If Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright Peter Morgan is a smear of our favored brand of extra-crunchy peanut butter, then actor Michael Sheen is a thick slathering of homemade strawberry jam. The two are seemingly inextricable in the movie business, and it works deliciously: Morgan writes the gracefully athletic words, and Sheen executes them to perfection, whether as firecracker anchor David Frost (Frost/Nixon) or a coolly diplomatic Tony Blair (The Queen; The Special Relationship). 

So when it was announced today that Morgan will join the scripting team at work on the next Bond movie, our first thought was, "Cool—who will Michael Sheen play?!"

It won't be Bond, as Daniel Craig has already signed on to reprise his grisly, humorless-in-a-good-way 007.  And it may not be anybody, as the film is set for a 2011 release (soonish!).  But we think he'd make a marvelous Morgan villain.  What do you think?

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