Henry Cavill Would Be The Perfect James Bond Replacement In A 1960s Reboot
Warning: SPOILERS for No Time to Die.
Henry Cavill is a front-runner as the next James Bond, but if Eon decides to take the franchise in a radically different direction, he's the perfect actor to take the lead role back to the past. As No Time to Die kills off James Bond in spectacular fashion, the series is now in the position to reboot itself for the second time, should its producers wish to. It can even confirm the long-debated James Bond code-name theory, should Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli decide to. Perhaps the best way to take the Bond series into a brand-new era is to take it back to its roots and literally transpose it into a different era: the 1960s.
The James Bond franchise starts out in 1962, with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, and Joseph Wiseman. It then moves chronologically, presumably taking place around the year that the film was released — where Skyfall takes place around 2012, You Only Live Twice takes place around 1967, for example. Notably, 2015 sees the release of another spy film set in the 1960s, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. This period piece based on the television series of the same name stars none other than Henry Cavill as its lead, Napoleon Solo. Cavill plays the character as a suave, Bondian spy (despite the character being American) who is constantly in conflict with his Russian counterpart, Illya Kuryakin.
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As always, details on the next Bond film are very slim, and all audiences know is that "James Bond will return". Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Regé-Jean Page, and Cavill himself are all favorites to play the iconic spy and replace Daniel Craig following his Bond's explosive finale in No Time to Die.
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