Now that Steven Knight is the writer for Bond 26, it would be apropos for Cillian Murphy, who starred in Knight’s show Peaky Blinders, to come aboard. He was rumored in for previous Bond movies, and even as the next James Bond actor.
Now would be the perfect time to see him as a Bond villain!
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In The Spy Who Loved Me, Karl Stromberg is almost giddy as he shows Bond his plans for thermonuclear genocide and his grand scheme to replace humanity with a civilization built in his own image. There’s something especially disturbing about how casually Stromberg discusses the destruction of billions of people, as though he is presenting…
A recent article in The Hollywood Reporter details newly uncovered correspondence about James Bond’s likeness between Ian Fleming and an illustrator in the 1950s, although I’m skeptical of the suggestion that the accompanying image in the article represents some newly discovered depiction of Bond, since the illustration itself has been known for years. The more…
It was interesting to see Ben Whishaw’s Q bend but not break the rules for Bond in Spectre. Llewelyn’s Q was much more strict and by the book, but it seems Whishaw’s Q has a closer, friendlier relationship with Bond.
