The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

James Nelson-Joyce is now in the running to be Bond. Never hear of him but NOT bad: He is no Aidan Turner but is definitely better than Cr-egg.

[Kristatos]

Florence Pugh is said to be lined up to star in TV spin-off The Moneypenny Diaries.

I think that's just a rumour at this stage, unless you know something I don't.

[dirtybenny]

Florence Pugh is said to be lined up to star in TV spin-off The Moneypenny Diaries.

I hope she knows how to file and collate!

[Omega]

RiIP pope Francis



Isn’t his predecessors still alive?


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[Kristatos]

RiIP pope Francis



Isn’t his predecessors still alive?

No, he died in 2022.

[Omega]

Ok. I missed that .
I’m not catholic but I was think of that Fatima prophecy . Where if I remember correctly pope Francis would be the last pope based on the the number of popes in that prophecy


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[Kristatos]

Well, unless the world ends before a new pope is elected, devotees of the Fatima prophecy are going to have to rethink.

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[kater23]

Not Fatima.The prophecy of the Popes.It has been debunked though.

What a thing to wake up to.

I think I am DCINB’s resident Catholic(though hardly devout).This is a sad day.

[Kristatos]

I'm not Catholic, but I have some Catholic friends, and I know that these prophecies are highly controversial. A lot of Catholics think they're bunk.

[kater23]

I do.Think they’re bunk that is.

It’s a LOT woo,especially for Catholics. Not to say that there aren’t people who believe in it but they are a minority in the scheme of things.

[James]

A double-0-dilemma.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/17/entertain ... s-experts/

The name’s Bond, James Bond — Which stars could get 007’s license to kill amid Amazon shakeups, according to experts

Lately, the name’s been everywhere — Bond, James Bond. While speculation had been rampant as to who should and would play 007 after Daniel Craig made his final bow as Bond in 2021’s “No Time to Die,” the rumor mill sped up faster than an Aston Martin when news broke in late February that Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson sold a controlling stake in the franchise based on Ian Fleming’s novels to Amazon MGM Studios for a reported $1 billion.

Then in March came word that venerated producers Amy Pascal (who helped usher in the Craig era while at Sony) and David Heyman would be stepping in and running point on the next James Bond movie. The pair wasted no time in hitting the ground running.

A little over a week later, Amazon MGM announced at CinemaCon that Pascal and Heyman were already in London “getting started” on the 26th Bond film.

There was, however, no news about casting, or even a possible director for that matter (though the word around Hollywood is that Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón may already be onboard). So the guessing game continues. The only thing most seem to agree on is that the actor will be British.

The name bandied about most often is Henry Cavill, the “loose second reserve choice when Daniel Craig got the role back in 2005,” as Bond commentator and pop culture author Mark O’Connell described the “Man of Steel” star, 41.

“What often happens in Bond is that the runner-up is kind of favored next time round. Roger Moore was looked at for Dr. No in the first Bond film. Timothy Dalton was looked at in the early ’70s,” explained O’Connell, who wrote, “Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan.”

“The guys in waiting sometimes get their turn. And Henry Cavill’s worked with Amazon and he looks the part. He’s a great clotheshorse. I’d love it if it was ultimately Henry Cavill.”

Not everyone feels the same.

“Lots of fans want Henry Cavill, which only just proves to me that they don’t know what they’re talking about,” Graham Rye, editor and publisher of 007 Magazine, told The Post. “The man’s just not James Bond.”

Added Rye, “There’s only one actor I’ve seen around that could do justice to the role very much in the style of Sean Connery and that’s an actor called Stuart Martin.”

Martin, 39, is best known for starring as the Duke in the British series “Miss Scarlet and the Duke” (renamed simply “Miss Scarlet” after the actor’s exit from the show last year).

“If Amazon fail to cast Stuart Martin in the 007 role in Bond 26, I shan’t be bothering to see the picture!” Rye declared.

“The rest of the actors in the ‘field’ are entirely wrong for the Bond role. They couldn’t convince me any more than Woody Allen could.”

While Rye dismissed them as serious candidates, O’Connell was more willing to give some of the rumored contenders a shot.

“One of the names I do keep coming back to is Aaron Taylor-Johnson,” O’Connell told The Post of the “Kick-Ass” actor, 34. “And the film for me that sort of cemented him was ‘Bullet Train.’ He was like a mix of Roger Moore and Daniel Craig and was very British, very London — almost too London. He wasn’t heavy, but he was doing the heavy lifting. He was taking the mickey out of it.”

An actor with a similar vibe: Nicholas Hoult. “I’ve got this fantasy casting of Nicholas Hoult as Bond and Hugh Grant as ‘M,’” O’Connell shared of the 35-year-old star. He even has the perfect title: “About a Bond.”

Another strong choice in his eyes is Kingsley Ben-Adir, 38, who played Bob Marley in “One Love,” and has a slew of other credits to his name including Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” and “One Night in Miami.”

“There’s something about him. He’s got that Connery swagger and bounce,” O’Connell said.

“1917” star George MacKay, 33, could be an “interesting” choice, he added. MacKay is “going places,” O’Connell shared. “He could be an A-lister.”

A “let’s f – – k it up a bit” choice for O’Connell would be Taron Egerton, 35, given that the actor “has played council estate Bond” in “The Kingsman.”

One newer name that’s been thrown into the mix is “Babygirl” star Harris Dickinson, 28. “I don’t know if he’s totally right for Bond but he’s totally right for that young demographic and is a rising star,” O’Connell explained. “It’s interesting watching a new movie star that doesn’t know he’s the movie star.”

“The Invisible Man” star Oliver Jackson-Cohen, 38, has also found himself included in the 007 conversation. “He’s done a bit of British TV stuff; very beautiful, very good,” O’Connell said. “The camera likes him.”

As for 28-year-old “The White Lotus” Season 2 and “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” star Leo Woodall: “I think he’s too puppy-faced.”

One non-British name? Chris Hemsworth.

“I think he’s too old for this and he’s kind of shaved his work commitments down for different reasons, but one actor I always thought could have done a really good Bond movie was Chris Hemsworth,” O’Connell said of the 41-year-old Aussie, who he quipped would be “the first actor to bulk down for the role.”

The debate about which actor would be best suited to play Bond hinges on how someone perceives Bond, it seems.

“It’s got to be a British actor. It’s got to be a Caucasian white actor, and no, there’s never going to be a ‘Jane Bond’ which is a completely ridiculous idea from beginning to end,” Rye insisted.

“You can’t make Bond woke,” he added. “Bond, as he admits to Judy Dench in ‘Goldeneye,’ is a sexist misogynist dinosaur, which he probably is. But who cares? That’s why everybody loves him. It’s fantasy. It’s what we’d all like to do, what we like to be like. But we know we can’t because we’ll get our faces slapped or our noses broken.”

“I’m not worried about the actor, about the director or about the writer,” James Bond historian John Cork told The Post. “My concern is the character of James Bond. If you get the character right, he will work in any form. If you get him wrong, he will never work.”

Cork, who co-authored “James Bond, The Legacy,” went further: “Could James Bond be a woman? Could James Bond be this? Could James be a different race? The character just has to be James Bond. That’s the core of it there. If somebody wants to say, ‘I can do it with a woman.’ Show me that. And if you get that character right, I’m gonna go, ‘My hat is off to you.’”

So what makes Bond, Bond?

“Understanding James Bond is very difficult,” Cork said. “James Bond is not just the iconography. He is not just a tuxedo, a martini, an Aston Martin, beautiful women, gadgets. That’s not James Bond. That is all the stuff we surround James Bond with.”

Cork explained, “James Bond is not defined by his license to kill. He is defined by his aspect of wanting to preserve life. And it’s that kind of dichotomy that’s there that makes that character interesting.

“It’s not that we wanna see James Bond go out and kill people, it’s we wanna look at James Bond as an example of how best to live.”

The true measure of success for Amazon may then be whether their choice of actor — at least on-screen — almost erases the line between their own identity and that of the MI6 spy.

“It wasn’t a Sean Connery film or a Roger Moore film or a Pierce Brosnan or a Daniel Craig film. These were James Bond Films,” Cork said. “I’m interested in, ‘what are you gonna do with James Bond?’”

[Kristatos]

BREAKING: A bunch of podcasters have opinions. Film at 11.

[kater23]

“Experts”..riiiiiiight.

[Kristatos]

I do.Think they’re bunk that is.

It’s a LOT woo,especially for Catholics. Not to say that there aren’t people who believe in it but they are a minority in the scheme of things.

We have a similar phenomenon in the Orthodox Churches, people putting their faith in some prophecy from "a pious old woman in Russia" or whatever.

[Kristatos]

Just seen my first article about betting odds for the next pope. Imagine if they were written in the same style as Bond betting odds stories ("Cardinal Tagle LEAPFROGS Cardinal Parolin in race to become next pope").

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[kater23]

Much like Daniel Craig, Francis was well loved;but among very conservative Catholics not so much.

[bjmdds]

The Conclave should start May 5th. Reports say a more traditional and conservative Pope might be chosen this time. We shall see.

[kater23]

I get the sense that conservative Catholics want someone like Benedict the 16th. Moderates want someone who is like Francis in his Pope-ing style.

I was raised Catholic(went to Mass every Sunday ‘till I was old enough to refuse and my parents didn’t force me to go.) I remember the many years of Blessed John Paul II’s papacy .Would rather forget Benedict. LOVED Pope Francis from the get-go.

[quantex]

Nah, Pope Francis wasn't popular, nowhere near the popularity of John Paul. My wife and I just got back from Rome. We saw of course the Vatican. Life-long Roman catholic here but I'm not a practicing one. My wife and her parents are more devout than me. John Paul, in the first 24 hrs of his death, had something like 500,000 people who visited to pay respect. Less than 50,000 for Francis. No great affection that I sensed. Some talking heads over at CNN boasted that there would probably be legions of nuns praying around the clock at St. Peter's Basilica. I saw none of that. Even walking around Rome, I didn't get a sense of any deep grieving for the guy, I didn't see people praying for him, didn't see long lines to get into any of the churches. Yeah sure, on the day of the funeral, there were lots of people who attended. But in my view, that was more out of tradition for these worshippers who were going along with the ritual. This pope was an advocate for open borders, one world government, he was all for a new world order which includes fake climate narratives, dismantling traditional families, and the globalists' dream goal to depopulate the world (U.N. Agenda 2030). The guy was basically a communist based on how far left he was on the political spectrum. He also did a horrible job handling the clergy sex scandals. He even defended a Chilean bishop who was accused by victims of haivng covered up the crimes of the country's most sicko pedophile causing outrage from the Chilean people. Then backtracked and commissioned an investigation, apologized to the victims (read it here). His values were shot. Now, with his death, this 2,000 year old institution has a chance to fix its branding. The pope is the front end of it all, and having a new one will give this institution a fresh facade.

[quantex]

We did make it down to Venice. Walked around St. Mark's Square. The thing that struck me was how big of an area it is. Definitely a lot of space for filming that gondola. IIRC it was filmed six times because the gondola wasn't stable and was tipping into the water.