Wallace Shawn Emerges As Frontrunner To Replace Daniel Craig As James Bond

It's a 2-hour long dialogue between Bond (played by Wallace Shawn) and a villainous billionaire media mogul Fryston Gallibre (played by Peter Capaldi) who is trying to collapse western democracy through ever more bland homogenized remakes of beloved franchises.

In the end, Fryston realizes that Bond has never seen any of these movies or shows and isn't really a fanboy of anything so he is immune to this assault on culture. Bond actually leaves confused and when trying to explain the whole thing back at the office he stops mid-sentence and asks the widowed Mrs. Money Penny (Judi Dench) If she'd like to go see a movie together, "apparently they're quite popular!"

I was gonna say same. Give him all kinds of crazy gadgets but make him super serious.

“But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the martini in front of me.”

Jaymth Bond!

That would be the first Bond movie I watch.

You know at first I thought this account was a joke, but it's been months and it's still going on. Honestly I'm convinced

See, I was gonna say Chris Pratt. He seems to be everywhere recently...

Seriously though, there's a potentially great reboot opportunity there..

It would have to be very intelligently written to avoid the "reboot with women protagonist" clichés/pitfalls, the fact that 007 is a woman would have to strike just the right tone.. misogyny would probably need to be faced with a good dose of "ok boomer" smirking, it would absolutely have to pass the Bechdel test..

But yea, that would be the first James Bond I'd go see in 2 decades, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie.

Margopratt Reynolds.

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And, if the villain were played by esteemed character actress Margot Martindale...

It'll never happen, because they'd just have to pack up the Academy of Motion Pictures and go home, because it'd be all downhill after that film.

No, it's INCONTHEEVABLE! Get it right!

That movie is also why she cast André the Giant as his sidekick after falling victim to one of the classic blunders.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

No one would expect a person who announces their full name everywhere they go to be a spy!

007: The Spy You Didn't Expect

I've been looking at too many Trek memes, because my mind immediately pictured the wrong Q character.

But also yes.

If it were a couple decades ago I would've believed it, but Wallace Shawn is literally 80 years old.

Maybe they're testing the waters as a joke first.

...unless?

a good parody bond film

Hey, at least we have Austin Powers!

I would so watch a good parody bond film but Hollywood would never make this.

You mean like Get Smart, or Johnny English, or Top Secret, or the David Niven Casino Royale, or Spy, or Spy Hard, or The Man Who Knew Too Little, or True Lies, or Leonard Part 6, or I Spy, or Spies Like Us, or Spy Dad, or The Spy Next Door, or The Spy Who Dumped Me, or The Brothers Grimsby, or S*P*Y*S, or Code Name: The Cleaner, or Austin Powers?

Hollywood fucking loves making parody James Bond films, and some of them are occasionally good.

Casino Royale was 17 years ago and he was already almost 40 then.

Someone already mentioned Craig so I'm going over the rest.

• Brosnan was 48? during his last Bond movie and I think he looked good in The November Man, which was 10 years after his last Bond movie. He's 70 now so obviously he looks like shit now.
• Dalton looked great in Hot Fuzz and that was almost 20 years after his Bond movies. Dalton is nearing 80 so he also obviously looks like shit now.
• Moore, if I did my math right, was almost 60 when he Bond career ended. I have no idea what he did after Bond but when you stop being Bond at his age it shouldn't come as a surprise if you physically fall off.
• And then we have Connery who had a long career after Bond.

I'd say it's been mostly Craig who has "fallen apart" but I also think he bulked up for Bond and it took a toll because he pushed beyond his natural physique (he was much leaner before Bond).