Blooming Bond
There’s a point at which you really should declare prequels to be a bad idea. I was honestly getting sick of the prequel mania by the time Enterprise hit the airwaves.
Now, Bond is getting the prequel treatment.
LONDON: British actor Orlando Bloom actor has been signed by Miramax to play young James Bond in his new movie which is based on the college days of this widely popular secret agent.There were rumours floating that Bloom is taking over the role of James Bond from Pierce Brosnan in the next film due out next November.
According to Ananova, Bond producers were looking for a new leading man and Bloom was the lucky guy who got the role.
Do I have to point out to anybody that Bond doesn’t age? That he has come through the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and the past four years without ever growing a decade older? And that isn’t even touching on Fleming’s original novels. Bond has remained the same age, but has always been contemporary. Do we really need a flick of Bond at university? And is he going to be at university in the 50’s? The 60’s? In 2005?
I get the feeling we’re bucking for a repeat of Casino Royale, here. That would be a Bond movie that was originally touted as”the next Bond film,” only to be removed from the canon and relegated to a list of “parodies” when fans decided they didn’t like it.
Then again, there’s always the hope that Quentin Tarantino will actually get to adapt Casino Royale (the book, not the film) with Pierce Brosnan.
Feh. Bond rumors. Who knows?