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AlienDB7
10-14-2005, 12:02 AM
British actor Daniel Craig will be officially announced as the sixth James Bond 007 tomorrow at noon in London, UK.

The 37 year-old actor will replace Pierce Brosnan, who appeared in four films as 007 ("GoldenEye" - 1995, "Tomorrow Never Dies" - 1997, "The World Is Not Enough" - 1999" and "Die Another Day" - 2002).

Craig was born in 1968 in Chester, England, but grew up in Liverpool before moving to London and studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He can be seen next in Steven Spielberg's "Munich", a film based on the true story of the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics. Before he starts shooting his first James Bond film, "Casino Royale" in January 2006, Craig is filming "Have You Heard?" and "The Visiting".

SilviaEvo
10-14-2005, 12:04 AM
damn i was hoping from the guy from the transporter or Clive Owen or soemthing.

lorbmw69
10-14-2005, 12:17 AM
damn....i thought clive owen had already been named. oh well.

ae86_16v
10-14-2005, 01:16 AM
I wanted Brosnan to stay. . . I guess it just didn't work out.

All the other people that were mention, Transporter Guy, Clive Owen, I think all of them are too raw to be James Bond, there has to be a certain suaveness to Bond.

nthfinity
10-14-2005, 01:18 AM
clive owen would've rocked!
mabey its that he's too good :?: :?

AlienDB7
10-14-2005, 02:00 AM
clive owen would've rocked!
mabey its that he's too good :?: :?
Clive Owen said he doesn't want to be Bond.

ae86_16v
10-14-2005, 02:13 AM
And Bond want don't to be Clive :) .

Fleischmann
10-14-2005, 02:42 AM
That sucks major time...he doesn't suit the role :( But we will seee, I was also very dissapointed when they appointed Pierce Brosnan for the role in Goldeneye and he turned out to be badass.

nthfinity
10-14-2005, 03:13 AM
Goldeneye and he turned out to be badass.

the next two were nothing to write home about... and the final one was fun, but still not nearly as good as Goldeneye

pharzo
10-14-2005, 06:09 AM
this rumour has been around since late august...there a "news" story about it back in may

it may not be him, there's supposed to be a press conference later today

edit:btw i'm still cheering for colin firth, although it probably won't be him

ae86_16v
10-14-2005, 09:59 AM
That sucks major time...he doesn't suit the role :( But we will seee, I was also very dissapointed when they appointed Pierce Brosnan for the role in Goldeneye and he turned out to be badass.

Yeah most definitely, he wasn't very James Bondish . . . but turned out great. And I think GoldenEye was the best one of the 4 though.

It looks like it'll be Daniel Craig, I wonder if they are going to make him dye his hair.

bmwmpower
10-14-2005, 10:02 AM
yeah, he looks like steve mcqueen,
BTW what about Eric Bana ? or Gerard Butler

nthfinity
10-14-2005, 11:32 AM
Steve McQueen anyone?

the only actor who ever came close to McQueen's 'cool' was Clint Eastwood, and he couldnt do it since he wasnt a pro-racing driver on the side :wink:
Pierce couldnt even drive a stick :roll:

ae86_16v
10-14-2005, 12:50 PM
LONDON - Blond. James Blond.
Daniel Craig, a 37-year-old, sandy-haired Englishman was introduced Friday as the new James Bond, ending months of speculation. He'll star in "Casino Royale," directed by Martin Campbell, due out next year.
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"I had a couple of martinis when I found out," said Craig, who replaces
Pierce Brosnan in the role of the suave spy.

Craig is the first blond actor and only the second Englishman to star as Agent 007 in the movie series. His selection was revealed as he was whisked down the Thames River on Friday aboard a military boat to a waterside news conference.

"It is a huge iconic figure in movie history, and those things don't come along very often," Craig said.

Producer Michael G. Wilson said 200 actors had been considered for the role, but Craig was the only one who had been offered it. Craig said he only found out Monday that he definitely had the part.

Speculation about the new Bond had also included
Clive Owen,
Ioan Gruffudd,
Colin Firth,
Hugh Grant,
Gerard Butler,
Ewan McGregor,
Colin Farrell,
Hugh Jackman,
Heath Ledger and
Eric Bana.

At the packed press conference inside a Royal Navy facility on the Thames, the new Bond fielded questions from newspaper and television reporters, tabloid gossip columnists and a journalist from the Ministry of Defense magazine.

Craig brushed aside questions about supermodel Kate Moss and actress
Sienna Miller — both tabloid fixtures whom he has reportedly dated.

"I'm not going to get into that," he said.

"I understand that doing this doesn't help" preserve his privacy, Craig added. "We'll take it one day at a time."

Of the other five actors to play 007, only
Roger Moore is English-born.
Sean Connery is Scottish,
George Lazenby is Australian,
Timothy Dalton was born in Wales and Brosnan is Irish.

Relatively unknown outside Britain, Craig appeared in the landmark 1990s British TV drama "Our Friends in the North" and in films including "The Mother," "Enduring Love" and "Layer Cake."

His screen credits also include "Road to Perdition," "Sylvia" and this year's thriller "The Jacket" with
Adrien Brody. He is now filming another thriller, "The Visiting," with
Nicole Kidman.

Ian Fleming's first-ever Bond novel, originally published in 1953, "Casino Royale" is one of the few Bond adventures not to feature the MI6 gadget-maker Q. It was previously filmed as a 1967 spoof starring Peter Sellers.

Campbell — who directed Brosnan's first Bond film, "GoldenEye," in 1995 — said the movie would be "tougher and grittier" than previous films, with "more character and less gadgets." He said the story would begin with Bond first becoming a "00" agent.

"It is really the arc in which he becomes Bond," Campbell said. "He starts out just having earned his double-0 stripes and comes out at the end the Bond we know and love."

"A lot of the embryonic Bond things will come out in the film — how he gets the Aston Martin, how he mixes a Martini."

"Casino Royale" is due to being filming in January in the Czech Republic, the Bahamas, Italy and at Pinewood Studios near London. Campbell said the budget likely will exceed $100 million.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_en_mo/bond_decision

Toronto
10-14-2005, 01:00 PM
he does look alot like the one Fleming had wanted
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Fleming007impression.jpg

weird how the next movie is the first book?

ae86_16v
10-14-2005, 01:03 PM
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@ The Press Conference.


he does look alot like the one Fleming had wanted
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Fleming007impression.jpg

weird how the next movie is the first book?

Yeah, they said they shyed away from the First Book was because it wasn't very action oriented. It was more suspense than anything else. And you know how Bond films are all about the action, the exotic locales, and of course the girls.

But this one did not have all three ingredients. Still I am looking forward to this. Should be good.

Caplax40
10-14-2005, 01:37 PM
I was really hoping Clive Owen would do it. Have you seen the BMW Films?? He would have made a good Bond IMO. Oh well.

pharzo
10-14-2005, 01:47 PM
He's from cheshire...he's not gonna sound like bond

but oh well. Guess I'll reserve judgement until the movie is made

At least it's good that QT didn't get the movie, he would have cast uma :shock:

SFDMALEX
10-14-2005, 04:45 PM
Blah he doesnt have the bond look sorry, that Clive guy would be good based on the BMW films.

Mers
10-14-2005, 07:17 PM
That guy has a face like a farmer (remember the quote from a star in TG??)

I prefer clive...but lets see....And what's with prequels these days....

blinkmeat
10-15-2005, 06:07 PM
And the series dies :arrow: :fist:

Anonymous
10-16-2005, 11:35 AM
LOL anyone here actually wathced layer cake?? showed he can turn his hand to anything really totally away from the type of characters he's played in the past, great performance great film, don't write him off before he's even started :wink:

He's from cheshire...he's not gonna sound like bond



how d'ya figure that?? the others wern't exactly former etonians, only the second englishman to play him.

AlienDB7
10-16-2005, 01:29 PM
For some reason, he looks more like a villian than Bond...

davide
10-16-2005, 01:51 PM
hope he's good

ae86_16v
10-16-2005, 04:47 PM
For some reason, he looks more like a villian than Bond...

Haha, your right. . . it is noticable. . .

AlienDB7
10-17-2005, 03:16 AM
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1220/1727/1600/HPIM17411.jpg

Schwalbe
10-19-2005, 12:46 AM
bring back roger moore or hell bring back sean connery.

LOL !

I cannot imagine an old James Bond on viagra pills with young chicks. :lol:

ferrarif1fan89
10-19-2005, 01:10 AM
i wonder which aston bond will use next.......probably the vanquish S :twisted:

stmoritzer
10-19-2005, 03:38 AM
... is wearing a life vest :lol: :lol: :lol:

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... :lol: :lol: :lol: Nice introduction !

yg60m
10-19-2005, 03:49 AM
Not really classy :? lacks Sean Connery's charisma and Pierce Brosnan's beauty but when you see what they have done in the last movies ... My favorites are those with Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton they were conentrate more on the personnage than on improbable stunts ...

taygunho
10-19-2005, 09:10 AM
Sean Connery is best bond ever IMO . And Roger Moore is second. I hate Pierce Brosnan is worst. Because of him i didn't watch last two jamesbond films. But new Bond Daniel Craig will change my mind. I don't think he will be real Bond. He is BLONDE. Clive Owen and Ewan Mcgregor would be better than him.
I am also wondering who will be next "Bond girl"? Kristen dunst? Natalie portman?

pharzo
10-19-2005, 01:03 PM
Kirsten Dunst? As the villain maybe :lol:

In the book, Vesper Lynd was described as quite...remarkable. They might have a bit of a time finding a girl that matches the description

sameerrao
10-19-2005, 07:16 PM
I think what will save the Bond movies is making it closer to the gritty hard-edged Bond hero that Fleming concocted and not the ribald guy with cliched lines and cliched circumstances.

We also need a more ballsy villain and not another frikkin wimpy Elliot Carver.

I hope the new movie will be based on the Casino Royale short story and not a remakeof the gay movie of the same name starring David Niven.

SFDMALEX
10-19-2005, 10:36 PM
Casino Royale .

I read the book, didnt like it too much to be honest. :(

AlienDB7
12-11-2005, 03:07 AM
Somewhat related news... about the new villian:

Gulshan Grover finally reveals that he is acting in the James Bond movie. Phew!

He's doing the Bond film. Then, he isn't. And then, he is! Okay folks, the suspense is over now and Bollywood's Bad Man has finally accepted that he is playing the baddie in the 21st James Bond movie Casino Royale.

In town recently, Gulshan said, "Yes, I'm doing a Bond film which is directed by Martin Campbell and will be starring Daniel Craig in the lead. The shooting will begin in January next year. It is set in the cold war era."

And would the man want to reveal why he turned his casting into a suspense-thriller? "Well, it saved me from answering so many questions about the movie that the media would have asked, and which may have led to a controversy.

Also, it safeguarded me from the bad vibes of the jealous lot!" Whatever you say, Mr Grover. So, does he plan to shift base to Hollywood?

"I'm the first person who has not left the country despite working in American and European films. Bollywood is my mother and Hollywood is my gori aunty... she just happens to like me!" he says.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1326011.cms
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004109/

jon_s
12-11-2005, 07:24 AM
They have just finished taking on extras for the film. For some odd reason I was looking through the film extras recruitment sites lol

I wounder if I will catch any filming in London.