What’s a perfect casting choice that never happened?

[TaupeFatball]

For example
Daniel radcliffe as James bond

Cillian Murphy for Bond,
CM would have to really beef up, he looks as though a slight breeze would carry him off. Those eyes though.........

Toby Jones as George Smiley. He's perfect.

A young Daniel Day-Lewis as Lestat. He would have made a very sexy vampire.

Funny I was just reading that Ian Fleming wanted David Niven as Bond. I think David would have been a good Bond.

David Niven was James Bond - Casino Royale... I love that film. It's a bit of a farce but it looks like they had a great time filming it - and set in the 60s.

It looks as if he would get untidy very quickly. Like a boy whose mum has licked down his hair to make it neat... for five minutes.

He's a very good actor - and I know he makes you swoon - but not James Bond for me.

Clive Owen as Bond.
Nearest we got was Shoot em up and Croupier.
Shame.

Tom Cruise in his prime (no fillers) as The Talented Mr Ripley.

Yes, have always thought this!

This may not count, as it’s a novel adaptation that never got filmed, but Philip Seymour Hoffman as Bunny in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.

i was just about to type this!! Such a shame, he would have been an amazing James Bond. I would have loved Idris Elba too, sadly both are a bit too old now.

Top 3 for Bond:
Henry Cavill
Rege Jean Page
Jonathan Bailey

Yes to Kate Winslet as Bridget, Hugh as Lockheart and Adam as Snape.

Helena Bonham Carter as the ‘mother’ in Tangled

Honestly Google is getting worse thanks for the fact check, will see if I can find it anywhere

Yes! So perfect.

Sean Evans from Endeavour as Sirius Black. Also, they should remake the original Inspector Morse ad soon as he's old enough to reprise the role

…sorry, what?

Christ, imagine watching Daniel Radcliffe doing a seductive sex scene as Bond. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why would it matter if Bond wasn't white?

Robbie Coltrane as Strike
Ralph Fiennes as Count Rostoff in a Gentleman in Moscow. Ewen McGregor is an appalling choice.

…as would Daniel Radcliffe be as bond.

It was just about the last example I expected. The only person I can think of who’s be worse is James Corden.

He really would. He’s perfect.

Idris Elba I disagree with though. He was amazing as Stringer Bell but so wooden in everything since.

Oh god I can’t. Imagine his eyes, anxious, wide, pleading for the merciful release of sudden death.

And young Gwyneth Paltrow as Camilla.

Sorry but Adrien Brody will forever be Snape for me. That nose!

I think so too.

Why wasn't Robert Carlyle in any of the Harry Potter films, that's what I want to know.

Oh and I think Hugh Laurie would have been a good Gilderoy Lockhart.