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It is definitely bollocks. One of the Bond girls will be British and the other Scandinavian. Even if they were looking for a French actress there is no way they would cast one of the girls from the last Mission Impossible movie.
By the way I am really hoping that Adèle Exarchopoulos will appear in a Bond film when she is somewhat older. She is absolutely stunning and even more importantly a terrific actress.
I'm glad we got that cleared up then! :)) ;)
Maybe that's why she is being rumoured.
LOL, just google the guy. The voice is not bad.
I think, that would be too repetitive. Even a bit on the boring side.
Oh, God no.
Not a bad idea
I'm not a fan of all his music, but his voice is pitch-perfect with an unheard-of vocal range for a male singer. I do find it quite difficult to imagine him doing a Bond theme, though - simply because he's not done anything quite like it before.
Get Melanie Laurent instead!
*googles Melanie Laurent*
Hmm, looks... promising. Both for talent and aesthetics?!
Mendes, after seeing Craig back on stage, said he was reminded by what a fine actor he is and that he wanted to make sure Bond 24 gave him something to get his teeth into. That's not a direct quote but that was the core of what Mendes said.
I think there's no doubt Craig wants to keep digging deeper into Bond and that's what we'll get in Bond 24. Ironic that 25 years ago (as the new item on this site's main page reminds us) Dalton strived for the same thing but was met with little public enthusiasm. Timing is everything.
Interestingly, the article said that LTK did very well in other parts of the world but not the main market, The USA. The Americans always seem to have different tastes from the rest of the world. ;)
I couldn't disagree with you more. It's not about timing, it's about the script and what the producers want. LTK could not be more different from CR and SF. Dalton may have envisioned his Bond as serious and down to earth but LTK is still like an average American action movie from the 80s. No class and very little substance.
Couldn't agree more Dalton was a terrific Bond and if he'd got the scripts and the faith in his interpretation we might have seen something real special instead we got one film that was retrofit for him and then one that was tailored but was one of the most uneven films of the series.
Yes Dalton was gritty and Fleming like but his films not really, for all QOS criticisms it maintained a grittiness and Fleming feel that Dalton would have loved to get his teeth into.
Dalton fans seem to have convinced themselves his films were gritty they weren't. Craig has without doubt delivered the most grittiest entries of the series.
I've come to the conclusion after watching Tim's 2 entries very recently that I think his Bond is brilliant but his films leave allot to be desired. They have their great moments but EON couldn't let his Fleming take be accompanied with material that suited his interpretation, instead cast offs of the Moore era are littered throughout and in LTK it makes for a jarring experience.
Well, I think @ColonelSun had it right. Timing is everything. It is an apt phrase. At that time, the decisions of the script and producer pushed Bond's portrayal in a more serious direction, and Dalton was certainly portraying him in LTK in a grittier, more realistic way compared to all of Moore's films and most of Connery's. Yet for the public, especially the U.S. audience, it was too big a change in that direction at that time. Hence, the timing of that kind of portrayal was off.
You are blaming the quality of the production values. You say, "LTK is still like an average American action movie from the 80s. No class and very little substance." However, there were plenty of those films that were very popular. I still think the problem with the lack of success of LTK was due to the direction of a far more serious portrayal of Bond. The public, in general, did not want that at that time. The public appetite was more for the Die Hard type of portrayal, which Willis (back then) played with a self deprecating charm and easy humor. All of which is not Bond ... but that was what was popular. And coming off of a Bond that had humor, albeit sometimes over the top or misplaced, and a Bond that was firmly in the public's mind as Bond (Moore) yet stayed for one film too long - I think the change was something that many people did not really appreciate or get excited about.
I personally did not like LTKs' storyline coming mostly from the world of Miami Vice.
But I do not blame the production values compared to the timing of presenting a more serious Bond to the public.