This is getting daft. Brosnan must be very pissed off with them at this point.
I firmly believe that the Brosnan era is flagging after the last outing, he was very good early on but now there is a real need for a change in both approach and, I feel would be fitting, lead actor. This 'darker' style they want I think would definitely suit Clive Owen, who I have thought for a long time now is perfect for the role.
I haven't been fortunate enough to see Closer yet but by all accounts he's brilliant at it, this has been supported by the awards season and as he was in the original play and is a proven stage actor, you'd have to look hard to find faults with the guy's acting.
I think he has just the right combination of talent, age, looks and style for the role especially if it is going to take a darker turn. To attempt to go from the ridiculous Die Another Day to a different kind of Bond style with the same actor, who is a year older due to contractual wranglings etc and may not even really want to do it anyway, is asking for trouble. The only advantage would be the potential, experimental little venture Tarantino has mentioned of directing a film provided Brosnan is the lead.
Get Clive Owen in there, forget that arrogant stroppy git Bana and sort it out! Now what is daft is carrying on with a 'new' version of the Bond franchise whilst also releasing the 'young Bond' thing with Orlando Bloom. Talk about jumping on the Bloom bandwagon. It's overkill plain and simple, and with there being talk of there being 'more stunts and a youthful perspective' blah blah yada yada, it will apparently be completely different in tone to the new crop of 'real' Bond movies.
This younger version of Bond is apparently going to be based on books by one of the League of Gentlemen writer/actors, which is encouraging, but as I'm sure most people have noticed by now Orlando Bloom cannot act and has the comic timing of a dead jellyfish, as proven when he squandered line after line in Pirates of... . The reason this worked in LOTR is that the character did not require him to actually ACT any differently to how he normally would, but because we had no previous knowledge of his work nobody noticed and just thought he was being 'elf like'.
Rant over. Anyway, Clive Owen gets my vote.
