Very Kressley-esque now that you mention it...
Posted on 04/06/2005 11:32:04 AM PDT by timtoews5292004
Actor Daniel Craig is to be the next James Bond, it has been reported.
He has been offered a three-film deal by producer Barbara Broccoli, according to The Sun......
(Excerpt) Read more at icseftonandwestlancs.icnetwork.co.uk ...
IIRC, all Bond films were produced in some part by a Broccoli. Originally it was Albert R. Broccoli, she may be his daughter.
LOL. funniest comment of the thread so far.
Very Kressley-esque now that you mention it...
He's got to do something with his hair..... James Bond has to be elegant and sophisticated as well as tough!!!
He looks like he could play Little Jimmy Bond ala Woody Allen in Casino Royale.
Phooey. I'd rather it be Clive.
You wrote: "Anyone who immediately followed Sean was going to be taking big heat rounds."
True enough, but I couldn't resist.
Sean Connery is the only James Bond, The rest are jokes.
He'd've made a heckuva Bond.
You and me both, man.
~~sigh~~
Well, there goes some pretty great fantasies.
I don't think Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again were Brocolli productions. I welcome correction.
Unless it's Sean Connery, it isn't James Bond.
Casino Royale wasn't. It was also the only Bond movie where bond was actually an american- he was a CIA agent in the movie version. The new version supposedly being put together by Quentin Tarantino will fix that, though.
Uh huh,
No,
No way,
No way in heck would I throw myself at him.
They'll just have to go out and find another.
Never Say..................Producer: Jack Schwartzman
You are correct regarding Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again.
Barbara is Cubby's daughter.
Here is an article on the liberals' desired Bond.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6678
By Erich Boehm
NAME: Kevin McClory
DESCRIPTION: Alternative James Bond 007 film producer.
LAST SEEN: Threatening to make a new alternate Bond pic.
LONDON (Variety) / Jan. 6, 1997 -- Film producer, screenwriter and director Kevin McClory calls himself a seanchai -- a difficult to pronounce Irish word for storyteller. And there is one story, Thunderball, that has played a big part in McClory's life for nearly 4 decades.
McClory owns the rights to the 1965 James Bond pic. In 1983, he reworked the Thunderball premise into Never Say Never Again, with Sean Connery back as 007 when the other Bond was Roger Moore. Now there are plans for another alternate Bond feature, Warhead 2000 A.D., once again based on Thunderball but this time set to rain on Pierce Brosnan's parade.
McClory has yet to reveal a star or backer for the film, but he has a history of dogged determination. He says he is in negotiations with an actor he would like to have for Bond, and that several major studios have expressed interest in the project.
"I'm back in the Bond business because I have a couple of films I want to direct and Bond can provide the finance," McClory says. "I didn't want to make another Bond film, but now that I've come this far, I'm enjoying it immensely."
The Irishman, now in his late 60s (he says he is not sure of his exact age due to the unsettled circumstances of his childhood) has showbiz in his blood. Both parents were actors, of the traveling troupe variety.
McClory's first ambition was also acting. But after dyslexia drove him from school at an early age, he ended up in the Norwegian merchant navy. His ship was torpedoed by a U-boat in the war, and McClory spent a year in the hospital recovering from frostbite and shock. It left him with a stammer that persists today.
In 1947, McClory joined the sound department at Shepperton Studios in England. He worked his way up from boom operator to assistant director on films such as John Huston's The African Queen. Huston became a lifelong friend.
In 1958, McClory co-wrote, directed and produced his own film, The Boy and the Bridge. The film attracted the attention of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
"Fleming saw a rough cut and liked it," McClory says. "At the time he was frustrated that the Bond novels had not yet been made into films." The two agreed to collaborate on a Bond script. McClory was also to direct.
In 1959-60, McClory, Fleming and screenwriter Jack Wittingham cranked out the series of scripts that would become Thunderball. The storyline was not taken from one of the existing Bond novels. According to McClory, working with Fleming was tough-going. "He was upper class and Eton-educated, and I was an uneducated Irishman, despite my film experience; we clashed a lot," he says.
Without financing, the project died. Fleming, however, using ideas from the scripts, went on to write the novel "Thunderball" in 1961, but did not credit McClory or Wittingham. McClory took Fleming to court, and in 1963 was awarded the rights to all the original "Thunderball" treatments and scripts as well as the film rights to the novel. "I believe Fleming was dried up as a writer, so he took a chance," is McClory's perspective.
By then, producers Albert (Cubby) Broccoli and Harry Saltzman of Eon Prods. were already making Bond pics. A deal was struck: McClory would be executive producer for the film Thunderball and Eon the producer. The deal also required McClory to relinquish the right to pursue the Bond brand for 10 years.
For Never Say Never Again, McClory pursued Connery to the set of Huston's The Man Who Would Be King in Morocco, but the actor's initial response was, "Never again, never again." He finally enticed Connery by first inviting him to co-write the script. Through the process of writing, McClory says, Connery regained interest in the character. McClory credits Connery with many of the film's one-liners.
According to McClory, there was an attempt by United Artists and Fleming's estate to block the film. He says he expects some "noise" again this time out, but that all potential players are aware that there are no legal problems whatsoever.
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Not a theatre production but Casino Rotale was done on american TV show Climax with Barry Nelson as Jimmy Bond and Peter Lorre as the bad guy.
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