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Indeed. No better way to sell yourself than through a Bond.
It's the title of a classic French novel by Stendhal: Le Rouge et le noir. So it won't happen.
I guess if Idris gets the nod like the whole world wants then noir could be applicable and the rouge could refer to maybe lipstick or blood. I can imagine a teaser poster coming on.
What dupes me is his comment that "higher powers" are at play, he suggests, to boot Daniel, which is in fact the opposite.
I'm not taking Strong's comments as meaningful in the slightest.
they were able to talk Roger Moore and Connery back at least once so why not Craig
Surely DC's involvement (and the cost & length of his continued involvement) are a part of such discussions, given the numerous directions the producers and studio may want to take the character.
Strong is the new stright.
Seriously. He's just trying to get into the news because he's promoting a film and knows anything mentioned about Bond will make headlines. All this doom and gloom about Craig leaving based on this nonsense is laughable.
He's coming back. Mark my words.
I picked up on that too. He was implying that Craig was dumped. Bottom line for me is that any kind of major news like this is strickly Craig's and/or EON's to make. Strong was a jerk to run his mouth like this on something so major.
Rule # 1 when you are friends with a very famous person. You never, never gossip about them in print or you are no friend.
I remember reading about Strong meeting up with Craig in Morocco when EON and Craig were scouting locations and doing some limited shooting. Strong was apparently nearby shooting in Africa. The articles noted they hadn't met up in years. The still current close friends references in the new articles seem bogus. It will be interesting to see if Strong is leaned on to walk this back.
After all, the casting news about his possible new show was also strange (surely he likely would have told them to keep that under wraps if he had a commitment to Bond during studio negotiations). Lots of loose lips these days.
That's true. It does seem like there's a plethora of these stories at the moment. Anyone would think EON has a DVD to sell or something.
There was no way this was going to be kept under wraps. Ruden has been negotiating with multiple cable companies and Craig's participation was the major selling point for a good deal. There was no way given all the many players, that Craig's participation could not have leaked. But who knows, maybe Craig wanted his departure leaked. But I seriously doubt he would have wanted any hint that he was dumped out there. Holly Molly if true, what ingratitude. But then it's business, and EON has long been known to treat all their Bonds save Roger badly.
"I say at least because the conversations I had with him are not the conversations of a man who is ready to say goodbye to the role."
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/468214/Daniel-Craig-back-two-more-James-Bond-films
(Ignore that its the Daily Star, this was a quote from an interview that went everywhere)
Bottom line: I don't think they knew what Craig was going to do until the release of SP. He pretty much said as much on Charlie Rose. Both he and Mendes said they had until early 2016 to let EON know where their head was at.
You mean like the 'compressed into one film ' scenario we had with From Russia With Love?
To me, it sounds like some inside information that one best friend gave another. With Daniel's previous statements over the years, including his seemingly foul distaste in returning lately, on top of him taking on more Broadway work and his upcoming television series, I feel that SP will be his last.
http://www.themarysue.com/naomie-harris-moneypenny-bond/
The "whole world" definitively does NOT want Elba anywhere near Bond; the media, an infinitesimal if highly influential fraction of the populace, does. Huge difference.