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[narrows101]

(He also mentions the Hugh Jackman situation)

http://www.thesun.co...5520145,00.html

I've got my eye on 007
By GAVIN GLICKSMAN

VINNIE JONES wants to play a Bond villain in his next movie role.


The ex-footballer is currently working on X-Men 3 in America but already has his sights set on a new challenge.

Vinnie, 40, said: "I'm playing Juggernaut at the minute and it's great fun.

"I wasn't really a comic kid but I've got into my role for X-Men.

"You don't have to worry about too much dialogue as a superhero but it's a nice rest as I've just done 110 pages on another new film, Johnny Was.

"It's good being a superhero but I'd like to have a go at James Bond.

"I think I'd be a great villain so I'll have to see what I can do."

Vinnie has already met Daniel Craig and reckons he would be the perfect nemesis for the new Bond.

The Lock Stock star added: "I got talking to Daniel about two months ago in Los Angeles.

"He was a bit sceptical about the role at the time and didn't really know what was happening.

"Hugh Jackman, who I'm working with on X-Men, was also in the running but he was undecided about it.

"There's a lot of good movies in the pipeline so I'll have to see what I do next.

"But Johnny Was will be a hit. It's a gangster movie set in Ireland and I play the lead.

"The film also features Lennox Lewis, Roger Daltrey, Samantha Mumba, Patrick Bergin and Eriq La Salle.

"We've still got some final voiceovers to do but it'll be out next year."

[Jim]

Good for him.

[double-O-Durg]

join the club vinnie. dont call us, we'll call u

[dinovelvet]

He'd be a decent henchman, but of course he can't play the Classy villain roles like Le Chiffre or Hugo Drax etc.

[marktmurphy]

"But Johnny Was will be a hit. It's a gangster movie set in Ireland and I play the lead.

"The film also features Lennox Lewis, Roger Daltrey, Samantha Mumba, Patrick Bergin and Eriq La Salle.

I think anyone who worries about the cast and crew of Casino Royale should read this quote to themselves thirty times.

[Leon]

IMO he'd make a rubbish character in a Bond movie period.

He is a rather comic cockney gangster actor, very type cast as well. I think it would spoil the effect and style they are gunning for with the new film(s).

[Blue07]

What a joke. The day he is taken seriously as an actor let alone given the chance to mess up a Bond movie I will lose all faith in the franchise. This man would make Grace Jones seem like an obvious choice. Anyone associated with the kind of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughan cockney gangster tripe that pretends to be cinema has no place in a Bond film. Oh, hang on a minute...

[Leon]

Daniel Craig and Vinnie Jones are totally different...

Vaughan's Layer Cake is a totally different film to something like Lock Stock or Snatch as well.

[Blue07]

Daniel Craig and Vinnie Jones are totally different...

Vaughan's Layer Cake is a totally different film to something like Lock Stock or Snatch as well.

They are totally different...just a little joke...Layer Cake is without doubt a Guy Ritchie film in everything but name...same actors, same hackneyed plot, same pacing, same sort of script, same sort of music...in fact Guy Ritchie was at one point in line to direct it but decided against it.

[Leon]

No it isn't, have you even watched it?

Ritchie's films are dark, comic and very stylised. They are designed to appear complex yet they are not that complex.

Layer Cake is not comic in camera work or script, and the plot is deliberately multi-layered and complex.

[Carver]

No it isn't, have you even watched it?

Ritchie's films are dark, comic and very stylised. They are designed to appear complex yet they are not that complex.

Layer Cake is not comic in camera work or script, and the plot is deliberately multi-layered and complex.

Agreed. Whilst I'm a fan of Lock Stock and Snatch, Layer Cake was different. Guy Ritchie's films had more comedy in them and are more east-end gangster style, whilst Layer Cake was more cleverly done and I thought had a more polished edge to it. Lock Stock relys on the characters Jones plays for some slapstick humour, whilst Craig's character in Layer Cake has some more witty moments. I'd choose Layer Cake as a better film to be honest. Anyway...
Vinnie Jones as a Bond villian? Don't make me laugh. I wouldn't even have him as a henchman. Watch him trying to be one in Swordfish and he doesn't know what to do with himself half the time, he just stands there wooden. His style of "acting" perfectly suits films like Lock Stock and Snatch, and therefore he is very much typecasted. If he were ever to get into a Bond film, I imagine he'd be a character like Mr Kill, and we really don't want to get there again. I'm waiting to see him play Juggernaught in X3 next year, just for a laugh. I doubt he'd be much good even in that role.

[dinovelvet]

Layer cake is light years ahead of Ritchie's efforts in terms of character development, storyline, performances and overall style; Ritchie is cartoonish by comparison.

[Leon]

Well Guy Ritchie's films are supposed to be cartoonish in a dark, hard cockney gangster way.

Very different camera work too.

[Problem Eliminator]

"But Johnny Was will be a hit. It's a gangster movie set in Ireland and I play the lead.

"The film also features Lennox Lewis, Roger Daltrey, Samantha Mumba, Patrick Bergin and Eriq La Salle.

I think anyone who worries about the cast and crew of Casino Royale should read this quote to themselves thirty times.

HAHA. Well said.

[Blue07]

No it isn't, have you even watched it?

Ritchie's films are dark, comic and very stylised. They are designed to appear complex yet they are not that complex.

Layer Cake is not comic in camera work or script, and the plot is deliberately multi-layered and complex.

Yes I have seen it. I just found it overly familiar to what i've seen from Ritchie. Style over substance. Cockney actors playing gangsters again. Couple of quality English thesps in it to give it some gravitas. There are good moments in it and Craig is ok but I just found it very uninvolving simply because it felt like Guy Ritchie territory. Still, each to their own, although I trust we agree on Jones unsuitability for a Bond film?

[Leon]

Yea totally.

That's fair enough, your opinion I guess. I do think it's unfair to liken the style of LC to something like Snatch, also to say "Cockney actors playing gangsters again" because Craig is playing a middle class, educated person with a plan to make a fat chunk out of the drugs market and then leave, one of the characters has a double first in industrial chemistry from Oxford and another is the Irish actor Colm Meaney and another a scouser...that's splitting hairs, but I really don't think it's similar in style just because it has some cockneys in it playing drug dealers.

A bit off topic anyway

Edited by Leon, 09 November 2005 - 10:56 PM.

[Qwerty]

What a joke.

Well, this is The Sun after all...