Daniel Craig confirmed as new James Bond

[Kevin Roegele]

And also Craig is not hipper oro younger looking. Even though he is actually over 15 years younger than Brosnan he looks more like 5, so why the recasting?

Watch Die Another Day and you'll see Brosnan really looks like a fifty year old man trying to run and jump around. Craig is atleast in his late 30's, so they won't have to throw in so many cuts to disguise the stuntmen.

 

[Sava]

Watch Die Another Day and you'll see Brosnan really looks like a fifty year old man trying to run and jump around. Craig is atleast in his late 30's, so they won't have to throw in so many cuts to disguise the stuntmen.

i agree Brosnan did look a bit old in DAD

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I didn't know that Orlando Bloom was in the running, how could the producers even consider this wimp? he may swoon the hearts of young girls but just like Leonardo DiCapprio who's also effeminate he just doesn't strike me as James Bond.

Got it in one. The young female audience. The producers of Spider-Man realised if they pretended the story was as much a romance as an action movie ("This, like any story worth telling, is about a girl," - it really, really isn't), they could tap an demographic which usually ignores such movies.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

i agree Brosnan did look a bit old in DAD

Should have been called GRANDAD

 

[Sava]

Should have been called GRANDAD

the thing is... i'd still take Brosnan over Craig anyday

 

[the gael]

the thing is... i'd still take Brosnan over Craig anyday

Me too because he still look younger than Craig

 

[Sava]

Me too because he still look younger than Craig

i dont know about that but its just Brosnans' looks ... he's better looking than Craig ...



...that didnt sound gay at all

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Me too because he still look younger than Craig

In photos, that's debatable. Anyway, on film is where it matters, and Craig certainly looks younger in action.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

i dont know about that but its just Brosnans' looks ... he's better looking than Craig ...



...that didnt sound gay at all

You got away with it, I don't think anyone heard you.....

 

[Sava]

You got away with it, I don't think anyone heard you.....

not alot of people post here right?

 

[spider-jide]

Funny how people wanted news and they hate the news they got.

You just described the mood of the spidey boards.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/662/662154p1.html

Campbell's Royale Decree
New film to get personal with James Bond.
by Stax








October 27, 2005 - Director Martin Campbell spoke with USA Today about his next project, the James Bond adventure Casino Royale. "We're going toward a much more realistic Bond, much more From Russia with Love than we've had in the past."

The filmmaker promised that Casino Royale will explore the "embryonic stuff" about Bond, such as his choice of martini, car and, of course, his treatment of women.

"(Bond) talks about how it's too boring to have a relationship," said Campbell. "You meet, and it's all exciting, then it starts to fade, and you go through the uncomfortable part of having to get rid of the girl, etc. It's a very interesting observation, given his sort of misogynistic views."

As in Ian Fleming's 1953 novel, 007's love interest in the film will be Vesper Lynd, a key role that remains uncast.

"She's the one who forges him into the Bond that we all know and love," Campbell revealed. "He certainly falls in love with (Vesper), and it does change him forever. It's a genuinely deeper relationship. The film deals much more on a personal level with Bond."

In related news, The Mumbai Mirror claims recent reports that Gulshan Grover had been cast as the next Bond villain are overstated. Grover is said to currently be in London lobbying for the role; an official announcement "is expected in the coming week."

Grover's publicist advised the Mirror, "At the moment there are very positive indications about him getting a part in the Bond film. He is likely to return from London on Sunday."

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Finally, Contact Music spoke with actor Colin Salmon, who played MI6 staff member Charles Robinson in the Pierce Brosnan films. Salmon doesn't hold out hope for returning for Casino Royale (neither Q nor Miss Moneypenny will appear in the film, although M will). "I imagine they will be assembling a new cast," Salmon said. "I'm also not sure how well my character would translate. He's very straight and I think they need to change the whole format."

Casino Royale begins filming in January.

 

[Everyman]

Watch Die Another Day and you'll see Brosnan really looks like a fifty year old man trying to run and jump around. Craig is atleast in his late 30's, so they won't have to throw in so many cuts to disguise the stuntmen.

WHen he got in the Huing Kong hotel, it was ridiculous: Brosnan had a bit of a pot belly. So Bond was for a year and a half tortured in a North Korean prison, but well fed.

 

[Everyman]

Should have been called GRANDAD

That made a problem with the James Bond girls I think. In DAD, Bond seemed like an old perv.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

WHen he got in the Huing Kong hotel, it was ridiculous: Brosnan had a bit of a pot belly. So Bond was for a year and a half tortured in a North Korean prison, but well fed.

Yeah - why have a shirt-off scene if your star looks like every other man in the audience? Bond isn't Mr Pumping Iron, but he's athletic and he's strong.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

That made a problem with the James Bond girls I think. In DAD, Bond seemed like an old perv.

I know, only Roger Moore could pull that off. The fact that he could have been Stacey Sutton's father in A View to a Kill works as self-parody, intentional or not.

 

[Caliber]

You just described the mood of the spidey boards.

Thats why I left there.

 

[Everyman]

Yeah - why have a shirt-off scene if your star looks like every other man in the audience? Bond isn't Mr Pumping Iron, but he's athletic and he's strong.

And when you spend a year and a half in a North Korean jail (another stupid thing: 007 wouldn't have rot there for so long!), usually you don,t look like you have been well fed by your girlfriend.

 

[Furious Styles]

They could have made a Bond film where the villain is a monkey in diapers, and as long as Roger Moore was in it, he could make it fly. One sly, Mooresque smirk into the camera and all would be forgiven.

I think Brosnan in a serious Bond film would work so much better than what he was given in DAD. He's tailor made for playing an older Bond in a scaled back, realistic spy story, rather than the larger than life 'the world will be destroyed' DAD.

It's been said before and that's probably the sad irony of it all, they're making the film Brosnan wanted to make, without him.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

They could have made a Bond film where the villain is a monkey in diapers, and as long as Roger Moore was in it, he could make it fly. One sly, Mooresque smirk into the camera and all would be forgiven.

You know Dr No was going to be a monkey?

Forget Casino Royale!

Remake Dr No, with Roger Moore, and a monkey!!

 

[Furious Styles]

You know Dr No was going to be a monkey?

Forget Casino Royale!

Remake Dr No, with Roger Moore, and a monkey!!

LOL, Are you serious?!?!?

And wasn't Roger Moore one of the candidates to play Bond originally?

Maybe we were closer to actually seeing that movie than previously thought

 

[spider-jide]

They could have made a Bond film where the villain is a monkey in diapers, and as long as Roger Moore was in it, he could make it fly. One sly, Mooresque smirk into the camera and all would be forgiven.

I think Brosnan in a serious Bond film would work so much better than what he was given in DAD. He's tailor made for playing an older Bond in a scaled back, realistic spy story, rather than the larger than life 'the world will be destroyed' DAD.

It's been said before and that's probably the sad irony of it all, they're making the film Brosnan wanted to make, without him.

This isn't the 1st time this sort of thing has happened. Connery wanted more serious stories prior to OHMSS but hen he left, they ended up making the sort of bond movie connery wanted to do.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

LOL, Are you serious?!?!?

And wasn't Roger Moore one of the candidates to play Bond originally?

Maybe we were closer to actually seeing that movie than previously thought

I know! Weird, eh?

Absolutely true, Dr No was going to be a monkey.

 

[Everyman]

I know! Weird, eh?

Absolutely true, Dr No was going to be a monkey.

That would have meant Die Another Day 40 years earlier...

 

[regwec]

my guess is Craig's bond will end up more like Dalton's version of bond Dalton, to this day, remains my favorite Bond

I think you're right. I also liked Dalton, and I liked Connery, too. This is strange, because they effectively played two totally different characters. hopefully Craig might give us a little of both.