BOND... JAMES BOND!

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Fernando

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And the frontrunner for the 007 gig is...
Posted on Fri, 19-Nov-2004

Big time scoop this morning folks.

Forget McGregor, forget Law, forget Paul (oh, you've already forgotten him?)....A top industry source - who must remain anonymous -tells us that EON are only considering 'one' man for the 007 gig at this stage.

..."Ioan Gruffudd. Trust me" Our insider lets Tara Reid-like slip.

Ioan Gruffudd?. Yep, Mr Fantastic could very well be in deep-deep-deep (any deeper and he'd be swallowing chlorine) talks for the role of the next Bond. Naturally, others may float into the mix, but at the moment, he's the only guy that EON are seriously considering for the role.

Gruffudd's credits include "King Arthur", in which he played Lancelot, and the upcoming "Fantastic Four" playing the aforesaid Mr Fantastic/Reed Richards. He made a name for himself though as the star of the "Horatio Hornblower" telemovies.

©brad

i have no idea who that is.

mogwai



looks a bit like brosnan.

©brad


Pubrick

under the paving stones.

modage

i hate the word 'franchise' and whenever it is used in an article by a studio executive i can smell their greed.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

MacGuffin

Bond Bets on "Casino Royale"

GoldenEye helmer Martin Campbell has been given the chance to try another day.

The brain trust behind the 007 franchise have tapped Campbell to direct Casino Royale, the 21st film featuring the one and only Bond. James Bond.

Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson of Eon Productions together with MGM announced the move on Thursday. The film had previously been pushed back from an anticipated November start date to sometime next year while the search for a director was underway.

"We are thrilled that Martin has accepted our offer to direct Casino Royale," Broccoli and Wilson said in a joint statement. "He is an extremely talented director and we believe he will help take our films in a new and exciting direction. He...will be joining Eon Productions shortly to work on the development of the script with our writers, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade."

Campbell is currently at work on Legend of Zorro, the sequel to The Mask of Zorro, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas.

His first foray onto Bond turf marked Pierce Brosnan's introduction to the 007 role in 1995's GoldenEye. The Irish-born actor went on to star in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies; 1999's The World Is Not Enough; and 2002's Die Another Day.

However, it seems unlikely that Campbell will have the chance to direct Brosnan again. In a July 2004 interview with Entertainment Weekly, the thesp sounded ready to turn in his license to kill.

"That's it," Brosnan said in the interview. "I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond."

Brosnan is the fifth actor to profess his preference for martinis shaken, not stirred. He follows in the footsteps of fellow Bond men Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton.

Rumors of who will be the next secret agent to keep company with the likes of Miss Moneypenny have included Hulk vet Eric Bana, Jude Law, Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom. The BBC reported last month that one British oddsmaker has stopped taking bets on the next 007 after wagers on Dougray Scott, best known as the baddie in Mission: Impossible 2, began to increase in recent weeks.

According to Eon Productions, no decisions about Bond casting have been made.

Casino Royale was Bond creator Ian Fleming's first book and the only title not initially purchased by Eon Productions.

An unrelated spoof version of the book, starring Peter Sellers and Woody Allen, was made into a 1967 film as a mockery of the spy genre
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I'm optimistic for this one. I havent been since The World is Not Enough (which was very dissapointing), but I even think the producers realize this series needs a new start. Any start contrary to the current state of Bond is a hopeful one, or at least one worthy of a fan being persistent in believing there can be some good to come out of Bond. Its too bad about the fate of Brosnan. He really got stuck with some of the worst Bond films and he was the best Bond. No one will argue for Moore or the other minors, but even though Connery had the "look", his charm was always a bit too brutish for Bond. Actually, I figured it was because Connery was just a bad actor then. He became Bond with the experience more or less of being a model.

mehico

i think whoopi goldberg should play bond. anyway who disagrees is sexist and/or racist.
You are the son of incestuous union.

planet_jake

What are the 007 films you most admire???????
1. Goldfinger
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. GoldenEye


Who is the best BOND???????????
To me, it will always be Roger Moore.

Who is the  Bond babe??????????
C'mon is it even a contest?:



*giggle*

What is your favorite Bond opening credit song??????
Live and Let Die!!! I love you Macca!

Do you like martini's?????
Nope. I don't Drink

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Quote from: planet_jakeWhat are the 007 films you most admire???????
1. Goldfinger
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. GoldenEye

My favorite is The Spy Who Loved Me. I really like Dr. No because it was going through the usual plot before that plot became usual so there's a freshness to the film. I also am big fans of later Bond films like The Living Daylights, Goldeneye and even Tomorrow Never Dies. Those films more for excellent action.

Quote from: planet_jake[Who is the best BOND???????????
To me, it will always be Roger Moore.

Pierce Brosnan. Moore never felt like Bond to me. Dalton's underrated because I like the realism he brought to the series. Connery is way overrated because even though he had the look, I never thought he had the charm that Brosnan had. He was too stiff.

Quote from: planet_jake[Who is the [best] Bond babe??????????

Ringo Starr's wife.

Quote from: planet_jake[What is your favorite Bond opening credit song??????
Live and Let Die!!! I love you Macca!

Actually, I'm privy to the one from For Your Eyes only.

Quote from: planet_jake[Do you like martini's?????
Nope. I don't Drink

I've never tried one.

cron

The world has had enough

It wasn't feminism, terrorism or the end of the cold war that finally did for James Bond. It was Austin Powers.
by Tanya Gold.


Last week James Bond was fired. His nuclear pencil gathers dust beneath Whitehall. There is no news of 007 No 6 (Radio 4 listeners have helpfully suggested Jeremy Paxman) and the production of Bond film 21, due this November, has stalled. There is trouble at MI6, minister: our martini-quaffing sexoholic is suffering an existential crisis and it can't be cured by an intelligent Rolex or a gondola that can drive on dry land.
Eon, who produce Bond, and MGM, who finance his capers, are bickering. It is rumoured that MGM want an action-movie franchise - Spiderman in a tux - that sprouts money. As Bond said to Dr No: "World domination; same old dream; our asylums are full of men who think they are Napoleon." Eon, however, are fighting for their cold war relic, the "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" and gentleman spy who flowed from the pen of Ian Fleming.

Why is Bond in crisis? He is a corpse; the hero of a dead time and a dead place called postwar Clubland. Fleming was an Eton-educated journalist who worked in British naval intelligence during the second world war, where his professional apogee was evacuating King Zog of Albania from Nazi-occupied Europe. Bond was his fantasy alter ego, a libidinous killer who thought women were "for recreation". Bond slapped bottoms and peered at his watch during sex; he killed women he had slept with and, worse, he told one dewy-eyed poppet: "I never miss."

This was acceptable in 1952, when Bond was born on the pages of Casino Royale; but feminism castrated Fleming's hero. Today, any responsible GP would refer him to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and any respectable woman would hit him. We know, though Fleming didn't, that Bond won't be polished off by Soviet crocodiles, but by Aids. He had a weird predilection for girls with silly names. He had an Electra, a Honey, a Christmas, a Pussy and an Octopussy. He probably had a Decapussy, or did I dream it?

Fleming created two villainous organisations to wound his baby Bond. The first was Spectre (Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), a gaggle of freelance megalomaniacs who wanted to take over the world for fun. Today they would be politicians. Is there anyone who can't imagine Michael Howard menacingly stroking a cat, Tessa Jowell feeding the enemies of the gambling bill to sharks or Tony Blair planting a bomb under Fort Knox? Spectre grins on the news every day. You voted for it.

Fleming's other nemesis Smersh (aka Death to Spies) was a mutant strain of the KGB. Smersh is as frightening as eating toast. Bond always has a vodka martini and a chuckle with the Reds at the end, because, for Fleming, the cold war was just a disagreement between western gentlemen.

At the end of The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond escapes into a tented pod with a beautiful KGB agent. He boasts to M that he is "just keeping the British end up, sir". Recent Bonds have experimented with a psychotic heiress, a renegade British agent and a media baron who resembles Barbara Amiel. Apart from Amiel, they lacked menace. The authentic candidates for modern Bond villains are, of course, Islamist fundamentalists but it's hard to imagine even 007 peeling back a burka or keeping the British end up with an al-Qaida operative.

Our tolerance for snobbery has withered. When we hear James musing to a baddie: "Red wine with fish; that should have told me something" and explaining that "certain things just aren't done - like drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit" we don't fawn and sputter on to satin sheets. Bond behaves like an ancient gay dress designer, living in Surbiton and clinging to his final (crystal) marble.

Everywhere, Fleming's fastasies are dust. We've seen the faces of intelligence operatives because they flog their books at literary festivals. David Shayler is No 008; the only thing he leaves shaken but not stirred are the people he bumps into on street corners. We know from Spycatcher that the British secret service spend their time watching Irish grandmothers and destabilising Labour governments - and faking dossiers for Downing Street. The spying game has been demystified.

But Bond's final bullet didn't come from feminism, the government, Andrew Gilligan or the poor enter tainment possibilities of modern terrorism. In the end Sean, Roger, George, Timothy and Pierce were vanquished by just one man - Austin Powers. Bond's satirical twin, who danced and shagged and bit his way through two blockbuster Bond spoofs, finally achieved what Smersh could not. Austin's silly ruffled shirts, his encounters with Dr Evil and the Fembots and, most particularly, his plaintive cry, "Do I make you horny, baby?" did for the straight man. Some things just can't withstand satire; least of all a crumbling imperialist spy who puns badly. MGM will find a new aspirational hero for us, one who won't make us hurl into our popcorn: a gay Bond, a black Bond, a paraplegic Bond, an obese Bond, a Welsh bond. Any Bond but James Bond.
context, context, context.

Kal

Bond Bosses' Secrecy Over Daniel Craig Announcement

Producers of the forthcoming James Bond sequel have refused to comment on reports British star Daniel Craig has won the coveted superspy role. Craig, 37, was in competition with Closer star Clive Owen for the part of the spy, after Pierce Brosnan was ditched for demanding a staggering $42 million for his next Bond film. But Owen has since decided the role would limit his acting career and a leak from movie giant Eon Productions suggests producer Barbara Broccoli has offered the Layer Cake star a contract for the next three films. An insider explains, "Everybody who works at Eon Productions, which makes the Bond movies, has been told Daniel is the new 007."

This would suck big time

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Betting money is on Brosnan returning. I'm serious.

Kal

But $42 Million?

I think if he lowers his demands... which should be possible as this is the only decent role they will offer him anyhow...

Between After the Sunset and Laws of Attraction... he doesnt have a choice!!