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Thanks, @TripAces ... Well written logic.
These would certainly be a novel thing to own! :))
Thank you @thelivingroyale, @TripAces and @peter, I just put it a bit more crudely but all 3 bang on.
https://news.com.au/entertainment/movies/new-movies/how-daniel-craig-saved-new-movie-knives-out/news-story/1a6a64c506826ee856be12a5a23542b0
Yes. That’s Daniel Craig. And he’s having the time of his life in this film, a fizzy, fantastically unhinged whodunit from writer-director Rian Johnson, of The Last Jedi and Looper fame.
“Daniel Craig signed up, he was the first piece of the puzzle,” Johnson tells news.com.au. Without him, Knives Out, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and is released in Australia on November 28, would never have been made.
“Once Daniel was playing the lead role, first of all, it meant we were making the movie,” Johnson explains. “Everybody wants to work with Daniel, and I think that’s part of why we got the cast that we did.”
[...] But if this dream team has an MVP, it’s Craig’s cigar-smokin’, smooth-talkin’ detective. For his final scene, an epic monologue in which Benoit lays out how he “determined the arc of gravity’s rainbow”, as he describes the process of arriving at a murder suspect, Craig memorised all 30 pages of dialogue as if he was performing a Shakespeare soliloquy. “He could do the entire thing in one go,” Johnson recalls. “If I had set up one shot, he could have done it.
“I think Daniel was having the most fun,” Johnson adds. “You know, having met him a few times over the years, I knew that he was a really fun guy. Like, I think just from knowing him from his James Bond performance you would think he’s a very intense, serious dude, and he’s actually a blast. He’s really funny and has a good sense of humour.
“I could sense that he was really going to enjoy having a performance where he could cut loose and just let it rip like this. And he did, he had a lot of fun with it. I mean, he put a lot of work into it and we worked a lot on that, but it’s very different to the Bond character. I know he loves playing Bond, and he’s so good at it, but it’s always refreshing to do something different after you’ve been doing something for a while.”
Yes, without the delay KO would have to wait.
Maybe this statement can end the ridiculous discussion: the naysayers have been on these boards for years spreading nonsense that he's horrible and gets in fights on set. LOL.
It should but it won't, Craig haters gonna hate I'm afraid!
I've championed him as much more a eclectic actor than he's sold by many for years now.
Thankfully Knives Out will show that Daniel Craig can be much more than just James Bond 007.
This is looking like a hit and if it scores the likelihood of another Benoit Blanc mystery is almost a definite.
Can't wait to see this a week on Saturday.
It's the same thing in Logan Lucky. Roger Moore could do some self-parody for films such as Cannonball Run, Pierce Brosnan was great as the manipulative agent who was way above his head in The Tailor of Panama, but in both cases their comedic performances benefitted a lot for the audience from their baggage of playing Bond. Craig, however, is a highlight of the movie, whether you know him from Bond or not. It's a totally giddy and joyful performance that has nothing in common with his characterization of Bond.
Sean Connery was able to evolve with time into a character actor (as a lead, then in supporting roles). Craig was a character actor before getting the part, and he used a different approach, that carries different benefits. That's why I won't be surprised if his performance in Knives Out is indeed great, as so many people already call it, because he has a lot of range. It's just that getting cast as Bond gave him a lot of exposure, got him offers for some parts that were ultimately close to his take on Bond (Cowboys and Aliens, for instance), but also opportunities to display his other skills like in Logan Lucky.
Great interview! Really chuffed for DC as he deserves success outside of the Bond sphere! :-bd
He's come a far way since appearing in an episode of ITV's Heartbeat!
Fingers crossed for any kind of NTTD tidbit!
Just imagine.
And would EON try to ask him back or do they too know he won't, ever?
It's so weird. I have always been in the "one final film, then move on" camp, but now I'm not ready to see him go...
I have a feeling that the film will have a very thoughtful and subtle conclusion to it that will cement his legacy, era and closure to the arc.
I doubt very much he would have said it like this without also saying, with the same types of words, with the same conviction to Broccoli, at a very early stage of production-- she knows this was the last one too.
My mother always taught me that anything can happen, but the chance Craig returns for one more go at Bond, I think, is an idea stuck between "never going to happen" and "wishful thinking".
I'm going to miss him greatly in the role and, IMO, it will be a tough re-cast...
I wasn't on this earth when Connery played the role in the Golden Era, but I certainly grew up with Connery as THE Bond-- care of my old man. So through the years, I gravitated greatly towards these films (I loved him as Bond, the style, the women, the music...), but still remained a Bond fan.
The Bond's to follow all had their highlights for me-- but they really didn't come close to the original era. Not at all (I disliked Moore's fashion and his lack of athleticism, the music and songs were hit and miss; Loved Dalton's intensity, but he couldn't relax into the more hedonistic traits of the character; I did greatly struggle with Brosnan-- there were moments of "something" and I certainly saw the effort he put into the role, but in the end I accepted this was the Bond of least resistance, the safe Bond that would appeal to general audiences)....
I was resigned to the fact that no one would command this role again, not in the same edgy, sexy and dangerous way that Connery did. So I went about re-watching the Connery films and reading the Fleming novels (as well as collecting each film and casually watching them).
And then came along CR... I was blown away and saw some great elements in Craig that felt off the pages of Fleming, with a mixture of, if Connery-Bond had a child with Fiona Volpe, this is the bastard that would be unleashed to the world (and considering, as someone quoted today, Luciana Paluzzi saw her character and her lifestyle, exactly like James Bond's...)
I found my Connery 2.0 in Daniel Craig (not saying he plays the role like Connery, but he certainly had a clear vision of how he wanted to play the role and went all in capturing the elements I love in this character (charismatic and sexy, dangerous, charming, but he's a lonely introvert...). As I have discussed with my wife, I presume I will settle back into the position I was in pre-Craig-- but only now I gravitate to two eras: Connery and Craig...
Especially if NTTD is a corker of a Bond.
To be honest after SP there is only a way up, otherwise we would all be terribly annoyed.