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Daniel Craig Joins Golden Compass Cast
The ubiquitous Daniel Craig has been signed to play the fearsome Lord Asriel in the feature film version of The Golden Compass.
James Bond actor Daniel Craig is to take the role of Lord Asriel in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books. He will star alongside Nicole Kidman as the glamorous, ambitious Mrs Coulter and the unknown English schoolgirl, 12-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, as heroine Lyra Belacqua.
Filming will start in Britain on September 4, and the film is scheduled for release in December next year. The trilogy, budgeted at £83m, is to be made by New Line, the company behind The Lord of the Rings films, one of the most successful franchises.
We have to say that this sounds like an excellent casting idea. We think he'll do a bang up job in the role of the powerful, complex, obsessed Lord Asriel, who will do anything to achieve his goals.
Posted on August 21, 2006
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Daniel Craig Already Signed For Bond Sequel
We're starting to have some serious doubts about producer Barbara Broccoli's state of mind these days. Blithely ignoring a potential fan mutiny over the firing of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, Ms. Broccoli refuses to wait to see what the box office numbers for Casino Royale are: she's already signed Daniel Craig for a sequel.
Producer Barbara Broccoli is so certain his first film as 007, "Casino Royale", will be a hit she has already started working on the sequel.
She said: "We are already working on the sequel. We're in the early stages of that. It will be an original story but will continue part of what the story is in Casino Royale".
In a hopefully unrelated story, Daniel Craig has agreed at Ms. Broccoli's request to do the full Monty in the film. Yes, that's right, Craig will be buck naked during his love scenes -- that means full, frontal Bond.
Another scene is set in a hotel room," said the insider. "The script simply says: 'Bond and Vesper make reckless love and destroy the room.' It's frenzied and very, very passionate. Bond fans won't have seen anything like it before."
Clearly a pod person has taken over Barbara Broccoli's body and is using it to further some kind of complicated, devious alien plot to destroy the James Bond franchise.
Posted on March 21, 2006
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Daniel Craig's Bond Mishaps Continue
The New York Daily News reports on the lastest Daniel Craig/James Bond fiasco: he can't drive the Aston Martin because he doesn't know how to drive a stick shift car.
The latest hitch on the set of Casino Royale, the new 007 flick, reportedly occurred when the star revealed he couldn't drive the super-suave superspy's trademark Aston Martin. Craig, 37, found himself shaken, not stirred, when he was confronted with a manual gearshift instead of an automatic, British newspapers said today.
Craig, the first blond Bond, got off to a rough start. His two front teeth were knocked out when a stunt went wrong during his first fight scene for "Casino Royale."
Adding insult to injury, disgruntled Bond fans have launched a Web site - www.craignotbond.com - to protest Craig's casting as their hero.
Apparently they feel the English actor just doesn't have the right stuff to follow in the footsteps of former Bonds Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan - or even Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby.
Good Lord, what's next? He can't romance the lead because he doesn't know how to tango? He can't beat Le Chiffre because he doesn't know how to play Baccarat? Oh wait -- that's already happened: the writers are reportedly changing the game to Texas Hold 'Em, just as they'll probably have to write out the Aston Martin and write in a Ford Fiesta for him to drive. We know. It's just pathetic.
Posted on February 22, 2006
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