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[x007AceOfSpades]

So with the inclusion of Bond 24 in 2014, who are some actors/actresses you would like to play Bond Villains in future films?

I'll start off with:

Vincent Cassell, I thought his performance in Mesrine was phenomenal, I think he can pull it off by playing a great sadistic villain.

[JCRendle]

http://debrief.comma...s-and-henchmen/ Funnily enough, the first suggestion there is Cassell too.

[x007AceOfSpades]

Wow, didn't know there was a topic already like this, I've probably already posted in there years ago and forgot it about it.

[JB007YH]

Booyah happy someone else agrees with my Cassell suggestion. We should merge both mine and your threads

[x007AceOfSpades]

Booyah happy someone else agrees with my Cassell suggestion. We should merge both mine and your threads

Happy as well. I think that would be a great idea as well!

[Odd Jobbies]

Viggo Mortensen would make a perfect nemesis for Craig in particular.

Their a little similar in there build and look and very much so in the intensity of their performances - the way they bottle up the tension, seeming ready to explode at any moment (think EASTERN PROMISES and A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE).

To fully exploit this match-off, Viggo Mortensen would need to be in a similar role to Craig, perhaps a licensed agent of a foreign power pitted against Craig, such as Robert Shaw was pitted against Connery in FRWL.

Or, better IMO would be the return of QUANTUM, with their Number One (its Blofield figurehead) assigning their number one assassin Mortensen to finally eliminate Bond (a' la FRWL with a little MWTGG thrown in).

The symmetry would be nice in that QoS was Bond's trail of revenge against QUANTUM, whereas this would be QUANTUM's trail of revenge against Bond.

[thecasinoroyale]

After watching 'Taken' and 'Unknown', and a host of other films, I would love to see Liam Neeson as a Bond villain. Either make him up with some distinguishing features for that classic villainous look, or keep him as he is.

He's the new action star, and everything he does is done in a believeable way and I am convinced he would make a very physical and intellectual nemesis for James Bond...

...and he can act too, which is a bonus!!

[hilly]

Jon Hamm as a charming, but nasty, ex-CIA agent- turned bad guy.

[Ren]

Christian Bale

[Dustin]

Ulrich Matthes


He was considered for CR but had opt out because he was already contractually bound to a stage production in Berlin he would have had to pause for half a year. Impressive character actor with a number of haunting roles already in his career. You may have seen him as Goebbels in DOWNFALL. Another more widely seen production with him was THE NINTH DAY.

[Jim]

I'd still like either Clint Eastwood or Jack Nicholson (toned down) - but I suspect time has passed mercilessly.

[Dustin]

Nicholson was sufficiently menacing and sleazy in THE DEPARTED. My only concern would be he could come across like a Milton Krest clone or another incarnation of The Joker - older, fatter, more bored. Would love to see him dance on a freshly slaughtered victim though

[SecretAgentFan]

Is Nicholson still working? I thought he had more or less retired (after health problems).

[Dustin]

Can't say for sure. He's certainly had his share and if he's in bad health nothing is more important than recovering. He's well over 70 now and has earned his retirement several times over. Still would have been nice to have him as a villain. Maybe a bit too obvious but he'd have been one of the more memorable adversaries of Bond I'm sure.

[Miles Miservy]

Liam Neeson is too likable. Got to have someone that is menacing looking like John Turturro or Steve Buscemi (kinda funny lookin'). I'd also like to suggest maybe Willem Dafoe but he'd already played villain Nikolai Diavolo in Everything or Nothing.

[Pussfeller]

I'd veto Steve Buscemi. One of the worst sins of the Brosnan-Craig era is that all the villains have been shrimpy little pasty guys. The villain has to be a physical threat. That's why Bardem was such good news.

[thecasinoroyale]

I agree Pussfeller. Le Chiffre only worked as a mentally equal villain for Bond, pushing him to the brink with the power in his hands but Greene, Medrano, Elvis...forgettable and not very threatening. Let's hope Bardem does us proud and gives us a REAL Bond villain.

Good one about Clint Eastwood, deffo one of my faves and I'd love to have seen him go up against Bond somehow...somewhere...

[tdalton]

I definitely would have liked to have seen Nicholson in a Bond film as well. I would have really liked to have seen him as Le Chiffre had they made Casino Royale prior to Craig coming on board.

As far as who I'd like to see as a future villain, James Woods has always been kind of at the top of that list for me. I'd also like to see them go get Gina Carano to play either a henchwoman or the villain in an upcoming film.

[x007AceOfSpades]

I definitely would have liked to have seen Nicholson in a Bond film as well. I would have really liked to have seen him as Le Chiffre had they made Casino Royale prior to Craig coming on board.

As far as who I'd like to see as a future villain, James Woods has always been kind of at the top of that list for me. I'd also like to see them go get Gina Carano to play either a henchwoman or the villain in an upcoming film.

James Woods is a great choice too. After seeing Gina Carano in Haywire, I kept thinking that she could be the Xenia Onatopp of possibly the Craig Era or future Era's. With her mixed martial arts background, I think she can pose as a legitimate threat to Bond.

[tdalton]

They could definitely go that route with Carano. The other way I would try to go with her as a Bond villain would be, assuming that she improves as an actress after she gets some more films under her belt, to have her play a Bane-type villain who is a threat to Bond both mentally and physically.

[Miles Miservy]

I'd veto Steve Buscemi. One of the worst sins of the Brosnan-Craig era is that all the villains have been shrimpy little pasty guys. The villain has to be a physical threat. That's why Bardem was such good news.

OK you got me there. Dominic Green WAS a bit of a pasty weasel. But from a physical standpoint, most of Bond's villains weren't all that formidable; Scaramanga, Kananga maybe. Sanchez, Trevalian, possibly. But for the most part, the REAL physicll threat came from the minions & the henchmen. Goldfinger, Blofeld, Stromberg, Kamal Khan... all of these were just cranky old rich guys in tunics.

I agree Pussfeller. Le Chiffre only worked as a mentally equal villain for Bond, pushing him to the brink with the power in his hands but Greene, Medrano, Elvis...forgettable and not very threatening. Let's hope Bardem does us proud and gives us a REAL Bond villain.

Good one about Clint Eastwood, deffo one of my faves and I'd love to have seen him go up against Bond somehow...somewhere...

I'd still like either Clint Eastwood or Jack Nicholson (toned down) - but I suspect time has passed mercilessly.

I cannot think of ONE film where Clint Eastwood ever played a villain, can you?

[x007AceOfSpades]

I was thinking the beginning of Gran Torino, but I think that's out of the equation now.

I've been thinking about possibly having someone like Jeremy Irons play a villain. I was very keen the hear at one point Kevin Spacey might join the film but couldn't. Spacey is another I'd like to see play a villain in the franchise.

[killkenny kid]

Christian Bale

You beat me to it.

[x007AceOfSpades]

Christian Bale

You beat me to it.

Use Bale's audio recording of him going off the set of Terminator Salvation. Should frighten Bond enough.

[killkenny kid]

That's funny Ace, I just listen to it last night.

[Ren]

Tim Roth.

[x007AceOfSpades]

Never fails to amuse me KillKenny Kid.

[Double-Oh Agent]

The actor who I'd most like to see become a Bond villain would be Alan Rickman. He was so awesome in Die Hard, I'd love to see what he'd do in a Bond film. Another favorite of mine is Gene Hackman, but it would appear that he has retired. Jeremy Irons would be great as well. Other people I'd like to see in a villainous role would be, in alphabetical order, Malcolm McDowell, Franco Nero, Gary Oldman, Christopher Plummer, Jean Reno, Tim Roth, Rade Serbedzija, Stellan Skarsgard, and David Suchet.

[AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän]

Ulrich Matthes

I wholeheartedly agree! If they ever bring back Quantum Matthes would great as its leader, a former East German spy with German-Greek ancestry who worked as a double agent in the 80's and went underground when the Wall fell, only to reappear as a private contractor working for people like Saddam Hussein, etc...

Edited by AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän, 29 June 2012 - 12:54 AM.

[Jake007]

Michael Ironside.
Michael Fassbender.
Tom Hardy.