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Somebody I know tells me that he was in a BBC production of the Robert Harris book Archangel, but I didn't catch it.
He was also in Tomb Raider, but you'll have a hard time finding anybody who will admit having seen that.
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I think he's too ugly to be Bond. Boxer's nose and a brawny mouth, almost Brian Thompson-like. He looked like a sweaty child-molester with a comb-over in "Road to perdition" and his voice sounds like Eric Roberts only more slithery. I don't even remember his performance in "Tomb Raider".
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Give him the right hairdo, and I think he could work.
No Moneypenny... that's crap. The chick that was in the Pierce Brosnan movies was just smokin'. Judy Dench was an awesome M too... I hope she'll be back.
What happened to Brosnan, anyway? In my opinion he's the best Bond. Did he just not want to do it anymore? Of course, after the the last film with cloaking cars... who could really blame him?
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Well, by all accounts either he said he didn't want to do anymore, or they said they didn't want to use him anymore. Then he definitely said he was open to doing more, and I think they indicated they were open to it as well. Then, finally, they dispensed with his services - by fax.
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Maybe they are thinking about a return to a more icy and calculating Bond, like project: Timothy Dalton was intended to be after Moore the gentleman. I suppose I would prefer a rawer Bond to the excess of sportscars, gold watches and bimbos.
The name "Casino Royale" is a bit worrisome, though. Anyone know the plot?
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quote:"Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. This, the first of Fleming's tales of agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralise a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply 'Le Chiffre' - by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him. It seems that lady luck is taken with James - Le Chiffre has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules, and Bond's attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected saviour."
Doesn't sound much different than any other Bond movie. But I think one of the reasons they haven't done this one until now is because there was a Bond parody movie (in 1967) named "Casino Royale" based on this novel.
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Checked out some quotes from "Casino Royale" (1967) at imdb, I think I simply must get this movie.
- What are you going to do to me? - Physically, nothing, Mr Bond. - Oh I see, so you're going to nothing me to death!
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Maybe they're going to do an "Enterprise" and start shooting Bond prequels, shot in the era they were written. Would be nifty.
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Or, every time they would have said "Soviets", they'll just replace it with "terrorists". You know, like Tom Clancy.
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