Subj : Re: OT: The new James Bond is....
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.next-gen,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager
From : whodunit
Date : Sat Oct 15 2005 13:50:15

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.voyager

Alric Knebel wrote:
> Keeper of the Purple Twilight wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Craig.
>>
>> You're thoughts!
> 
> 
> I just heard that story no more than an two hours ago, and only five 
> minutes after watching LAYER CAKE.  Because of such a recent familiarity 
> with him, I was able to form an immediate opinion.  He's an excellent 
> choice.  With darker hair and a tuxedo, he'll definitely fit the mold. 
> The show I saw the report on is MSNBC, the one where the newscaster does 
> that countdown.  He claimed that sources say that Craig is more like the 
> Bond in the novels.  As a teenager I read all almost all of those Bond 
> novels, and so far, the closest to the character in the novel -- and the 
> closest adaptation in FEEL -- was the man in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET 
> SERVICE, George Lazenby, and Brosnan came in a very, very close second 
> (the commitment by producers of the films to the silly gadgetry 
> detracted from the potential he brought to it).  Roger Moore was the worst.

AFAIU, he's going to have blonde hair, isn't he? Haven't heard that 
he'll be dyeing it.
> 
> I loved James Bond movies as a kid, but I've hated them since my early 
> twenties.  Yet, I still hope with each new film that they'll stop making 
> them silly action flicks.  Here comes another one, and they're going to 
> use as source material the only novel that hasn't been seriously 
> adapted, CASINO ROYALE (there was a ridiculous David Niven thing, with 
> Woody Allen as a villain), and they're promising to make it like the 
> novel.  From what I understand, the gadgetry will be added to the plot, 
> but it won't dominate.  Or perhaps I heard what I wanted to hear. 
> Anyway, with Craig as Bond and a more serious approach by producers, 
> maybe they'll make a Bond film to rival the Jack Ryan films.  Audiences 
> are clearly sophisticated enough to appreciate espionage presented 
> without villains living in stainless steel caverns and hatching almost 
> campy plots to rule the world.

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