• @AFaithfulNihilist
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      428 months ago

      It’s a 2-hour long dialogue between Bond (played by Wallace Shawn) and a villainous billionaire media mogul Fryston Gallibre (played by Peter Capaldi) who is trying to collapse western democracy through ever more bland homogenized remakes of beloved franchises.

      In the end, Fryston realizes that Bond has never seen any of these movies or shows and isn’t really a fanboy of anything so he is immune to this assault on culture. Bond actually leaves confused and when trying to explain the whole thing back at the office he stops mid-sentence and asks the widowed Mrs. Money Penny (Judi Dench) If she’d like to go see a movie together, “apparently they’re quite popular!”

    • @Dkarma
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      198 months ago

      I was gonna say same. Give him all kinds of crazy gadgets but make him super serious.

    • @CoggyMcFee
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      138 months ago

      “But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the martini in front of me.”

  • Margot Robbie
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    You know this is an Onion article because the real frontrunner for the role of James Bond is going to be, like every other role, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie.

    • @[email protected]
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      128 months ago

      You know at first I thought this account was a joke, but it’s been months and it’s still going on. Honestly I’m convinced

    • @ProfessorProteus
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      78 months ago

      See, I was gonna say Chris Pratt. He seems to be everywhere recently…

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      Seriously though, there’s a potentially great reboot opportunity there…

      It would have to be very intelligently written to avoid the “reboot with women protagonist” clichés/pitfalls, the fact that 007 is a woman would have to strike just the right tone… misogyny would probably need to be faced with a good dose of “ok boomer” smirking, it would absolutely have to pass the Bechdel test…

      But yea, that would be the first James Bond I’d go see in 2 decades, esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie.

      • @cmbabul
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        48 months ago

        Lose the Pratt and I’m in

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      And, if the villain were played by esteemed character actress Margot Martindale…

      It’ll never happen, because they’d just have to pack up the Academy of Motion Pictures and go home, because it’d be all downhill after that film.

  • @samus12345
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    318 months ago

    Rule of Acquisition 300: If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

  • originalucifer
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    After seeing his performance in My Dinner with Andre (1981), casting director Janet Hirshenson was so fond of his delivery of the word “inconceivable” that she cast him as Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987).

    dude got the job because of that line. no wonder its iconic

    • @fidodo
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      38 months ago

      That movie is also why she cast André the Giant as his sidekick after falling victim to one of the classic blunders.

    • Margot Robbie
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      88 months ago

      No one would expect a person who announces their full name everywhere they go to be a spy!

        • Margot Robbie
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          38 months ago

          However, iocaine, like esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress and fugitive from the law Margot Robbie, comes from Australia. As everyone knows, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So, I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      218 months ago

      I’ve been looking at too many Trek memes, because my mind immediately pictured the wrong Q character.

      But also yes.

      • @grue
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        68 months ago

        Who says they aren’t the same character?

      • @cmbabul
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        58 months ago

        I thought the same, but he would actually be great in both roles

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        wait, what other Q is there? I feel like he’d be excellent at playing the Q who ducks with Picard

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          18 months ago

          Well there’s Star Trek Q, and then there’s the Q that gives James Bond gadgets that are so unbelievable that could very well have been made by a Q-continuum being who’s impersonating an old British man…

        • @morphballganon
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          18 months ago

          Sounds like you haven’t seen Tomorrow Never Dies. There’s a hilarious scene between Pierce Brosnan and Desmond Llewelyn about a remote control car…

  • runeko
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    118 months ago

    Oh, and we could have an X-men crossover with Danny DiVito as Wolverine.

    • @grue
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      28 months ago

      If it were a couple decades ago I would’ve believed it, but Wallace Shawn is literally 80 years old.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      28 months ago

      Maybe they’re testing the waters as a joke first.

      …unless?