The new James Bond author William Boyd, has told The Independent that he wants to see Daniel Day-Lewis take on the iconic role.
“Daniel Day-Lewis actually resembles the Bond that Fleming describes,” said Boyd. “He was a tall, lean, rangy, very dark-haired, good-looking man. There’s a sense that image is what he saw his Bond looking like.”
He also noted that the Bond films were straying away from the Bond Fleming had imagined.
“The current Bond is fantastically interesting even though the current films are half a century on than the novels. The link gets fainter and fainter. The Bond films are all contemporary.”
Boyd has recently written a new 007 novel that is set in 1969 and written in the style of original author Ian Fleming.
