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[SeanValen00V]

3 films, 2 year gaps-6 total.

He's 45 now, so be 51 when he finishes, seems youthful at his age, didn't Roger start at 45 or something.

I think he looks more Bond like then Clive Owen, anyone seen Adrian Paul in the Breed? He was a vampire Bond, looks Bond in a suit,a walking young Sean Connery, who does martial arts.

I say give him 3 films. The days of a actor doing 6/7 bond films are over I think, 3 film bond trilogies per actor, although brosnan took his option for the 4th.


http://www.adrianpaul.net/

Other Bondish actors:
Hugh Jackman(maybe later, he's young and busy with wolvernie)
Dougary Scott
Christian Bale(if he wasn't batman)would of been ace


I am not convinced Clive Owen looks Bondish enough, I know he's a favorite, but I would pick Adrian Paul ahead of him, and Paul was considered before, and I think he's still looks Bondish more then Owen.

One has got to think about why George Lazamby was cast, with no great acting experience, he was bond, if he can get casted, almost anyone can, although in George's case.

Edited by SeanValen00V, 13 February 2005 - 06:41 PM.

[Seannery]

[quote name='SeanValen00V' date='13 February 2005 - 19:37']3 films, 2 year gaps-6 total.

He's 45 now, so be 51 when he finishes, seems youthful at his age, didn't Roger start at 45 or something.

I think he looks more Bond like then Clive Owen, anyone seen Adrian Paul in the Breed? He was a vampire Bond, looks Bond in a suit,a walking young Sean Connery, who does martial arts.

I say give him 3 films. The days of a actor doing 6/7 bond films are over I think,

[SeanValen00V]

I wish I was announcing it as a fact.

Well given all the Clive Owen hype, I would love for Eon to surprise the media, and choose Adrian Paul, he'll instantly be on the covers of GQ and stuff, and people who know Highlander, would think, the highland dude is Bond, oh he reminds me of Connery a bit, and I don't think people would mind that, the Bond fanchise is always haunted by Connery, perhaps use that to Adrian Paul's advantage.

[Agent 76]

[...]the highland dude is Bond, oh he reminds me of Connery a bit,[...]

ohhh, That I believe. He really reminds me of Sean Connery, like a young Sean btw.
I wouldn't mind seeing him as James Bond, he has a strong physical capacity, and that would be good for fight scenes.

[Seannery]

[...]the highland dude is Bond, oh he reminds me of Connery a bit,[...]

ohhh, That I believe. He really reminds me of Sean Connery, like a young Sean btw.
I wouldn't mind seeing him as James Bond, he has a strong physical capacity, and that would be good for fight scenes.

In that second picture he looks a little like a slightly bigger Christian Bale.

[SeanValen00V]

And most of all, where he beats Connery, he was born in London, England, so a totally English Bond, and we haven't had that since Roger Moore.

If he's never Bond, be ashame.

[marktmurphy]

A Sean Connery lookalike is a very bad idea- can only ever draw bad comparisons to the original.

[Seannery]

A Sean Connery lookalike is a very bad idea- can only ever draw bad comparisons to the original.

I can see that viewpoint BUT I don't agree. I think it would give good Bond reverberations and give him a step up into being accepted easier IMO. Despite his 6'6" height that is what intrigued me about Rory McCann.

[SeanValen00V]

A Sean Connery lookalike is a very bad idea- can only ever draw bad comparisons to the original.

Possibly, but Adrian Paul isn't some double, his speech, totally English, he will never have the scottish delivery of Connery, Connery's accent is the most voiced by people trying to imitate connery, however Paul is English, not Scotish, he may look like Connery, but looking like Connery isn't a bad thing, most of all if Connery looks Bondish, and Paul looks Bondish, then that's for James Bond, but Adrian's style is very different, were not talking about similar actors.

For examplet Richard Gear and David Ducovney from X files, they look similar in ways, DAvid even did a expression of Gear once as a joke, but their acting delivery is very differenct, so your not thinking about the other one.


What's important is having a actor who looks Bondish, Paul is that, looking a bit like Connery is a side bonus, but the focus is on looking Bondish.

Edited by SeanValen00V, 13 February 2005 - 07:32 PM.

[Agent 76]

He made screen tests for Goldeneye for what I've heard, so I think Eon could possible consider him for the role.

[Seannery]

Moviehole.net recently talked about Adrain Paul considering doing an upcoming Highlander movie BUT only if the script is good. He was known to be disappointed in the last movie's script. The post then goes on to say perhaps he is holding out waiting to do Bond--because he is supposedly very keen on doing Bond. It would be great to have a new Bond who is excited and not ambivalent about taking the role.

[SeanValen00V]

Moviehole.net recently talked about Adrain Paul considering doing an upcoming Highlander movie BUT only if the script is good.  He was known to be disappointed in the last movie's script.  The post then goes on to say perhaps he is holding out waiting to do Bond--because he is supposedly very keen on doing Bond.  It would be great to have a new Bond who is excited and not ambivalent about taking the role.

Sounds good.

[Rolex]

He not my cuppa tea for Bond, too beefcake

[SeanValen00V]

I met a actor who did a guest shot on a highlander episode, Andrew Divoff, he was playing a terrorist, who shoots Adrian-Highlander, he was in Air Force One, who has a fight with Harrison Ford when the president is on the mobile, he's good friends with Adrian and he also would to see Adrian Paul be Bond. This was at the London expo event in London, the same day I met Kara-Mayiam Diablo from the living daylights and the bond woman in the hellicopter in the spy who loved me, was a great day seeing Bond actors of the past for the first time, and Adrian's name was menstioned by a fellow actor, maybe it's destiny, maybe it's PAUL!!!

Edited by SeanValen00V, 13 February 2005 - 07:52 PM.

[XXX]

I think of all candidates, he looks like a) a very solid choice and b ) a very likely choice, given the fact that all Bonds after Lazenby were in the talking at EON, before they actually took over (Moore before Connery, Dalton before (at the same time as) Moore (again), Brosnan before Dalton)
Then again, I wouldn't mind Clive Owen.

Edited by XXX, 13 February 2005 - 08:03 PM.

[spynovelfan]

Adrian Paul is a terrible actor. Incredibly cheesy. He's also very vain, his career's pretty much over (if it ever really began) and he is not in any way suave - he looks incredibly Eighties. He'd be fine for a really bad Hong Kong Bond knock-off in which he played someone called James Brand or something, but that's about as far as it goes.

That'a no to Adrian Paul from me, then.

[XXX]

Hey, the 80s Bonds are my absolute favorites

[Seannery]

Adrian Paul is a terrible actor. Incredibly cheesy. He's also very vain, his career's pretty much over (if it ever really began) and he is not in any way suave - he looks incredibly Eighties. He'd be fine for a really bad Hong Kong Bond knock-off in which he played someone called James Brand or something, but that's about as far as it goes.

That'a no to Adrian Paul from me, then.

Tell me how you really feel spynovelfan! You're too shy. Of course I so disagree BUT hey there are some who hate Owen, Jackman and the rest so is it shocking that Paul has those who hammer him--in a word--No.

[Bon-san]

Adrian Paul is a terrible actor. Incredibly cheesy. He's also very vain, his career's pretty much over (if it ever really began) and he is not in any way suave - he looks incredibly Eighties. He'd be fine for a really bad Hong Kong Bond knock-off in which he played someone called James Brand or something, but that's about as far as it goes.

That'a no to Adrian Paul from me, then.

Don't know if I would have put it quite so harshly, but I agree with your assessment, spynovelfan.

Edited by Bon-san, 13 February 2005 - 08:16 PM.

[SeanValen00V]

Adrian Paul is a terrible actor. Incredibly cheesy. He's also very vain, his career's pretty much over (if it ever really began) and he is not in any way suave - he looks incredibly Eighties. He'd be fine for a really bad Hong Kong Bond knock-off in which he played someone called James Brand or something, but that's about as far as it goes.

That'a no to Adrian Paul from me, then.

I think if we foruming when Roger Moore was still the Saint, or Brosnan still Remington Steele, there would be disagreements then as well. Adrian Paul has been picked out in articles as a Bond contender, he comes from tv just like Brosnan and Moore.

Once someone is Bond, it's much easy just to concentrate on their Bond performance, Paul isn't Bond, maybe never will be, but I think he's as capable as Brosnan and Moore before him, although I don't rate him as a better actor then Dalton or Connery, it is perhaps very difficult to have great actor and bondish looks in one, Paul I think may excel as bond more so then other roles, what else did Roger Moore do in movies besides bond etcbut as Bond he was great for the type of films he did. Sometimes hollywood just won't give a actor the chances he needs to be in the right roles, I think Roger Moore could play a cold tough bastard of a villian if he really wanted do, but hollywood mightn't of let him try.

Edited by SeanValen00V, 13 February 2005 - 08:27 PM.

[Loomis]

Adrian Paul is a terrible actor. Incredibly cheesy. He's also very vain, his career's pretty much over (if it ever really began) and he is not in any way suave - he looks incredibly Eighties. He'd be fine for a really bad Hong Kong Bond knock-off in which he played someone called James Brand or something, but that's about as far as it goes.

That'a no to Adrian Paul from me, then.

Don't know if I would have put it quite so harshly, but I agree with your assessment, spynovelfan.

So do I. Paul looks, at best, like a very poor man's Brosnan. No way should he be Bond.

I see only one acceptable choice out there: Owen.

[hrabb04]

Hey, Loomis, since you are undoubtably Clive's agent/publicist, what are his odds for the Academy Awards? Seriously.

[Loomis]

I have no idea.

[hrabb04]

Party pooper

[Seannery]

Adrian Paul is a terrible actor. Incredibly cheesy. He's also very vain, his career's pretty much over (if it ever really began) and he is not in any way suave - he looks incredibly Eighties. He'd be fine for a really bad Hong Kong Bond knock-off in which he played someone called James Brand or something, but that's about as far as it goes.

That'a no to Adrian Paul from me, then.

Don't know if I would have put it quite so harshly, but I agree with your assessment, spynovelfan.

So do I. Paul looks, at best, like a very poor man's Brosnan. No way should he be Bond.

I see only one acceptable choice out there: Owen.

Hmmmmmmmm..........don't see the Brosnan comparison. If anyone its more like Connery BUT not a duplicate. He has the physicality and intensity of a Connery BUT with his own distinctive persona. He has good underrated talent and can do action, humor and drama. About Owen I still say he lacks the aspect of charm necessary and his looks aren't quite right.

[SeanValen00V]

Adrian Paul is a terrible actor. Incredibly cheesy. He's also very vain, his career's pretty much over (if it ever really began) and he is not in any way suave - he looks incredibly Eighties. He'd be fine for a really bad Hong Kong Bond knock-off in which he played someone called James Brand or something, but that's about as far as it goes.

That'a no to Adrian Paul from me, then.

Don't know if I would have put it quite so harshly, but I agree with your assessment, spynovelfan.

So do I. Paul looks, at best, like a very poor man's Brosnan. No way should he be Bond.

I see only one acceptable choice out there: Owen.

Hmmmmmmmm..........don't see the Brosnan comparison. If anyone its more like Connery BUT not a duplicate. He has the physicality and intensity of a Connery BUT with his own distinctive persona. He has good underrated talent and can do action, humor and drama. About Owen I still say he lacks the aspect of charm necessary and his looks aren't quite right.

I believe the people who believe in Owen are forgetting just how big a role James Bond is, Pierce Brosnan ideally wanted Bond badly, we didn't see Brosnan at the oscars, getting critical rewards, neither did Connery, Moore, Dalton, George etc. Owen doesn't look like he wants Bond, however we got Hugh Jackman started rumours last year he's interested in bond, is Jackman hungary for it? Yes because he has a confidence he wants to be Bond, even menstioned 40 as the right age for him to do it. Adrian Paul has already done a goldneye test, obivously he was interested. Owen hasn't said anything complementry about Bond, bizaree behaviour, he seems more annoyed by the Bond rumours, he should be flattered, but he's shy about it, I don't think a shy Bond is ideal, I don't believe he wants it badly enough, however Jackman, Paul, maybe Dougary Scott seem hungary for it, Scott's relunctice might be following fellow Scott Connery in the role, which he has said.

But Owen, he doesn't give off I would enjoy Bond, Dalton was fasinated, wanted to do bond in the spirit of ian flemming and all that, Owen talks as if he knows he couldn't be Bond, or wants to because he doesn't believe he's capable of pulling off that charm, he would feel silly in that role, that's the impression I get from him, maybe I'm wrong, we'll see. Bond is too big for Owen, however guys like Jackman enjoy the attention more, he's experienced Wolverine attention, Bond is the next step up if he does it later, Paul is like a man ready to be digged up to play Bond, Connery was digged up as well, Owen comes off as I've got other things I'll rather do, he's not hungary for it.

Edited by SeanValen00V, 13 February 2005 - 08:56 PM.

[Janus Assassin]

You know I honestly don't care who plays Bond. JUST PICK SOMEONE AND FILM CASINO ROYALE ALREADY... thats my opinon.

[SeanValen00V]

In the fall of 2004:
Adrian Paul says `it would be fantastic` to be James Bond

Recently rumoured as a candidate for the role of James Bond 007 by the tabloid press, actor Adrian Paul has gone on the record about his desire to be Bond.

US magazine TV Guide asked Paul: "For years, your fans have been pitching your name for James Bond."

The "Highlander" actor said, "It's coming up again, isn't it? I've always liked that character."

"Sean Connery as James Bond was my hero when I was a kid. It would be fantastic to do that, but they might go for a young guy next time. A 25-year-old. Who knows?"

He likes the character, obviously others want to see him as Bond as well, considering he's not a huge movie star, that's cool. There's a hungar about him to do it, I don't sense that with some other contenders like Owen, what has Owen said about Bond, nothing, not even some thanks for flattery odds for him as Bond, it's why we should consider Paul as a big candidate for Bond.

But the question is, does EON go younger, if they do, Paul can't be Bond. And in truth, Owen might be younger then Paul, but I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them both if I didn't know their age, and whats what EON should take into account.

Edited by SeanValen00V, 13 February 2005 - 09:14 PM.

[Tarl_Cabot]

Adrian Paul can't act his way out of a wet paper bag. He's handsome and Bondish looking, yes but has zero charisma(see Highlander 4). He makes Brosnan look like Lawerence Olivier.

Besides, he's 46. Why not get a younger cat who can play Bond for 10 years?

[SeanValen00V]

Adrian Paul can't act his way out of a wet paper bag. He's handsome and Bondish looking, yes but has zero charisma(see Highlander 4). He makes Brosnan look like Lawerence Olivier.

Besides, he's 46. Why not get a younger cat who can play Bond for 10 years?

Highlander 4 was a bad film period, if the script is bad, how can u act/ He's done better acting in the highlander tv series.

I believe you would say the same thing regarding Brosnan before he was Bond, just remington steel.


If you wanna check out a recent Adrian Paul film, check out The Breed.