Henry Cavill Says ‘Maybe I’m Too Old Now’ to Play James Bond as Fake Movie Trailer With Him as 007 Goes Viral With 2.5 Million Views

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/henry-cavill-james-bond-trailer-ai-fake-1235974397/

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  2. Viral video with 2.5 million views has 5.4k likes. It’s also fucking terrible.

  3. He’s around the same age Craig was when he started, isn’t he?

  5. Well Roger Moore was 45 when he started playing Bond.

  6. He can still do it and nail it, but like someone mentioned he’s already very famous. Maybe that would benefit the franchise as he has a lot of name recognition and fans from previous franchises.

    Maybe Aaron Johnson would indeed be the best choice. He was really good in the Bullet Train. Obviously Johnson’s very well known and popular too amongst movie watching audience but Cavill’s popularity is much higher.

  7. Isn’t Bond a middle aged gentleman. I don’t know why we keep trying to fan cast 20 year olds

  8. After his role in argyll. Theres absolutely no chance this guy could pull off 007

  9. James Bond is pretty tired. Give it another 10 year break.

  10. Tbh everyone is shitting on this but I’d watch the hell out of this movie.

  11. Bond has always been 40 and older. He fukin orders a martini shaken not stirred.

  12. It’s all moot to me; Sir Alec Guinness was the ultimate spy as George Smiley. Nobody else will ever come close!

  13. He’s got Highlander in the works and WH40k with Amazon. Also just had a kid. Let’s say he managed to somehow get those clear or setup in-between a Bond film every 3 years. He’d probably get started at 43 or 44. So his second film he’ll be 47 and his third 50. Now I’ve no doubt he’ll still be handsome as hell at 50… but I get his point.

    Plus it seems like they typically want more than 3. Well it probably depends on the reception if they’d want more.

  15. I really can’t see him as bond, just seems like a bad idea

  18. Just be Arthas and retell the human campaign of W3.

  19. Argylle was certainly a movie with Henry Cavill as a Walmart James Bond and Dua Lipa as a Bond lady…

  24. I swear to God, they will cast Henry Cavill in *every* goddamn spy project in existence before they cast him as Bond.

    Please, just give me what I desperately crave and cast Henry as Bond already.

  26. Lot of fan edits gets millions of views. Just browse the names of any popular MCU characters on YT and you can see edits with even 10s of millions of views. Even shipping edits gets such views. Hell, those screen culture fake preview trailers for weekly episodes of MCU TV shows used to get millions of views , for crying out loud.

    So this isn’t something newsworthy….

  27. Just give Bond rest for a while. A few years at least. I will be so minimally interested in this regardless of who they cast if they rush into production. Take your time and give us a chance to get excited about this.

  29. Bond has so much potential, but not if they pick just another huge actor with a following and a brand. Casino Royale and to a far lesser extent Quantum both established an incredibly powerful, motivating arc for Craig as bond. We need a smaller actor to give a new spin on a character which, honestly, aged out of contemporary usefulness. Craig’s depiction starting where it did, with so much fire, to its grizzled, depressed, ends, was interesting, told a story, no matter how crap it quickly became after Casino —

    Bond isn’t superman, he’s an operator, and Cavil has too much superhero in him to be anything but a “jumanji starring The Rock” “jungle movie starring Rock” type beat. He also possesses none of the suave, mischievous chops early craig did, is wholly uninteresting as anything but a minorly deceptive murder-hobo, and is so broad that the idea of him delivering a “Bond, James Bond” and not having a marvel-esque “Yeah no shit” said back seems ridiculous. Dude is a trend product which matches the trend product which is Bond, but in only the worst ways. Get someone like Riz Ahmed after he beefs up slightly. Don’t people want to be shocked by what they enjoy anymore? Let’s push this shit a bit instead of choosing the hunk of the month

  30. Michael Fassbender would be a good pick for the next James Bond!

  31. Anybody who things cavil would be a good bond doesn’t understand bond. 

  32. He’s only two years older than Daniel Craig was when he did his first bond film.

  34. The Cavill as Bond casting is honestly the laziest choice, imo.

  36. Bond is supposed to be a man of experience. No one under 30 should portray him. 

  37. Bond is supposed to be middle aged. Sorry but I would not believe a twenty’s-something to be a highly trained and capable spy. By the time you do at least 4 years of military, enter into and train for the clandestine service and become an operational agent you’re gonna be at least 30, assuming a relatively normal track for that career. Junior agents in their 20’s are just posing as backpackers and shit, not doing bond level ops.

  38. While I love Cavill and think he would kill the role, I hate how Hollywood thinks they have to shoehorn already famous people into roles for movies over and over. It would be amazing if they found new talent.

  40. He’s not a good actor. I’m not sure why it’s such an unpopular opinion, his box office returns are disappointing and makes more flops than success.

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