Casino Royale - New Bond, New Girl, New Villain

Why is this in French and not English?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Brosnan was the people's choice for Bond in the early 80s, but because of his commitment to Remington Steele, they had to bring in Timothy Dalton, who, although brought out what people say to be the 'real Bond - hard edge, cold as ice, but still with a bit of humour here and there - was TOO serious, especially after the camp and over the top humour that Roger Moore brought in.

Brosnan's Bond was serious, but there was a more relaxed feel to it. He looked a lot more suave, more cool, more gentlemanly than Dalton's revenge-exacting, Miami Vice-inspired bastard.
There was only one moment of that for Brosnan, and that was in The World Is Not Enough when he kills Elektra King.

If you notice, Connery also has moments of that too. One example I remember off the top of my head is in Dr No, when he tells Quarrel to get that photographer chick. He was very much the bastard.

I think Craig IS going to be rather serious in the movie, maybe a little more than we're used to from Brosnan's movies.
I reckon it'll turn out great though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Sony said that that teaser was not the real teaser trailer.
Thats most likely why we havent seen an English trailer.

The real one will be released in the next week or so, apparently.

One of the things about James Bond is EVERY action has emulated Bond so much, that even though he has his own style, he has become indistinguishable from recent action heroes and movies.
Die Another Day, while it had the campiness, was just too much.
And while it did well at the box office, was just not what Bond was all about. All you needed to do was to take away 'Bond, James Bond', and 'Shaken, Not Stirred', and he would have become like every other mindless action hero.

With the way they're doing with this movie so far is that, yes, while it does have some mindless action, it's more because Bond is not yet a full 00-agent. It's when he becomes one, and is sent on the actual Casino Royale mission that he becomes the person we know from the older movies.

Thats what i HOPE will happen.

Craig MAY NOT have the chops to be Bond.
But judging by that awesome teaser poster, it seems he's doing well.
We'll all just have to see the movie in November to find out for real.
Or, at least, when the theatrical trailer is released.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Whoa!

Thanks Acid!
Vesper Lynd's fiiiine thighs in super high res....fuckin awesome XD

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well, the new Casino Royale Trailer is out!!

Check it out here!

Looks like a classier, more dangerous Bond more than ever now.

For an indication, check out the trailers for the previous Bond movies here:

Miss Moneypenny's Rolodex
Click on the relevant movie title, and scroll down to the bottom to see the trailers.

You notice that there's a HUGE difference....

Very much looking forward to it!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Maaaan, the music to that trailer is awesome as well.....

Can't wait for the score to be released.

And since this hasn't been posted yet: Chris Cornell, of Soundgarden/Audioslave/Temple of the Dog fame wrote and performed the song, which is titled 'You Know My Name'.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I was really disappointed with the Goldeneye score by Eric Serra (which was an attempt at modernising Bond, but just didn't work), and the score for Die Another Day, which was all over the place.

Arnold's score for TND was definitely his best.

Company Car from the TND soundtrack is the best take on the Bond theme ever.
Kudos to Arnold for that.

I also like how he used the tune for KD Lang's 'Surrender' in many of the tracks in TND, which he also did in TWINE (which was also a good score) where many of the tracks reflected the tune for 'Only Myself to Blame' by Scott Walker.
He may definitely do that with Casino Royale, considering he's said that the James Bond theme won't be present in the score at all until near the end or AT the end of the movie.

There were rumours that he was going to take cues from the On Her Majesty's Secret Service theme song, but that was denied.

I'm still looking forward to the score though, considering there's not many of the 'standard' action scenes in this movie that he can use his techno remix stuff on, and that it's not as camp or light-hearted as Brosnan's outings.

FELIPE NO

Whoa!

Must find this album!!!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by LeHah

In other news, I have a copy of David Arnold's score already.

WHOA WHOA WHAAAT?!
WHERE?!?!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It was more that it was time they got around to making Casino Royale into an official movie.
As far as I'm concerned, they haven't made a movie based on a book since Moonraker, and even that was very LOOSELY based on the book.

From that point onward, they were all original stories. The books For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights was just a collection of short story, and the movies featured their own original stories - albeit VERY LOOSELY based on those books.

Every Bond actor, as far as I'm concerned, has his OWN continuity.
Each period of their tenure as Bond follows the actor more than the story in terms of continuity, especially with the introduction of supporting characters:

Sheriff JW Pepper is in Live and Let Die, and then The Man With the Golden Gun - in which he remembers Bond from the previous time they met. That's a continuity within the Moore period.

Another example is CIA Agent Jack Wade in Brosnan's movies, first appearing in Goldeneye, and then Tomorrow Never Dies.

The execption to the first 20 Bond movies is Q, Moneypenny, M and Felix Leiter.

In Casino Royale, they really are restarting EVERYTHING. the 'original' M is now a woman, Felix is now African-American, etc, and there are introductions to every character as Bond meets them.
So Daniel Craig will have his own continuity that won't even be part of the 'overall rough continuity' of the other movies.

Reports have also surfaced from Eva Green herself that the baddie in the next Bond movie is actually going to be Vesper Lynd's lover, so that's a direct continuity with Casino Royale right there.

There's nowhere I can't reach.