnan's I believe)
Tcheky Karyo (Defense Minister Mishkin in GE; could return in a few years, looks different in every film he does)
Jeremy Irons
Patrick McGoohan (only just started becoming familiar with the original Bond hopeful)
Richard E. Grant (works with Robert Altman a lot)
Lance Henriksen
Charles Dance (Lord Stockbridge in "Gosford Park", played Ian Fleming in biopic; heard him mentioned several times before)
Alan Rickman
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Sir Derek Jacobi
Joaquin Phoenix (perhaps)

I would like to suggest the following:

Sir Michael Gambon (Sir William McCordle in "Gosford Park"- he would be one of the most excellent choices, his Sir William looked to me rather like a Bond villain at times, aged but very commanding, a perfect armchair villain)
Brian Blessed (burly Shakespearean actor, works with Kenneth Branagh a lot)
Sir Alan Bates
Marcel Iures (villain in The Peacemaker)

Tell me what you think.

Dave

[brendan007]

Originally posted by Martini
Why always male villains?

Electra/Marceau was great, so here are her possible heirs:

- Sigourney Weaver

- ...

sigourney weaver would be fantastic as a bond villian. shes fantastic in all her movies, and could pull off being the main villian for a bond film. its about time we had a real main female villian for a film, and not someone like elektra who we only find out is the villian halfway through (although i did enjoy that)

[ChandlerBing]

We will have an Irish villain, someone by the name of Kevin McClory. The fact he has the same name as a certain would-be film producer is purely coincidental.

[Agent 0011]

I still say you gotta go for getting Connery to come back and play the ultimate villian....would be destined to be awesome

[bondfan15]

Originally posted by Martini
Why always male villains?

Electra/Marceau was great, so here are her possible heirs:

- Sigourney Weaver
- Sharon Stone
- Cate Blanchet
- Theresa Russell
- ...

How about Lena Olin? Has anyone seen Alias? She can totally kick but and she's young enough to be considered "attractive" to some people. Not necessarily me... but some people maybe...

[Agent 0011]

yea...i think lena olin could pull off a good bond villian too.....i really like her part of alias....she gives off a certain mystique, she could work well

[BONDFINESSE 007]

i would love to see arnold schwarzenegger as a bad guy, just think he could whip james bonds tail, and what a fight it would be

[rogermoore007]

What about Anthony Hopkins?? He makes a good sick criminal mastermind

[rubixcub]

Originally posted by BONDFINESSE 007
i would love to see arnold schwarzenegger as a bad guy, just think he could whip james bonds tail, and what a fight it would be

Please no. It's all right to go a little bit camp, but not as far as Arnie. You can find musclemen anywhere, if that's what you're after as an adversary. Anyway a muscle man would work better as a henchman.

Dave

[kevrichardson]

Originally posted by rogermoore007
What about Anthony Hopkins??  He makes a good sick criminal mastermind

Anthony Hopkins is too old . Had his chance with both GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.

[ChandlerBing]

I have it on good authority that William Shatner will play a villain by the name of General Mortars.

[rubixcub]

Originally posted by kevrichardson
Anthony Hopkins is too old . Had his chance with both GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.

How can a person be too old to play a Bond villain? Too old to play a physical villain but certainly not too old to be a classic armchair villain.

Dave

[ChandlerBing]

Too old didn't hurt Curt Jurgens as Stromberg, and he had to be pushing 80.

[kevrichardson]

Originally posted by rubixcub

How can a person be too old to play a Bond villain?  Too old to play a physical villain but certainly not too old to be a classic armchair villain.
Dave

Easy ! All of Brosnan/Bond Villians have been the same age or younger than Bond . Except for perhaps Eliot Carver . I would have love for Hopkins to have starred in "Tomorrow" . But he walked a way from the project. I feel that unless Bond 21 has a older villian . There is no need for EON to ask Hopkins . Unless had need's a hit . Since his recent film tanked.

[ChandlerBing]

Maybe they can bring back OnaTopp's twin sister or something. Give it more bang for our buck.

[kevrichardson]

Originally posted by ChandlerBing
Maybe they can bring back OnaTopp's twin sister or something.  Give it more bang for our buck.

J.W. Pepper as Head of the Louisana State Patrol .

[ChandlerBing]

Can they do that? Wow, that guy's got to be pretty old. Maybe Ned Beatty can play the part now. Anyone want to see Ned Beatty playing a Southern sherrif? Cue the banjos!

[rogermoore007]

Yeeeeeeeeeeee Hawwwwww

[Doubleshot]

I much prefer the villians like Goldfinger, Largo, Zorin, Trevelyn, and Graves - all villians who are lazy enough to have henchmen but can put up a good fight with Bond if they have to. Villians like Stromberg, Drax, and possibly Anthony Hopkins (no matter how much I love him, and I do) wouldn't do it for me.

[rogermoore007]

I'm sticking with my original idea--Hopkins could play a great armchair villain--would be a good Stromberg-type

[Agent 0011]

...yea well that would make me have to reintroduce my idea....sean connery posing as the ultimate insider villian who rips M16 apart from the inside out...starting w/ getting close to M....

[kevrichardson]

Originally posted by rogermoore007
I'm sticking with my original idea--Hopkins could play a great armchair villain--would be a good Stromberg-type

That fine . Stay with your original idea . I never stated that Anthony Hopkins would not be any good . I am surprised to find someone who like Karl Stromberg as a Villian . Some found him to be rather weak .

[Tanger]

I agree 100% with all that have said Ray Liotta. He's recently become one of my favourite actors and I've loved seeing some of his old stuff.

My favourite films with him are definitely GoodFellas and CopLand. Both are gems.

Also most recently I've heard he's fantastic in NARC and he also voices the main character of Tommy Vercetti in Vice City!

[rogermoore007]

Originally posted by kevrichardson
That fine . Stay with your original idea . I never stated that Anthony Hopkins would not be any good . I am surprised to find someone who like Karl Stromberg as a Villian . Some found him to be rather weak .

I thought Stromberg was very powerful--he could control an underwater city from his fingertips and a gun under the table, but I agree that he could have been more powerful and with technology and special effects today, Hopkins' power could be enhanced more than stromberg's--Hopkins, however, would not be a wise choice for any villian other than a Stromberg-type one

[ChandlerBing]

How about a villain we don't see until the end of the movie, a la Dr. No?

[rogermoore007]

I'd also like to see another Scaramanga-type--some assassin that Bond could go head to head with like in TMWTGG (I'd also like to see Pierce re-create TMWTGG because it is the best Bond movie ever)

[mkkbb]

Good suggestions here on this forum. I feel that Ian Mcdiarmid would be good as he is older than Bond, and also very sinister. Although yet another brit, but a very different sort of brit than the others recently.

Other than that James Caan. That would be a great boost for the film.

[Agent Lee]

If anybody is still interested in American villians, then I would vote for Michael Douglas. Anybody ever see A PERFECT MURDER? He was just so wonderfully unsavoury....

[univex]

I still think Ralph Fiennes would be a great villain, Scaramanga type.