Is it time for a "retro" James Bond film?

[JT221]

Yeah, he's said several times he'd be willing to do a more serious take on Bond. A lot of his post-Bond work are certainly more gritty spy/espionage thrillers, although he's not always the hero in those.

Curiously his performance in Goldeneye comes off a bit darker than the later films, perhaps because the early script might've been written with Dalton still in mind (and certainly even TND has some elements from the dropped third Dalton film from the early 90s). Of course, it's Martin Campbell who was known for directly fairly dark thrillers at that point (although of course he would also direct Green Lantern and the goofy Zorro sequel later on...) and then TND's director was the guy who directed a fair amount of buddy comedies....

Or it could be he was kind of getting used to Bond like Moore did. Moore's first two films are basically him trying to play Connery lite instead of putting his own stamp on the role which he does by the time of TSWLM.

Christopher Lee said Brosnan was as close as any actor came to Fleming's vision for the character. Pretty high praise.

[godisawesome]

Christopher Lee said Brosnan was as close as any actor came to Fleming's vision for the character. Pretty high praise.

Brosnan was maybe the best “well rounded” Bond when given a good script - he excelled at mixing charming wit and affability like Moore with moments of utterly wrathful Dalton moments. Craig was a bit colder than necessary when not in action scenes, Moore was probably too warm and charming as his baseline, Dalton came off as an ubër-professional that novel Bond maybe wasn’t, while Connery arguably nailed the sort of “gentleman of various vices and virtues” aspect the best.

I love all of them, but they tended to have one or two films that best showcased their take on the character.