Not sure whether Craig would be able to bring the necessary old-pros gravitas to the role anyway. More suited to the more world weary and debonhair Mr Brosnan.
Considering Craig has far more screen gravitas and verisimilitude as opposed to Brosnan who relied on his male model looks and smooth charm to reach where he is now.
And Brosnan would be far less po-faced and superior about the project than Craig anyway if Germanlady's comments are at all accurate.
I don't think you should assume anything about an actor's tastes from a few comments from a fraulein fan on a board.
Brozza for HH. He's already got one hit cinema musical behind him to boot. Perfect.
He's already done it once with mediocre results, give the Englishman a chance.
Shark, 'course I don't take Germanlady's breathy views as accurate. Craig is as hypoctrical and fickle as the rest of us. At around the same time he was on record as dismissing Hugh Grant in "Love Actually" as insubustantial fluff (and Craig's at the time girlfriend was in it too!), he himself was making Lara Croft! Now that was obviously sold to Dan as a serious feminist polemic about the role of the single woman in modern society, rather than being about Angelina's tits. Don't see "the Invasion" as high art either: sure, you want to work with Nicole, fine - but wait til you've got a decent script. And Bond's not that arty, is it. No, show Dan the money and he'll do HH, no doubt.
I really think, you should NOT label anybody as being for sale, even more so, when you don´t have your facts right.
Also I feel, the "fan boys" here should tune down their condescendence towards others. Folks, who discuss for 9 pages the next Bond girl or who should sing the next next song etc should not throw any stones. Don´t you think?
Bond - the producers offered the role (and they are on record, he was the only one, they did) to a relatively unknown actor, who turned his back on them, because there was no script. That went on for over a year..until they did show him a satisfying script.
Invasion - Hirschbiegel was a director with some proven gravitas and the film the actors signed for, was very different to what it actually turned out to be - none of us know, for which film they really signed.
Lara Croft - he did that - after all those artsy films in England - to see, what it was like to be in a major production - it wasn´t a satisfying experience for him, so he turned down Part 2 - Gerard Butler did that instead.
Flashbacks of a Fool - he did for free
Defiance - each of the actors took a major paycut, as this film was relatively low budget.
Golden Compass - the triologie are some of his favourite books and HE called up the producers, to see if the part was still available - before he knew, what money was involved in that.
And yes - Jaguar - he IS on record of saying he dislikes the genre.
And yes, Zorin, I am guilty of another post, that I promised NOT to make.
Have a good day, everybody...
Edited by Germanlady, 28 October 2009 - 06:15 AM.
