Classic Bond Forum

How about Tom Hardy? Some people have been mentioning him in next Bond threads on other websites. The only thing I can remember watching him in is Star Trek Nemisis where he played the young Picard.

He is lined up to play Max in the next Mad Max film.

I think he should stick to novels. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is my favourite.

What about him as a young Picard in a potential TNG film of the reboot Trek series?

It would be fun if he could appear as Jean-Luc again in the next Star Trek film.

Hardy did play Picard's clone in Nemesis.

I've heard his name thrown around elsewhere but I'm not convinced as of yet that he's Bond material. I really think they need to go back to a more traditional Bondian look after Barbara's houseboy has moved on.

John Drake wrote:I've heard his name thrown around elsewhere but I'm not convinced as of yet that he's Bond material. I really think they need to go back to a more traditional Bondian look after Barbara's houseboy has moved on.

Well, knowing her taste in men Bond #7 will be attractive..to Babs anyways.

Speaking of Hardy as 007, I notice he's now only 6/1 to be the next Bond with paddypower, coming in from nowhere on the back of Inception, and now has a Facebook group campaigning for him to get the role.

He's not bad looking..less offensive to me than some of the other names always bandied about.

I prefer Fassbender over Tom.

I've made my feelings about Fassbender known..I'll leave it at that.

Tom is 5'10''.

FormerBondFan wrote:Tom is 5'10''.

I don't think that's a problem - he is four inches taller than Daniel Craig.

Daniel Craig-the height challenged Bond!

I saw Hardy in Inception, and he was OK, but I wasn't left thinking "that guy should be Bond" the way I did when watching Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in TDK.

Bale would be a good choice..as long as he doesn't have a temper tantrum during the filming

Could he still attack his sister and mother?

Blowfeld wrote:Could he still attack his sister and mother?

Oh, that was strange... his sister and mother went looking for a hand out..not a good idea when your brother/son is Christian Bale, and has a bad temper!

Wasn't Bale cleared of those charges? I don't know what to believe about that, without being privy to all the facts.

Kristatos wrote:Wasn't Bale cleared of those charges? I don't know what to believe about that, without being privy to all the facts.

This probably belongs on the Bale thread but they went looking for a handout. Apparently Christian and his dad baled on the mom and sister when Christian was pretty young. The sister and mom lived a hand to mouth existence. With Christian becoming a big famous movie star, it makes sense that they would try to get money from him.