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Top 5: Daniel Craig Replacements

We at AskMen.com made our company outing to see the new Bond last week, and the unanimous consensus was an unfortunate one: Bond is dead. Well, at least Daniel Craig as Bond is dead. Now, this isn’t Craig’s fault; he proved that he was up to the task of becoming the new face for the new franchise in Casino Royale. The new franchise, however, is dead -- murdered by Quantum of Solace’s messy storyline, self-indulgent directing (cutting a foot chase with an opera scene? Blegh), and wavering indecision between Bourne-style rapid-fire action sequences and Brosnan-style over-the-top action sequences. And so, regrettably, the new face must die with it.

A scant two years after the “reboot” of the franchise, the system has crashed. And with Universal Pictures’ recent purchase of the exclusive rights to the Jason Bourne character, MGM suddenly has another spy franchise breathing down their neck. It’s time for a fresh start, and that means it’s time for a fresh face. Here are AskMen.com’s top 5 proposals for Daniel Craig’s replacement as 007. We acknowledge that some of our suggestions are fairly dramatic ones, but dire times call for dire measures.

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No.5 - Ewan McGregor

Three years ago this idea would have been laughable, but the stench of Star Wars has lifted and McGregor has since steered clear of subsuming his persona in blockbuster projects (the notable exception being The Island, but you can’t blame a man for letting himself be cast alongside Scarlett Johansson). Instead, he has focused on producing and promoting his Long Way Round and Long Way Down miniseries, two projects that have done wonders for restoring his masculinity and cool-quotient in other men's eyes, and priming him to follow in the steps of countryman Connery and take on the Bond mantle. Yes, the Connery-McGregor-Scotland connection is a bit of a facile one, but it’s just that kind of thing that studio marketing departments will seize on and ram down our throats until we believe it. Two years ago we were all crowing that Bond has “rebooted"; cast McGregor as 007 and two years from now we’ll be agreeing that the franchise has “rerooted.”

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No.4 - Joshua Jackson

If memories of The Mighty Ducks and Pacey are making you recoil at this suggestion, we grudgingly offer you a reminder of your age: That was all a long time ago. And since Dawson’s Creek wrapped up in 2003, Jackson has been largely off the map -- until he resurfaced in Fringe a couple months back, most 18-year-old guys wouldn’t have been able to pull him out of a lineup. In other words, he’s been sufficiently removed from everyone’s attention to be reinvented as 007. He’s young (at 30, he would be the youngest Bond since Lazenby), he’s classically handsome, and if you think Joshua Jackson can’t play smooth, just look at his girlfriend. All he’d have to work on is the British accent.

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No.3 - Chiwetel Ejiofor

Yes, from a non-Brit Bond to a -- gasp! -- black Bond? What, the British can’t be as progressive as we Americans are? OK, this casting call wouldn’t be an Obama-style revolution, but it would serve as a pretty strong message that MGM is ready to shake things up. And Ejiofor’s suitability for the part goes beyond the fact that the guy is black. Like Jackson, he brings the value of being relatively unknown, and malleable for it. He’s got artsy cred (Children of Men) and big-production experience (American Gangster). Plus he was born with the accent, and looks sharp in a suit.

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No.2 - Jon Hamm

“But what will happen to Don Draper!?” you ask. Well, with no contract committing him to the role and rumors of friction between him and Mad Men management, Hamm could soon be making his way off of Madison Avenue anyway. So let’s make the best of a bad thing and give him 00 status. If Ejiofor is Black Bond, then Hamm would be Big Bond -- maybe it’s just the cut of those Brooks Brothers suits, but dude seems to be built like a corn-fed tank. Men and women alike would love watching him smash villains’ faces in with his fists, and he would bring brawn and a fresh action approach to a franchise that -- like so many others in the genre -- has become bogged down in Bourne mimicry.

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No.1 - Clive Owen

Looking over Clive Owen’s filmography, it’s easy to imagine that every one of his previous roles was conceived of as preparation for some element of the 007 one: He immersed himself in his Britishness in Gosford Park and King Arthur, refined his cool in Croupier and Inside Man, and worked his action muscles in The Bourne Identity and Sin City. And let’s not forget what a suave Bas***d of a Challenge he was in Closer. The man who was born to play Bond has spent the last decade perfecting himself for the role.

Sean Connery became Fleming’s Bond by personifying that image of the British empire that the British public clung to: Solid, unshakeable and ultra-confident. So too can Clive Owen bring to life all those characteristics of the English man that we Americans admire: Hard-drinking, well-tailored and quicker with his wit than the rest of us. So, MGM, listen to us at AskMen.com: Cast Clive!
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Owen: will be too old by the time they're casting for the next Bond.


Hamm and Jackson: Americans,which should make them unlikely candidates.That is unless they can do English accents without screwing them up..OTOH not so many years ago James Brolin screentested for the Bond role so there *is* that.


Chiwetel Ejofor:A fine choice if theyr're going to go the black Bond route(which seems unlikely...)


Ewan McGregor: Now we're talking!Either Ewan, or his Trainspotting co-star, Kevin McKidd would make good Bonds.
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Not one of those is going to happen.
Ewan McGregor would be my pick out of them. Though I can't see it happening. After SW would he really want to b tied down to another franchise?
What in blazes is Joshua Jackson doing in there? Pacey...one of the worst actors of all time, and American. Sorry to the US members here, not gonna happen at the moment. Same thing with Chiwetel Ejiofor, a black Bond isn't going to happen anytime soon. I'm not racist, but why do we have to have a black James Bond?
Owen will be to old, and has stated several times he doesn't want the role.
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"Pacey" is a bit eccentric, but then I have not seen him in anything lately.

Nice to see that Craig's replacement is being talked about: the end is near!
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Pacey is on a show called Fringe..pretty good but I was never a Dawson's Creek fan so I'm not watching it for that reason :P
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Once again, critics praising Craig in CR but not QoS. This must surely baffle you lot here.... :lol:
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The Sweeney wrote:Once again, critics praising Craig in CR but not QoS. This must surely baffle you lot here.... :lol:
Not really. Craig was praised for Casino Royale. But now the critics are attacking his rebooted Bond, as we have documented.

So you have admitted that critics did not like Craig in Quantum of Solace? :D
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Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote: So you have admitted that critics did not like Craig in Quantum of Solace? :D
Eh? Where have you been hiding for the past few months, Cap'n. Of course I admitted QoS has had quite a few negative reviews - and quite rightly so.
I'm one of the Craig fans who found QoS disappointing, and openly said so on here. This is why I can relate to critics knocking QoS, yet praising CR. And most of those critics slate the film itself - story, direction, etc. but not Craig (including the one on this thread).

I also know that whatever negative reviews are out there will not put Babs and co. off hiring Craig for Bond 23, otherwise Brozza would have been kicked out long before his time was up too... :wink:
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It's obvious they've swung round to our point of view. They've even half-inched BJ's catchphrase!
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Returning to the original topic, I don't think much of any of those replacements. My top 5, in alphabetical order (I can't really place them in order of merit as I think any of them would be fine) are Armitage, Bale, Jackman, Purefoy and Worthington.
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James wrote:It's obvious they've swung round to our point of view. They've even half-inched BJ's catchphrase!
I could never have imagined BJ saying this.... :wink:
he proved that he was up to the task of becoming the new face for the new franchise in Casino Royale.
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What's more telling is how many people posting comments over the 15-odd pages are defending Craig as Bond, and slagging off that list..... :wink:
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I don't get the inclusion of several Americans on that list.And I don't think, as I said before,that they are going to go with a black Bond.Not being racist,it's the truth.
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James wrote:http://uk.askmen.com/top_10/celebrity/t ... ments.html

Top 5: Daniel Craig Replacements

We at AskMen.com made our company outing to see the new Bond last week, and the unanimous consensus was an unfortunate one: Bond is dead. Well, at least Daniel Craig as Bond is dead. Now, this isn’t Craig’s fault; he proved that he was up to the task of becoming the new face for the new franchise in Casino Royale. The new franchise, however, is dead -- murdered by Quantum of Solace’s messy storyline, self-indulgent directing (cutting a foot chase with an opera scene? Blegh), and wavering indecision between Bourne-style rapid-fire action sequences and Brosnan-style over-the-top action sequences. And so, regrettably, the new face must die with it.
holy d**n!! Thats pretty bad!

No.5 - Ewan McGregor
I like him. But he is too short (5' 9-10") according to Babara.

No.4 - Joshua Jackson
I don't know him. he could work as bond.


No.3 - Chiwetel Ejiofor
He was great in Serenity and the Inside Man. I don't have problem with black Bond (may eb the one one here), but I fear he is too black for eon.


No.2 - Jon Hamm
He could be a good 007. I don't know his work.


No.1 - Clive Owen
they pass on him already, I don't think he would have made good Bond but he couldn't be worse than what we got. he might be too old now.
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I don't have a problem with a black Bond(I am half black myself) but it might be too much of a change for a lot of diehard fans.
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