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post #421 of 680
10/11/05 at 8:52am
Looks like the new Bond is......Daniel Craig.

http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/...ly%20Mail&ct=5

I'll be the first person to admit that I've never heard of him, but it seems as if he's had a lot of small roles in a lot of good movies.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185819/
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post #422 of 680
10/11/05 at 9:08am
This picture of Craig is the only thing that has me even remotely pumped for this news, if it's true.
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post #423 of 680
10/11/05 at 9:49am
Whatever ...

This guy looks like he should be playing third Slavic sailor to the right. Admittedly, I haven't seen him in anything.

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post #424 of 680
10/11/05 at 10:00am
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Admittedly, I haven't seen him in anything.
I have. He's a fine actor and an excellent choice.

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but it seems as if he's had a lot of small roles in a lot of good movies
He's also had large roles in movies that are not only good, but also require genuine acting. They include the aforementioned Layer Cake, Enduring Love, The Mother and Sylvia (OK, I didn't think much of the last one, but Craig was very good in it).

Anyone who's seen Layer Cake (the movie, not the one-sheet) will understand the choice.

M.
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post #425 of 680
10/11/05 at 10:06am
He looks like Peter Weller in that poster. RoboBond? Can't wait.

-Lyle J.P.
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post #426 of 680
10/11/05 at 10:25am
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Brosnan should play bond at least one more time.
Time to catch up with current events.

Brosnan has been out as Bond for over a year. He talked about it in an interview published in the August 19, 2005 issue of Entertainment Weekly, where he spoke of a "sense of liberation" upon hearing the news. The producers don't want him, and he doesn't want the role.

M.
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post #427 of 680
10/11/05 at 10:25am
I think he's a good choice, he has the physical roughness needed for the role of a Spy.
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post #428 of 680
10/11/05 at 11:26am
I don't know; I'm still hoping it won't pan out with Craig. The producers haven't confirmed anything yet.

I'm sure he's a fine actor and, yes, he could probably nail the character, but looks ARE important too when you're talking James Bond, and I just don't see it. I said before, for a younger guy, he looks like an old man already. He seems capable of a good physique at least, but he doesn't strike me as good looking enough to play Bond. I can't see American women swooning over him, then again I'll never understand women.

Frankly, just going by the face, I prefer Brosnan, and any regular here knows how much love I have for HIM.

We shall see. Avi Arad, who has NOTHING to do with anything, told EW he'd have picked Julian McMahon. I'd prefer him or Goran Visjnic over Craig, OR Hugh Jackman, but he's too big a name methinks. Even McMahon may be getting a little too well known, but Goran is just obscure enough, yet just familiar enough to a large audience, provided that audience could accept him playing a Brit.

Oh well. I thought Tobey Maguire was ugly too and that didn't hurt Spider-Man's BO performance any. Then again, Spider-Man wears a mask and starts out as a nerd. Bond doesn't.
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post #429 of 680
10/11/05 at 11:54am
I hope this turns out to be true. Not only is he perfect for the role, but this gutsy choice is a sign that Bond may actually go back to his roots. I think its an indication that the producers may be interested in producing a serious Bond movie more in line with the recent Jason Bourne films. Hopefully Batman Begins convinced them that taking the character seriously will pay off.
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post #430 of 680
10/11/05 at 12:16pm
I like the choice. It means that they want to do a harder edge Bond, rather than pretty boy Bond.

Jason
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post #431 of 680
10/11/05 at 12:27pm
I like the choice too.

He's excellent in Our Friends From The North, and holds Layer Cake together very well too - he's got the acting skills and the physical requirements for the role, and I think he can handle a "reboot" of the Bond franchise.
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post #432 of 680
10/11/05 at 1:16pm
Anyone who's seen Layer Cake (the movie, not the one-sheet) will understand the choice.


Not me. I saw Layer Cake for the first time this weekend and while I thought Craig did a good but not great job in a good but not great film I didn't think he had nearly the charisma of Bond. I'm with those that think he would make a great Bond villain but not necessarily a great Bond.
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post #433 of 680
10/11/05 at 1:19pm
Somehow this reminds me of when it was all-but-announced that Jesus would be playing Superman.
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post #434 of 680
10/11/05 at 3:06pm
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Brosnan has been out as Bond for over a year. He talked about it in an interview published in the August 19, 2005 issue of Entertainment Weekly, where he spoke of a "sense of liberation" upon hearing the news. The producers don't want him, and he doesn't want the role.


Why didn't they want him (and vice versa)?
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post #435 of 680
10/11/05 at 3:14pm
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The producers don't want him, and he doesn't want the role.

Too late now but he has said...

"They know where to find me", Brosnan said. "Would I go back if they asked me back? Sure I’d go back. No question; it’s unfinished business, it feels that way."

Brosnan Wants Back As Bond

I still think they should have let him do one more, they're taking a huge gamble with some new guy, Daniel Craig looks tough but James Bond? I dunno, but better him than Jude Law or Colin Farrell or that American guy Julian something or other. Nothings really be confirmed yet right?
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post #436 of 680
10/11/05 at 3:57pm
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Julian something or other


If you're referring to Julian McMahon of Nip/Tuck, he is Australian.

I think Craig will be an excellent choice, but I think Brosnan should have gotten one more...
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post #437 of 680
10/11/05 at 4:50pm
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I think Craig will be an excellent choice, but I think Brosnan should have gotten one more...

Me too. But you can't have it both ways. If you think Craig is the man for the job. Now, needs to be his time. My thinking is that if Brosnan gets another film, Craig would be over 40 before his first Bond film hits the screen.

So, if their objective is to skew a little younger, they better get going.
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post #438 of 680
10/11/05 at 5:58pm
Looks like Brosnan wasn't too happy about this at all:

007 sacking a 'body blow'
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"I was terribly upset. It was a real body blow," the Irish star said in an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle, breaking his silence on the decision by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson to replace him.

"I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing," Brosnan said, adding that he had been invited to make a fifth Bond film but that negotiations suddenly collapsed without explanation.

"To this day Im not sure why," he said, dismissing media reports that his demands of an exorbitant salary of 30 to 40 million dollars had scuppered the talks.

"There was certainly a salary there that was not out of the ballpark, that other men and women have received for the same (type of film)," he said.

But despite being baffled and disappointed over the decision to axe him from the 43-year-old film series, Brosnan said he would still be happy to play the agent with a licence to kill one last time if asked to do so.

"They know where to find me," the actor said. "Would I go back if they asked me back? Sure Id go back," he said.
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post #439 of 680
10/11/05 at 7:45pm
I agree that Craig is a great actor. He did a very nice job in Layer Cake, but I can't really see him as Bond. He's just not suave enough. In fact, he looks kinda craggy.
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post #440 of 680
10/11/05 at 10:59pm
The producers don't want him, and he doesn't want the role.
That may be all relative.

Brosnan did not say he didn't want the role following the last picture, quite the contrary. If I remember correctly he said he would love to be invited again if they would have him.

There's also a widely acknowledged rumor that he wanted way too much money, something in the neighborhood of 25 million plus points, and that this is why the Broccolis turned him down after initially offering him the role.

This guy looks like he should be playing third Slavic sailor to the right.


Amen.
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post #441 of 680
10/11/05 at 11:43pm
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Anyone who's seen Layer Cake (the movie, not the one-sheet) will understand the choice.


I've seen Layer Cake and I don't quite think he's the fit for a proper Bond.

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The producers don't want him, and he doesn't want the role.


That doesn't match with what Brosnan has said, and I don't think there is anyway for you or anyone else other than those producers to know exactly what goes on behind closed doors.
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post #442 of 680
10/12/05 at 3:37am
I could MAYBE see him as Bond but with all the emphasis of Bond being younger in this one, this dude looks just as old as Brosnan.
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post #443 of 680
10/12/05 at 4:52am
I find Brosan's comment that he "was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier" amusing. Couldn't he have done that in one of the four films he was in, or did he just get the idea recently?
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post #444 of 680
10/12/05 at 5:28am
This really sucks. I really wanted Brosnan to come back. Craig doesn't have the look to pull off Bond.
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post #445 of 680
10/12/05 at 5:30am
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I find Brosan's comment that he "was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier" amusing. Couldn't he have done that in one of the four films he was in, or did he just get the idea recently?


From things I have read, some of Brosnan's work on the prior film was forced on him by the director and the Broccoli's. He might not have been given the freedom to play the character as he wanted to.
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post #446 of 680
10/12/05 at 6:35am
This guy has a rugged look to him. On LOOKS alone he doesn't have it. Timothy Dalton looks better than this guy, and ive never heard anyone say Dalton IS Bond. But i guess we will see.
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post #447 of 680
10/12/05 at 6:45am
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Craig has said he does not like the fact that the films are more about gadgets than feelings.

With quotes like this I wonder why the hell the guy wants to play Bond in the first place.
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post #448 of 680
10/12/05 at 7:18am
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Craig has said he does not like the fact that the films are more about gadgets than feelings.
With quotes like this I wonder why the hell the guy wants to play Bond in the first place.
He didn't say he didn't like gadgets, he just wanted more emphasis on feelings and writing and stuff, I imagine. It's like comparing a CG-laden movie with minimal substance and a movie that uses CG as a complement to the story.
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post #449 of 680
10/12/05 at 7:27am
I picture more in the vein of From Russia with love would be great, they attempted this With Moore in For Your Eyes only. And I liked that pictures Direction, but I think the General Audience expects things more on the lines of Moonraker
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post #450 of 680
10/12/05 at 8:22am
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The producers don't want him, and he doesn't want the role.


That doesn't match with what Brosnan has said
I guess it depends on what interview you read:

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His illustrious stint as James Bond is in the past, he says, having ended a year ago with a single surprising phone call in which producers notified him that, for reasons he can't explain, his secret services would no longer be required. ''After that kind of titanic jolt to the system, there was a great sense of calm,'' he says. ''I thought, F--- it! I can do anything I want to do now. I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation.''

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''It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners — which I loathed — and I always felt phony doing them,'' he says. ''I'd look at myself in the suit and tie and think, What the heck am I doing here?'' Such sentiments were nothing new. ''That was always the frustrating thing about the role: [Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson] play it so safe. The pomposity and rigamarole that they put directors through is astounding.''

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''You know, the movie career for me really started with Bond,'' he says, acknowledging the fact that he was already 42 by the time GoldenEye premiered. ''So I started late, I lost a bit of ground.'' Now's time to play catch-up.
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1092682_1_0_,00.html

Bottom line: Brosnan-as-Bond is over. All of the players have moved on.

M.
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