Casino Royale for Bond 21?
OK, I need to start posting in here again.
I’ll start with a simple entry.
Search on for Next Bond to Star in ‘Casino Royale’
New Bond Gets ‘Royale’ Treatment
The latter article says:
The 21st James Bond film has a title: “Casino Royale,” which also was the title of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, published in 1953.The novel was adapted into a 1954 television show and Columbia Pictures’ unofficial 1967 spy spoof “Casino Royale,” which starred Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and David Niven. In 1999, MGM acquired the title and rights in a settlement with Columbia’s Sony Pictures parent. MGM is now in the process of being acquired by a Sony-led investor group.
Martin Campbell, who directed the 1995 Bond film “GoldenEye,” is on board to return to the helm. No decision has been made yet regarding casting for the role of James Bond, which has been played since “GoldenEye” by Pierce Brosnan.
If the movie is even somewhat faithful to the story we’ve been analyzing here, it will be a great movie! Of course, they will be adding plenty of gratuitous machine gun sequences, but hopefully the overall plot of the novel will be preserved.
I hope to have another installment of the Casino Royale novel on here soon…
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I am still disappointed over losing Pierce. He had so much more to do with that character. But now we will never see it. I have no intention of going to see Casino Royale. My kids and I have all the Bond films and a variety of Bond video games… I am done spending money on this franchise. Who knows after a few movies, I may come back but no plans on it for now.
As a company they can choose to what any actor they want play bond. As a consumer, I have the right to spend or not spend my families money on whatever I choose. Pierce was the best thing to walk in their doors and they did not even give him a full run of it…
So for now, I will be happy staying at home watching my old Bond movies and will be passing on the new Bond and the new movies.
Joe Miller
Hartland, MI
Comment left on October 15, 2005 @ 8:30 am