No clever titles on this article, it’s early. The Daily Mail is reporting that Naomie Harris (28 Days Later) is joining the cast for the new Bond film, possibly as Moneypenny. This would be the first appearance of the staple character since the Daniel Craig hard reboot of the franchise. For those of you who only started watching Bond films at Casino Royale, Moneypenny is M (Dame Judi Dench)’s assistant, and is a source of flirtation and blueballs for our oversexed superspy. I love Naomie Harris and feel that she is a great choice for the role, if this is indeed true. Coming from a British news source does give me pause however.
As we have been reporting, Harris will join a very impressive cast. Aside from the awesome and ruggedly handsome pair of Craig and Dench, apparently the equally awesome and rugged Javier Bardem has signed on for certain, as well as the slimy and smarmily handsome Ralph Fiennes. I would assume they are villains, but who knows. If this all pans out, this is easily the most impressive cast in a Bond film ever. With these powerhouses on board, director Sam Mendes would have to really botch things up behind the camera for this to turn out bad. I don’t think he will. Here’s hoping that this will be a glorious capper to Craig’s run as Bond so he can get on to better things and hand the character over to Michael Fassbender.
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I had been envisioning Fassbender as Bond for a while, I can’t believe someone else agrees with me, lol.
I think a lot of people want to see Fassbender as the next Bond, especially after X-Men First Class. But only when Craig is ready to move on.
I love Naomi Harris too. Thought she was sexy as hell in the ‘Pirates’ films, blackened teeth and all. She’ll make a fine Moneypenny.
And Fassbender as next Bond–capital idea.
If they’re gonna bring back Moneypenny, they should also bring back Q. They could do alot worse than Jim Broadbent imo.
You get good odds on Fassbender for next Bond on some online bookmakers – I was planning on taking a punt
Holy shit, Fassbender as Bond sounds like the best thing since peanut butter got together with jelly and bread.
Daniel Craig supposedly has two films left in his contract (Bond 23 & 24), which means they won’t be recasting the role until at least 2015/2016. Michael Fassbender is going to be too high profile by then for EON to even consider hiring him for the role. This is the exact same reason why Ewan McGregor, Clive Owen, and Hugh Jackman never even had a shot at playing Bond after Brosnan was ousted.
Fassbender would be a great Bond, but it ain’t happening folks. Give up the dream!
Why do you have to pee icewater on our Fassbender Bond parade? You and your “reality”.
I really dig the Jim Broadbent suggestion.
Fassbender could still easily end up as a Bond villain. How awesome would that be!
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