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Bond 23 will start filming at the end of 2010

Liam — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:03:57 +0000

We haven’t heard anything on the next Bond film since June when The Queen and Frost/Nixon writer Peter Morgan was brought on-board to work on the script. Daniel Craig is currently half way though the run of his Broadway play A Steady Rain alongside Hugh Jackman, and it was while signing autographs for the fans outside where he revealed that they will “start at the end of next year”.

You can watch him saying it below, although it’s not that interesting.

This means there will probably be a late 2011 release for Bond 23, which will be 3 years after the release of Quantum of Solace. No director has been announced yet, although they’ve got roughly a year to find one.

First look at Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in A Steady Rain

Liam — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:58:37 +0000

A Steady Rain isn’t actually a movie, it’s a Broadway play, however as both Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman are in it I thought I’d post the first image of them in character.

From EW

Wolverine and James Bond will soon be squaring off eight times a week. And here’s the first publicity photo of Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in the Broadway play A Steady Rain, in which they play Chicago cops with enough troubles to fill Soldier Field. Jackman, who won a Tony in 2004 for hoofing it as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, plays Denny, a patrolman with a racist streak and violent temper. And Craig, a London stage veteran making his Broadway debut, plays Joey, a recovering alcoholic and gentler soul who may not be as docile as he first seems. In A Steady Rain, which just began rehearsals, the two buddies in blue recount a few harrowing days on the job and their very different accounts of a police call that quickly went south.

The play will open on September 29th and will run through till December 6th. I think it would be hilarious if Craig kept that moustache for Bond 23.

Work has begun on Bond 23 says producer

Liam — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:31:55 +0000

In a very brief interview with The Sun Bond producer Michael G. Wilson revealed that work has begun on the next Bond film. We knew it would happen, it was just a case of when.

‘We have started work on the new film, which I can’t say anything about. Daniel Craig is very keen to get going.’

He also spoke about possible candidates for the next Bond theme song.

‘I would love to get Duffy to sing the next tune,’ he said. ‘I think she is wonderful. Amy Winehouse would be good too.’

Both Duffy and Winehouse were contenders for the Quantum of Solace theme song before Alica Keys and Jack White got the gig, so i’m sure the producers still have their numbers somewhere. Most of you will probably know who Amy Winehouse is (if not Google ‘rehab mess’), so for those thinking ‘who the hell is Duffy?’ here she is below:

It’s a bit early to be talking about the Bond 23 theme song, but who would you like to see take it on?

Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig Join Tintin!

Liam — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:10:14 +0000

Sony and Paramount have just made one big announcement for Tintin. The big news is that Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell will be joining the cast. Both actors were seen in Defiance, and I have a feeling a friendship may have formed which resulted in them both joining Tintin. The second bit of news is that the films official title has revealed: The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn.

From ComingSoon.net

Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced the start of principal production in Los Angeles on the 3D Motion Capture Film “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jamie Bell (”Billy Elliot,” “Defiance”) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig (”Quantum of Solace,” “Defiance”) as the nefarious Red Rackham.
Bell and Craig are joined by an international cast that includes Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook.
“The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” from a screenplay by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, is produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy, is the first in the series of 3D motion capture films based on the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name “Herge” and is due for release in 2011. Executive producers are Nick Rodwell, Stephane Sperry and Ken Kamins. Paramount Pictures will release domestically and in all English speaking territories and Asia, excluding India. Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute the film in Continental Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, India and the remainder of the world.
The second feature in the series is scheduled to be directed by Jackson, with a potential for a third film as well.

Things are looking good for this movie. Some sites haven’t been too enthusiastic about Tintin due to the comics not being well known in the US. Hopefully this casting, along with the fact Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are the men behind it, will make people a little more optimistic!

[Note: I'm still going to call it Tintin as typing that beast of a title out everytime will get tiresome]

Coolness: Quantum of Bonds

Liam — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:12:41 +0000

In the past Black20 have given us the PG 300 trailer, Batman vs Batman vs Batman and now they have another golden video to add the the evergrowing list. Quantum of Bonds features current Bond Daniel Craig going at it against former 007 Pierce Brosnan.

(The image above is a mash-up of both Craig and Brosnan I found a while back and I found it appropriate)

Weekend Linkage

Liam — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:14:42 +0000

Behind the scenes of Sasha Baron Cohen’s Bruno [FilmDrunk]

10 Greatest George W. Bush Moments [ScreenJunkies]

A new poster for the upcoming Street Fighter movie [ComingSoon]

Movie Mash-Ups We’d Like To See [HolyTaco]

Daniel Craig wants the next Bond to be black [DigitalSpy]

Brett Ratner is in final negotiations to direct Conan [THR]

New Defiance Poster

Liam — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:00:32 +0000

Empire were given this rather cool poster for Defiance, which stars Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell. I saw the trailer for this on the big screen before my showing of Quantum of Solace yesterday and it gave me those good old ‘movie chills’, which I haven’t had for a while.

Three Jewish brothers escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.

Defiance will be released in January 2009.

Daniel Craig Turned Down Thor

Liam — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:09:18 +0000

IESB were at a press thing for Quantum of Solace and one of the questions they asked Daniel Craig was whether he would be interested in doing something a little different character-wise, such as Thor…

Craig said no, he turned it down and laughed about it.
IESB continued, “seriously, I heard the folks over at Marvel had you on a short list to be Thor.”
Craig said yes they [Marvel] did approach him but he turned it down. He added jokingly, it would have been too much of a power trip, both Bond and Thor, and running around with long hair and a hammer.

I could see it working in the face department, but Craig doesn’t have the build to play Thor. As a matter of fact I don’t know many actors who would meet the physical requirements for the part. Whoever they cast will need to have a lot of work done, whether it be adding height or bulking them up.

At least we now know Marvel are actively looking for their leading man. I just hope the other actors on that short list don’t laugh them off like Craig did.

Quantum Of Solace Reviews

Liam — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:53:06 +0000

The reviews are pouring in for Quantum of Solace, and here is a run-down of what most of them are saying:

BBC

It’s a film that feels like the second part of a trilogy, with this being the bleaker second act.
For a lot of the movie Bond is a particularly unsympathetic character, and often it’s only Craig’s performance along with the shifting morality of Bond’s legion of enemies that forces the audience to root for him.

Empire 4/5 Stars

A pacy, visually imaginative follow-up. If it doesn’t even try to be bigger than Casino Royale, that’s perhaps a smart move in that there’s still a sense at the end that Bond’s mission has barely begun and he’ll need a few more movies to work his way up to destroying the apparently undefeatable Quantum organisation. The only real caveat is that while it’s exciting, it’s not exactly anyone’s idea of fun. To keep in the game, perhaps the next movie could let the hero enjoy himself a bit more.

Totalfilm 3/5 stars

The action is loud and proud, but the story feels disjointed and muddled, with some uneven flecks of comedy. Still, Craig’s presence keeps the edges from fraying too far and Forster just about nails the extra levels or artsiness and melancholy.

Times Online 4/5 Stars

The director, Marc Forster, has absorbed the lucrative lessons discovered in Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale. He has also managed to pace his sequel much better. Royale felt slightly wheel-clamped by one too many longeurs. If anything, the crunching chase sequences in Quantum of Solace are even more magnificently dangerous. And the daredevil leaps and tumbles through glass roofs are just as sensational as the splintering high-speed pyrotechnics.
But it’s the amount of heartache and punishment that Craig’s new Bond absorbs that makes him look so right for our times.
Bond is no longer a work in progress. He is now the cruel, finished article.

The Independent 3/5 stars

Quantum Of Solace doesn’t seem like a major entry in the Bond canon. Well under two hours long, it’s shorter and more frenetic than most of its predecessors, and an often-jolting experience to watch. Loose ends about. What it does have, though, above all, is vigour. The franchise hasn’t run out of juice quite yet.

The Guardian 3/5 stars

Quantum of Solace isn’t as good as Casino Royale: the smart elegance of Craig’s Bond debut has been toned down in favour of conventional action. But the man himself powers this movie; he carries the film: it’s an indefinably difficult task for an actor. Craig measures up.

And while were all ‘Bonded up’ here is an 1 minute long TV spot that is currently being shown on UK TV.

Quantum of Solace Sony TV Spot

Liam — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:33:04 +0000

Daniel Craig stars in a new, super-cool, television ad to promote Quantum of Solace and Sony HD TV’s. Whilst bullets fly, glass shatters, explosions erupt and buildings destruct around him, Craig stands tall pouting during the special effects orgy.

The TV spot is designed to show off the benefits of high-definition and the greater level of detail it provides, as well as Daniel Craig’s blue eyeballs.