Daniel Craig is Bond. No doubt, no one would be better in the Rolle as James Bond as Daniel will be. I saw him in "Layer Cake" and from this moment, I was just impressed of him. He can show the gentleman such as the killer, like 007 is it. I don't know what the problem about his looks is. Hey, he ensnared Sienna Miller and Kate Moss! The discussion about his hair color is just childish. And if his hair is his only disadvantage: be lucky and don't care. DC will show us a much more Fleming Bond interpretation. I like that and I know, the viewers will also like that. No more CGI action, more mud, more story, more character. Daniel Craig is Bond. And he'll always be.
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The only way Craig can be Bond is by using CG to make him look like Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore or Sean Connery. He's not a bad actor, but he's got a face straight out of Planet of the Apes. Sorry guys, he's too ugly to be Bond!
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Craig has got the choice by default ? What utter rubbish. Forgive me if I take Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Steven Daldrey, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Yeoh, EON and Steven Speilbergs opinion over yours. They actually know what they are talking about and believe he will be amazing. I am still in awe at the FANTASTIC choice of Craig as Bond. He has everything Fleming wanted, and I cannot wait for the release of what I believe will the best Bond for over 30 years. Craig is king.
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Not in a million years! Craig got the job by default and hopefully he will crash and burn making this his only film. What a butt ugly man, I for one (of many) will not be spending any money on this dog of a movie.
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Kudos to you for an excellent site. Ever since I saw Layer Cake on it's release I thought that Craig was the natural choice for Bond.
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I am finding it hard to see why people wont give daniel craig a chance, sure his hair is blone ish but he has everything else. Anyone who has seen layer cake can not say he is not cool enough to play bond and i saw the jacket and did not know he was even in it til weeks later (thats how good an actor he can be). brosnan was great as bond but we needed to try something different and picking someone like craig is the right thing to do. I am really looking forward to the new bond and i bet the poeple that want to avoid the new film will end up seeing it
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I can hardly wait for this. I was very excited when it was announced that Daniel would be taking over the role of Bond. He's the right man for the job.
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EON Productions made the right choice in Daniel Craig for the role of 007. They chose quality and depth over pure good looks. EON listened to their die hard fans who longed for a character driven Bond film with a sense or reality. Daniel Craig is the perfect fit to bring this to the big screen and I'm very pleased with his selection. The cinematic Bond and the literary Bond have mostly been miles apart and it will be refreshing to see an original Fleming story for a change, rather than the over the top fantasy films of the Brosnan era. Lets face it, Bond was getting so incredibly boring with the last 3 films and the series had to change to survive. Do fans really want another "model" Bond? Another pretty boy with limited acting chops? Bond is moving forward not backward and I think EON deserves a lot of credit for making a very gutsy decision in replacing Brosnan with Craig. I was afraid the Jason Bourne films were going to catch up to Bond. Not now, especially after seeing that pic of Craig on the beach. He looks like he would kick Bourne's ..... When it's all said and done Craig will have the last laugh. Bravo to EON and knock em dead Daniel!
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Here is an actor who has the acting chops to bring a totally new dimension to the character.After the insipid Brosnan years (a great Bond without a great Bond film), Craig will be like a breath of fresh air to the franchise. He might not be as pretty as Brosnan but after seeing the recent pictures of him filming in the Bahamas, i'm in no doubt whatsoever that will nail the character and more. These are exciting times to be a James Bond fan, so let's stop the silliness, all unite to get behind our man and look forward to what should be the best Bond film in many a year.
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Craig is the best Bond we've had in ages. Just like connery he's got that trace of brutality in his features. And thank god he doesn't look like an ageing male model like brosnan or - even worse - a horsefaced clown like roger moore.
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Daniel's pictures and previous work speak for themselves. Funny how the two negative posters on this site can't spell and have horrible grammar. LOL The DC detractors seem somewhat uneducated/under-educated. Looks like they're in serious need of some propper schooling. Go get 'em, Daniel! The majority of fans are behind you 100 percent.
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After seeing the latest pictures from the set of Casino Royale I have no doubt that Daniel Craig will be nothing but a great James Bond!
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It's not only the actor that makes a Bond film but the script. Connery, Moore, Brosnan all suffered at one time or another from a script that was a little less than it coud have been. The direction they're taking CR sounds like the grittier, down to earth, back to the roots type of movie I've been hoping for - and considering the length of time it's been in development have high hopes that the script will serves us something special. As for Craig, I'll wait to see the film and make my judgement. But who cares if he has blond hair? Moore had light hair in LALD & TMWTGG! And what's all this noise about a tooth being broken? I don't recall all this puff and wind when Brosnan hurt himself during DAD!
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The casting of Daniel Craig, a spirited and soulful actor, makes me proud of being a Bond fan. I believe Craig will be able to make Bond an intriguingly complex character again, whilst also possessing the killer eyes and the cool voice. And he has a quality that was observed by Kingsley Amis in his 'Bond Dossier' some 40 years ago- he could play Ian Fleming's Bond as the 'everyman-as-superhero'. Fleming's Bond was not born a superhero (like Connery, Moore or Brosnan), he acquired his skills through rigorous training and disciplined exercise. That's what makes the character cool and attractive in the first place- and I think Craig embodies this quality perfectly.
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Daniel Craig will show the world in November if he's up for the part of 007. He's an accomplished actor beyond the shadow of a doubt but unproven as 007 to the general audiences. Let's hope EON and Craig can deliver and that they do what they said and go in a new direction. With CR Craig can prove he's worthy and will get the fans to do some more. If he would fail, I'd place the blame more at EON their script, their PR and their failure to do a decent job. So untill November we can all but hope he's good enough. Let's pray he'll fullfill our hopes.
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Die Another Day was a grand sendoff for Pierce Brosnan. It was the 40th anniversary, the homages to all of the films. It was the grandest spectacle of them all. History in this series of films will tell you that after an adventure that strays a bit too far from Fleming, we get a gritty, down-to-earth spy adventure to follow. Witness On Her Majesty's Secret Service after You Only Live Twice, and For Your Eyes Only after Moonraker. Given that we were going to get a back-to-basics story, the time was perfect to do Casino Royale - the film every 007 fan has been waiting over 40 years for. But would Casino Royale - an origin story - have made sense in the Brosnan world? Of course not. Given that Pierce is now as old as Roger Moore was when he made A View to A Kill (ahem), it was time for a change. Sure, I liked Brosnan - a lot - but I'm over it. We've moved on. Personally, I thought Clive Owen was the guy for the job, and if you ever want to see what it would have been like, go see The Pink Panther. But he didn't want the job! I have seen Munich. Daniel Craig is a fantastic actor. If you've seen pictures from the set, his hair is dark, so forget about the hair nonsense (lest we forget, what color was Roger Moore's hair? It was lighter than Craig's!). Daniel Craig will give us Ian Fleming's James Bond, Agent 007, and I for one can't wait to see it. I have faith in Eon Productions - they have entertained millions of us for over 40 years.
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Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Bronsan were the 3 leading Bond actors and they were great portrayers of Bond But my 3 least favourite Bond movies are 1. Diamonds Are Forever 2. A View to a Kill 3. Die another Day These are the last official Bond movies for Connery, Moore and Bronsan. For me actors can only play bond for a certain amount of movies. Goldeneye is one of my favourites but each consecutive Bronsan movie seemed to be a little bit more stale. Casting a new Bond gives the franchise a new start. There were only a few things I wanted to see in the new actor 1. British 2. start acting as Bond in mid to late 30's 3. not too much of a high profile actor 4. taking the role seriously and professionly Characters are not made famous by their hair colour or their height but their personality. It is also an actors job to act as different personalities. I believe that Daniel Craig has the characteristics that I have explained here and I believe every person that is or was bond fan should see Casino Royale with an open mind and judge Craig after seeing the movie.
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While Pierce Brosnan definitely looked the part and his first two outings were great fun, I think he was ultimately ill served by 'by the numbers' scripts and a poor confused send off in 'Die Another Day'. Daniel Craig might not immediately look like everyone's idea of James Bond, but he's a great actor with tremendous on-screen charisma-he single handedly made 'layer cake' watchable. As long as they write to his considerable strengths (rather than fall back on generic Bond traits-contrived one-liners, tension free set pieces etc.) I believe the critics will fall silent come November.
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As a german Bond-fan I can hardly understand those, whose only criticism about Daniel Craig are the facts that his hair is blond and that he can't stand weapons and martinis!! Come on folks, this is only a role that survived because of the actors who embodied it just didn't it take very serious! Why does no one say that Connery is terrified of spiders or sharks?? Bond is literary character and as such it should be considered! Craigs hair is not blond any more, as we can admire on recent photos and he definetly does not look like monkey or some italian comedians, his body is hard like rock and I am very optimistic about Casino Royale! Sure Daniel made some mistakes at the PC, this could be considered as a kind of digging his own grave and it probably was, because all the things he admired at the PC are now warmed up in the media, everytime something goes wrong during production! I admire the courage of the producers of taking the risk to cast Craig and redefine the series and as a true fan, I am very optimistic about Casino Royale!
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What was Die Another Day all about? You could be forgiven for thinking that EON, being an environmentally friendly company decided to recycle the scripts of the previous 19 007 adventures and hide it under a 40th Anniversary film. Don't get me wrong - I really like the film - especially as I got to see Pierce Brosnan Lee Tamahori Michael Wilson Barbara Broccolli Peter Lamont Lindy Hemming Rosamund Pike and Toby Stephens when filming the Blades Club scenes in London's Pall Mall - and the Aston Martin/Jaguar car chase is excellent but when it came to watching it... I felt like I'd seen most of it before. I think that after this the series does need a good dose of new blood and like most 'icons' the best way of doing this is to go back to the roots of the character. Take for example the Batman film series Batman Forever a bit rubbish compared to the Tim Burton films in the series and Batman and Robin - well the least said about that the better. But with Batman Begins - and a new Batman in the guise of Christian Bale the series has been re-invented and appealed not only to the die hard Bat-Fans but also to a new generation of fans. I think that EON are doing this with Casino Royale. Daniel Craig, as anyone who's seen a slice of him in Layer Cake is an excellent choice for playing a younger Bond - he's definatly handsome according to my wife - but he just seems to get a bad press for not looking like any of the previous on-screen 007's. I'm sure that in the film we'll see him transform from a young impressionable secret agent to the world-weary man of the world Bond that we know and love. Using Batman as an example again Bruce Wayne wasn't born Batman and events in his life that made him become Batman made some great cinema - and I'm sure that the change from James Bond into 007 will make equally as good a film. I also think that the casting in Casino Royale is interesting. Like with Brosnan's first film Goldeneye the cast is mainly made up of European actors who although well known in their native countries are not so well known on the international stage. But it worked well in Goldeneye - look at how Famke Janssen's career sky rocketed since she appeared alongside 007 (and I for one can't wait to see her in X-Men 3!). Eva Green looks like everything that a Bond Girl should be! Can't wait to see some filming pictures of that woman! All in all I have high expectations for Casino Royale and Daniel Craig in the role of 007 - and I'm sure that EON Productions/Daniel Craig will not dissapoint! PS: Have a look at that website - it's a great interview I did with Wing Commander Ken Wallis who flew Little Nellie in You Only Live Twice!
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When Babs and Mickey chose Daniel Craig as James Bond, I was amazed and proven terribly wrong. Until then, I always said that they don't have the balls for the job. Just look at the last movies. They were bondian in a certain way. High budget - high profit thrillers with lots of boom-boom and an agent jumping on CGI waves. With the choice of Craig, they proved that they know the series and the heiritage they have to manage. Craig is a terrific actor, (in opposite to Moore and Dalton), someone who's surrounded by beautiful women (something the most of you beautiful looking Brosnan fans cannot claim), someone who has certain adjectives which will make him unique and extraordenary. He's not a smoove guy - no - but James Bond is neither. The guys screaming that "Die Another Day" was bs were in a vast majority. They shouted "back to the roots" and now they don't want a guy being much closer to Fleming's description (also in his real life) that Brosnan ever will be. However - as I said: Success decides and I have no doubt that Casino Royale will be a success... David
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Daniel Craig brought part of the negativity on himself. He should have shown more enthusiasm at the press launch. And he was perhaps naive in thinking that his comments on guns would not harm the PR of the film. There definitely seemed a media conspiracy to blow the film out of the water, but the tide seems to be turning. The Sunday Mirror, who ran the story about him losing his teeth, was much more upbeat seven days later when they published pics of him in the Bahamas. After a sticky start, it seems Craig and the film are going to get a fair crack at the whip ater all. He is a fine actor and will be a good Bond, and all the talk about going back to basics with Casino Royale's direction sounds enormously encouraging after the commercial excesses of Die Another Day.
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how can anyone say they are a bond fan if they wont even wait to see what craig will be like, how can anyone be so shallow that they are basing their arguement on the fact that craig "doesnt" look like bond. who are you to say what bond looks like, last i checked Roger and Dalton wernt twins. for me i saw craig in munich, layer cake and eduring love and thourght he was great (saw some of archangle too). if he does do a bad job then fine but shooting him down before even letting him have a go is just wrong. casino royale will be great and hopefully do better than any of Brosnan's just so all the "fans" who are complaining can have it rubbed in.
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Lets face it throughout the history of bond producers have rarely gotten there first choice, Connery was not the number one choice, Dalton was not the number one choice, Brosnan was not the first actor offered Goldeneye, Daniel Craig was not the first actor offered Casino, but he is the actor who accepted, now everyone can either cut of their own nose to spite their faces by not going to this movie, and possibly kill any chace of there ever being another FRWL or we can stick to duds like Moonraker and DAD and actors playing Bond who are to old and fat to be believed can even get out of bed in the morning without pulling a muscle, never mind save the world from some evil maniacs plans for world domination and sleep with 18 year old models! Lets go forwards not backwards, yes Craig might not be anyones ideal choice, but like Connery he is the best of what was available at the time, were not going to get another situation where one actor stands out above all others like Moore and Brosnan did, Craig is Bond there halfway through filming Casino and all these people who say they won't go and see this film will in the end go and see this film, hell you all went to see DAD, just like everyone wasn't going to see the Star Wars prequels after the stink of Phantom Menace but you still did!
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Craig is a great, exciting choice. All the negativity towards him amazes me - it's not much better the playground name calling. It was time for a change of pace and Craig will deliver a C21 Bond. Can't wait
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