The Official 007:Casino Royale thread

[Pulp Savage]

Bale for Bond Dammit!

 

[Darth Nata]

I would absolutely love Christian Bale to play Bond but sadly that isnt going to happen anytime soon.

If Bale did play Bond then Christopher Nolan would be my number one choice for director.

 

[spider-jide]

Bale would have been an awesome Bond but it aint gonna happen, unfortunately. If Bale ever did Bond, technically, he'd have a good 20 years of playing the character.

 

[Pulp Savage]

I know it won't happen, but I can dream can't I?

 

[Furious Styles]

MI6 is reporting that Pierce Brosnan WILL return as James Bond 007 in Casino Royale!!!!!!!!!

Pierce Brosnan Set For James Bond Return
12th September 2005

Expecting someone else? As the saying goes in Bond-lore, "never say never"!

The turf war over the casting of James Bond for the forthcoming movie "Casino Royale" is about to end. If the trade press reports are anything to go by, Sony, who took over MGM earlier in the year, have been turning down candidates for the "vacant" 007 role proposed by the producers right, left and centre.

The casting of 007 is down to four people: Amy Pascal (Sony), Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (Eon Productions producers), and Martin Campbell (director of "Casino Royale"). Each party have had their favourites, and due to the much reported failure to find a suitable replacement by the producers, despite their wide reaching casting calls, Sony has come to the inevitable conclusion: if it's not broke, don't fix it.


Pierce Brosnan has been hinting to the media over the past few days that the situation has changed and he was willing to step back into the tuxedo for a fifth and final time - if the call from the producers came.

Following his `Editors Special Award` earlier this month, Brosnan gave an interview with GQ that revealed the true state of affairs.

On the subject of his pay demands for a fifth movie, which was over hyped and overblown by the tabloid press to a staggering figure of £20m ($35m USD), Brosnan set the record straight: "Twenty million? Oh no, rubbish. Oh for God's sake. Bollocks. No way. No, it was a handsome figure of maybe £10 million or something like that. Given what the films make it was a spit in the bucket. I wasn't being greedy. The age issue? Bollocks to that, too."

MI6 exclusively reported back in February that the figure Brosnan was allegedly asking for was actually £10m ($17m USD) - a figure now confirmed by Brosnan himself and not that staggering considering he was reportedly paid around $16.5m USD (~£10m) for "Die Another Day". The "too old" rumours which first started in the tabloid press and internet sites back in February 2004 have also been quashed many times.

So what do Sony think about their newly acquired franchise being stalled due to the vacant lead role?

Brosnan candidly explained, "Sony are pulling their hair out over it, apparently. I was in their offices just a few weeks ago pitching Thomas Crown 2. They said, "come back" and I said "it's not up to me, guys."

"I think I was caught up between the egos of the producers and the studios, really. They (the producers) didn't know whether to go younger, they didn't know what to do, period. I don't know what the truth is. It could be as honest as that, but it seems strange, especially as each film made more and more money."


But Eon Producers have been silent on the whole affair ever since the first headlines speculated that Brosnan's tenure as 007 was over. "Maybe it's all a big, clever ploy just to bang the drum. We've seen it over the years with Sean and Roger" said Brosnan in the GQ interview.

Latest News
MI6 has learned that Pierce Brosnan is now the top contender for the role of James Bond in "Casino Royale" after all, due to studio pressure and the lack of an obvious candidate to replace him. No date has been set for an official announcement on the role, but news it imminent.

The major shooting location for "Casino Royale" will move to an Atlantic island off the east coast of the USA, and not South Africa as originally planned. Pre-production is on schedule and filming is still set to commence in early January 2006.

http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/bond_21_brosnan_back.php3?t=bond21&s=bond21

 

[JLBats]

Brosnan rocks, but really I'd like some fresh blood.

BALE DAMMIT!

Or somebody like him.

 

[Everyman]

If Brosnan is back, that's good enws. So is the fact that the prequel idea will probably be forgotten too. WHo knows, maybe he will be the first Bond to leave on a high note? Presuming that the film is good of course...

 

[Movies205]

Awesome, I've always thought Bond made an awesome Bond

 

[Hunter Rider]

Welcome back Pierce Thank god after all those ****ty suggestions the man is back and he deserves a chance to go out on a high

 

[#1Batmanfan]

Heck Ya Pierce Is The Man !!!

 

[spider-jide]

This is good news, I just hope he doesn't look too old and tired. I want him to look the way he did in the world id not enough.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

This is from the grape vine..lets wait for the official word.

 

[The Joker]

This is good news, I just hope he doesn't look too old and tired. I want him to look the way he did in the world id not enough.

Agreed.

Remember the state of Roger Moore in 'A view to a kill'??? Him and Moneypenny were as old as the hills.I was thinking that was supposed to be a sophisticated secret agent babe magnet???

I really hope Pierce is returning.He deserves to do one more

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11235

Paul Haggis on Casino Royale

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
September 17, 2005



Oscar-nominated writer Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash) was recently hired to rewrite Casino Royale, Sony and MGM's 21st installment of the James Bond franchise. The Hollywood Reporter talked to Haggis in Toronto about what the film will be like.

"It's going to be good," Haggis said. "We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28: no Q, no gadgets." The movie's script is based on the 1953 Ian Fleming novel.

Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, The Legend of Zorro) will direct his second 007 film. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who wrote Bond films The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day, wrote the previous draft.

Haggis adapted James Bradley's World War II book Flags of Our Fathers for director Clint Eastwood, currently filming in Iceland. Director Tony Goldwyn is editing Haggis' romantic comedy script The Last Kiss and Haggis is set to direct New Line Cinema's Honeymoon With Harry.

He is also working on Warner Bros. Pictures' military true story Death and Dishonor, based on a Playboy investigative piece about a career officer's search for his soldier son, who went missing on his way home from the front lines of Baghdad. "Hopefully, Clint will star," he says.

 

[spider-jide]

"It's going to be good," Haggis said. "We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28: no Q, no gadgets." The movie's script is based on the 1953 Ian Fleming novel.

Am I reading this right??

 

[Hunter Rider]

Am I reading this right??

yeah I think it may be crossed wires in the interview with them mistaking him talking about the book as opposed to the movie

 

[JLBats]

Sounds like Bondman Begins to me. Awesome.

 

[spider-jide]

yeah I think it may be crossed wires in the interview with them mistaking him talking about the book as opposed to the movie

Phew, for a moment there I thought my comprehension skills shut down.

 

[xwolverine2]

this should be interesting.

although i did like die another day. if this movie doesnt work out then at least they went out with a bang (die another day).

 

[Obsidian]

"Die Another Day" is not a bang....it's not even considered to be close to a bang.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

die another day was a cap gun.

not very cool.

 

[Everyman]

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11235

Paul Haggis on Casino Royale

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
September 17, 2005



Oscar-nominated writer Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash) was recently hired to rewrite Casino Royale, Sony and MGM's 21st installment of the James Bond franchise. The Hollywood Reporter talked to Haggis in Toronto about what the film will be like.

"It's going to be good," Haggis said. "We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28: no Q, no gadgets." The movie's script is based on the 1953 Ian Fleming novel.

Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, The Legend of Zorro) will direct his second 007 film. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who wrote Bond films The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day, wrote the previous draft.

Haggis adapted James Bradley's World War II book Flags of Our Fathers for director Clint Eastwood, currently filming in Iceland. Director Tony Goldwyn is editing Haggis' romantic comedy script The Last Kiss and Haggis is set to direct New Line Cinema's Honeymoon With Harry.

He is also working on Warner Bros. Pictures' military true story Death and Dishonor, based on a Playboy investigative piece about a career officer's search for his soldier son, who went missing on his way home from the front lines of Baghdad. "Hopefully, Clint will star," he says.

So it's a prequel after all? Therefore no Brosnan. This is getting more and more confusing. I doubt they know where they are going...

 

[JLBats]

Die Another Day had a great first half, then it totally lost it.

 

[Everyman]

Die Another Day had a great first half, then it totally lost it.

Not even that. I think it was good until he got free, and even then, there was that stupid bullet time effect at the very beginning!

 

[Mister Sinister]

Back in the news with Daniel Craig tipped to be Bond in MGM's announcement tomorrow.