What If Henry Cavill Was Cast Instead Of Daniel Craig
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2024
- Henry Cavill was nearly cast as James Bond back in 205 instead of Daniel Craig, I wonder what if he was cast how different would the films be. How different would No Time To Die be,
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Funnily enough he was 25 when he was screen tested, the age Timothy Dalton was when he was approached for OHMSS
Sensibly he decided against auditioning for it [although he says it was for 'Live and Let Die'].
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Cavill was 30 when filming began on The Man From UNCLE (September 2013). With Bond, he has probably aged out (he turns 41 in May 2024).
nah you could if he made one in 2025/2026 have him go at the least 43-47 from 2026-2030 with 2 Films and at the most go from 2025-2035 and do 6 Films from 42-52 one every 2 years
that's assuming he stick to just him and needed stunt doubles, throw in extra stuff stunt doubles, Extra Action CGI and him staying in the shape for the role with no slack you could boost it to 2025 age 42-2042 age 58 with 8 Films
again even at the least he has plenty of time left
@@vinniequick They days of them making these films every 2 years are over [after the hellish production of 'Quantum of Solace'] and given both Brosnan and Craig finished around 50 they would go any further than [Brosnan has said he'd have only done 1 more if he'd stayed and Dalton partly left as he felt he was getting too old].
I still like that Craig had a chance to do Bond. But they should offer Cavill the role now. That's clear to me more than ever before.
Casino Royale's MO was very much 'go back to Fleming and make Bond darker+ more serious' which was part of the reason why Pierce Brosnan was let go [as it would be an easier sell with a new actor then doing it for his 5th outing] so if Caville was cast he'd certainly be playing 'serious' Bond.. He does seem to get typecast by the fans as a potential 'lighter' Bond after 'Man from Uncle' [and 'Argylle'] but Mission Impossible: Fallout showed he could pull off a darker spy.
Your r ight there, but I'd say his fifth would be released earlier (maybe 2018), since Cavill is younger than Craig, he would be ready when they call him and afterwards could do two or three more surpassing Connery and Moore.
The other Craig alternatives that fascinate me are both Dominic West and Gerard Butler. Mainly because West's role in Johnny English kinda showed how he could have portrayed Bond, and Butler, a great action star, has the perfect mix of good looks,humour,and charm to be James Bond. He's no lightweight either. If Craig can be passed off as a novice 007 then Butler can too.
00:56 but John Newton is surely the best ;)
Yeah I first heard about Henry in 2006 When I found out that he had auditioned for the part both Superman Returns and Casino Royale.
Its insane for someone THAT got as so far in the audition to be considered for these popular roles at the age of 21/22.
9:20 Well look at Hugh Jackman who is still continuing the role of Wolverine so the possibilities are endless :)
I feel Cavill is the best choice to make Bond 26 a guaranteed hit. He would be pleasing to current and older Bond fans alike, and bring newer younger generations into the bond fandom, which the franchise definitely needs. To MGM and Amazon, it would make sense. The only thing holding up Cavill’s casting is Barbara Broccoli’s creative vision and creative direction of the series. Hopefully, Cavill fits that vision and can do at least a trilogy of Bond films.
Henry, keep up the good work on the channel! Your videos help make this Bond news drought more tolerable. 😊
But when Cavill has played a 'Bond style role' in Man From Uncle and recently Argylle they both flopped [we'll have to see how 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' goes].
@@jamesatkinsonja that is a fair point. I will say I love Man from UNCLE and feel if it was marketed better, it would have found a wider audience and been more financially successful. As for Argylle, I have not been able to see it yet. But from what I’ve heard, Cavill is only in it for 7 minutes of screen time. Argylle has Black Adam syndrome, market with a guy who is hardly in the movie. All that being said, I cannot wait for Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare!
Given Cavill was only in his mid-20's I do wonder if even he would say he was too young for the part at that stage [which is ultimately why Martin Campbell said he was ruled out]. He auditioned for Superman Returns around the same time but when he did get the part for 'Man of Steel', he was older and more experienced.
yeah my thoughts exactley. Though would Martin have made the ultimate decision or really would it have been EON making that decision.
@@DafyddBrooks I'm guessing he was speaking for Eon as a whole as there was also casting director Debbie McWilliams saying that the young actors they looked at 'didn't have the experience' for the role/publicity around it [especially as the experienced Craig said he struggled with the backlash to his casting].
@@jamesatkinsonja Yeah because I never heard of Henry Cavill and nor did anyone I knew at the time.
It could have been because he got so far in the audition that they could have perhaps gone down a sort of 'Batman Begins' in terms of really having a young Bond actor and gradually building him up over movies (until SKYFALL kind moved on from that notion, which I think you said was a new phase in the Craig era? correct me if i'm wrong)
I wonder though had they gone with someone like Damien Lewis or typically Gerad Butler, would the backlash have been tonned down much more perhaps? Though correct me if Gerad was even considered, I think Damien said he tried at one point.
@@DafyddBrooks I can't recall seeing Butler linked to it [although he's in Tomorrow Never Dies' as a one of the guys on the Devonshire]. Saddly it probably would be present whoever got it [especially if they weren't a big name]. May have mentioned it before but Jamie Dornan used Craig as an example of the anger around casting decisions now a days and how they usually prove people wrong [especially as the internet was a big factor by 2005 which wasn't as much for earlier casting choices].
Henry Cavill would probably made a fine Bond. I think you are right thar he would have stayed for more that five movie, but his performance would have been different from Daniel Craig and I think that would have taken the franchise in a different direction with totally different movies after Casino Royal.
Cavill's date of birth was May 5, 1983.
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Can you do what if David Tennant got the role as he was in the running up and he was younger than Craig older than Cavil
I think he’d do everything Craig did+one more film in 2026 I feel
I am planning
@@vinniequick He only did Doctor Who for 5 years before moving on.
@@jamesatkinsonja then came back in 2023 and was so close to doing a 4th Series with Moffat which would of been his 5th if he’d done Series 5 with RTD instead of specials
And regardless he’d still be doing the role just as long
@@jamesatkinsonja case and point he came very close to wanting to stay on longer and came back to the point where now he was 2 bodies that can come back at any age he is
Just started the video but I just realised with his age you could have him do a film in
2006=Royal Casino
2008=Quantum of Solace
2012=Skyfall
2015=Spectre
2021=a whole new film as he’d only be 40
2026=new film
2029=new film
2031=new film
2034=No Time to die Part 1
2036=No Time to do Part 2 ending at age 53
30 years purely cause of how young he would be by the start, and even with most of the reasons wether it be stress, type casting or be fucked over most retired from the role due to age minus Dalton so this would be fresh
Do a video if Clint Eastwood was Jb
One thing I'm certain of is that CR and QOS would still have been the origin story as intended. I'm not sure Eva Green gets cast however as she'd have been older than Cavill. But I'm certain SF wouldn't have made Cavills Bond out to be old and washed up
They probably would have been very different films [casting and script] with a different actor [especially given how much input Craig had behind the scenes].
The real obstacle for Cavill being the next Bond is his villain rolein Missoin Impossible Fallout (2018)
He owuld alays be remmerbed as the Bond that got curbed by Ethan Hunt
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Henry loves Cavill 😅
Yes
Would Daniel Craig have even been considered for Man of Steel had Henry Cavill been cast as 007?
Craig indeed is the "longest"-tenured Bond but Roger Moore is one with the most EON-PRODUCED films - a record unlikely to be broken in the forseeable future.
He was offered Thor in the MCU but turned it down as he couldn't do it alongside Bond so he could well have said yes if he was free.
I'm sorry but Henry Cavill is the Clive Owen of the 21st century.
Glad it didn't happen.
I would have taken Cavill all day long over Craig and he was pure Bond in TMFU, I think Craig is a good actor but just not a good Bond.
well little bit lazy just think eon do the same movies with cavill as craig, i dont think so, after casino royale we get to see more classic bond, Cavill is more the Brosnan style of bond, and craig is weak vers of jason bourne.
Given Casino Royale was very much 'the Bond formula is dead, we're doing something new' and going darker and more serious, I really doubt it would be 'back to formula', particularly if the Cavill version of Casino was a big hit Cavill showed with 'Mission Impossible: Fallout' that he could play a darker character [I personally like to think he was attracted to the part as it was such a contrast from the 'lighter' agent he played in Uncle]. Ironically by 2016's Jason Bourne, that series felt tired and outdated [especially with the shaky cam] while Bond sensibly looked to Nolan's Dark Knight for inspiration from Skyfall onwards.
@@jamesatkinsonja well we got darker vers of bond, thanks to nolan, and we did get an jason bourne vers of craig. cavill could have done a mix of dalton/brosnan vers, but i think cavill was better than craig, he was the last i wanted for bond. and i bet u are one of those who loved craig and barbara killed off bond
@@SmartFabian007 I've nothing against the ending of NTTD, mainly as I see it as the end of a 5-film saga and know there is a reboot coming, like most franchises these days ['The Dark Knight's ending did stop the Affleck and Pattinson versions of Batman which were there own continuity]. I don't think Cavill had the experience to do Bond in 2006 [tellingly he wasn't cast as Superman around the same time when 'Returns' was being made, getting 'man of steel' when he was a bit older/established]. I'm not a big fan of 'Man From Uncle' personally but I liked Cavill as an antagonist in MI: Fallout. Bond always takes inspiration from what else is going on-Moonraker taking ideas from Star Wars lead to the highest grossing Bond until 1995].
It should have been Clive Owen when he was younger. I would have even preferred Idris Elba over Daniel Craig, but unfortunately Idris is too old now for that.
Interestingly, Clive Owen said he never wanted to be Bond as he didn't like the hype around the role.