"The name is Bond. Moneygrubbing Bond."

[Murgos]

http://icseftonandwestlancs.icnetwork.co.uk/icsouthport/nationalnews/tm_objectid=15371332&method=full&siteid=60252&headline=daniel-craig--the-next-james-bond--name_page.html

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.

Craig, 37, starred in the gangster film Layer Cake.

The newspaper said he had been competing with fellow British actor Clive Owen to take over from Pierce Brosnan.

However, Owen had told casting agents he did not want the job as he feared it might limit his career.

Other names mentioned at different times in connection with the 007 role have included Eric Bana, Jude Law, Heath Ledger, Ewan McGregor, Dougray Scott and Australian Hugh Jackman

edit:  I think Clive Owen would have made a great Bond and I'm glad to see he was in final contention.  Even if I think it makes him a dumbass to pass up what will probably a guaranteed $100 mil minimum payoff.  I don't think I know this guy at all.

[schild]

Never heard of him. I'm entirely uninterested in Bond now.

[Paelos]

Never heard of him. I'm entirely uninterested in Bond now.

Has your mancrush on Clive Owen evaporated now?

[schild]

Never heard of him. I'm entirely uninterested in Bond now.

Has your mancrush on Clive Owen evaporated now?

Liking a guys work isn't a mancrush. Clive Owen does good work when he isn't handed absolute shit. The number of actors in the world vs. the number of good actor's is terrible. Clive's one of the good ones.

[Paelos]

Never heard of him. I'm entirely uninterested in Bond now.

Has your mancrush on Clive Owen evaporated now?

Liking a guys work isn't a mancrush. Clive Owen does good work when he isn't handed absolute shit. The number of actors in the world vs. the number of good actor's is terrible. Clive's one of the good ones.

So.....no

[MaceVanHoffen]

Has your mancrush on Clive Owen evaporated now?

Liking a guys work isn't a mancrush. Clive Owen does good work when he isn't handed absolute shit. The number of actors in the world vs. the number of good actor's is terrible. Clive's one of the good ones.

So.....no

My mancrush on Clive Owen is still going strong.  I want to have his manbabies.  Especially after Sin City.

[Furiously]

I'd really like to see some decent scripts for the next few 007 movies.

[Murgos]

I'd really like to see some decent scripts for the next few 007 movies.

Hahahahahahahaha...

[Paelos]

I'd really like to see some decent scripts for the next few 007 movies.

Hahahahahahahaha...

The next Bond girl will probably be named Gimi Moorewood, and she'll help James find and destroy caches of weapons hidden deep in the deserts of the middle east, with sexy results.

[schild]

Don't forget, she'll be played by Nikki Cox or someone equally busty. And be a rocket scientist on the side. Normally a brain surgeon with a love of advanced botany.

[Paelos]

Don't forget, she'll be played by Nikki Cox or someone equally busty. And be a rocket scientist on the side. Normally a brain surgeon with a love of advanced botany.

You know what, they should get Dan Brown to write it. He has that nailed.

[schild]

I just scrolled up and looked at the new bond again.

I got depressed. Go figure.

[Triforcer]

The Bond scripts have been lame ever since the Soviet Union went under.  Now they fight moguls who want to take over the world's media or people who want to blow up an oil pipeline.  Given the dearth of supervillain white nations currently, they have to keep doing the same as it wouldn't be PC to take on Islam.  He'll probably fight the IRA or a businessman who wants to slightly destabilize Icelandic currency in order to collapse a CIA arm funded by Haitian penny stocks.

[Abagadro]

He should take on Hank Scorpio in the next one.

Bond has been crap since old man Broccoli died.

Oh, and I also have a mancrush on Clive Owen.  And Gregory Peck.

[Shockeye]

Oh, and I also have a mancrush on Clive Owen.  And Gregory Peck.

You've been drinking again, haven't you?

[Abagadro]

Yes.

I just dropped a grand to lousy suck-out bastards while 4-tabling 5/10 limit hold 'em, so now I am into the bourbon.

[Mortriden]

Next time just send it my way and I'll tell you how great you are... then put the money to good use.

[HaemishM]

I think at this point in the franchise, it's almost immaterial who Bond is because the script is doomed to suck ass. Only, it will suck ass according to a perfect formula of suckiness. They really need to re-read the Fleming books, and go back to that tonality. It could still be perfectly relevant in today's society.

But they won't do that.

[Miasma]

I'm hoping the picked a less "dashingly handsome" person because they do intend to go back to Bond being a gritty assassin.

[Abagadro]

I really need to stop posting while intoxicated.

[Shockeye]

I really need to stop posting while intoxicated.

Never!

[SnotBag]

Any got a link? My Google-Fu is weak today it seems.

NSFW

http://deansplanet.com/natalie_portman-stripper_pole.html

[Strazos]

Any got a link? My Google-Fu is weak today it seems.

NSFW

http://deansplanet.com/natalie_portman-stripper_pole.html

Apparently my mother had picked up the DVD at some point. Horrible scene, not even "softcore pr0n". I'd stab myself before watching this the whole way through, just like AI.

[schild]

Yes, "Closer" is a terrible fucking movie. And a waste of every single actor in it.

Didn't I say that the first time it was mentioned? I do think so.

[Shockeye]

Brosnan Told His Bond Days Are Over

POSTED: 12:51 pm EDT August 17, 2005
UPDATED: 1:07 pm EDT August 17, 2005

NEW YORK -- Pierce Brosnan was apparently shaken, but not stirred when he was told his days of playing James Bond were over.

Brosnan told Entertainment Weekly he got a surprising phone call telling him his services as James Bond were no longer needed.

He said at first it was a "titanic jolt to the system" but it was followed by "a great sense of calm."

Brosnan said he has a "sense of liberation" now that the days of playing Bond are officially behind him.

"I can do anything I want to do now," Brosnan told the magazine. "I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image."

The actor said he never felt complete ownership of the Bond character because he would have to say "stupid one-liners," which he said he loathed.

Brosnan, 52, starred in four James Bond movies. The first came in 1995 with "GoldenEye," which was followed by "Tomorrow Never Dies," "The World Is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day."

The actor starred in television's "Remington Steele" when he was first was offered to replace Roger Moore as Bond role in the 1980s, but had to decline it due to contractual obligations to the show. Welsh actor Timothy Dalton (who was actually offered the role after the original Bond, Sean Connery, quit for the first time) took the role instead.

Dalton did two Bond movies before the franchise got caught up in legal entanglements. When things were settled, Dalton declined to continue and Brosnan was offered -- and took -- the role of the famed character.

In addition to the Bond movies, Brosnan's screen credits include "Mrs. Doubtfire," "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Laws of Attraction."

[shiznitz]

How could they ignore The Tailor of Panama? His character in that movie is how the real James Bond would act (i.e.self-interested scamster) if such a person could actually exist.

[AOFanboi]

How could they ignore The Tailor of Panama? His character in that movie is how the real James Bond would act (i.e.self-interested scamster) if such a person could actually exist.

That movie was based on a very good book by a very good author, and hence was by implication better than the Bonds.

[Shockeye]

Visnjic Up For 007?

TV Guide columnist Michael Ausiello reported a rumor that Goran Visnjic (Elektra) is under consideration for the role of James Bond. Ausiello offers no source for his report that the Croatian-born actor, best known as Dr. Luka Kovac on NBC's ER, is under consideration for the role, last filled by Pierce Brosnan.

"Yes, it's true," Ausiello writes. "But should he get the role, it wouldn't mean the end of Kovac." Ausiello quotes ER executive producer David Zabel as saying that the production could film a bunch of stuff with Kovac at one time for later episodes or that Visnjic could work on both at the same time.

Hugh Jackman has reportedly turned down the 007 role. The next Bond movie is a remake of Casino Royale.

No.. just no.

[Llava]

Just hire Vin Diesel!  You know you want to!  He was born to be Bond... X-TREME BOND!!!

[Shockeye]

Daniel Craig odds-on favorite for 007

By Tatiana Siegel / The Hollywood Reporter



British actor Daniel Craig might be holding the winning hand in the James Bond/"Casino Royale" sweepstakes. Most handicappers have had Craig, star of this summer's "Layer Cake," on the shortlist for some time, and on Tuesday, London's Daily Mail upped the ante by reporting that Craig will indeed fill the shoes of the mythic Agent 007.

Separately, sources close to the project say the actor is close to being officially tapped as the new Bond. In keeping with its tight-lipped policy regarding "Casino Royale," a spokesman for Sony Pictures, which will release the gambling-themed Bond film -- scheduled to go before the cameras in early 2006 under Martin Campbell's direction -- said: "We are not commenting on rumors. When we have an announcement to make, we will let you know."

In May, Craig addressed the Bond scuttlebutt during an interview with online movie news Web site IGN FilmForce. "There's a lot of rumors floating around," he said. "It's not a bad position to be in. If even half of them or a third of them are true, it's not a bad position to be in."

[schild]

He'll make a great Bond.

And posterchild for the third reich. Motherfucker.

[stray]

But..But..Don't you like Third Reich "style" at least?

Yes, I know you're Jewish, and this isn't a sick joke, but I could have sworn...

[schild]

I'm not offended and I also have no clue what you're talking about. What's "third reich" style?

[Shockeye]

Armbands. You're crazy for armbands.

[stray]

Haha.

Immaculate grey SS uniforms? Black, knee high boots?

I thought I had heard you mention a liking for it when you wanted to make a "6th Column" guild in CoH.