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[Prav_007]

I suggest Anthony Hopkins, his brilliant accent, just briliiant!!!

[SPECTRE_jr]

What a good thread!! Great Bond (would be/ could be) villians IMHO could be:

Angelina Jolie (she has that "crazy" dark persona don't you think?)

Billy Zane (still remember him from "Dead Calm")

Sam Neil (great actor!)

Ben Kingsley (someone mentioned him in an earlier post and I have to agree!)

Laurence Fishburne(sp) the last Black villian was in "Live and Let Die".

Gary Oldman (one of the finest actors in the last 40 years)

Well I am sure there are dozens more who could fit the bill but the ones I mentioned IMHO would make outstanding villians in Bond 21.

[Agent 0011]

Originally posted by prav_007
I suggest Anthony Hopkins, his brilliant accent, just briliiant!!!

I don't think he would play another villian.....too much of a risk for being labeled as falling into a "hannibal trap"....but of course the accent is briliant;)

[Velasco]

Hey there! This is my first post.

Anyways, I know someone has probably said this, but Tcheky Karyo would make a perfect baddie. Even though he was already mishkin in Goldeneye. He can be menacing, he can put on any accent, and he can take out a gun and kick some serious ***. Check him out in Bad Boys.

[TonicBH]

Whoever suggested Connery (or similar A-list stars) is nuts.

I dunno, I really don't care who's the villian. But maybe we should go for a black villian again... I mean, it's been over 30 years since we've seen some form of a black villian in a Bond movie!

Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington... hell, get Laurence Fishburne if you could!

But, on the serious side...

I might be the third nutziest (is that even a word?) person in this thread to suggest Timothy Dalton as a villian. I dunno, he looks kinda sinister...

[Pal]

I bet Morgan Freeman could play an amazing villian. He ha done so many "good guy" roles, maybe he wants a change. Jason Isaacs from The Patriot would be awesome opposite Hugh Jackman. That's all I have for now.

[Prav_007]

you know, I loved Christopher Walken in AVTAK, he should be a villian again, same with Christopher Lee in MWTGG, bring him back

[M_Balje]

Originally posted by TonicBH

I dunno, I really don't care who's the villian. But maybe we should go for a black villian again... I mean, it's been over 30 years since we've seen some form of a black villian in a Bond movie!

I have seen a couple of Episode's of 24,the guy who play Palmer.
Dennis Haysbert.
He can play the villan.
He is American,but for one time is that not a bad idea.

He play too in Random Hearts (1999) with Kristen Scott Thomas & Harrison Ford.

I agree that it is time we get a black villian again.

[Alpha Dog]

Gerard Depardieu- equal parts charm and threat.

[killkenny kid]

I think Kevin McNally would may an excellent villain for Bond 21.

[rubixcub]

Austin Powers probably puts the kaibosh on this idea, but call me kooky, call me crazy, but I think Michael York could be a good villain. Besides Austin Powers his resume also includes Romeo & Juliet, Cabaret, Murder on the Orient Express and a few Three Musketeers films. He'd of course be one of the wealthy, famous, in the limelight millionaire villains a la Zorin and Carver, with the main difference being that he would likely outclass some of the others.

Dave

[Velasco]

I think that John Malkovich would make an amazing bond villain. I just rented "Con Air" and "In the Line of Fire", and Malkovich is the best thing about both of those movies. He is a terrific actor and doesn't try to steal the spotlight. See "In the Line of Fire" and you'll know what I mean. That character is the epitome of villainy, insanity, eloquence, and flat out eccentrics.

[Kingdom Come]

Izzard is a bore. How about John Hurt as a Bond villain? Or if most of u like me are fed up with men/women as the villian, how about a set of dwarfs? [interesting] though they too would have to be men/women!

I was thinking along the lines of the computer, HAL, from 2001. If any of u who know that film - there is a very strange/powerful menance, because we only hear HAL's voice and do not see HAL - something big could be made of that...

[Kingdom Come]

How about Jane Fonda - if they can make her break her retirement from films. Or Rutger Hauer, who I read was approached in the Moore era as a possible Bond villian. He was interested, as they were, but he had a few 'demands' that seemed very reasonable to me - he wanted the dialogue to be the very best and not the standard lines. He also wanted to have a say in the characters motivations etc.

[Pussfeller]

It just occurred to me that Martin Sheen would make a good Bond villain. He strikes me as having some Goldfinger-esque characteristics. I think he would be a good megalomaniac kind of villain, the sort who would be in a hollowed-out volcano or underwater fortress, etc.

I was thinking Timothy Dalton would be a good psycho baddie, sort of an anti-M. He would play the character like he played Bond, but obviously older and nastier. The character would be something like an ex-Mi6 agent with a grudge against M and the top brass.

[neversaynever]

Originally posted by White Persian
... the following could be great Bond villains, but are unlikely to be considered because of their "image" ...

Barry (Dame Edna) Humphries

Any thoughts?

After that awful cameo by Dame Edna as Clare in Ally McBeal, it's a bit hard to take Barry Humphries seriously as an actor at all.

What were they thinking?

[Neph]

Something I dont like of most Bond villains is the "Im so bad and stupidly over confident" actitude that gets them killed.
What about a villain like Scorpio in the Simpsons "You Only Move Twice" episode? some nice guy, with an old Apple management style, worried about his employees health.

By the way he could be personified by an actor like Kevin Spacey

[clarkjamesclark]

How about Eric Roberts or Willem Dafoe. I think both would be inspired bond villians. They both have the perfect screen presence and that grittiness about their personas. Also, Willem has landed a role as a voice for a character for the latest PC game of Bond - "Everything or Nothing" or so i heard. Could it be fate?

[Jim]

Given the fondness for British character actors (ie cheap and don't need dubbing), there's always Keith Allen. If not major villain, then hench.

I know he's in absolutely everything and there's the Fat Les thing to get over, but he exudes menace - watch 24 Hour Party People (even though he's ostensibly playing someone who isn't inherently bad) and see what I mean.

Just a thought.

[Loomis]

Originally posted by Jim

Given the fondness for British character actors (ie cheap and don't need dubbing), there's always Keith Allen. If not major villain, then hench.

Might make an acceptable henchman, but, please, not the main villain (for reasons why, check out BEYOND BEDLAM). I know what you mean about his being in absolutely everything, though. Like the similarly ubiquitous Richard Griffiths, it's almost surprising that he's never been in a Bond flick.

[007sweetalker]

willem dafoe is a good one but not yet he just played spiderman

harrison ford
Micheal jackson
john travolta
busta rhymes

[worchyld]

Tim Curry, Tim Curry, Tim Curry.

[Jim]

Originally posted by Loomis


Might make an acceptable henchman, but, please, not the main villain (for reasons why, check out BEYOND BEDLAM). I know what you mean about his being in absolutely everything, though. Like the similarly ubiquitous Richard Griffiths, it's almost surprising that he's never been in a Bond flick.

Forgotten about Beyond Bedlam. Or tried to. I think you may have awoken a supressed memory, and a horrid one "to boot" (whatever that means). How many nails are there now in the Elizabeth Hurley acting career coffin? Isn't it just a big pile of nails?

Richard Griffiths - well, there's the Harry Potter "vibe" which has probably cleared Alan Rickman off the register too. Trying to think of a British character actor not associated with HP is getting difficult.

I think Maureen Rees "off of" TV's Driving School for Irma Bunt.

[H.M.Servant]

I know that some people feel that he could/should be the next Bond
but I like the idea of Jason Isaacs as a Bond villain.
I think he was good in the patriot and he certainly has the acting skill
to pull it off

[H.M.Servant]

I would also like to see Vinnie Jones as his henchman

[CommanderBond]

He could do either role but we just had a british/korean villian (but throughout most of the movie he was british)

[CommanderBond]

i think we should have a villian that is from a country that hasnt been in a bond movie in a while like africa or the caribbean islands.

[CommanderBond]

the spang brothers havent been used yet so id like to see them in JB 21

[Pal]

I have another few ideas for villains. A perfect henchmen could be Clancy Brown. He was in the first Highlander movie as Kurrgan and he was also Byron Headly in the Shawshank Redemtion (the prison gaurd). For lead villians, what about Paul Robb? He was in the Highlander series as Kalas. And yet again, another Highlander villian. i cannot remember his name but he played Kell in Highlander: Endgame. They may all be from Highlander but they are also ver good at playing villains.

[Kingdom Come]

Sorry if some1 has already mentioned this; but how about the return of several Bond adversaries? Yes, I know most have died but hasnt there been a few who got away?