The name's Bond, James Bond.

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- latest Private Eye mag

Who cares? Without the product placement deals we wouldn't be getting awesome new Bond movies, so I'm okay with it.

slippery slope. Wayne's world 2.

Bond has always had significant product placement. Various cars - most obviously Aston Martin - but also Jag, AMC, BMW & Ford Omega watches Various alcohol Sony Erricson and Motorola phones The list goes on

I'm confused. Do I go to the 'Nix or Spectre on Friday (and can I do both?)

11am's of the Bond, Nix in the evening!

I wish! Can't get the day off in time. 

Nix on Friday of course.

Spectre will still be waiting on the weekend.

SPOILER ALERT!

I've heard from a reliable source that in this movie Bond hooks up with some lovely ladies, drives a sports car, shoots people and fires off the odd wisecrack. Sorry if that's ruined it for anyone. 

ah this explains his trip to Crab Key Island in Dr No

Spongebond in "JellyFinger"

I have a good friend who is a James Bond tragic - he has told me that the new Bond was selected over the weekend just gone and news should be forthcoming. Who are your picks people?

I'm leaning towards Tom Hiddleston or Michael Fassbender. 

Damian Lewis - NO

Idris Elba - would be pretty good but I can't see past his role in The Wire

Henry Cavill - NOOOOOO

Aidan Turner - relative unknown but a cool look. 

Aidan Turner got a Timothy Dalton vibe going on.

It'd have to be a big name star you'd think given the production budgets. A lot of money to pin your hopes on a relative unknown, but maybe the Bond brand is strong enough?

I'd go for Tom Hiddleston.

Michael Fassbender

Have you seen any of Luther? I reckon he'd be a great Bond. However, I think his style would be similar to Daniel Craig. 

I personally hope it isn't Hiddleston, even though I like him as an actor. I hadn't considered Fassbender.

I think Craig is going to be a really tough act to follow. The next director is also going to find it tough to re-imagine the Bondiverse to fit the new actor.

Theory...Hiddleston is already selected as Bond. The night manager is a prequel...

Gillian Anderson ...

Ten - fifteen years ago, she was smoking hot but not so much now.

Didn't you see The Fall?

I love fassbender but couldn't see him as bond.

Whoever the new Bond is, they have the unfortunate position of having to do what the director decides, and after the Craig movies fudge knows what a director could do.

I had always assumed that the bonds were in a continuity but the character kept getting replaced, bond a dies or retires, bond b becomes bond kind of situation.

But I was recently told they are all the same Bond up until Daniel Craigs which was a reboot.  So I wonder if the next will be a reboot or a sequel to Craigs.

If its a reboot I think Elba would be perfect.  if its a sequel I think Hiddleston would be better.

Has Bond become a parody of Dr Who? How many Drs have there been by now?

12. But Dr Who is only supposed to have 13 lives? or less.

As long as they make money Bond Will Return.

The Doctor's onto a new set of 13 regeneations now. They "fixed" that up when Matt Smith regenerated.

I like the look of Tom Ellis http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255124/?ref_=nv_sr_1 I don't want a female bond, especially one who is American.

having a female play a male character doesn't make sense. 

A transgender Bond?

Posh Bond -

In that photo, isn't that how she landed Beckham??

Why not?

The name is Bond - Jamie Bond!

I'm always morally torn over this question and apply the same moral confusion over Idris Elba playing the role. On the one hand, Bond has ALWAYS been a caucasian male - always but then the argument is that why should it remain this way? Why couldn't Bond be from another ethnicity or sex. I think the best way to discuss it is not "Why couldn't they be Bond?" to "Why would they want to be Bond?"

Surely we should instead be looking at why there aren't as many iconic roles written with female and non-caucasian heroes?

In the same ilk as the Bond genre, why aren't we seeing Angelina Jolie's "Salt" being developed this way (a great character) or from the more recent Bonds, a Felix Leiter offshoot played so well by Jeffrey Wright. 

Just some food for thought

I don't really disagree, and let me preface this post also by saying I'm not really a Bond fan (not a hater either, just pretty ambivalent overall).

I guess my starting point would be that Bond is a fictional character, operating in a fictional world. This gives the writers/producers/directors a fairly wide licence to create settings and characters that they think are appropriate for the story and experience that they want to create, and which will resonate with modern audiences.

I guess the parallel I had in mind for this is the movie Troy which came out maybe 10 years ago. I did some Classics at University, and know quite a few Classics geeks. A lot of them were outraged by the movie, because it didn't tell the story as it's set out in the Iliad. Now the Iliad was also a work of fiction (in its essence), and it certainly wasn't the only narrative describing the Trojan war in the ancient times. The Iliad was the written narrative, but there were other tellings and oral narratives of the same story, in different areas of Greece, and at different times, which stood in contrast with the Iliad as we know it. What that tells us is that the fictional story was shaped and re-told to fit particular contexts and resonate with the audiences that were receiving it. So with that in mind, my view was that there's no reason why the movie couldn't do the same.

Which brings me back to Bond - the character was created in a particular context, and with particular audiences in mind. Much of that context has changed in the intervening decades, and the movie going audiences (and their behaviour too) have also changed. In light of those changes, I see no good reason why the main character has to remain static - the mere idea of that imposes a limit on artistic expression, especially since artistic expression can be a useful catalyst for discussion around wider issues in society at large.

I should also point out that even if Bond does turn out to be a black man or a woman, I still wouldn't go to see it - but I think it's an interesting discussion to have.

How about... Baker, Nora Baker ?

Daniel Craig has been offered $205m (NZD) to reprise his role as James Bond - initially he was offered $125m which he turned town. 

I wonder how much he is really getting paid for the next one? He should enter a Police phone box at the end of it and let Idris Elba step out...Bond will be back so to speak.