News tidbits

[Germangirl]

...“Fincher, who intends to shoot the first in the series on location in Stockholm, says the film will be released in the summer of 2012.”...

This is something I really like to read. I hope, Europe will be choosen as location (I mean, Sweden). Ahhhh, I need to read the book...next. One of my local radiostations reported "shooting will start in October 2010?" (sadly I don't know whrere they get this info). And I would really love/want/have Daniel in the leading role. Bond is somewhere in "the dust" and Daniel likes to do new stuff. And I like to add, it would brings back him to Europe .

That info seems right - October till December, it was said.

[calypso]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ather.html



MartelMaxwell Fashion Editor Toni Jones in the studio to discuss
the 400% rise in Speedo sales in past 6months...The Daniel Craig effect?
about 2 hours ago via web

[calypso]

Gemma Arterton enters the Bond of marriage as she weds Italian she pencilled in her diary as 'future husband'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... z0qDJO8UYW

Well he's not the stunt man she was rumored to be dating is he?

gemma_arterton Stefano Catelli isn't Daniel Craig's body double
or a stuntman. He's an Italian sales manager who works for a British fashion company.
about 6 hours ago via web

[bumblebee]

Gemma Arterton enters the Bond of marriage as she weds Italian she pencilled in her diary as 'future husband'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... z0qDJO8UYW

Well he's not the stunt man she was rumored to be dating is he?

gemma_arterton Stefano Catelli isn't Daniel Craig's body double
or a stuntman. He's an Italian sales manager who works for a British fashion company.
about 6 hours ago via web

But wasn't she rumored to be dating Ben?

[calypso]

Gemma Arterton enters the Bond of marriage as she weds Italian she pencilled in her diary as 'future husband'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... z0qDJO8UYW

Well he's not the stunt man she was rumored to be dating is he?

gemma_arterton Stefano Catelli isn't Daniel Craig's body double
or a stuntman. He's an Italian sales manager who works for a British fashion company.
about 6 hours ago via web

But wasn't she rumored to be dating Ben?

i think, but i lost track.

[JEC57]

This is something I really like to read. I hope, Europe will be choosen as location (I mean, Sweden). Ahhhh, I need to read the book...next. One of my local radiostations reported "shooting will start in October 2010?" (sadly I don't know whrere they get this info). And I would really love/want/have Daniel in the leading role. Bond is somewhere in "the dust" and Daniel likes to do new stuff. And I like to add, it would brings back him to Europe .

He has been gone from Europe for far too long!!!

We want him back - NOW!!

[Sylvia's girl]

.Interesting sighting of DC with Bryan Lourd who is
one of the chief execs of the Creative Artists Agency who are probably the most powerful talent agencies in Hollywood. To discuss The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo perhaps?

Legendary talent agent Bryan Lourd surprised his junior CAA team by turning up at the Tower Bar in LA the other night with Daniel Craig. A CAA crew had already settled into the bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel when their boss showed up with the latest James Bond, one of Lourd's top clients. They were seated two tables away. "Looks were exchanged between Lourd and his young execs, but there wasn't much conversation," said a spy.
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/boss_sh ... 0zZHFIASCN

[Germangirl]

[calypso]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/06/is ... g_str.html

'Bryan Lourd schmoozed at L.A.'s Tower Bar with Daniel Craig, sitting two tables away from the company's younger agents.'

[calypso]

old interview
http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/fil ... -interview

Time Out Chicago:

This first question is from Richard Kiel, who played Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. He wants to know: How has being Bond changed your career? Have you been offered better roles because of it?
Daniel Craig: Yes, there’s no doubt it’s changed things. It might have been different if we hadn’t had the success we did with Casino Royale. It could have been more, let’s say…interesting. When it comes to being offered roles: At least I’ve been shown stuff I wasn’t before. I may not have been offered all the jobs that you’d expect, but I’ve definitely been shown stuff. And it’s made me get more active about it, too. That’s what I’ve always done, actively gone looking for scripts, and this has given me that extra push. I was making Defiance, a World War II film, last year with director Edward Zwick and alongside Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell, which was definitely one of those roles that just got plumly offered to me. I don’t think that would have happened before.

ROPE, A DOPE Jaws (Richard Kiel) was a Bond villain with an oral fixation.

TOC: Richard Kiel also wants to ask—
Daniel Craig: No, he can’t borrow my car.

TOC: —who is your favorite male actor and have you tried to emulate him in any way? Maybe you could apply that question to when you were younger?
Daniel Craig:The answer’s no. Definitely not. I had a ton of people I admired, but I was as fickle as I could possibly be. It depended on the movie I came out of. Literally. If I came running out of a movie, I was that person for at least 10 or 15 minutes, like we all were. I was as fickle as that. I didn’t care as long as they were cool and good in that movie. I admire and respect people like Paul Newman, the great modern movie actors, like Robert Redford, Steve McQueen. Those guys who were not only great actors but movie stars, as well.

TOC: This question is from Dame Stella Rimington, former head of MI5.
Daniel Craig: Fucking hell! Have you got some people in your family?

TOC: Have you ever met a real British intelligence officer and is your portrayal of Bond influenced in any way by that?
Daniel Craig: Firstly—how would I know if I met a spy? Although, I have met quite a lot of special-forces guys who do a lot of covert work. On the whole, they’re easier to recognize [because] they look like they can kill. They give off an aura of violence.

TOC: So no spy has ever approached you in solidarity?
Daniel Craig: What? A nod and wink at me in a strange way? No—I’m not sure that’s the answer she’s looking for!

TOC: How have you dealt with the public interest that comes with playing Bond? You must have had to consider that when you took the plunge.
Daniel Craig: Definitely. That was one of the many conversations I had with myself—very loudly, probably—but also as part of all the advice I took, discussions with family as well as colleagues. When it came down to it, I decided to embrace the whole thing. There’s no point doing a Bond movie—or a $200 million movie—and hiding away for six months. You have to get out there and do it. You have to expect a level of interest, instead of thinking, Oh Christ, I don’t know if I can deal with this. But on the whole, I’m doing the same thing I’ve always done and trying to keep as private as I possibly can. Certainly I’ve tried to keep my family and friends far away from it, and I feel their privacy is crucially important.

TOC: And one from Ann Carter, the head of exhibitions at London’s Imperial War Museum, which has an Ian Fleming show on at the moment: How much have you based your Bond on your predecessors?
Daniel Craig: Not at all, really. Not deliberately. I sat and watched every movie religiously. And I still do—I have them all in the trailer. I’ve become a nerd, basically. I feel I need to, it’s part of what it is. But…I could never start repeating it; I had to take it somewhere new. I may just start doing Sean Connery impressions in the next movie, just for the hell of it.

I CAN SEE ALASKA FROM MY HOUSE Ukraine-born Olga Kurylenko is the new Bond girl.

TOC: Here’s one from Charlie Higson, author of the Young Bond books: How much of Fleming’s Bond is there in your Bond?
Daniel Craig: I hope a lot, but it’s subliminal. It’s just about reading the books. What I wanted to do with Quantum of Solace—and what [director Marc Forster] wanted to do—was to draw on Fleming’s obsession with detail. He has two pages to describe making scrambled eggs, things like that. Some of which is in some of the earlier Bonds. Marc wanted to turn that into cinematic detail, so that just looking at the frame is sumptuous. Also, there’s a darkness in Casino Royale, there’s a fight in there. Here’s a man who’s incredibly reluctant to be doing what he does, which I think applied to Fleming, too. He’d always have preferred to be at Goldeneye [Jamaica] writing and taking gin fizzes at 11 o’clock in the morning. Wouldn’t we all?

TOC: I spoke to Marc Forster recently, and he kept stressing the importance of character in this new film. Was that key?
Daniel Craig: I think so. Marc’s Swiss—I mean this in the best way—he’s very fastidious, very organized, which lends itself to a Bond movie. There’s an efficiency that you need. I think my Bond is quite efficient, but ragged, if that makes sense. He efficiently kills people but everything blows up around him. I couldn’t sing Marc’s praises highly enough; he’s a good man.

DO YOU EXPECT ME TO TALK? Current Bond Craig, top, took questions from former “Q” John Cleese, and former Bond Roger Moore.

TOC: This is from Stephen Dorril, who writes about MI6. Is there anything you’ve come across making the film that might be useful for a real MI6 officer?
Daniel Craig: Integrity! An understanding of moral issues. An understanding of the world—worldliness is always good.

TOC: There aren’t as many gadgets in the films as there used to be.
Daniel Craig: We haven’t stressed that with this one, and I’m not saying we won’t in the future. But still, there are more in this one—there’s something called the Smart Wall that’s connected to a piece of machinery in MI6. We’ve tried to integrate the gadgets into everyday usage so that it’s not like, “Aha, there’s the gadget!” It’s all working continually. We live in a world of surveillance and satellite tracking. We might tackle it one day. I’m not averse to anything; I just want it to feel right.


TOC: Here’s Sir Roger Moore. He wants to know: Who is your favorite Bond between Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton?
Daniel Craig: [Laughs] It’s you, Sir Roger! I’m a Sean Connery fan, and he knows that; I’ve told lots of people. But I’ve got a big soft spot for Roger Moore, as Live and Let Die was the first movie I saw in the cinema with my dad. It was ridiculously camp—and then it just got campier.

TOC: Have you had much dialogue with previous Bonds?
Daniel Craig: I speak to Pierce [Brosnan] occasionally. We’ve got the same publicist, so I might get on the phone with him when he’s on junkets: “Hello, you all right? How’s it going?” He was genuinely really nice and encouraging when the whole thing kicked off.

TOC: Sir Roger would also like to know if you’ll be buying his new autobiography.
Daniel Craig: Probably! Can he not sign me a copy? I’ll buy it. You made these questions up! You could have made these questions up.…


TOC: And one from John Cleese: How tall do you think Bond should be?
Daniel Craig: Bastard! Tell him to fuck off! Shorter than John Cleese! He’s about 6'5", I think.

TOC: Here’s a question from the bar manager at Dukes Hotel in London. Martinis: shaken or stirred?
Daniel Craig: I don’t know who has stirred cocktails anymore. I like them ice, ice, ice cold, so you have to shake them up.

TOC: Gin or vodka? Twist or olive?
Daniel Craig: Vodka. With an olive.

TOC: The Bond films are huge studio enterprises, but then there’s the family element: the Flemings and the books, the Broccolis and the film legacy. How does that play out for you?
Daniel Craig: I don’t think Michael or Barbara [stepson and daughter of original Bond producer Cubby Broccoli] would mind me saying that they are as close as you’ll get to making a Hollywood movie away from home, but the way it’s run is unique. It’s all because of them. It has total autonomy and it’s their love of the product—the books—that comes from Cubby and they guard it jealously.

TOC: The Broccolis have done a sterling job of keeping it up-to-date in a world of Bourne and digital effects.
Daniel Craig: It’s show business, let’s be honest. That’s what Cubby Broccoli and his coproducer Harry Saltzman were all about. Those early Bonds defined movies in the ’60s of that type because they went on location. They went to Tokyo, to Rio; they flew everybody there. We’ve continued that, and it’s a really good formula. It makes going to the cinema a special occasion. It’s event cinema.

TOC: Twenty-two films down the line it’s got to be hard to preserve that sense of wonder.
Daniel Craig: It is, but that’s why Marc was so clever finding that location down in Panama and shooting down there. It’s a place called Colón, which is seriously depressed economically but a wonderful, wonderful place, one of those magical places. And that’s there on the screen. We also went to Chile; that’s all up there on the screen, as well. Marc pushed for that; he was so insistent on making the locations characters in this movie. Anything to keep it away from me, fine!

TOC: Marc brought with him a lot of new talent. It seems there was a bit of a shake-up behind the scenes?
Daniel Craig: It wasn’t a shake-up.…

TOC: But there were new editors, a new costume designer, a new production designer.…
Daniel Craig: There was no aggressive move—but Marc came in and he wanted to interview new people. The timing was bang on. They’ve done 21 Bond movies, and we wanted to get a new look. It was so important to me that we didn’t just rehash Casino Royale. Yes, it’s a sequel, but we had to take some risks and try to do something different. We had to get some new ideas, get some fresh people in—people to share the panic with!

[Germangirl]

Someone at MI6 posted this, but he is a DC hater

Johny Depp going to play a lead part in this movie.

Source: Interview with Swedish writer Jens Lapidus in Dutch program Rtl Boulevard. He get Zac Afron as lead for his American remake of ''Bloedlink'', whyle Stieg Larsson his American remake of Millennium Trilogy get Johny Depp for the lead.

Like someone else stated:

By the internet feedback, Craig is the most popular to play Mikael Blomkvist.
Vox pop should and hopefully rule the day.

Nothing on Google alerts or twitter, yet, which would be the case, if the decision was made. So, there is still hope, I so wish for him, that he gets that role. Even without being his fan - he is just perfect for the rolle.

[Laredo]

I was going to put a posittive post on IMDB but for some reason I can't log like I have before .

[calypso]

Twitter
@CTAH1976 I must have put the 'very handsome man' bit down to Larsson's wish-fulfillment
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck

@CTAH1976 Oh I hope so. Craig is the right balance. Like Nyqvist he won't overwhelm who they get to play Salander. She is the star after all
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to CTAH1976

@CTAH1976 Brad Pitt's a pockmarked minger too though.
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to CTAH1976

@Owsler Ha... Pockmarked, but not exactly the Robert Davi tribute act they cast in the Swedish version. Besides, it's Daniel Craig, no?
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to Owsler

@Owsler Ha.Seriously: worst casting ever. (meaning Pitt)
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck

@Owsler Ha.Staggered by the miscasting of Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Book: "very handsome man". Film: pockmarked minger. (meaning Pitt)
about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck

[calypso]

http://www.weekinrewind.com/2010/06/dan ... ragon.html

Though it has been rumored that Brad Pitt was to re-team with his "Fight Club" director David Fincher on the upcoming remake of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," another name has emerged to play the film's male lead--Daniel Craig.

According to Deadline: No offers have been made as of yet.

In the story, Blomqvist is a disgraced journalist in Stockholm who is investigating the 40-year-old disappearance of a industrialist's niece on a remote island. His investigations alongside misunderstood rebellious female hacker Lisbeth Salander uncover religious killings, Nazism, rape, child abuse and murder.

Craig, currently filming Jon Favreau's "Cowboys and Aliens," was slated to shoot the next James Bond film at the end of the year. However, MGM's financial difficulties have likely pushed back filming on 007's next adventure into 2011.

The important role of Lisbeth Salander has yet to be cast, though, with names such as Carey Mulligan, Ellen Page, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Kristen Stewart, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway and Scarlett Johansson offered up as potentials.

Steve Zaillian ("Schindler's List," "American Gangster") is penning the script based directly on the book rather than the Swedish-language film.

The rumor mill will always swirl especially when you are talking about a project this high profile, but in my eyes either Pitt or Craig would be a fine choice. Craig is free due to the problems with MGM, and I really think he could fit the role, and perhaps give it a bit more authenticity since he's from Europe. Either way, this role would be a score for any actor.

The film is slated for release in December next year.

[Germangirl]

Is Jamie Bell Spider Man?

http://www.empiremovies.com/2010/06/08/ ... pider-man/