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OfficialWire.com reports that 30-year-old Scottish actor James McAvoy (“Mr. Tumnus,” LWW) is being considered for the lead role of Ian Fleming, creator of fictional character James Bond, in a new film,
a big-screen adaptation of Andrew Lycett’s biography “Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond,” (1996) which Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films are developing.
Collider.com offers more info on the projected film and McAvoy’s suitability for the role.
Currently titled Ian Fleming, the biopic would focus on the years that gave Fleming his inspiration to create the twelve novels and two story collections featuring MI6 super-spy James Bond. Apparently, Fleming was just a playboy in his early days but his experiences in World War II changed his life and caused him to become the creator of the semi-autobiographical 007.
McAvoy sounds like a solid choice for this role. He has the charisma to portray a playboy but perhaps with a little delusion that he’s as charming and as lethal as his fictional counterpart. The actor has been keeping busy as he wraps production on Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, and is attached to Wanted 2 and to co-star with Seth Rogen in the drama-comedy I’m with Cancer.
ScreenRant.com reports that the film “is being considered a high priority project, with a script either already written or set to be written . . . by Matt Brown (Ropewalk).” And they’re still searching for a director.
So what about the film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937), which is slated for a December 2011 release? Casting for the film has begun. Will McAvoy appear in it? ScreenRant.com asks just that question.
McAvoy is certainly a busy man; do all these upcoming projects mean he won’t be starring in The Hobbit as Bilbo Baggins, as has been previously rumored (and hoped for) by many fans? I’d say with all the projects on his slate, our chances of seeing McAvoy as a hobbit are getting slimmer and slimmer…