Re-cast a classic Bond movie with modern actors
Number24
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Let's play a game! Imagine the older Bond movies were made today. Call it a re-make or maybe you can imagine it's the first time the story is being made. Who do you want to make it?
To make it more difficult/interesting you're not allowed to cast people who've already been in Bond movies. Here is is my FRWL 2021. I've thought outside the box at times. Some of the actors are far too famous for this type of parts.
Director: David Fincher (FRWL is a thriller and Fincher is one of the best thriller directors today)
Bond: Ed Skrein
Tatiana: Mila Kunis
Kerim Bey: Michael Gambon (likable character actor)
Rosa Klebb: Helena Bonham Carter (small, and Harry Potter proved she can be scary and strange)
Red Grant: Silje Torp (Lilihammer, Norsemen. At first I imagined her as Klebb, but she's tall, blonde and a bodybuilder. Google her!)
Kronsteen: Sasha Baron Cohen (striking looks, and comedians can be very good in serious roles)
Feel free to comment, but I really want to see your modern versions of classic Bond movies!
To make it more difficult/interesting you're not allowed to cast people who've already been in Bond movies. Here is is my FRWL 2021. I've thought outside the box at times. Some of the actors are far too famous for this type of parts.
Director: David Fincher (FRWL is a thriller and Fincher is one of the best thriller directors today)
Bond: Ed Skrein
Tatiana: Mila Kunis
Kerim Bey: Michael Gambon (likable character actor)
Rosa Klebb: Helena Bonham Carter (small, and Harry Potter proved she can be scary and strange)
Red Grant: Silje Torp (Lilihammer, Norsemen. At first I imagined her as Klebb, but she's tall, blonde and a bodybuilder. Google her!)
Kronsteen: Sasha Baron Cohen (striking looks, and comedians can be very good in serious roles)
Feel free to comment, but I really want to see your modern versions of classic Bond movies!
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Licence to kill
007 - Aidan Turner
Sanchez - Oscar Isaac
Pam Bouvier - Sylvia Hoeks
Lupe - Morena Baccarin
Leiter - Alan Tudyk
Milton Krest - Peter Skarsgård
From Russia With Love (a few years ago)
007: Hugh Jackman
Tatiana: MyAnna Buring
Red Grant: Daniel Craig
Sylvia Trench: Rachel Weisz
Rosa Klebb: Corinna Harfouch
Goldeneye 2021
007 - Sam Hueghan
M - Charles Dance
Alex Trevellyan - James Norton
Xenia Onatop - Silje Torp (Lillehammer, Norsemen. Always perfect playing badass women)
Jack Wade -?
Natalya - Anya Taylor-Joy
Ouromov - Vincent Cassell
Boris - Alex Lawther (The young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game)
Interesting choices, Red Kind. I'd like to watch that movie.
Here I'm breaking my own rules: I'm re-casting AVTAK with actors of the 1980's.
Bond: Timothy Dalton
Zorin: Klaus Kinski
Stacey Sutton: Heather Locklear
May Day: Paulina Porizkova
Anya Amasova (instead of Pola Ivanova) : Barbara Bach
Tibbet: John Cleese
M: Sir John Gielgud
Q: Nigel Hawthorne
That's fun. I'll go with;
Bond: Ian Ogilvy
Zorin: Rutger Hauer
Stacey Sutton: Cybill Shepherd
May Day: Sarah Douglas
Anya Amasova (instead of Pola Ivanova) : Barbara Bach - Agree.
Tibbet: David McCallum
M: Ian Richardson
Q: Richard Briers
That's a good cast list! I found May Day to be the hardest to re-cast, because who has the style, personality and looks to rival Grace jones?
Likewise. I was scratching my head as to an alternative for Grace Jones and then l thought of Superman 2's Ursa and Sarah Douglas - Height and presence and the love scenes may have been more convincing as well.
I thought of Lucy Lawless, but I found out she was just seventeen at the time. Paulina Porizkova is tall, witty, beautiful and can act a bit, but Grace Jones is hard to beat.
GOLDENEYE 2025:
James Bond/007: Dan Stevens
Alec Trevelyan/006: Robert Pattinson
Xenia Onatopp: Ivanna Sakhno
Natalya Simonova: Nina Dobrev
Boris Grishenko: Sam Claflin
M: Gerard Butler
Jack Wade: Nick Frost
Zukovsky: Anthony Carrigan
Irina: Taylor Swift
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN 2025:
James Bond/007: Dan Stevens
Francisco Scaramanga: Michael Fassbender
Mary Goodnight: Alexandra Daddario
Andrea Anders: Alicia Vikander
Nick Nack: Warwick Davis
Sheriff J.W. Pepper: Woody Harrelson
Hai Fat: Chow Yun-Fat
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 2025:
James Bond/007: Dan Stevens
Tatiana Romanova: Emma Corrin
Red Grant: Alexander Skarsgard
Rosa Klebb: Franka Potente
Kerim Bey: Marwan Kenzari
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Daniel Bruhl
Morzeny: Til Schweiger
Kronsteen: Eddie Redmayne
Sylvia Trench: Natalie Dormer
LALD 2025:
James Bond - James Norton
Solitaire - Beyonce Knowles
Kananga - Samuel L. Jackson
Leiter - Walter Goggins
M - Tom Wilkinson
Q - Toby Jones
Rosie Carver - Naomie Harries
Baron Samedi - Snoop Dogg
Sheriff Pepper - Jack Black
Miss Caruso - Alexandra Daddario
Dangit! I had Walton Goggins lined up as Willard Whyte!
You're reusing my Alexandra Daddario, though. I guess that gives me leave to reuse Goggins.
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER 2025:
James Bond/007: Dan Stevens
Tiffany Case: Jennifer Lawrence
Felix Leiter: Anthony Mackie
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Daniel Bruhl
Plenty O'Toole: Sydney Sweeney
Willard Whyte: Walton Goggins
Mr. Kidd: Nathan Lane
Mr. Wint: David Hyde Pierce
I'd like to see that DAF! Frankly I like my idea of Snoop Dogg as Baron Samedi too. 😁
I really like your Wint & Kidd, and also Tiffany Case.
I now know I’m officially old and out of touch, I haven’t even heard of most of these actors 🤣
There's hope. You've heard of them now. 👍️
I’m afraid you will massive issues casting Tom Wilkinson in 2025…I mean, it’s very brave of you…especially as he died in 2023.
But .... but ..... I saw him in "Batman Begins" last night and he was clearly alive in it! 😏
Have always thought the best Donald 'Red' Grant there's never been is Daniel Craig.
I agree. 😆
Before I sleep, I dream about things like Goldfinger but with Jaws and the Lotus and Roger set in the 1970s.
To me GF doesn't fit in the 70's.
Doctor No
Bond: Sam Heughan
No: Chow-Yun Fat
Honey Rider: Sydney Sweeney
M: Jason Isacs
Felix Leiter: Will Poulter (British, but can play Americans)
Sylvia Trench: Freema Agyeman
Miss Moneypenny: Jenna Coleman
Professor Dent: Mark Rylance
Miss Taro: Chloe Bennet
A VIEW TO A KILL 2025
James Bond/007: Dan Stevens
Max Zorin: Antony Starr
Stacey Sutton: Amanda Seyfried
May Day: Zoe Saldana
Sir Godfrey Tibbett: Colin Firth
Jenny Flex: Emilia Clarke
Scarpine: Vincent Cassel
I'd watch that movie (even though I'm not the biggest supporter of Dan Stevens as Bond)
I still think that Michael Fassbender circa 2010 would have been the best Bond of the franchise, but alas.
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE 2025:
James Bond/007: Dan Stevens
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Daniel Bruhl
Tracy di Vicenzo/Bond: Florence Pugh
Marc-Ange Draco: Antonio Banderas
Irma Bunt: Diane Kruger
Sir Hilary Bray: Ewan McGregor
The 'Angels of Death': a murderer's row of various international women in between 24 and 30.