Exactly....
Fleming my have 'written' Bond, but Sean made him 'real'.
A writer may see a character one way in their head, but when played out on screen or stage, fiction does tend to have a life all its own.
Craig is Fugly....on all the chick lists I'm on,
it's like 9 to 1 against him with lots of "What were they THINKING!" and "Why not...... (Adrian Paul, Gerard Butler, Karl Urban etc) instead?"
Sorry, but skinny, pale guys just don't seem, erm,
powerful enough :)
You named all three of the ones I thought should have been chosen (Adrian Paul, Gerard Butler (YES!), Karl Urban), and the other one who would have been an excellent choice would have been James Purefoy (Vanity Fair, A Knight's Tale).
There are a LOT of disappointed women out there in this selection.