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[Humphrey Bogart]

IMO, i think Stephen Fry would make an awesome M. In every film he's in, he's like a real-life Qui Gonn Jinn. He even had the looks of M as seen in Absolute Power. In real life, he is like a mentor when i first met him, and he also smokes a pipe like Bernard Lee.

And yes, he'd make a great friendship chemistry with Craig. He'd make some really soft but harsh remarks on Bond sleeping with those women. And since Fry is gay and Craig wants a gay love scene in Bond 22, i think a sexual tension between Craig's Bond and Fry's M in M's office while talking business is the closest thing ever to having a gay scene in Bond 22. What do you think?

[DamnCoffee]

Craig dosent want a Gay love scene and i'd much rather have Robert Lindsay as M.

[Zorin Industries]

Craig dosent want a Gay love scene and i'd much rather have Robert Lindsay as M.

Who says he doesn't?!! I think CASINO ROYALE has ushered in an era of Bond storytelling where 007 could quite reasonably seduce a man for vital information. We don't have to see anything. It doesn't have to be a full-on, Octopussy's boudoir shag-fest! But it is plausible in an information gathering, male SOLANGE scenario surely.

Robert Lindsay has no presence. He's a great stage and TV actor (in the right role), but is not an 'M'.

Stephen Fry would make an interesting choice - for all the unspoken undertones that could be read into the interpretation of it. Though it must be said that 'M' and BOND would never share anything like that and just because Stephen Fry is gay, doesn't imply every part he fills (as it were) has to be.

Though you have reminded me of what Fry said of Daniel Craig once at the BAFTAS. "Daniel Craig is so lovely that his face has been declared a place of outstanding beauty - which is why I intend to sit on it very soon...!".

I could concur with that....

[Vauxhall]

Interestingly, I've always thought of Stephen Fry to be more of a contender for the role of Q. I feel that his wit would work very well in putting Bond in his place.

[Zorin Industries]

Interestingly, I've always thought of Stephen Fry to be more of a contender for the role of Q. I feel that his wit would work very well in putting Bond in his place.

No offence meant to you at all, Vauxhall, but a lot of fans (me included sometimes) cast our Fantasy Bond Films with the obvious cast in mind. Fry as Q would be too obvious. The finesse in casting would indeed be to have him as M. No-one ever put Judi Dench down as Bond's boss pre-1995, but Barbara Broccoli's astute eye for casting proved very adept once again. The obvious notions - Simon Pegg as Q, Clive Owen as Bond - are just that, obvious notions.

[Vauxhall]

Okay that's fair I didn't know if the obvious was being intentionally overlooked! As a fan of his, I do think that Fry would of course be excellent in either role, but as of now I can't entirely picture the reinvented relationship that would exist between his interpretation of M, and potentially Craig's Bond.

[JLaidlaw]

Fry has already blown it by appearing as a Q rip-off in Stormbreaker. I'll admit I haven't seen the film, but the book is so obviously a Bond wannabe that surely any association with it should automatically rule you out to be in the Bond Movies.
(Incidentally, it rips off Moonraker mainly, but does also have a character called Felix Lester)

Incidentally, I am a huge fan of Stephen Fry, but I don't think M would suit him, and his character in Absolute Power was closer to Elliot Carver.

[rogermoore007]

Judi Dench is M and it should stay that way, she's just as good as if not better than Lee was

[RazorBlade]

Not so sure about Stephen Fry as M but I like that we muse about such things here.

I also wonder what we can do to stop the "Craig wants a homosexual sex scene" rubbish that keeps floating around. That was a rumor started by Bill O'Reilly as part of the American Right's anti-Hollywood propoganda.