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[Gobi-1]

Yes I want Felix back for the next film with a much larger role.

[Righty007]

Yes I want Felix back for the next film with a much larger role.

[mcdonbb]

No...Wrights Leiter is too crabby after sucking at Texas Hold'em and getting skeeter bit Bolivia. I think he needs a vacation to say Florida (jk).

No I actually like Wrights Leiter but I would like a break from him. Time for fresh faces.

[sharpshooter]

I'm not really sure if I would want his role expanded all that much, but I would like him to return in some fashion.

[Righty007]

There's no such thing as too much Felix Leiter.

[hilly]

Felix is a great character and Jeffrey Wright is great too. However I don't see the merit in shoe-horning him in every film just for the sake of it, or we'll end up with scenes reminiscent of Moneypenny dressed up as a customs officer in DAF, just to get a Moneypenny scene in, or Q as a priest in FYEO, for no reason whatsoever, or even worse, the completely unnecessary trip to the races for Moneypenny, Q and M in AVATAK..

[Agent 76]

No Felix in the next one please. Give Bill Tanner a chance.

[Righty007]

No Felix in the next one please. Give Bill Tanner a chance.

Why can't we have both? Sure, it would be silly to have both Felix Leiter and Jack Wade or Bill Tanner and Charles Robinson in a film but Leiter and Tanner have entirely different roles. They're not interchangeable as you're implying.

[killkenny kid]

There's no such thing as too much Felix Leiter.

Indeed, and I may have more to add tomorrow.

[Agent 76]

No Felix in the next one please. Give Bill Tanner a chance.

Why can't we have both? Sure, it would be silly to have both Felix Leiter and Jack Wade or Bill Tanner and Charles Robinson in a film but Leiter and Tanner have entirely different roles. They're not interchangeable as you're implying.

I meant that perhaps I'd like to see more of Tanner character, or something like that. I have nothing against Felix, he's a cool dude

[Quincy]

I for one would LOVE Jeffrey Wright to return in Bond 23. He's arguably the best Leiter since Lord.

Jeffrey Wright IS the best Leiter period!

I would like for him to play a more significant role in the next film too.

[AgentBentley]

If it's still Jeffrey Wright, more Leiter please. I had expected him to do more in QoS, but I was surprised/disappointed he didn't.

[Cody]

Jeffrey Wright has not yet gotten a call.

[Matt_13]

Damn it.

I was really holding out hope that we'd get to see Bond and Leiter fight together, sort of like Bond and Columbo in FYEO. Too bad.

[Captain Tightpants]

Jeffrey Wright has not yet gotten a call.

Well, bear in mind that at the end of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, he was promoted to station chief for South America. And it would appear that BOND 23 is not going anywhere near the continent.

[Captain Tightpants]

I never considered an african american D.C. based actor & Obama supporter like Wright to really be a CIA agent as depicted by Fleming anyway.

I believe Wright said he was attracted to the role in the first place precisely because it was unlike anything he'd done before.

[Pussfeller]

Whereas blond Texans are greeted as liberators?

[elizabeth]

I want him back. Stays true to the originals.

[domnule alb]

I don't mind the size of the role that Felix plays, as long as it is comes with some plausibility. By that, perhaps a reference should be made towards Leiter now being a member of the Special Activities Division (SAD), or a fictional directorate with the same purpose which is tasked with bringing down Quantum. It would be slightly absurd to see Leiter in New York (or most locations), for instance, if he is supposedly heading operations in South America.

Jeffrey Wright has not yet gotten a call.

Well, bear in mind that at the end of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, he was promoted to station chief for South America. And it would appear that BOND 23 is not going anywhere near the continent.

I never considered an african american D.C. based actor & Obama supporter like Wright to really be a CIA agent as depicted by Fleming anyway. It also Don't look like Wright has too much on his job schedule these days with the Obama economy anyway . Who really cares if Leiter is in a Bond film anyway ? must he be in everyone of them I say sit this one and the next 3 or 4 out we don't need the stiniking CIA in every Bond film .
I bet lil Righty will be cryin like a lil kid when he hears this news.

Do you believe that MI6 should go alone in the movie's ops, or perhaps get assistance from a lesser used agency in Bond films (say Mossad or SIE)? I'd prefer going alone...

[DaveBond21]

Jeffrey Wright has not yet gotten a call.

Well, bear in mind that at the end of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, he was promoted to station chief for South America. And it would appear that BOND 23 is not going anywhere near the continent.

Yes, I would go along with this. If Leiter was in the next one, it would be a case of shoe-horning him in, or making him change station. I also believe that they are going to introduce us to a section chief for India.

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[Righty007]

Jeffrey Wright has not yet gotten a call.

Well, bear in mind that at the end of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, he was promoted to station chief for South America. And it would appear that BOND 23 is not going anywhere near the continent.

I bet lil Righty will be cryin like a lil kid when he hears this news.

Yes, I have been crying all day.

Your trollish post and poor grammar reminds me of previously banned trolls. You're not Bryan Pervert, are you?

[Ozzman313]

I like him as Leiter for sure, a very under rated actor.
But he doesn't need to be in the next bond, maybe as a surprise cameo but nothing more. Possibly one phone call or a mention of him and the CIA but nothing more than the last two.
They need to start fresh, with some new faces or it becomes an expectation.

They did that in Die Hard 2 to a similar effect.

[Garth007]

just to ask is jefforey wright coming back to play felix again?

[Single-O-Seven]

just to ask is jefforey wright coming back to play felix again?

No official word yet on Wright but it's seeming less likely that we'll see him this time out.

[Pussfeller]

I'm a fan of Felix, but it doesn't seem like Skyfall furnishes an organic role for him. It sounds like it will take place entirely in the eastern hemisphere, in places not closely associated with the United States, in which any CIA meddling would be gratuitous. (Almost as gratuitous as British meddling!) Felix is almost always deployed in an American (i.e. New World) context:

Dr. No - Jamaica
Goldfinger - Kentucky
Thunderball - the Bahamas
Diamonds Are Forever - Nevada, New York
Live and Let Die - New York, New Orleans
The Living Daylights - Tangier
Licence to Kill - Florida
Casino Royale - Montenegro
Quantum of Solace - Bolivia

Only two appearances take place outside of the Americas. I half-suspect that the producers may have invented Jack Wade and Damian Falco so as not to take Leiter too far outside of his New World milieu. He's a defensive, reactive character - more Monroe Doctrine than Bush Doctrine - and for this reason he is more sympathetic to an international audience, and less of a rival to Bond himself.

So I don't expect we'll see Felix again until Bond returns to the Americas, the Caribbean, or some U.S.-affiliated place like Japan, Korea, Israel, etc. I bet he'll appear in Bond 24. (As long as Wright is willing. I don't think they'd recast the part during Craig's era.)

[MajorB]

I'm a fan of Felix, but it doesn't seem like Skyfall furnishes an organic role for him. It sounds like it will take place entirely in the eastern hemisphere, in places not closely associated with the United States, in which any CIA meddling would be gratuitous. (Almost as gratuitous as British meddling!) Felix is almost always deployed in an American (i.e. New World) context:

Dr. No - Jamaica
Goldfinger - Kentucky
Thunderball - the Bahamas
Diamonds Are Forever - Nevada, New York
Live and Let Die - New York, New Orleans
The Living Daylights - Tangier
Licence to Kill - Florida
Casino Royale - Montenegro


Quantum of Solace - Bolivia

Only two appearances take place outside of the Americas. I half-suspect that the producers may have invented Jack Wade and Damian Falco so as not to take Leiter too far outside of his New World milieu. He's a defensive, reactive character - more Monroe Doctrine than Bush Doctrine - and for this reason he is more sympathetic to an international audience, and less of a rival to Bond himself.

So I don't expect we'll see Felix again until Bond returns to the Americas, the Caribbean, or some U.S.-affiliated place like Japan, Korea, Israel, etc. I bet he'll appear in Bond 24. (As long as Wright is willing. I don't think they'd recast the part during Craig's era.)

Strictly speaking, Felix shouldn't have been involved in GF, DAF, or LALD (films), since the CIA is supposed to operate only outside the US. Fleming kind of shoehorned him into the novel LALD by having him serve as a liasion with the FBI, but that was really a cheat. In the other books in which he appears Stateside, Felix is no longer with CIA. Something similar was accomplished in LTK by having him employed by the DEA, which is definitely permitted to work domestically.

So as long as he wasn't working in the US, Felix could plausibly have turned up in SF any old where on the basis of having been reassigned to a new region. I was hoping he would in fact be in the new film, functioning as more Bond's close ally, but this doesn't seem likely. Too bad.

[Pussfeller]

Cinematically, Felix functions as a representative of the U.S. government in general. As Bond represents a foreign intelligence agency, it makes sense that he would interact with U.S. foreign intelligence, not the FBI or the Kentucky National Guard or whatever.

Incidentally, I hate the idea that Felix was a narc. Tragically eighties.

[Single-O-Seven]

I suspect they actually invented Wade to avoid the post-LTK half-eaten by a shark Leiter. I always got the impression that they thought the Brosnan era should distance itself from the Dalton era, as it was long (and wrongly) believed that Dalton's films were forgettable and had nearly destroyed the franchise.

[Miles Miservy]

Who do you think would make a good ally for Bond?

J. Wright was a great Leiter for Craig's Bond; like David Hedison was to Timothy Dalton. The two agents have a history together (even though they meet for the 1st time... twice). That relationship was the core of LTK and made it one of the strongest, character-driven plots of the series.
One thing I am emphatically against is any suggestion to involve Jack Wade, CIA with any MI6 operation from this point forward. He did NOTHING for Pierce Brosnan's Bond other than look ridculous. (...& I don't like gardening.)

[The ides of Mark]

I hope Wright will reprise his role. Now both Lighters and Bonds positition within their organizations and their relation with eachother is established it's time for some fun!