With the Harry Potter franchise wizarding its way closer to the franchise’s last installment, Daniel Radcliffe has the rest of his career to think about. Unless he wants to become Mark Hamill (or for that matter Hayden Christiansen), he’ll need another high-profile part to kick start the next phase of his career. The guys over at JoBlo say that part may be playing James Bond.
They say that Daniel and his people are seriously considering taking on the long rumored Young Bond movie. The project has been talked about for years, and before Casino Royale happened it was thought that a teen James Bond movie might end up being the next step for Bond, rather than the older, Daniel Craig movie we got. The film would be based on a series of “Young Bond” books by Charlie Higson, and not the James Bond Jr. cartoons from the 90s, which some of you are almost certainly already revisiting in your heads. Admit it, you’re humming the themesong.
The books, like the James Bond Jr. cartoon this is not based on, focus on James during his college years. By the time Radcliffe is done Pottering, he should fit comfortably into the college-kid age bracket. I can see why the project might be attractive to him. The Bond name instantly makes it high-profile and being part of it makes it less likely that he’ll simply fade away after we’re all done with watching him play a wizard. It’s kind of like a safety net for him to immediately become involved in something like this. On the other hand, consider this: Has there ever been a successful teenage spy franchise? I can’t think of one. More importantly, they all suck Spying is the one genre that only seems to work when full-grown, manly, bad-ass adults are involved. Nobody wants to see James Bond on a mission to pass of a fake ID in order to get enough beer for his fraternity’s kegger.
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With the Harry Potter franchise wizarding its way closer to the franchise’s last installment, Daniel Radcliffe has the rest of his career to think about. Unless he wants to become Mark Hamill (or for that matter Hayden Christiansen), he’ll need another high-profile part to kick start the next phase of his career. The guys over at JoBlo say that part may be playing James Bond.
September 17th, 2007 at 18:40
Presumably there is more to come from the 'Stormbreaker' franchise which I believe counts as teenage spy series?