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#1 Vauxhall

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Posted 31 August 2015 - 09:37 PM

Not sure this is already around, but The Times has written up Daniel Craig's interview in this month's Esquire magazine.

It includes him saying he can't imagine wanting to spend too much time with Bond, him calling Bond "f***ing lonely" and a few more decent bits.

When asked if he would do another Bond movie: "At this moment, no. I have a life and I've got to get on with it for a bit. But we'll see."

#2 antovolk

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Posted 31 August 2015 - 09:39 PM

Ah - the full interview is at http://www.esquire.c...raig-interview/



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Posted 31 August 2015 - 10:30 PM

It's a shame. I was really hoping all these rumors about SPECTRE being Craig's last would not materialize. Oh well.

 

Still, if Bond #7 dons the tuxedo for the first time in Bond 25, I really hope EON retains Fiennes, Whishaw, Harris, and Kinnear. They've got a great ensemble with the MI6 crew, and I am dreading the possibility of another reboot this soon. Let's at least keep this timeline / continuity going. 



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Posted 31 August 2015 - 10:37 PM

A Bond actor saying he may be done playing the role is as routine as a Bond Girl saying her role is different than the others. Not surprised. Not concerned. Show him the money and he'll bring it.

Edited by 00Hockey Mask, 31 August 2015 - 10:38 PM.


#5 Guy Haines

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Posted 31 August 2015 - 10:39 PM

"At this moment, no" Quite right -having done one Bond film, why would he leap straight into another? But that's not going to happen. He has a five film contract and I'll be surprised - particularly if SPECTRE does at least as well if not better than Skyfall at the box office - if Daniel Craig isn't back as Bond in two or three years time.

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Posted 31 August 2015 - 11:00 PM

For me, I just want Craig to finish the story he started with Casino Royale. It will give his films a satisfying arc. It's why I thought it was a shame Connery didn't do OHMSS with the way it ended. Whether or not Spectre will make a good "ending" to his films, or if he should do another one for that, I guess we'll see in November.



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Posted 31 August 2015 - 11:04 PM

A Bond actor saying he may be done playing the role is as routine as a Bond Girl saying her role is different than the others. Not surprised. Not concerned. Show him the money and he'll bring it.

 

Can you cite even once instance (in the three decades since Roger Moore) of a Bond actor saying he may be done and it turning out to be false?



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Posted 31 August 2015 - 11:42 PM

Still, if Bond #7 dons the tuxedo for the first time in Bond 25, I really hope EON retains Fiennes, Whishaw, Harris, and Kinnear. They've got a great ensemble with the MI6 crew, and I am dreading the possibility of another reboot this soon. Let's at least keep this timeline / continuity going. 

 

I doubt it. The continuity between the Craig films is really closely knit and keeping the cast and changing the Bond would be very odd IMO. Especially as Craig says that SP is "the denouement to the story that began with Casino: Bond’s determination to confront his past and figure out his place in the world, and MI6’s place in the world, and whether he might be able to fashion a life away from all that. "  4 films with Craig with this central story starting with CR and concluding with SPECTRE is fine by me.

 

And I don't quite see why people are dreading another reboot - Craig's era as Bond has been going on longer than Nolan's Batman trilogy for chrissakes! :P And now they've rebooted with Affleck as Batman and a whole new supporting cast - no problem. If anything, continuing on the timeline with a different actor as Bond and the same cast would ruin what they tried to do with these 4 films, I feel. And remember - they don't have to do another origin story. New Bond, new MI6 crew - just throw him into a new mission plain and simple!



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Posted 01 September 2015 - 12:00 AM

 

Still, if Bond #7 dons the tuxedo for the first time in Bond 25, I really hope EON retains Fiennes, Whishaw, Harris, and Kinnear. They've got a great ensemble with the MI6 crew, and I am dreading the possibility of another reboot this soon. Let's at least keep this timeline / continuity going. 

 

I doubt it. The continuity between the Craig films is really closely knit and keeping the cast and changing the Bond would be very odd IMO. Especially as Craig says that SP is "the denouement to the story that began with Casino: Bond’s determination to confront his past and figure out his place in the world, and MI6’s place in the world, and whether he might be able to fashion a life away from all that. "  4 films with Craig with this central story starting with CR and concluding with SPECTRE is fine by me.

 

And I don't quite see why people are dreading another reboot - Craig's era as Bond has been going on longer than Nolan's Batman trilogy for chrissakes! :P And now they've rebooted with Affleck as Batman and a whole new supporting cast - no problem. If anything, continuing on the timeline with a different actor as Bond and the same cast would ruin what they tried to do with these 4 films, I feel. And remember - they don't have to do another origin story. New Bond, new MI6 crew - just throw him into a new mission plain and simple!

 

 

I hear your point, but I also firmly believe that there is something to be said about maintaining at least some semblance of (a loose) continuity. One of the great things about the classic Bond movies was that you could basically watch any of them, regardless of the Bond actor, and you'd be treated to the same familiar MI6 crew- Lee, Llewelyn, and Maxwell. All the way through Licence to Kill, there was never a Bond film with a change in more than one of the actors playing these characters. I very much appreciate the fact that we have yet to have a single Bond film with a complete overhaul in the cast. 

 

Additionally, I thought that EON provided a great setup / transition in introducing Cleese as Llewelyn's replacement. Then the reboot, and after one film as Q, he was discarded as quickly as he was introduced. 

 

So what are you proposing for the future of the franchise-- that every time there is a new Bond actor, there should likewise be a complete overhaul of the cast of MI6 regulars? 

 

I don't need an intricate and deep continuity between films. I'd just like it if the series was able to maintain some sense of stability when it comes to the supporting cast. 

 

Also, I am nervous that a complete overhaul will result in a new introduction / backstory of SPECTRE each time they recast Bond. That would get redundant awfully fast.



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Posted 01 September 2015 - 01:54 AM

I hope Daniel fulfills his contract and does one more. If SPECTRE is his last, to me it'll be surreal. He'll have left a great legacy... perhaps second to Connery, yet at the same time he'll have left the proverbial door open for Number 7. All in all Daniel's had a great run and I'll look back on this era very fondly.



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Posted 01 September 2015 - 01:58 AM

"At this moment, no" Quite right -having done one Bond film, why would he leap straight into another? But that's not going to happen. He has a five film contract and I'll be surprised - particularly if SPECTRE does at least as well if not better than Skyfall at the box office - if Daniel Craig isn't back as Bond in two or three years time.

Yeah, my thinking as well. I think the gap for Bond 25 will be the same as Skyfall-SPECTRE, and by that time Craig will be ready to go again.



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Posted 01 September 2015 - 02:02 AM

Somewhat surprised by this. I'm even more intrigued now by what SPECTRE is going to bring to the table. Shame that he sounds completely done with it all, but much like Mendes, if this one is a massive success, and if the price is right, given time, Craig will absolutely come back for one more go. If he walked away though, so long as his last film was the gem I'm hoping it turns out to be, kudos to him for knowing when to hang it up.

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Posted 01 September 2015 - 02:09 AM

I'm not sure why this is much of a surprise. Craig has always resisted the part, taking (by some accounts) over a year to agree to take the part for Casino Royale to, according to him, wanting to get out of it from the moment he took the part.

If SPECTRE is a massive box office success and garners the critical acclaim that everyone involved is seeking, then he'll be back, and we'll have another "this time it's personal" film where Bond will have to deal with some newly created abandonment issues involving a long-lost sister or something like that, or whatever it takes to give him the room to flex his acting muscles in the part that he clearly doesn't feel offers an actor much to do without bringing that kind of material to the table.

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Posted 01 September 2015 - 02:40 AM

A Bond actor saying he may be done playing the role is as routine as a Bond Girl saying her role is different than the others. Not surprised. Not concerned. Show him the money and he'll bring it.

 
Can you cite even once instance (in the three decades since Roger Moore) of a Bond actor saying he may be done and it turning out to be false?
Daniel Craig reveals he wanted Skyfall to be his last James Bond film

http://www.theguardi...last-james-bond

#15 Tiin007

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Posted 01 September 2015 - 03:06 AM

 

 

A Bond actor saying he may be done playing the role is as routine as a Bond Girl saying her role is different than the others. Not surprised. Not concerned. Show him the money and he'll bring it.

 
Can you cite even once instance (in the three decades since Roger Moore) of a Bond actor saying he may be done and it turning out to be false?
Daniel Craig reveals he wanted Skyfall to be his last James Bond film

http://www.theguardi...last-james-bond

 

 

Not sure precisely how The Guardian deduced that from Craig's quote, but fair enough. I am hoping you are right and this time will be no different.



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Posted 01 September 2015 - 04:33 AM

Just the usual PR talk.  He will only step down if SPECTRE does not fulfill B.O. expectations.

 

One more film after SPECTRE, and then it´s time for the next actor.



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Posted 01 September 2015 - 07:00 AM



Still, if Bond #7 dons the tuxedo for the first time in Bond 25, I really hope EON retains Fiennes, Whishaw, Harris, and Kinnear. They've got a great ensemble with the MI6 crew, and I am dreading the possibility of another reboot this soon. Let's at least keep this timeline / continuity going.


I doubt it. The continuity between the Craig films is really closely knit and keeping the cast and changing the Bond would be very odd IMO. Especially as Craig says that SP is "the denouement to the story that began with Casino: Bond’s determination to confront his past and figure out his place in the world, and MI6’s place in the world, and whether he might be able to fashion a life away from all that. " 4 films with Craig with this central story starting with CR and concluding with SPECTRE is fine by me.

And I don't quite see why people are dreading another reboot - Craig's era as Bond has been going on longer than Nolan's Batman trilogy for chrissakes! :P And now they've rebooted with Affleck as Batman and a whole new supporting cast - no problem. If anything, continuing on the timeline with a different actor as Bond and the same cast would ruin what they tried to do with these 4 films, I feel. And remember - they don't have to do another origin story. New Bond, new MI6 crew - just throw him into a new mission plain and simple!

I hear your point, but I also firmly believe that there is something to be said about maintaining at least some semblance of (a loose) continuity. One of the great things about the classic Bond movies was that you could basically watch any of them, regardless of the Bond actor, and you'd be treated to the same familiar MI6 crew- Lee, Llewelyn, and Maxwell. All the way through Licence to Kill, there was never a Bond film with a change in more than one of the actors playing these characters. I very much appreciate the fact that we have yet to have a single Bond film with a complete overhaul in the cast.

Additionally, I thought that EON provided a great setup / transition in introducing Cleese as Llewelyn's replacement. Then the reboot, and after one film as Q, he was discarded as quickly as he was introduced.

So what are you proposing for the future of the franchise-- that every time there is a new Bond actor, there should likewise be a complete overhaul of the cast of MI6 regulars?

I don't need an intricate and deep continuity between films. I'd just like it if the series was able to maintain some sense of stability when it comes to the supporting cast.

Also, I am nervous that a complete overhaul will result in a new introduction / backstory of SPECTRE each time they recast Bond. That would get redundant awfully fast.

I'm not proposing that for any future Bond actor, because at the moment we don't know if the next Bond actors' story/continuity will be more like the classic Bond films, which is what you prefer clearly, or like Craig's, which is obviously more like a Dark Knight Trilogy-esque scenario. Until the Craig films, the latter has never happened before, and I think mixing up the two scenarios would ruin what Craig/Mendes/BB have tried to achieve with applying the latter scenario to the Craig run. CR/QoS is the origins like Batman Begins, Skyfall is the more or less standalone story within that universe aka The Dark Knight/Goldfinger, SPECTRE is the conclusion which brings the story started with CR full circle.

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Posted 01 September 2015 - 08:04 AM

I think we may be reading a lot into one part of one interview. I may be about to with this post. Daniel Craig said "at this moment, no" about a return to Bond in film 25. He might simply mean he wants a rest, and who can blame him?

Last week we had the "Total Film" article about SPECTRE in which Craig figured prominently, of course. I could find nothing in that to suggest Craig was done with Bond, although he was relieved to be done with the filming, understandably.

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Posted 02 September 2015 - 02:52 AM

The interview was a damn fine read...But let's not quite dim the lights on Craig as Bond. If SPECTRE, as implied, is sort of an arc from CR and that's it for him, he'll be fine and so, I *think* will all of us.

 

My feeling is that once this one comes out, maybe the "swan song" for Craig will be a stand alone farewell 007 adventure with no big lead in for 007 #7.

 

I do concur with everyone's above statement of keeping the home team ready to welcome whoever picks up the PPK next but treating whoever it may be with "Ah 007...There you are." as opposed to a full reboot. It worked for the first 40 years. Let's just keep it like that. I recall with Goldeneye that we had a a new HQ and M and Moneypenny, but when Q rolled in, we all new that nothing had really changed.



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Posted 02 September 2015 - 06:52 AM

I agree. CR 2006 was a one off opportunity to re-start everything, with the curious exception of M, unless Judi Dench was playing a different character, which many believe.

But now we have Bond re-established, along with the characters we expect. Why change all of them? Ralph Fiennes' M has barely got behind that large wooden desk in M's office!

Bond is effectively rebooted as a character every time a new actor assumes the role. Audiences accept that and have done for decades. That actor's tenure as Bond stands or falls on his performance in the role, not whether everything else around him has changed as well.
Post script to the above - Daniel Craig's Esquire interview is all over the media this morning, with every other columnist online having an opinion - including the contributor to Radio 4's "Thought for the Day", which is normally five minutes of comment about religious matters!

Daniel Craig has described Bond as "mysoginist". I would disagree - Bond doesn't hate women, rather he loves them a bit too much, but can't cope with long term relationships - save two, Vesper and Tracy, and both were cut tragically short.

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Posted 02 September 2015 - 07:06 AM

Daniel Craig has described Bond as "mysoginist". I would disagree - Bond doesn't hate women, rather he loves them a bit too much, but can't cope with long term relationships - save two, Vesper and Tracy, and both were cut tragically short.

Yes. Bond loves women, but they're for recreation. And as Craig rightly says, his lifestyle is ultimately a lonely one. 

 

"We're south of the border. It's a man's world."



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Posted 02 September 2015 - 07:32 AM

I always said Craig would leave after 3 movies and I was wrong. My original opinion came from the fact that it was clear he really doesn't like the publicity and all the things that go with being 007, and he's not actually a very interesting interviewee. For example, he enjoys going on the Graham Norton show but only because everyone else steals the limelight and makes him laugh, rather than him being the centre of attention.

 

However, I think he will do one more Bond movie in 2018.

 

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Posted 02 September 2015 - 07:41 AM

I don't think there's anything wrong with not wanting to be the centre of attention, although I can see it might be a bit of a problem when promoting something like a movie. But, contrary to the poster line, Daniel Craig isn't James Bond - he only plays him, and does so very well indeed.

He is absolutely right that Bond leads a "lonely" life. Unfortunately it cannot be otherwise - why let someone else into a way of life where that person may be unintentionally at risk as much as you are. Look at the consequences for the two women Bond was closest to.

Or as Scaramanga put it in the film TMWTGG; "Ours is the lonliest profession."

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Posted 02 September 2015 - 07:59 AM

He is absolutely right that Bond leads a "lonely" life. Unfortunately it cannot be otherwise - why let someone else into a way of life where that person may be unintentionally at risk as much as you are. Look at the consequences for the two women Bond was closest to.

Or as Scaramanga put it in the film TMWTGG; "Ours is the lonliest profession."

Exactly. That's also part of the reason why Fleming's Bond lives it up with lots of alcohol and cigarettes. There's every chance he could be dead tomorrow. So he lives for the moment. Case in point the SPECTRE trailer when he's asked about loneliness, Craig's Bond claims to "never stop to think about it." 



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Posted 02 September 2015 - 08:47 AM

 

Daniel Craig has described Bond as "mysoginist". I would disagree - Bond doesn't hate women, rather he loves them a bit too much, but can't cope with long term relationships - save two, Vesper and Tracy, and both were cut tragically short.

Yes. Bond loves women, but they're for recreation.

 

Sounds like you're describing the Madonna-Whore Complex, which is a form of misogyny. I'm not sure misogyny or philogyny is as clear-cut as 'hating' or 'loving' women but I think Craig's got it spot-on - his Bond might not be as bad as earlier takes but it's safe to say Bond has a few issues when it comes to women.



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Posted 02 September 2015 - 02:00 PM

By the way - good little info that he posed for photographs for the film poster!



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Posted 03 September 2015 - 08:49 AM

By the way - good little info that he posed for photographs for the film poster!

Yes - hopefully we see the poster soon. 



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Posted 03 September 2015 - 09:54 AM

He'll do one more, it's my guess anyway. And Eon will make an event of that fact also.

 

In the meantime, it gives the producers time to search for a replacement, something they may be doing as we speak of course.  :D



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Posted 03 September 2015 - 01:41 PM

If he does leave after Spectre, it would make his tenure a tale of two halves.

 

The origin with CR and QoS, and the... resurrection with SF and Spectre.

 

It's unfortunate that each of his films so far has ended with "Bond is back!". Now with Spectre, just as they're beginning to establish the new MI6 team, it'll be over. And yes, they could continue with the same MI6, but a different Bond, but it still leaves Craig's films as sort of a testbed for new ideas, rather than cohesive in their own right.

 

Of course, we haven't seen Spectre yet, so I'm jumping the gun a little there. But still, it'll be one film with this team before everything changes again.



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Posted 03 September 2015 - 04:39 PM

The two part tale is an interesting way of seeing it, PeteNeon.

 

But we need our YOLT ;), aka Shatterhand. To complete the three Sam Ss - Skyfall, SPECTRE, Shatterhand.