Could this be the worst idea in movie history? Or just an extension of an ever declining Hollywood?
Rumours are abound that with Pierce Brosnan's involvement with the 007 franchise in the balance and work just starting on the Bond 21 script there is someone new on the horizon that producers want to take over the mantle of "Licenced To Kill".
That man is non other than Brit-of-the-moment Orlando Bloom.
The word on the street is that producers want to pull a Sum Of All Fears and introduce a younger, more hip and happening Bond over the traditional sauve middle-aged ladies man.
Allow me ladies and gentleman, as the lone voice of British reason on the site, to rant lyrical about this latest Bond information. In fact the whole continuing americanisation and whoring down of Bond in general.
First off, I've never been a fan of writers Wade and Purvis. They take what has the bones of what could be a decent Bond movie, then decide to throw in key ingredients that spoil everything;
a) Crappy unmemorable villians b) Stupid stupid gadgets even by Bond movie standards
Die Another Day was probably the biggest slap in the face so far because it both teamed up Bond with an american star-of-the-moment partner. If you got past that it wasn't too bad, till the final third and it's ridiculous and bizarre "robo-electro suit" battle and crappier than an episode of Stargate, CGI.
Now, not only are we presented with the same problems again, but now they want to replace the traditional Bond with a younger "cooler" Bond for the Paul Walker generation.
Because obviously... it's the casting that has been responsible for Bond's relative critical decline(!)
Maybe if they hired some decent writers and stopped whoring the franchise to the lowest common denominator and any product placing company who offers a few bucks up front, we might start getting somewhere. Totally recasting Bond as a what is essentially a completely different person is the death knell of the series in my opinion.
Of course on the flipside take this all with a pinch of salt, word was once upon a time that Ewan McGregor was being lined up in a similar fashion shortly before The World Is Not Enough debuted.
Personally I'd like to see one FINAL, WELL WRITTEN Bond movie starring Brosnan, then lay the series to a well deserved rest, with some of it's dignity intact. But this is Hollywood and well written doesn't sell as well as well blown up.
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That man is non other than Brit-of-the-moment Orlando Bloom.