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The Next 007 will be Daniel Craig.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=66816

http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/1index2885.php3:

The Daily Mail's reporter was the first to state Pierce Brosnan will not be returning, but the reason behind the scenes was that it was due to his age - a claim denied by both Brosnan and sources close to the production. The reporter has previously been sued for publishing stories known to be untrue. The paper's latest "confirmation" follows a long string of British tabloids backing Craig as 007 #6.

No official word has emerged from the production on the status of Daniel Craig's screentest performance, other than that he was amongst the final 8 to 10 candidates. Director Martin Campbell said earlier that an announcement would be within the next two weeks, and that Bond was set to be 28-30 years old, which was thought by many to rule Craig out of the running.


In other words: it's not sure yet

If only Jackman hadn't rejected that offer....

I know i'm not really known in this section of KMC but i am a bond fan. I have to say this. The Bond Franchise is going straight to HELL. The last james bond was pure trash. It's like they leave the traditions behind and come up with some other trash. Die another day was not a bond movie. the song, the intro, opening sequence, the gadgets, that horrible modanna cameo. and now we have a Blond James bond. What's next? A gay james bond who loves to screw his enemy? If they go with Daniel Craig it won't work. Daniel is a great actor. but james bond is not for him. and if he accepts the role he will have to make a believer out of me. my choice out of all of the names that have been mentioned in the last few years it's dougray scott. He would make a great bond. but other wise it's pure trash

Originally posted by yerssot
http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/1index2885.php3:


In other words: it's not sure yet

they said they will make an offical announcement on friday.. but SOOO many places are already saying it is daniel.. hell even espn talked about it

yeah, I know, but I'm still hoping, I mean, we know that Craig was a contender thanks to Barbara, but Goran was one for Campbell and even more: last week there were 4 in the final four (duh) and 4-6 others that were being considered. Enough to hope that they won't take him and seeing that he's too old to play a 28-30 year old, they have to rewrite it I guess, so why not go to the original script which was made for Pierce? At least he is known and will bring money in ...

Originally posted by buffymitch
I know i'm not really known in this section of KMC but i am a bond fan. I have to say this. The Bond Franchise is going straight to HELL. The last james bond was pure trash. It's like they leave the traditions behind and come up with some other trash. Die another day was not a bond movie. the song, the intro, opening sequence, the gadgets, that horrible modanna cameo. and now we have a Blond James bond. What's next? A gay james bond who loves to screw his enemy? If they go with Daniel Craig it won't work. Daniel is a great actor. but james bond is not for him. and if he accepts the role he will have to make a believer out of me. my choice out of all of the names that have been mentioned in the last few years it's dougray scott. He would make a great bond. but other wise it's pure trash
Ah come on, DAD wasn't good at all, but don't be too harsh...
Why wasn't it a bond movie? Because of the WMD? They had that in GE, MR, ... The song was indeed way too weird for a bond but the intro, that was pure Bond! One of the best apre-title sequences ever: actionpacked, a story in it, wit... I would vote it as one of the best plus now the entire list of who did what (forgot the name) is watchable because in the mean time something happens (bond getting tortured)
The gadgets were indeed over the top with the invisible car, no doubts there but the madonna cameo wasn't that bad, she's in it for 4 seconds or so

btw, they actually already thought of getting a gay james bond but guess that was one of those brainstorm ideas when they were bored

Originally posted by yerssot
yeah, I know, but I'm still hoping, I mean, we know that Craig was a contender thanks to Barbara, but Goran was one for Campbell and even more: last week there were 4 in the final four (duh) and 4-6 others that were being considered. Enough to hope that they won't take him and seeing that he's too old to play a 28-30 year old, they have to rewrite it I guess, so why not go to the original script which was made for Pierce? At least he is known and will bring money in ...


Ah come on, DAD wasn't good at all, but don't be too harsh...
Why wasn't it a bond movie? Because of the WMD? They had that in GE, MR, ... The song was indeed way too weird for a bond but the intro, that was pure Bond! One of the best apre-title sequences ever: actionpacked, a story in it, wit... I would vote it as one of the best plus now the entire list of who did what (forgot the name) is watchable because in the mean time something happens (bond getting tortured)
The gadgets were indeed over the top with the invisible car, no doubts there but the madonna cameo wasn't that bad, she's in it for 4 seconds or so

btw, they actually already thought of getting a gay james bond but guess that was one of those brainstorm ideas when they were bored

Okay maybe i was a little harsh but but my point was actually that it had so many thiongs out of tradition. Bond is a lot about traditions. and they took out a lot of it. sorry if i was kinda rude

Sony Pictures Entertainment has just announced via Reuters that the official announcement as to who will play James Bond in Casino Royale will be made at a news conference in London this Friday, October 14.

Media reports continue to swill that Daniel Craig will be the man named the new 007, but no official source has yet confirmed. Variety.com reported yesterday that Craig's agents ICM in London couldn't comment until Eon made an announcement, but that they expected that producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson would "let the cat out of the bag by the end of the week."

Last week CBn reported that a decision as to who would play Bond would be made this week. Looks like we will at last have our new James Bond on Friday.

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Sorry ; Just had to open a thread on it

Daniel's Craig mother says it's him

it's official now.

*tries to think possitive* moore was blonde too



ermm...that is not a good thing bag

yep.. no suprise in the official choice.. i posted an artice about it in the other thread. I dont know how i feel about it. Im too busy being dissapointed in the entire franchise to care as much about the actor.

I merged the two threads, good for him

Originally posted by silver_tears
good for him

And bad for us...

Originally posted by TheFilmProphet
And bad for us...
That's putting it mildly, 007.

This guy will need to come from FAR to convince me!
We had to wait a bloody year and a half for this? Not my fave at all and he's too old! They were nagging about finding a guy between 28-30, why pick a 37 year old then??? Just rewrite your script like you had it set for Pierce and get him back then since age clearly isn't an obstacle like they lied about

Frankly, so long as you can take a Blonde Bond, Daniel Craig is perfect, having laid his ground out in Arkangel.

Doubly so because they want to make Bond more like the ruthless agent form the books this time.

yep Dan is the new bond, its all over the British papers yesterday.

Good on him, he did resemble a quite "james bond" type of character in the british movie "Layer Cake". But yes a blonde james bond would be a step-up haha.

Discos - still would have voted for Clive

hmm, I say lets wait and see how he does.

they're simply taking quite a risk here

Hooray no more Pierce Brosnan.I am now awakening from my nightmare.Thank god the Brosnan James Bond era has come to an end.and yerssot I as well as others have pointed out countless of times on my pierce brosnan sucks as james bond thread why he sucked so bad as james bond and why other than George Lazenby he was the worst bond ever.I suggest you go back and re read through those posts if you want an answer.I dont feel like repeating it here.

knowing me, I already have replied to it quite a while ago

whoa, blondie. will they dye his hair for this part?

I first heard of this today on the news. He does not look like he could pull off Bond... at all.

I agree. The guys not even that goodlooking. He can't even compare to Pierce Brosnan.
Is it a required condition tat James Bond be blonde?

Originally posted by travesty87
I agree. The guys not even that goodlooking. He can't even compare to Pierce Brosnan.
Is it a required condition tat James Bond be blonde? he never was before....

i dont think hes gonna b a very good bond... plus hes blonde

I guess he can dye his hair?

but he still looks ugly, don't like him at all and he's too old for the role they were so nagging about that a 28-30 year old should do!

I agree, he's not handsome enough

Goran on the other hand can operate me anyday

coz he's a doctor?

He is beautiful alright
But Patrick Dempsey makes a sexier doc droolio

Originally posted by Clovie
coz he's a doctor?
cause he's hot

Originally posted by silver_tears
He is beautiful alright
But Patrick Dempsey makes a sexier doc droolio who?

how is the Dr Carter actor called?



Originally posted by yerssot
cause he's hot it's couse of the lab coat

Noah Wyle
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00162/Noah_Wyle_Dr_Carter_162429m.jpg


god I'd do the man

Patrick's on Grey's Anatmy

http://images.zap2it.com/20050203/22_patrickdempsey_greysanatomy.jpg

too young for bond and by now we know that you have to be 37 to be classified as a 30 year old Bond

ah well, they can still float my boat droolio

or let your appendix rise

Originally posted by silver_tears
Noah Wyle
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00162/Noah_Wyle_Dr_Carter_162429m.jpg


god I'd do the man he would be a good Bond too


Originally posted by silver_tears
Patrick's on Grey's Anatmy

http://images.zap2it.com/20050203/22_patrickdempsey_greysanatomy.jpg not nice. and I have bad feelings towards anatomy anyway schmoll

oh well, I still love him

so take him away from me tongue

I'm trying

faster!! and you can take Craig too

These movies need to stop

Its a pitty..I thought Ewan Macgregor was gonna land the role for James Bond.

He's much too busy

All I know is that he broke up Sienna and Jude and for that, I am grateful.

Say what?

Sienna? wasn't she mentioned as possible bondgirl?

OK...here's my penneth worth on the subject. Firstly, Bond as described by Ian Flemming is a man constantly in his mid to late 30's. This age range has been greatly strayed from but too old is better than too young in my view. George Lazenby was 29 when he played the role, but he managed to get away with it due to his looks. I'm amongst the minority that think Lazenby actually did a reasonable job in the role considering his acting limitations.

Anyway........ I have to say that I have my doubts about it working with Daniel Craig, but then I haven't seen the screen tests of him testing for the role. Therefore, I'm at a bit of disadvantage to properly assess, as we all are here. We can only make our best guesses. On hair colour, Roger Moore wasn't blonde but he was certainly fairer in colour than the others. I personally believe bond should be dark haired. I'm hopeing that the next movie will indeed return to a certain amount of reality. If you look at the Timothy Dalton bonds they managed to keep all the fun gadgets, stunts and excellent action sequences at the same time as keeping a respectable amount of realism.

I had great difficulty in suspending my disbelief throughout so much of DAD that if a camerman had walked in front of the camera and waved to his mom it wouldn't have made any difference.

Even if they say dye his hair, it still doesn't speak to me, imo Craig looks much too rugged and worn down, whereas for example Pierce looked sophisticated and suave

Campbell told a magazine that Craig won't dye his hair

ew

he must have been kidding

Jason Stathan should have got the part

edit

That was completely unneccesary
silver_tears

i saw it on the news about Daniel Craig he arrived by boat

Originally posted by silver_tears
ew
I said "not dye" not "eat his dye"

i don't understand

Originally posted by miroku
i saw it on the news about Daniel Craig he arrived by boat

i still wish either clive owen or jason stranham was picked for bond. craig will be good, but definitely take some getting used too.

I dislike the blondeness most

here mostly the entire face

let's not be so shallow, I say give the man a chance and we might just be surprised, after all Pierce was probably iffy to start too.

but I am shallow! I want hot girls to surround me

iffy? They already wanted him in 1987 but picked Dalton cause he was too young. So I doubt you can say that

I meant it wasn't a sure thing either
And I'm sure they already do.........

Originally posted by yerssot
but I am shallow! I want hot girls to surround me

iffy? They already wanted him in 1987 but picked Dalton cause he was too young. So I doubt you can say that ermm..no, he had a contract to Remington Steele

ermm... duh? he was under contract AND considered to be too young. This has been mentioned already a LOT of times

Originally posted by silver_tears
I meant it wasn't a sure thing either
And I'm sure they already do.........
could you rephrase please? I'm at a total loss of what you mean cause what I understand is just a rephrasing of what you said before that and I already answered as to how I see that

I meant like people were probably upset they chose Brosnan to start with

Originally posted by yerssot
ermm... duh? he was under contract AND considered to be too young. This has been mentioned already a LOT of times


could you rephrase please? I'm at a total loss of what you mean cause what I understand is just a rephrasing of what you said before that and I already answered as to how I see that I thought there was only one reason I wouldn't think he was too young

they said he was

Originally posted by silver_tears
I meant like people were probably upset they chose Brosnan to start with
but Dalton made it clear he wouldn't do it anymore and not to forget: Pierce actually looks good

didn't know about that.

The only way that the James Bond series could be any more gay is if they hired George Takei to command the starship, USS Fabulous. How sorry this franchise is.

Originally posted by yerssot
they're simply taking quite a risk here
Yes i think so as well. But imho that is exactly what has made the Bond character so enduring: he can be a Connery Bond or a Roger Moore Bond and--just mho--both work equally well. The same goes for PB.
I think what the Broccoli's are tryind to do with Bond is stick to the essential ingredients to Bond plus some added twists to make it interesting. They've done very well so far. I think Craig is a good choice.

oh please let him go Connery! They want to do it in the style of FRWL so lets hope he'll be Connery!

well, the essential ingredients are not present: they won't do gadgets, so it'll be missing something, and his lovepartner won't be just a fling and an extra running around either

I'm just informing you guys I've closed all threads relating to the topic of a new bond since we have this one. Any objections let me know, if you need a thread re-opened or anything.

And on the topic of love partners, I think that the bond girl role is just as important, chemistry between the two is a must. So I'm excited to see who lands it.

yes, Eon and the young Bond was about filming SilverFin and not about Craig landing the new job

stating the bond girl is important is an understatement: she plays a very important role and has to be strong, that's why they need a strong actress

it is not about chemistry, it's about her being same strong if not stronger than Bond. (but It is not so hard to get..Craig don't seem to be able to play a strong character anyway )




and agreed about eon ofc.

but there has to be chemistry too since he falls in love with her. So those two things are important to find the right girl

PLEASE not another Denise Richards thing *shivers*

what about her?

she's a lousy actress

considering the fact that I have no recolecions of her in memory, you must be right.

hehe christmas comes in july

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Frankly, so long as you can take a Blonde Bond, Daniel Craig is perfect, having laid his ground out in Arkangel.

Doubly so because they want to make Bond more like the ruthless agent form the books this time.

I strongly agree with you Ush, I think Daniel Craig is a brilliant actor, and the fact that they've deviated from the norm may well be a risk, but it's a worthy one. The Bond series is magnificent, if a blonde Bond brings it to its knees then perhaps it's not strong enough... which I highly doubt. I'm really pleased with the choice.

Originally posted by Syren
I strongly agree with you Ush, I think Daniel Craig is a brilliant actor, and the fact that they've deviated from the norm may well be a risk, but it's a worthy one. The Bond series is magnificent, if a blonde Bond brings it to its knees then perhaps it's not strong enough... which I highly doubt. I'm really pleased with the choice.
I agree, I think Daniel Craig's a wondeful choice... much better than Clive Owen anyway, I love the actor but he's definitley not Bond-material

Originally posted by Clovie
considering the fact that I have no recolecions of her in memory, you must be right.
Do lines of:
"Do you want to put that in English for those of us who don't speak Spy?"
and
"Yeah, but they're usually standing still!"
and
"I need to get this back or someone is going to have my ass."
ring any bells? or were you trying to forget those?

maybe they do, so what?

Originally posted by OB1-adobe
These movies need to stop

agreed.they SHOULD have stopped when Moore retired.But thats hollywood for you,they dont care about running the franchise into the ground like they have.

actually, Bond has nothing much to do with Hollywood... In principle it's still pretty much an English product

yerssssssssssssssieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Kay

yersssssieeeeeeeeeeeeee

this means you'll be online more?

Has anyone seen Mistah Pierce? He looks old now wheelchair

Does he really?

I think he dyed his hair in 2002? no?

He is old though.

YERZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I stop by the reprise bar not quite every day. My MSN Messenger is usually off, and I forget to turn it on. Will try to stop here more often. Just been real busy with real life; cannot seem to catch up. Now it's holidays, and getting ready for Christmas. Packing boxes and getting them in the mail to family right now.

Originally posted by Inspectah Deck
Has anyone seen Mistah Pierce? He looks old now wheelchair

hes 52.

Originally posted by keokiswahine
YERZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I stop by the reprise bar not quite every day. My MSN Messenger is usually off, and I forget to turn it on. Will try to stop here more often. Just been real busy with real life; cannot seem to catch up. Now it's holidays, and getting ready for Christmas. Packing boxes and getting them in the mail to family right now.
same here Kay, way too busy

getting too much work too?

Well Clive Owen was my choice, but it's not to be. At least Daniel Craig has the woman-stealing part right--hehe. I've said this before but,the Bond character is versatile: he can be a Sean Connery or a Roger Moore or a PB--it's what gives Bond his durability. All three Bonds added something new to the mix yet remained faithful to the Bond character at the same time. (George Lazenby doesn't count because he was only Bond once).
I'm for giving DS a fair shot; I think he'll make a good Bond. We'll see...

work at work is fine. Just too many other things to deal with now. send me an email with an update on your classes.... pu-leez...

ah, I'll try my best Kay, work is devouring me too for the moment

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANNUKAH, HAPPY KWANZAA, HAPPY HAPPY TO EVERYONE !!! drunk cheers gathering group happybday kisses santa wine
angel

*hugs yerzeeeeeee*

Merry Xmas Keo!!!



(no hugs for moi? schmoll )

*hugs Clovie*

better now hug

happy holidays for you too Kay

YERZEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kay

Happy New Year, everyone !!!!!

You, too, yerssssseeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!

happy new year Kay

new beginnings, new year, new challenges.....

new and less work?

I'm hoping

lets hope they won't postpone CR again

*crosses fingers*

warm up your toes too so you can cross them since they start shooting within two weeks

if they don't have a girl next week, it'll get postponed

I think they should just pick one, all this work, and I'll be so pissed if it stinks.

I'd do the cliche, the girls aren't so important

damn straight, kid, damn straight

wow I haven't been here for a long time now, hmm, but is great that now they have selected a new Bond... hehehe, first Blonde Bond XD

perhaps it will mean that you'll return Kal?

I wish they dye his hair.

Originally posted by yerssot
perhaps it will mean that you'll return Kal? Hello Yerss, yeah yeah even though my vacation is officially over but I'll try to make time for Bond :P once again.

and about the changing hair color idea, is not a bad idea :P but who knows

I still think they should have Clive Owen or Jason Stathem as 007.

yersssssie, did you receive my christmas card and letter? You never did say.....

yerzzzzie, did you change your email addy? my email to you was returned.....

Originally posted by buffymitch
I know i'm not really known in this section of KMC but i am a bond fan. I have to say this. The Bond Franchise is going straight to HELL. The last james bond was pure trash. It's like they leave the traditions behind and come up with some other trash. Die another day was not a bond movie. the song, the intro, opening sequence, the gadgets, that horrible modanna cameo. and now we have a Blond James bond. What's next? A gay james bond who loves to screw his enemy? If they go with Daniel Craig it won't work. Daniel is a great actor. but james bond is not for him. and if he accepts the role he will have to make a believer out of me. my choice out of all of the names that have been mentioned in the last few years it's dougray scott. He would make a great bond. but other wise it's pure trash

I completely agree. I am a huge fan of James Bond, but Die Another Day pretty much sucked for me. There is only a certain point you can go to with a character series like James Bond. Once you run out of ideas, you can't just use trash to make it as good as the old movies. And a blonde Bond will not work either.

What the hell is wrong with Daniel Craig......If he never wanted to be Bond, then why'd he accept the role?

There was a special report from the set of the new Bond movie on Film 06 last night and Craig really looked the part. He had short spikey hair and was well buffed up.

He's going to be an awesome Bond. You can just see it in his promo pictures. He does fit the part and anyone who says he doesn't should just give him a chance. I think he's a good choice for the role. Heck, it's better than the other names they were throwing out there.

i would have liked to see julian mcmahon play the next james bond but hes a little tall but he got the total bond package, he was in the running but im not too sure why they picked this guy outta all the runners. and i dont know why they did it like this, asking fans opinions and that other stuff, it wasnt like this when pierce got it i dont think but look at what he did, he was the best made the most money and there probaly doing this because hes gonna be real hard to replace since so many people loved him. but fans were bound to be dissappointed if there guy didnt get picked since they wanna put up polls to see what the people want. i didnt think that was a great idea

christopher walkins as james bond! thatd be so sweet.

As Daniel himself has pointed out... Moore was blonde.

The new Bond sucks I like the old Sean Connery type 007 i could play a better role then the new guy trust me I'm Scottish

Wow! First Blond Bond. Hope the whole world can accept the new looks.
Can't wait for the new bond film that will reveal how Bond becomes Bond.

Originally posted by vrempire
Hope the whole world can accept the new looks.

They haven't,

Shall I yell the "MOORE WAS ALSO BLONDE!" thing a bit louder?

Sean Connery forever, but Daniel Craig seems to be a good choice

amen to that. You seem to be the only other rational fan out there.

I will be very interested to see how Vladimir Putin, under his stage name of Daniel Craig, adapts to the historically anti-Russian character of perfidious English spy James Bond. Of course, the character has mellowed to the point of having the occasional Russian ally, as in Goldeneye. And Putin's intelligence background may give him unusual insight into current spy games. Still, it makes one yearn for the old days when the US/UK were the good guys, at least on screen, and the godless Russians weren't. And don't try telling me Craig isn't a thinly disguised Putin, just watch Layer Cake or Munich.

Originally posted by scoringmachine
Sean Connery forever, but Daniel Craig seems to be a good choice

I love Sean Connery too out of the ones who have played already but Criag could replace that Have been impressed with him so far.

Hmm

A muscly bond...i don't think so, Bond is meant to be one of the boys with a swarve and sophisticated edge.

quintissentially English

Not some U.S friendly beefcake... great, they've ruined everything

"would you like a drink Mr Bond"

"Evian mineral water, shaken not stirred"

Originally posted by Jayflip
Hmm

A muscly bond...i don't think so, Bond is meant to be one of the boys with a swarve and sophisticated edge.

quintissentially English

Not some U.S friendly beefcake... great, they've ruined everything

"would you like a drink Mr Bond"

"Evian mineral water, shaken not stirred"

After seeing the trailer, I think he is swave and stylish look to him -- what I love about Craig is that he not very well known and has been working hard to be impress everyone. I think you should give him a try...

And why the hell are so many people pissed because Judi Dench is M? That's something that I don't really understand. Great actress.

Looks like the Brits are happy with Craig -- good to hear!

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/11/bond_back_blond.html

Only 10 more days! Have been playing the strategy game as much as I can to make the days go by quicker. Has anyone else been playing it? Still can't get out of hte airport but determined to

How many movies is he gonna make ?

Daniel Craig was made for James Bond.