Cillian Murphy! Is he the new James Bond?

CosmicFool · 07-03-2019 01:33PM #1

It's emerged that Cillian Murphy is in the running to play James Bond. The next Bond film is said to be Daniel Craig's last.

Personally i think it's an awful choice. I just do not like him. Don't know why just don't.

suicide_circus · 07-03-2019 01:36PM

if they go a new direction with the character it could work. thought they were going for a woman or a black guy next time?

py2006 · 07-03-2019 01:36PM

He is tiny in real life. Not sure he could pull off Bond.

py2006 · 07-03-2019 01:37PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

if they go a new direction with the character it could work. thought they were going for a woman or a black guy next time?

Black perhaps but how could you have a female James Bond??

Edgware · 07-03-2019 01:38PM

py2006 wrote: »

He is tiny in real life. Not sure he could pull off Bond.

"Pull off Bond" Isnt that Miss Moneypenny's job?

07-03-2019 01:38PM

py2006 wrote: »

Black perhaps but how could you have a female James Bond??

a transgender, black, differently abled James Bond.

That'd work :rolleyes:

Iscreamkone · 07-03-2019 01:39PM

I thought that he was very good in Peaky Blinders.
Interesting choice for Bond though.

py2006 · 07-03-2019 01:39PM

Edgware wrote: »

"Pull off Bond" Isnt that Miss Moneypenny's job?

I knew that was coming...

(thats what she said)

suicide_circus · 07-03-2019 01:40PM

py2006 wrote: »

Black perhaps but how could you have a female James Bond??

well considering only black actors should play black characters i dont even see how you'd have a black JB

JohnnyFlash · 07-03-2019 01:42PM

Saw him in Toners about 10 years ago. The lad is about 5 foot tall. He might make a good villain though - a tiny little lad with small man syndrome plotting to put a death laser on the moon.

magic_murph · 07-03-2019 01:44PM

agreed - having a black James Bond would be a clear tick box exercise. Which isn't really needed.

I think it should be somebody relatively unknown so they can make the character their own. Always hard to watch a well know face play a long running character.

Deebles McBeebles · 07-03-2019 01:44PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

well considering only black actors should play black characters i dont even see how you'd have a black JB

Will Smith in whiteface?

kneemos · 07-03-2019 01:45PM

Bond is shoite. Alright when I was twelve,not for adults though.

buried · 07-03-2019 01:46PM

James bond films don't work no more in the modern world. The Sicario films are a much better sort of modern state sanctioned black operative "licence to kill" themed movies.

EmmetSpiceland · 07-03-2019 01:46PM

Aidan Turner would be a better fit than Cillian Murphy but I’d take Murphy over that snivelling Cumberbatch lad.

TheValeyard · 07-03-2019 01:47PM

Terrible Bond, but would make a great villain.

artanevilla · 07-03-2019 01:47PM

py2006 wrote: »

He is tiny in real life. Not sure he could pull off Bond.

Sure Craig is tiny too.

greencap · 07-03-2019 01:47PM

bond is supposed to be a 1950's wife slapping, casually racist, center of the universe white man and nothing else.

you know, something to aspire to.

Edgware · 07-03-2019 01:48PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Saw him in Toners about 10 years ago. The lad is about 5 foot tall. He might make a good villain though - a tiny little lad with small man syndrome plotting to put a death laser on the moon.

Is that dwarfism or some other ism people can get offended about?

at9qu5vp0wcix7 · 07-03-2019 01:48PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Saw him in Toners about 10 years ago. The lad is about 5 foot tall. He might make a good villain though - a tiny little lad with small man syndrome plotting to put a death laser on the moon.

Google says he is an inch shorter than Daniel Craig!

spodoinkle · 07-03-2019 01:49PM

py2006 wrote: »

He is tiny in real life. Not sure he could pull off Bond.

Very skinny in person, met him at a play in Sigo recently.

Sonics2k · 07-03-2019 01:50PM

Love Cillian Murphy as an actor, but I think he'd make a far better villain than playing Bond.

First Up · 07-03-2019 01:52PM

JohnnyFlash wrote:

Saw him in Toners about 10 years ago. The lad is about 5 foot tall. He might make a good villain though - a tiny little lad with small man syndrome plotting to put a death laser on the moon.

Wikipedia has him as 1.75 metres which is a good bit more than 5 feet.

Tacklebox · 07-03-2019 01:52PM

He has nice eyes though...
I Love his strut... a confident man.
Knew him when I was in college in Cork in the 90's he was great at mimicking people, had people in knots.
Everyone in the circle knew he had a future in the arts....

Only met him a few times, but he's a guy who one wouldn't forget...

And before anyone asks I wasn't in Sir Henry's the night Nirvana played, for some strange reason only 30 people showed up but yet half of Cork were there that night....

B_ecke_r · 07-03-2019 01:53PM

py2006 wrote: »

He is tiny in real life. Not sure he could pull off Bond.

Tom Cruise. Jack Reacher.

think he could be a good choice for a dark Bond, good actor IMO

CosmicFool · 07-03-2019 01:55PM

magic_murph wrote: »

agreed - having a black James Bond would be a clear tick box exercise. Which isn't really needed.

I think it should be somebody relatively unknown so they can make the character their own. Always hard to watch a well know face play a long running character.

I'd completely agree having a relatively unknown actor but i don't think they'd go for it. They'd want a big name to get the numbers.

Edgware · 07-03-2019 01:55PM

Tacklebox wrote: »

He has nice eyes though...
I Love his strut... a confident man.
Knew him when I was in college in Cork in the 90's he was great at mimicking people, had people in knots.
Everyone in the circle knew he had a future in the arts....

Only met him a few times, but he's a guy who one wouldn't forget...

And before anyone asks I wasn't in Sir Henry's the night Nirvana played, for some strange reason only 30 people showed up but yet half of Cork were there that night....

The other half were coaching Roy Keane up in Mayfield.

Dravokivich · 07-03-2019 01:56PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

well considering only black actors should play black characters i dont even see how you'd have a black JB

I don't see how that'll be an issue. Bond movies are not set in a specific time with reduced minorities, at different social levels. An actor with a means to portray the character how the director is looking to develope the movie should be it.

I'd argue against a woman doing it, as that suggests it's not possible to develope a female character.

kowloon · 07-03-2019 01:58PM

I heard Idris Elba mentioned a while back before Craig signed on for another film, I reckon he would make a good Bond. He can pull off the suave Englishman thing but he's tough enough looking that it wouldn't be silly seeing him bash heads.

B_ecke_r · 07-03-2019 01:59PM

ridiculous to have a Black Bond IMO

then there will need to be a Hispanic Bond, Asian Bond, Female Bond.

Bond is White. what's the big deal?

this isn't an episode of Barney the Dinosaur

CosmicFool · 07-03-2019 02:06PM

B_ecke_r wrote: »

ridiculous to have a Black Bond IMO

then there will need to be a Hispanic Bond, Asian Bond, Female Bond.

Bond is White. what's the big deal?

this isn't an episode of Barney the Dinosaur

I don't think so. James Bond is Fictional. He can be whatever one wants him to be really? Just because bond was created in the 50's doesn't mean he has to stay there.

Cillian Murphy! Is he the new James Bond?

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