The dapper superspy is one of Hollywood’s best-known brands,so why not remold the Star Wars and Marvel template to give us multiple visions of 007?whether bookmakers are to believed, the race to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond is heating up, and with Thor’s Tom Hiddleston now challenging Mad Max’s Tom Hardy and The Wire’s Idris Elba for the keys to 007’s Aston Martin DB10. It’s easy to see why: at Sunday’s Empire Awards in London even Spectre director Sam Mendes seemed convinced that the deeply jaded Craig needs a rupture,at the very least, whether he is ever to star as Bond again.
Might 007 production company Eon be poised to make an announcement? And whether so, and which way will they go? There have been persistent rumours that the saga might one day return to its 60s roots,while back in the Pierce Brosnan era there was plenty of talk of “Jane Bond” female agent spin-offs. Former Labour leader Ed Miliband even suggested final year that Rosamund Pike would make a mighty 007.
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Source: theguardian.com