would an animated Bond work?

paco chaos · Post by **paco chaos** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:47 pm

over the weekend I had an idea about a Bond animated series. what if they were to make the novels into animated movies, done in an extremely stylized way? like Batman the animated series was done, only more adult oriented, and sticking closer to the books than the live action films. does anybody else think this would be a good idea? you wouldn't have to worry about the actor getting too old, or not looking enough like what Bond is supposed to look like.

Post by **James** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:45 pm

A good James Bond animated film is long overdue but I'll doubt it will happen.

stockslivevan · Post by **stockslivevan** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:26 am

That was already done... sorta.

paco chaos · Post by **paco chaos** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:00 am

stockslivevan wrote:That was already done... sorta.

this isn't what I mean. I remember the short lived James Bond Jr. show, but that was for kids to sell a toy line. What I'm talking about is something more along the lines of the Hellboy animated movies, or the Ultimate Avengers. direct to dvd movies with an older audience in mind. something without a toy company, or a tv network's standards and practices saying no.

stockslivevan · Post by **stockslivevan** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:13 am

paco chaos wrote:
stockslivevan wrote:That was already done... sorta.

this isn't what I mean. I remember the short lived James Bond Jr. show, but that was for kids to sell a toy line. What I'm talking about is something more along the lines of the Hellboy animated movies, or the Ultimate Avengers. direct to dvd movies with an older audience in mind. something without a toy company, or a tv network's standards and practices saying no.

You and I both know that, hence the "sorta" remark.

Besides that, I have to say I love the Batman Mask of the Phantasm movie. I loved how with film they didn't have those saturday morning TV restrictions and we were given a Film-Noir type animated feature Batman film with a storyline more appealing to adults than children. I don't think kids are too interested in tragic love stories.

I wish audiences could one day ditch the belief that cartoons are only for kids, esspecially Americans. There are artists out there who want to express themselves and sometimes live action just doesn't cut it but they are restricted to that because there is no way executives could believe an adult animated film could sell. I'm glad Bruce Timm was given the opportunity to make a Batman animated film with creative control and take advantage of it, giving us probably THE best Batman film of all time.

saloon singer · Post by **saloon singer** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:41 pm

Yeah! I'd like to see an animated Bond with paco chaos' avatar as the Bond image!

Post by **Dr. No** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:12 am

An animated Bond could work. I've been impressed with recent "Cartoons", plenty japanimations of a adult nature. Good stories too from what I remember. Obviously I would want Bond the animated to be of the highest quality

It wouldnt be cheap but could be magnificent.

Batman Beyond had great stories, great continuation of the Dark Night saga.

Second paco chaos' avatar as the Bond Image!

Post by **Blowfeld** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:14 am

Smashing idea! 007 has been an illustrated longer than the movies have been around.

Incidentally George Lazenby did a couple of voices for Batman of the Future.

Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:55 pm

It's a shame that Eon have such a grip over Bond.

They could make a Thunderbirds/Team America style Bond film. Daniel Craig could even play James bond.

paco chaos · Post by **paco chaos** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:47 pm

Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:It's a shame that Eon have such a grip over Bond.

They could make a Thunderbirds/Team America style Bond film. Daniel Craig could even play James bond.

I don't know why EON couldn't produce an animated Bond series. and yeah, I'd rather have Daniel Craig play Bond in an animated series, since I wouldn't have to look at him.

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:53 pm

Going so well and and then the old faithful has to be brought in.
Paco, we get it.

paco chaos · Post by **paco chaos** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:21 pm

Captain Nash wrote:Going so well and and then the old faithful has to be brought in.
Paco, we get it.

well, if you feel that way about it, we could have Brosnan, Lazenby, or Connery do the voice instead. I'm just saying, you could have any Bond actor in the role, since age and looks aren't a factor.

Post by **Kristatos** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:33 pm

paco chaos wrote:well, if you feel that way about it, we could have Brosnan, Lazenby, or Connery do the voice instead. I'm just saying, you could have any Bond actor in the role, since age and looks aren't a factor.

Yes, Connery lent his voice to Bond in the FRWL video game a few years back, though I'm not sure whether this was newly-recorded dialogue or just sampled from the film soundtrack. I suppose you could argue that in the form of the video games, we sort of have an animated Bond already (though as I've stated before, I haven't actually played any of them, I'm just going by what I've read elsewhere).