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[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Daniel Craig celebrates five years as James Bond 007 today. He was casted in October 14th, 2005.

[Bryce (003)]

Well, he had already been cast, but the press conference was on the 14th. I remember it well, I had just spent a week in London and was sitting at the lounge in Heathrow watching it on Sky News. A very great moment in Bond history.

[Tarl_Cabot]

We hardly knew you Mr Craig.


At least the Oct 14 announcement lead to two great Bond films.

[jaguar007]

We hardly knew you Mr Craig.


At least the Oct 14 announcement lead to two great Bond films.

To quote Roger Moore in FYEO "We are not dead yet"

[Matt_13]

Remember that day like it was yesterday. I was in 10th grade.

[zencat]

That was a great day.

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[Matt_13]

[jaguar007]

Reminds me of all the venomous remarks people gave him for a year until the movie was released. It is interesting re-reading old posts from 5 years ago and see how so many peoples opinion changed once the film was released.

[Goodnight]

I remember watching it on tv, and seeing some of the mighty Royal Marines escorting Mr Craig down the Thames.

[sthgilyadgnivileht]

Was very exciting, and the time when the world thought the producers had gone mad to recast Brosnan.
Proves there is no such thing as bad publicity as CR must have been one of the most highly anticipated Bond films for a while.
It's been a great five years and kudos to Eon and the studio's for casting him.
I hope we have (at least) another two Craig films in the next five years.

[DamnCoffee]

It's quite sad in a way. 5 years and only 2 films. At the same time though, It's quite an achievement. 5 years of excitement. Well done, Sir.

[DaveBond21]

5 years of Bondage sounds like an adult movie version of Seven Years in Tibet.


Yeah, I remember the press conference well - watched it live on Sky News Australia (via Sky UK).

The best bit of the press conference was when they asked Martin Campbell if Bond was going to smoke and he said "No, James Bond is a role model and there are kids watching and so we don't want to have him smoking, we don't think it's appropriate"

and a journalist replied "He's still going to shoot people, though, right?"

[sthgilyadgnivileht]

5 years of Bondage sounds like an adult movie version of Seven Years in Tibet.


Yeah, I remember the press conference well - watched it live on Sky News Australia (via Sky UK).

The best bit of the press conference was when they asked Martin Campbell if Bond was going to smoke and he said "No, James Bond is a role model and there are kids watching and so we don't want to have him smoking, we don't think it's appropriate"

and a journalist replied "He's still going to shoot people, though, right?"

You can imagine the questions if the press knew about the torture scene as well at that point!

[Turn]

It was a very important time in my life, not just the announcement of a new Bond, but I was only a few days away from starting a new career.

Five years later, I am at yet another new job, but sadly have no new Bond news to go with it.

[sharpshooter]

Reminds me of all the venomous remarks people gave him for a year until the movie was released. It is interesting re-reading old posts from 5 years ago and see how so many peoples opinion changed once the film was released.

Yep, much to do about nothing and Craig smashed the doubters big time.

As soon as I saw Craig standing in the suit with his steely gaze, I was excited. I thought it would be a return to the early Connery/Dalton mould, and I was correct.

[elizabeth]

Way to go, Dan!

[darthbond]

I was activly following the process of Casino Royale. I would have liked to have seen Brosnan do one more, but I was pretty stoked about CR. I found out first from here on CBN about Daniel Craig. Thus proceeded probably the most exciting time of 007's history since the 1960's.

darthbond

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Happy 5th Anniversary, Mr. Craig. I hadn't seen Craig in anything at that point so I was neither highly enthused about nor terribly upset about the casting choice. It was rather amusing in retrospect to see how OTT the negative reaction to him prior to anyone seeing him in the role. I was mildly positive about Craig though I purposely avoided watching anything with him in it so I could judge his debut performance from as unbiased a perspective as possible. I think I was more looking forward to a decent version of Fleming's CR novel than anything else.

[DaveBond21]

Happy 5th Anniversary, Mr. Craig. I hadn't seen Craig in anything at that point so I was neither highly enthused about nor terribly upset about the casting choice. It was rather amusing in retrospect to see how OTT the negative reaction to him prior to anyone seeing him in the role. I was mildly positive about Craig though I purposely avoided watching anything with him in it so I could judge his debut performance from as unbiased a perspective as possible. I think I was more looking forward to a decent version of Fleming's CR novel than anything else.

I'd only seen him in Our Friends in the North and Sylvia.

[Jim]

Christ my life is ebbing away. Where did that five years go?

[byline]

I confess that at the time of the announcement, I was pretty underwhelmed. But I don't mind saying that Craig proved my doubts to be completely and utterly wrong!