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.
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David Niven was the best Bond.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
{The villain in Skyfall made that movie worth watching.]
“No Country for Javier Bardem” (grin)
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.
Hmmm, I don’t recall Daniel Craig appearing in any novels, do you? The cinematic Bond is not the same as the literary Bond.
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.
Indeed and written far more eloquently than I could have ... done it ... you know.
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.
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.
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
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?
Daniel Craig looks bored. No passion in that guy.
#29 That would be perfect!
No way he turns this deal down.
Bond “Surely you do not expect me to talk do you?”
Goldfinger “Why no Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”
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.
Um, no.
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