The Night Manager : Hiddleston as the next Bond

If it's true that Daniel Craig is leaving the Bond franchise, I'm truly sad. I think Craig put a real human feel to Bond; we saw emotion, he got dirty and bled. I hope this same feel continues, and I think Tom Hiddleston could to it. His performance in The Night Manager gave us another side to Hiddleston acting; the "love\hate" for the character of Loki, but Tom had me at Pine's character. Nicely done! He was convincing, he drew you in; just as Craig did as Bond. I truly believe Tom could be the next Bond and regardless who will be directing it, if they keep that same humanly feel I think Tom Hiddleston will hit it out of the park!

I really don't think he's a good actor. He's a clothes horse, yes, he's one for the ladies, I know, and is a pleasant chap from interviews I've heard, but I think he's very insubstantial and was miscast in TNM.

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I think he's very insubstantial and was miscast in TNM.

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I enjoyed him and thought he did a good job. Who would you like to have seen play the part of Pine?

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I agree. I want to like Hiddleston, but I don't. Frankly, he always seems smug. I don't think he's handsome, but I understand that many people do. Also, he seems gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you can't have a gay-seeming Bond.Even Roger Moore was a bit too gay seeming to make his love scenes feel right. Daniel Craig may not be everybody's cup of tea, but he seems very straight.

Imagine Tom Hiddleston if he were 5' 9".

This is the type of role that Ethan Hawke or Tom Cruise would have gotten ten or twenty years ago.

What about James McAvoy?

I'm not really in support of it, but it would be pretty wild if they wanted to reboot Bond by making him gay, or Bi at the least - LOL!

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yes, he's one for the ladies,

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He looks ugly as sin from where I'm sitting.

I think he would be perfect. He's incredibly sophisticated and does well in action scenes and love scenes as well.

Far too much of a puff. Would make a laughable Bond. They are probably going to have to go to Australia to find the next Bond. England just doesn't produce men with sufficient testosterone for the role anymore.

Be nice if they found a cool Sean Connery type with a twinkle in his eye to play Bond and for good measure produced a fun, escapist 007 flick like GOLDFINGER and not a broody, angsty, faux-solemn bore-fest like well, like all the recent 007s have been.

While I agree that it would be refreshing to dump the darkness of recent Bond films, most are far too jaded and miserable these days to buy that sort of film. Sad.

I'd be sad if Daniel Craig was done playing Bond. He had the right amount of charisma and physicality for the action scenes.

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

After watching this, I totally agreeHiddleston for Bond!

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Indeed!

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

Craig's been very vocal about being done with Bond.











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Well, he did order Vodka Martini in the last episode. Any hint there?

The bond people have already disqualified him because of Taylor Swift.

If it is true that Craig is leaving, I'm sorry too. He is not the usual snarky, witty, pretty boy type that usually plays Bond. IMO he added a new dimension to a rather hackneyed character.

Hiddleston is too effeminate.

Matthew Macfadyen would have been perfect.

But the only James Bond for me, will always be Roger.

No chance! Hiddleston is nowhere near threatening or charismatic enough. Bond is a proper hard man to the core whereas Tom comes across as a nice guy. Couldn't pull it off as James Bond in a million years.

I think Hiddleston's management is heading for a very aggressive campaign of establishing him in Hollywood. His supposed romance with Taylor Swift was so obviously staged that they had to defend it wasn't a PR stunt. Hiddleston has little chemistry with women. I think Bond is definitely their end game.

As charming as Tom H is he doesn't have that ruthlessness and that menacing look in his eye to be cast as Bond like Craig does. I do like the idea of Luke Evans from The girl on a train to be next Bond.

I cast my vote for Henry Cavill.
Hiddleston is fine for TV but Cavill looks magnificent on big screen.

Even if he's a bit too old probably, I'd vote for Clive Owen as Bond. These others noted in this thread would never get me excited to go see a Bond film. Clive Owen would.

He has many good qualities but I'm surprised that he's being considered for Bond (if he truly is). He's a bigger reach than Elba, who had race and age against him, IMO.

Tom did a very good job on this series but i don't think he has what it takes for Bond, nit when i felt Hugh Laurie was constantly upstaging him in their scenes together and when i wished Jed would have preferred Roper over Pine.


That's a terrible sign, i don't mind Tom doesn't have that much muscle Pierce didn't have it either but still had thta extra something to mak ehim my favorite Bond.

He was "hip and trendy" for about 5 minutes at the beginning of 2016, and now has already hit the has-been list.

Hiddleson was a Bond type character in the Jaguar commercials shown in the USA and maybe elsewhere too.

Honestly I never digged the idea of Bond as a suffering human being that much; I like more the smug dressman bond types that Moore and Brosnan were. Still, Skyfall was good movie. BTW I think Hiddleston works better as villainous type; this series was not bad, but it helped he had not to do an all good hero.

Maybe not Bond, but when they do a Vladmir Putin biopic, it has to be Hiddleston. Something about the shape of the face, if he narrows his eyes a little bit.

I think he would be better as one of the villains he can play them very well I think the next Bond could be Michael Fassbender