It seems everyone is taking it as a foregone conclusion that Skyfall will be actor Daniel Craig's last James Bond movie. Everyone from Hugh Jackman to Idris Elba and Michael Fassbender have spoken out about the iconic role at one point or another and now actor Tom Hardy has stated that he'd be interested in the role as well, provided his Inception and TDKR director Christopher Nolan came aboard as well. So what do you guys think, would Tom Hardy make a good 007? How about Christopher Nolan bringing his cinematic vision to the franchise? Sound off in the comments section below!
Hugh Jackman has stated he'd love to play James Bond.
Idris Elba has also stated that he'd like to get his "license to kill" from M.
Some say Fassbender's portrayal of Magneto in X-Men:First Class
was really a covert audition for the role of Bond.
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver. Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.
The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video game formats as well as being used in the longest running and the second-highest grossing film franchise to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2012, there have been twenty two films in the Eon Productions series, with a twenty third, Skyfall, due for release on 26 October 2012. The film will star Daniel Craig in his third portrayal of Bond: he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also been two independent productions of Bond films, Casino Royale, a 1967 spoof, and Never Say Never Again, a 1983 remake of an earlier Eon-produced film, Thunderball.
The films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs to the films having picked up Academy Award nominations on several occasions. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bond's cars, his guns and the gadgets he is supplied with by Q Branch.