Ha! I knew it!

I'd thought in this entry in June that Clive Owen would make a great Bond. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so.

DOUBLE OWEN SEVEN

The Daily Record reports that Clive Owen will take over the franchise in Bond 22 to be released in 2007.

It was previously stated in the IMDB that Owen had said some nasty things about the franchise as I wrote in this entry (also from June.) Thankfully that seems to be something a so-called "friend" was shooting his mouth off about.



Interesting to see the other choices the producers are considering as well:



Jack Davenport (of BBC's Coupling, not the crappy NBC remake. Check it out in it's original British!) is too much the funnyman. I saw him in the British mini-series "Ultraviolet" as a vampire-hunting cop. The show's only weakness, excellent as it was for fans of the genre, was that I couldn't buy Davenport in the serious role. Maybe it's because he was so great in Coupling. NBC should've just bought the English show and ran it as is instead of remaking it with inferior actors. No one's accent in the original was that bad...

Orlando Bloom is too pretty. Without the elven super-powers I can't see him as tough guy.

I still think the series needs something else to make it "pop" more: maybe make it more episodic, with a recurring uber-villain for a couple of movies that's written as more than a "villain of the week" characterisation that seems to be happening in the last couple of films...I don't know. We'll see if they give Pierce Brosnan a good farewell.

via Wizbang!