We have a new James Bond

[Shirley Ujest]

Daniel Craig (http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.html?id=81c51d51-2456-4840-bd30-9c61f3bfdf72)



Never heard of him. Probably for the best.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

I'll believe it when I see it. Craig was one of the names tossed around for months, but there were dozens of other actors in the running. Last I heard, Pierce Brosnan had decided to play the part one more time.

But Shirley, you're missing out if you haven't seen Layer Cake, the British gangster film that introduced Daniel Craig to most American audiences. It's one of the best movies of the year (or possibly last year), and you can tell from it that he'd make a great Bond. It just seems wrong to dismiss him completely out of hand like that.

[Shirley Ujest]

I didn't mean to dismiss him. I meant it is probably that I know so little about him so my expectations are so high.


Thanks for the tip on Layer Cake. I like British Gangster Films.

[Happy Lendervedder]

I can can see it.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Daniel Craig (http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.html?id=81c51d51-2456-4840-bd30-9c61f3bfdf72)



Never heard of him. Probably for the best.


The name is Gaine. Rogaine.

[Ranchoth]

Maybe they could have gotten a better picture of him, there? It looks like our new 007 just got off his shift at a steel mill.

Then again, Connery was a bricklayer and a coffin polisher, so maybe it'll work. Maybe.

[SleepyDuck]

Blond James Bond :confused:

[Silentgoldfish]

Why is anyone complaining about the possibility of a blonde James Bond? In Connery we had a bald James Bond and no-one seems to have minded.

[Snickers]

Ooohh. He's excellent. I think he's a nice choice.

And see Layer Cake. It's really good, and you'll see why Daniel Craig fits.

[Ethilrist]

He was also in Tomb Raider. "And now, for a cold shower..."

[Mahaloth]

I assume(please oh please) that they will dye his hair for the movies.

[Cat Fight]

Haven't seen Layer Cake but he was excellent in Enduring Love, though not very Bondish at all.

[ShibbOleth]

He looks like the love child of Sean Connery and Steve McQueen.

[Acsenray]

Craig is also in the headlines. He's Jude Law's best friend and he's been sleeping with Sophie, ending the friendship and finally finishing Jude and Sophie.

[TV time]

What I was a bit thrown by in the article of other actors who have played Bond, was that they didn't mention Barry Nelson. Granted he was an American, but Lasenby was Australian, Connery a Scot and Brosnan an Irishman so that he was not English should not be that much of stumbling block to mentioning him.

[irishgirl]

"Sophie"? Do you mean Sienna Miller Jude Law's on/off fiancee? Or Sadie Frost, Jude Law's ex-wife?

Anyway, Daniel Craig is a talented actor, very physical and will be a great Bond. He's been in more films than you might think: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185819/

I'd still have preferred Clive Owen, but that's just because he looks damn fine in a DJ.

[Ethilrist]

Yeah, Woody Allen wasn't English, either. Nobody complained about him playing Bond.

[Clothahump]

Yeah, Woody Allen wasn't English, either. Nobody complained about him playing Bond.

Like hell we didn't.

[Acsenray]

"Sophie"? Do you mean Sienna Miller Jude Law's on/off fiancee? Or Sadie Frost, Jude Law's ex-wife?

Uh, yeah. Sienna. :o

[betenoir]

Why is anyone complaining about the possibility of a blonde James Bond? In Connery we had a bald James Bond and no-one seems to have minded.

Well...it was made pretty clear in the books that he was dark haired...black in fact. So a bald Bond is not as ergregious as a blond Bond. But then they strayed from the physical type from the beginning (I think Brosnan came the closest) so I don't know why it would be a big deal now.

Oh and not being English certainly shouldn't be a stumbling block, Bond was half Scot and half Swiss.

[TV time]

Yeah, Woody Allen wasn't English, either. Nobody complained about him playing Bond.Actually, didn't he play Jimmy Bond not James Bond?

A minor point but a separation none-the-less.

[Love Rhombus]

I'd STILL nominate Colin Salmon as Bond.

Course, I ALSO think Gina Torres would make a great Wonder Woman...

[don't ask]

I stopped watching the Bond movies when Connery left and then enjoyed watching the last couple with my son. I think if they dump Brosnan I will give the rest of them a miss.

[Bryan Ekers]

Well, heck, they should dig up Hoagy Carmichael.

[don't ask]

A young Hoagy Carmichael.

[MovieMogul]

From the few movies I've seen with him (he's probably best known as Paul Newman's son in Road to Perdition), Craig seems more in the hardened Timothy Dalton school of Bond (rougher, more serious, less fashion platey) than the Moore/Brosnan school.

Craig's profile should increase dramatically this winter since he's featured in Spielberg's new historical drama Munich.

[The Scrivener]

I think he'll be fine, but don't be surprised if his take on Bond resembles that of Timothy Dalton (not flippant like Moore; more grounded and serious, even grim).

Craig played a fine Ted Hughes in Sylvia -- very dark, brooding, sexy, callously amoral at times, and with a commanding intelligence (as befits a future British Poet Laureate).

[The Scrivener]

Heh heh, sounds like Archive Guy & yrs truly are on the same wavelength.

[lieu]

He looks like he could mop the floor with Pierce Brosnan, as could my infirmed aunt. It'll be nice to have a tough, believable Bond again.

[Diceman]

Never heard of this guy before, but he looks like he could play the part.

[The Scrivener]

Then again, there's the obscure actor playing a very Bond-like guy in a cheesy commercial for a preventative hangover cure. Suave Bond-type guy: check! In a tux? Check! Menaced by some shadowy skating assassin types on an ice rink, and saved in an improbable and cartoonish fashion? Check! With a theme that's a transparent rip-off of John Barry? Of course...

The Broccoli people really can't put an end to this crap soon enough. "The action is cease... cease and desist."