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10-14-2005, 12:02 AM
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The Sixth James Bond is....
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".
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10-14-2005, 12:04 AM
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damn i was hoping from the guy from the transporter or Clive Owen or soemthing.
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10-14-2005, 12:17 AM
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damn....i thought clive owen had already been named. oh well.
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10-14-2005, 01:16 AM
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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.
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10-14-2005, 01:18 AM
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clive owen would've rocked!
mabey its that he's too good
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10-14-2005, 02:00 AM
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Originally Posted by nthfinity
clive owen would've rocked!
mabey its that he's too good
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Clive Owen said he doesn't want to be Bond.
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10-14-2005, 02:13 AM
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And Bond want don't to be Clive .
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10-14-2005, 02:42 AM
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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.
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10-14-2005, 03:13 AM
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Goldeneye and he turned out to be badass.
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the next two were nothing to write home about... and the final one was fun, but still not nearly as good as Goldeneye
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10-14-2005, 06:09 AM
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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
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10-14-2005, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Fleischmann
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.
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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.
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10-14-2005, 10:02 AM
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yeah, he looks like steve mcqueen,
BTW what about Eric Bana ? or Gerard Butler
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10-14-2005, 11:32 AM
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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
Pierce couldnt even drive a stick :roll:
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10-14-2005, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by AP
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.
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