A Bond movie with the main character bumbling around, getting emotional and lacking any high-tech tools? What is this? A Peter Seller’s Inspector Clouseau movie?
Get a gander at this news item:
MIAMI (Reuters) – Forget the gadgets, invisible cars and exploding space stations. The next James Bond movie, “Casino Royale,” is going to be pure grit, real stunts and a spy who fumbles a kill, falls in love and dislikes violence.
There’ll be no computer-generated imagery, the prologue is in black and white “to shake everybody up,” and the MI6 agent, played for the first time by English actor Daniel Craig, will take a while to get into his trademark tuxedo, playing the more human side of the character.
“At the end of it he’s sort of honed into the Bond, the emotionally shut-down beautiful machine that Bond’s become,” director Martin Campbell told reporters this week on a visit to the movie set in the Bahamas.
“The great thing about it is that he makes mistakes and screws up. Bond finds violence hard to take, he won’t admit to that. He has to do two killings, one is very messy. He falls in love with a girl, genuinely falls in love,” said Campbell.
There is no “Q,” no “Moneypenny” and only “a little bit of gadgetry,” in the movie due for release in November and being distributed by Columbia Pictures, a Sony Pictures Entertainment unit, he said.
YIKES! The franchise will never survive this one!
Bring back Pierce Brosnan, guys. Forget about “Casino Royale.” There is still a world out there to save. There are still delightful and beautiful women to embrace. There are still Aston Martins to drive, and wonderful gadgets to deploy. There are still audiences to be stirred, not shaken. When you got something good, that works, DON’T MESS WITH IT!
I, for one (although I am not a movie critic, nor have I ever desired to be one), am staying home for this one, come November. I recommend that you do the same.
Regards, and Happy Monday,
Roger Born
“Your mileage may vary.”
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