For all of us that loved Casino Royale I have just come across one of the most disturbing sentences in relation to James Bond 22 or any movie to date. Here it is:
HAVING toughened up the character of James Bond for Casino Royale to huge critical acclaim, Daniel Craig has surprisingly revealed that the next Bond outing will mark a return to the comedy that Roger Moore brought to the franchise in the Seventies.
My translation of this reads something like this:
We hate our audience and hope to make them want to kill us.
Reading would be like hearing from Christopher Nolan that the “Bams” and “Zoinks” were going to be added into The Dark Knight. Why deviate from what the people love? Fans of action films have been begging for darker films and we got it with Collateral, Casino Royale and Batman Begins. Why would they want to ruin the chance of being one of the few?
This news comes from the Daily Express where Bond star Daniel Craig was quoted saying, “They [the producers] just want more gags. The next one’s going to be a lot funnier. Octopussy and Pussy Galore style gags. They’re all great names – but that’s the thing, the Bond jokes will be flipped on their heads.â€
Hopefully this is as far as they take it and leave it to the names, because to go any further would be going against everything Craig did in creating the new Bond of Casino Royale.
Craig adds, “There’s no point in trying to compete with every Bond that came before. You manage to make it your own.â€
Exactly Daniel, you have made it your own… Now don’t make it Roger Moore’s!
James Bond 22 is set to hit theaters on November 7, 2008 and is being directed by Marc Forster.
