I always thought that Christain Bale would make a good Bond...oh well... How long does it take to learn to drive a stick? Damn, I got the hang of it in two days, and I had only been driving for a couple of years...
Here are some random images and links to more from the movie, plus the new car. This whole thread is spy pics from the set. I haven't bothered to look through it all, I just grabbed from the early pages.: http://www.mi6forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=22757&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=150 Here are official stills. You can find more here: http://superherohype.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?direct=James_Bond/Casino_Royale EDIT Fixed
Indeed.....saying Clive Owens sucks is blasphemy!!! He would make a far better Bond but I'm betting he turned it down. He's so BAD A@@!!!! But I did like Daniel Craig in Layer Cake and think he will do okay in the role. Who else was up for the role?? Anyone?
The series was getting stale period; writing, direction, acting and everything else. I like Brosnan and I think he was a great Bond but I think it was time to bring a new direction and a fresh face to the franchise. Everything I've seen or heard regarding the new film has me pretty stoked; the rides, the girls, the story, and yes, the actor to play Bond. This is pretty laughable that people aren't even willing to give Casino Royale a chance becasue of the new direction and actor after the crap the franchise has spewed out lately (World is Not Enough, Die Another Day). I think Craig will make a fine Bond, and anybody doesn't think so please go see Layer Cake then make a decision. Or better yet, go see the movie when it comes out, then you can tell me whether he was good or not. As for Clive Owen and Hugh Jackman. Hugh wouldn't have made a good Bond cause he's Wolverine, and that role has given him too much star power. And Clive Owen, I really don't get people's love affair with the man. Outside the bit role in Bourne and his suporrting role in Sin City he's been pretty unwatchable. Not a bad actor, just something about him I don't like. King Arthur for example, he was totally misscast and turned in an unsipred and unoriginal performance. The guy who played lancelot would have made a better Arthur than Owen.
yeah closer is not typicaly the type of movie i watch but it was pretty darn good. and clives part was great. i liked the part where he was telling julia roberts to tell him what "it" was like. "Thank you now get the F out you F ing sl*t"
The dude looks more like the other JB, Jack Bauer, in that first official still than James Bond. Still, I like how they're allowing Bond to look beaten up this time around. The only entries I can recall that happening in are Dr. No and Licence To Kill.
New James Bond movie: fewer gadgets, more grit http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060310/film_nm/bond_dc_1 By Michael Christie Fri Mar 10, 12:39 PM ET MIAMI (Reuters) - Forget the gadgets, invisible cars and exploding space stations. The next James Bond movie is going to be pure grit, real stunts and a spy who fumbles a kill, falls in love and dislikes violence, the makers say. "Casino Royale," the 21st movie featuring the debonair English superspy, takes Bond back to the start of Ian Fleming's series, when he carries out his initial two assassinations and first earns his license to kill. There'll be no computer-generated imagery, the prologue is in black and white "to shake everybody up," and the MI6 agent, played for the first time by English actor Daniel Craig, will take a while to get into his trademark tuxedo. "At the end of it he's sort of honed into the Bond, the emotionally shut-down beautiful machine that Bond's become," director Martin Campbell told reporters this week on a visit to the movie set in the Bahamas. But on the way to being the smooth, unruffled, lady-killer 007 fans have grown accustomed to, Craig as the first blond Bond, will clearly show a more human side. "The great thing about it is that he makes mistakes and screws up. Bond finds violence hard to take, he won't admit to that. He has to do two killings, one is very messy. He falls in love with a girl, genuinely falls in love," said Campbell. There is no "Q," no "Moneypenny" and only "a little bit of gadgetry," in the movie due for release in November and being distributed by Columbia Pictures, a Sony Pictures Entertainment unit, he said. Craig, 38, said the Bond he hopes to portray begins as "sort of fallible." The script doesn't shy away from the sexism that marked early Bond movies but which has since been diluted. "But he's Bond, he's not always nice," Craig said. "Edgy" and "gritty" are the adjectives most commonly flung around by those involved in the movie. ACTION GALORE "He's a hard guy, that's the difference I think," said special effects supervisor Chris Corbould. There will be plenty of action. In a chase scene set on the African island of Madagascar but filmed in the Bahamas, Bond tries to run down terrorist Mollaka in a bulldozer, and then follows him on foot through a construction site, jumping from a 140-foot (43-meter) crane to a 120-foot (37-meter) crane. Mollaka is played by Sebastien Foucan, French co-founder of a popular urban sports trend called Freerunning, or Parkour, and his powerful running style makes Bond appear clumsy. But Bond's relentless determination is supposed to shine through as he scrambles after Mollaka through a Madagascar shantytown and jungle. The film will be a departure from the explosives- and gizmo-laden spectacles seen in 2002's "Die Another Day," or 1995's "GoldenEye," which was also directed by Campbell. "Even after 'GoldenEye' I remember remarking, thinking, how many control rooms, how many madmen can take over the world?" Campbell said. "Where the hell do you go with it? Do you get another madman, do you blow up another control room? How many space stations can you take?" Co-producer Michael Wilson of EON Productions said the invisible car in "Die Another Day" had begun to dip the hugely successful movie series into the realm of the unbelievable. "Technology was beginning to overwhelm the story and the characters," Wilson said. The latest movie in a 44-year franchise that has grossed almost $4 billion since "Dr. No," starring Sean Connery, was screened in 1962, "Casino Royale" will be a return to the roots, said co-producer Barbara Broccoli. That was one reason why EON dumped Pierce Brosnan, the most successful of the five Bond actors to date, and is taking a gamble with a new, younger face, she said. "If you don't grow and change you die and we felt this was the right time and the right story to tell, and Daniel was the right guy to do it," Broccoli said. "So here we are." Reuters/VNU
