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Daniel Craig ‘offered $150 million to return as James Bond’
The Telegraph ^ | September 5th, 2016 | Rebecca Hawkes

Posted on 09/05/2016 8:19:49 AM PDT by Mariner

Many men – and women too, for that matter – would love to play James Bond. Most of us would also love $150 million.

But Hollywood superstar Daniel Craig is not most people.

The 007 actor, who has played the spy since 2005, has reportedly been offered the hefty sum listed above to return to the franchise for two more films. But Craig has made no secret of his reluctance to step back into the famous tuxedo.

“The studio is desperate to secure the actor’s services while they phase in a younger long-term successor,” a source told the celebrity news website Radar.

The source also suggested that by playing coy – remember when he told an interviewer he’d rather “slash his wrists” than immediately return to Bond? – Craig has only upped his perceived value.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 007; jamesbond
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To: Mariner

David Niven was the best Bond.


41 posted on 09/05/2016 9:41:38 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Mariner

I have really enjoyed all of the Craig Bonds. But i doubt he will come back, did he peak? No but i think he is afraid of being given a truly terrible Bond movie, better to get out on top than have an albatross following you.

One of the more recent actors i think that could be a good Bond is Jeremy Renner. He did London has Fallen pretty good.


42 posted on 09/05/2016 10:01:06 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

[Thunderball was the best Bond movie...]

From a true “cold war” spy movie perspective, I liked “From Russia With Love”.

This was the best pre-blockbuster type Bond movie.

After that Goldfinger ushered in the Bond blockbuster genre.


43 posted on 09/05/2016 10:08:32 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Mariner

Spectre was boooooring when it wasn’t perplexing. I went to a 10 p.m. screening and pretty much everyone sitting around me who’d had a drink or two at dinner was struggling to stay awake.


44 posted on 09/05/2016 10:10:06 AM PDT by only1percent ( who)
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To: Mariner

Spectre was boooooring when it wasn’t perplexing. I went to a 10 p.m. screening and pretty much everyone sitting around me who’d had a drink or two at dinner was struggling to stay awake.


45 posted on 09/05/2016 10:10:28 AM PDT by only1percent ( who)
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To: NohSpinZone

{The villain in Skyfall made that movie worth watching.]

“No Country for Javier Bardem” (grin)


46 posted on 09/05/2016 10:10:42 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Mariner

IMO, the reason Daniel Craig’s portrayal of Agent 007 is because he gets to play a James Bond in a sort of Jason Bourne, and not in those stupid ‘campy’ Roger Moore...and even Sean Connery episodes, which are truly unrealistic.


47 posted on 09/05/2016 10:22:12 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: RansomOttawa

Hmmm, I don’t recall Daniel Craig appearing in any novels, do you? The cinematic Bond is not the same as the literary Bond.


48 posted on 09/05/2016 10:35:21 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Mariner

If we are going to judge James Bond movies by the reality of real secret agents, then the whole series is a farce and about as true to life as Austin Powers.


49 posted on 09/05/2016 10:37:26 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie
The worst Bond actually. Too short, wrong hair color, not nearly handsome enough, with little of the British sophistication that made Bond, well, Bond. He seems more like a middle class ex-SAS trooper than an Eaton educated Royal Navy commander.

Indeed and written far more eloquently than I could have ... done it ... you know.

50 posted on 09/05/2016 11:02:59 AM PDT by stig
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To: Mariner

If he accepts the will turn Bond full gay. They started the process already. Hollywood would love to turn one of the last manly men homo.

The next actor to play bond will definitely be a black homosexual. Hollywood can’t let well enough alone.


51 posted on 09/05/2016 11:03:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: DrJeff
Have not seen any of his Bond movies. I tend to watch the Connery ones...my favorites.

Connery's first 4 were the best for a variety of reasons. One was that Connery was great. Another is that the first Bond film appeared about 10 years after the first novel. The Connery films were made while the original novels were best-sellers. Also, the first 4 films actually followed the novels fairly closely. It was also the height of the cold war, and the Bond films kicked off a spy movie craze. There were 007 toys and action figures and cigarette lighters.

There have been some good Bond films since Connery, but that period of the early to mid 60s will always be the golden age of spy films.

52 posted on 09/05/2016 11:39:35 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Mariner; All
Ian Fleming's films exposed us to the Globalist control freaks (like George Soros) as "Spectre" in the James Bond series for a long time. 

Anyway Ken Adam did an outstanding job showing us the criminal Gloablist elite in their armored redoubts and deep underground military bunkers.  This 3 minute video shows his movie sets from Goldfinger to Moonraker.  Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcKdVvQVJs

 

53 posted on 09/05/2016 11:42:54 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: NohSpinZone

Good opening scene in Mexico City and that was about it. Rest of the movie turned into a caricature of James Bond. But it didn’t have to turn out like that. Plenty of material nowadays. How about James Bond taking on ISIS in the Middle East. Or how about 007 fighting the Drug Cartels in Colombia or Mexico?


54 posted on 09/05/2016 12:21:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Michael.SF.

Daniel Craig looks bored. No passion in that guy.


55 posted on 09/05/2016 1:53:39 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: shotgun

#29 That would be perfect!


56 posted on 09/05/2016 2:08:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Mariner

No way he turns this deal down.


57 posted on 09/05/2016 3:12:10 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: pepsionice

Bond “Surely you do not expect me to talk do you?”

Goldfinger “Why no Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”


58 posted on 09/05/2016 3:40:35 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: DrJeff

I have a question. Was James Bond his real name or was it a generic spy name? I have never been able to find out. BTW, if the answer is in the novels, I wouldn’t know because I haven’t read any of them.


59 posted on 09/05/2016 6:17:41 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: Mariner
"Yes, Daniel Craig is the best James Bond."

Um, no.

60 posted on 09/05/2016 7:25:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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