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[Vauxhall]

In addition to the news that Alessandra Ambrosio will be playing herself in CASINO ROYALE, call sheets from filming in the Bahamas show that Jessica Miller, another supermodel, will be playing a card dealer at the One and Only Country Club. In the same scene, Jerry Inzerillo, an American millionnaire who is in fact part of the senior management of the club and the Atlantis Hotel, will be participating as a player in a card game.

I expect more cameo roles in the movie will be announced as we get closer to the release date, including the traditional Michael G. Wilson appearance!

[Broadsword]

like product placement I personally think cameos weaken the franchise and patronize loyal fans....it turns it into a pantomime and detracts from our man....

Madonna's appearance has to be the worst cameo on film ever...

cant say i am surprised by the news but I was hoping they would reign it in a wee bit along with the product placement....hopefully none of the cameos will have a double entendre to deliver as badly as Madge did

[Bond#9-GeorgeKemp]

I'm not sure that they're always a bad thing. They show Bond's moving with the times and sometimes even bring a bit of reality into the proceedings. They can be fun aswell, unless your name begins with Ma and ends with donna.

[Broadsword]

EON are trying tomake Bond matter for the 21st century right? e.g. responding to BOURNE as a way of moving with the times..

cameos for my mind belong to a bygone era ....'saturday night variety show' type thing when the audience would clap when a well known face would grace the stage for a few minutes...

can you see Bourne having cameos? ....its that don and dirty economical spy genre that I thought EON were trying to emulate..
cameos dont fit in with that..

unless they are so well hidden only the person themselves can see it..my knowledge of it though will still weaken my respect for the finished product..

I remeber some Empire movie magazine HACK was given a cameo...(EON must give thm as perks...in which case I think trading like that is really disrespectful) and it was galringly obvious when I saw it in TWINE...appallling..

I don't like this trading in the name of BOND ....theres something not very errr. British about it ...for want of a better phrase..

[Bond#9-GeorgeKemp]

You've got a good point broadsword but I still think if they're TASTEFULLY done, they still bring us back down to earth a bit. Depends who it is too i guess.

[BlackFelix]

I seriously hope that EON (Campbell/Broccoli/Wilson) realize in a bit of a hurry that this is a mistake! I thought, like most everyone else, that we are getting a leaner more taut film this time. The cameo buisness is a bad hang-over from a trend that started in DAF and was so prevelant through Roger Moore's era, and now we have a clean slate! Nothing screams "Thi$ one i$ for the money" more than cameo's! And if the Bond team really want the harder edge reality of "Jason Bourne" they will wisely weed out the ANY cameo's...even MGW's! I don't mean to bring Cubby into this but you never saw him in the background of every single film he made. There's no need to cameo MGW and it's has the foul scent of ego...but I guess he's the producer.

Cameo's suck!

Edited by BlackFelix, 18 June 2006 - 05:46 PM.

[I Like Sharks]

In addition to the news that Alessandra Ambrosio will be playing herself in CASINO ROYALE, call sheets from filming in the Bahamas show that Jessica Miller, another supermodel, will be playing a card dealer at the One and Only Country Club. In the same scene, Jerry Inzerillo, an American millionnaire who is in fact part of the senior management of the club and the Atlantis Hotel, will be participating as a player in a card game.

I expect more cameo roles in the movie will be announced as we get closer to the release date, including the traditional Michael G. Wilson appearance!

Has anyone ever actually heard of these people? It's not like their household names. I'm wondering whether their appearances will be all that obvious as cameos

[deth]

gotta have the good ol' Micky Wilson cameo

[MarcAngeDraco]

Has anyone ever actually heard of these people? It's not like their household names. I'm wondering whether their appearances will be all that obvious as cameos

Probably won't be obvious to me, as I have no idea who they are...

BTW, I won't mind another MGW cameo as long as it's short and unobtrusive...

[The Richmond Spy]

gotta have the good ol' Micky Wilson cameo

I agree. As long as this is the only one.

[Johnboy007]

They aren't so widely recognized to be a problem. Certainly not on a level like Madonna or Sammy Davis Jr. I wouldn't expect them to be that distracting (except for the obvious reasons).

[Qwerty]

BTW, I won't mind another MGW cameo as long as it's short and unobtrusive...

Me too. I kind of like it when they're really difficult to spot, as in the first one by him in Die Another Day. The second (as General Chandler or whatever) is quite easy.

[I Like Sharks]

Has anyone ever actually heard of these people? It's not like their household names. I'm wondering whether their appearances will be all that obvious as cameos

Probably won't be obvious to me, as I have no idea who they are...

BTW, I won't mind another MGW cameo as long as it's short and unobtrusive...

Yeah he does have a distinctive voice and I'm sure anyone whos ever bought a Bond DVD will recognise him. The last thing we want is for MGW to have a TND esque speaking part in every film as it would just discredit the whole point of him cameoing.

[Flash1087]

I don't mind cameos if they're unobtrusive. If someone involved with production of the film or maybe just some celebrity who likes Bond movies happens to stroll by dressed as an embassy guard or a waiter in a restaraunt, fine.

Giving them a speaking part? No thanks.

[Broadsword]

I mind ALL cameos cos it suggests egocentric film making on behalf of the producers and a finger to the audience..

ALSO

even if they are unrecognizable they still stand out (sometimes)

when I was a kid I didn't'know who the cameos were (until my older brother told me) but my brain was still thinking "why is the camera lingering on that bar tender?' or ' why does that parking valet have a line?'

they make for an imbalanced movie experience as your brain has to disengage for a second as you recognize/question the person on the screen

[Jericho_One]

How Alessandra Ambrosio (model) is playing herself is something I really don't get...
But in pure Bond style she's probably there to act as an ornament to the secenery more than any other purpose...

[Whalltt]

BTW, I won't mind another MGW cameo as long as it's short and unobtrusive...

Me too. I kind of like it when they're really difficult to spot, as in the first one by him in Die Another Day. The second (as General Chandler or whatever) is quite easy.

I don't remember a first one... Where was he?

And while we're at it, where was he in TWINE? I thought I read somewhere that he was at Valentin Zukovsky's Casino, but I didn't spot him...

[triviachamp]

Barry Nelson!

[Vauxhall]

BTW, I won't mind another MGW cameo as long as it's short and unobtrusive...

Me too. I kind of like it when they're really difficult to spot, as in the first one by him in Die Another Day. The second (as General Chandler or whatever) is quite easy.

I don't remember a first one... Where was he?

I read that he was a bystander in the scenes where Bond is walking through the streets of Havana. Don't think I've ever noticed him though. I'll have to have a look next time I watch!

[pgram]

I mind ALL cameos cos it suggests egocentric film making on behalf of the producers and a finger to the audience..

ALSO

even if they are unrecognizable they still stand out (sometimes)

when I was a kid I didn't'know who the cameos were (until my older brother told me) but my brain was still thinking "why is the camera lingering on that bar tender?' or ' why does that parking valet have a line?'

they make for an imbalanced movie experience as your brain has to disengage for a second as you recognize/question the person on the screen

Precisely. Especially now, that the cast consists mainly of faces we didn't really know, it would be too bad to be distracted by cameos. Especially MGW's speaking cameos... Yet, there is not such thing as too many gorgeous babes in a Bond film, as an ornamental feature, and models have to be the first candidates, as long as they are not too identifiable.

Although it would be funny if they spoiled this CR with too many cameos, like the old version. Imagine, Peter O' Toole reappearring in the same role? It could have happened, if sir Roger had still been Bond!

PS. cutting out Sammy Davies Jr's cameo was a bad decision IMO. He was part of Las Vegas scenery, there was no need to delete his scene. As there was no need to delete the rest of the scenes they did delete in DAF, making the film less comprehensible.

Edited by pgram, 20 June 2006 - 03:27 PM.

[dunmall]

BTW, I won't mind another MGW cameo as long as it's short and unobtrusive...

Me too. I kind of like it when they're really difficult to spot, as in the first one by him in Die Another Day. The second (as General Chandler or whatever) is quite easy.

I don't remember a first one... Where was he?

And while we're at it, where was he in TWINE? I thought I read somewhere that he was at Valentin Zukovsky's Casino, but I didn't spot him...

In TWINE he is the casino employee who hands Electra the cheque when she enters the private gaming room with Bond and Zukovsky.