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Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, and MGM announced today that Martin Campbell will direct Casino Royale, the 21st film in the 007 franchise.

This is Campbell's second time as helmer of a James Bond film. In 1995 he directed the hit Goldeneye which introduced Pierce Brosnan to the role of 007 with great success.

Wilson and Broccoli said: "We are thrilled that Martin has accepted our offer to direct 'Casino Royale'. He is an extremely talented director and we believe he will help take our films in a new and exciting direction. He is currently finishing filming 'The Legend of Zorro', the sequel to 'The Mask of Zorro', and will be joining EON Productions shortly to work on the development of the script with our writers, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade."

MGM Vice Chairman and COO Chris McGurk said: "Martin is an incredibly exciting filmmaker. 'Goldeneye' was a wonderful movie and helped reinvigorate the Bond franchise. We're thrilled to have him back to direct the newest Bond."

Born in New Zealand, Campbell moved to England in 1966 and made his directorial debut on the popular TV series' The Professionals and Minder. He moved to America in 1986 to direct Criminal Law and Defenceless. Following Goldeneye, he went on to direct The Mask Of Zorro, Vertical Limit and Beyond Borders and is currently directing The Legend of Zorro.

Casino Royale will be released in 2006 and distributed world-wide by MGM. No decision has yet been made regarding casting for the role of 'James Bond'.
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Hah, I'm sure Pierce Brosnan and Quentin Tarantino love this news. "Hey thanks guys, for taking our idea and leaving us out of it."

Anyway, GoldenEye is undoubtedly my favorite of the recent bunch, so I'm definitely down for seeing Martin Campbell return and do a take on Casino Royale.

Now we have to hope for a decent actor to be picked for Bond...
 
Brosnan is done with it. This is from his official site a couple days ago:
I would like to thank all of you who have supported me over the last year or so in regard to my playing Bond. It was a decade of my life that I will always hold dear to my heart and a time that will never be forgotten. And you dear friends stood by me throughout. Many, many thanks! But everything comes to an end, and one must accept this decision which cannot be dealt with in any other way but with some kind of grace and knowledge that I did the job to the best of my ability.
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Casino Royale? They already did that:

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Yes, a James Bond movie (if you could call it that) with Woody Allen as James Bond's nephew or cousin or something.

By the way, never watch this after 2 AM, your head will explode trying to follow what the hell is going on.
 
Goldeneye was my favourite of the recent Bonds, which I think went slightly downhill each time. Then finally very quickly downhill all at once.

The origianl Casino Royale is some quality nonsense, I watched it last on crap acid but enough about me. I'm fairly certain a remake will be appalling. But I do wonder who they will cast?
 
Great, they couldn't even come up with a new story this time.
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At least they have a chance (a slim one at that) to repair that tranished film to some sort of glory.
 
Not that I've ever actually watched more than 5 minutes of any Bond movie, but in case anyone is curious about why Casino Royale again, I've read a bit of it in news articles. It was actually the first Bond book. Since the movie version of it was goofified, it remained the only original Bond book not made into a serious picture.
 
Dan said:
Hah, I'm sure Pierce Brosnan and Quentin Tarantino love this news. "Hey thanks guys, for taking our idea and leaving us out of it."

Anyway, GoldenEye is undoubtedly my favorite of the recent bunch, so I'm definitely down for seeing Martin Campbell return and do a take on Casino Royale.

Now we have to hope for a decent actor to be picked for Bond...
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Damn it, I wish Pierce came back for one more since Martin Campbell is returning. Sucks that Pierce will be leaving the Bond series with a movie like Die Another Day :(
 
god the last bond was awful. was that the "Let's surf into the secret base or super surfboards" one? What if there was no wave that day?
 
catfish said:
god the last bond was awful. was that the "Let's surf into the secret base or super surfboards" one? What if there was no wave that day?
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Yes, also it had the horrible snowboarding CGI during the ending -_-
 
ManaByte said:
Clive Owen needs to be the next Bond, but they'll probably do something retarded like make it Fez or something.
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I can see Clive playing this role. Read the book. Bond is more smooth in this role than in anything since.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Not that I've ever actually watched more than 5 minutes of any Bond movie, but in case anyone is curious about why Casino Royale again, I've read a bit of it in news articles. It was actually the first Bond book. Since the movie version of it was goofified, it remained the only original Bond book not made into a serious picture.
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Goofified perhaps, yet better than the vast majority of other Bond films by a very wide margin. :D
 
ManaByte said:
Clive Owen needs to be the next Bond, but they'll probably do something retarded like make it Fez or something.
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I would pay $100 to see Fez as bond in a bond movie... heck, I would pay $1million to see that (assuming I had $1mil in the first place).
 
This is GREAT news. If they can make Casino Royale close to the book, unlike the Allen movie, it will be fantastic. Cambell did a hell of a job with GoldenEye, which I consider one of the absolute best in the series.
 
Die Another Day was godfuckingawful. And not because of Piercey-poo. 'Tis a shame he won't participating in anymore Bond movies; he was made for them.
 
Actually, this will make the third time Casino Royale has been filmed. The first was the very first Bond screen appearance, as an episode of CBS's "Climax!" in 1954. It was a live performance with Barry Nelson as a very, very American James Bond (up to and including folks calling him Jimmy Bond and the smooth English character in a tux having to teach Bond baccarat) and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. It's interesting, but not what you would call great, and can be seen in it's entirety as a bonus feature on the DVD release of the 1967 Casino Royale.

Say what you will about the 60's Casino Royale (I'm usually reduced to muttering "I've been Sixtied!" over and over again): while it was a complete mess that not even the combined powers of Peter Sellers, Orsen Wells, Woody Allen, and a bevy of hot women could save, the absurdist ending sequence is worth watching if only so you can gape at it in utter amazement - that and no matter who does the soundtrack for the new Casino Royale it will suck ass compared to Burt Bacharach's gloriously swinging score, as performed by Herb Alpert and his Tiuana Brass.

Seven FnordChans at the Casino Royale
 
Casino Royale is sounding better and better

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11007

Oscar-nominated writer Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash) has been tapped to do a rewrite of Casino Royale, Sony and MGM's 21st installment of the James Bond franchise, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson have brought back Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, The Legend of Zorro) to direct his second 007 film. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who wrote Bond films The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day, penned the previous draft. The search for a new Bond to replace Pierce Brosnan is under way.
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Martin Campbell dumped the worst Bond writers ever, finally!
 
Synbios459 said:
I could've sworn someone posting about how the new JB actor had been replaced by some older guy from England:/
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They havent picked a Bond yet, they dont begin filming til early 2006.
 
Look, it's been years since I've seen the 60s Casino Royale, but at the time - and to this day - I've been lead to believe that it was nothing more than a parody and not to be taken seriously by Bond enthusiasts.

(And the score does rock. It was one of the first MP3s I looked for back in college.)
 
It would be really cool if Clive Owen did play Bond--unfortunately he doesn't want the gig. I heard him talk about it on Conan some months back and he said he just wasn't interested. He could always change his mind if they throw enough money at him, but I wouldn't hold my breath though. He seemed pretty adamant about not having anything to with it.
 
really sucks for Brosnan. The guy is easily the best bond ever. Aside from Goldeneye, though, all his bond movies are, well, not that good. (Only or of them is really BAD, though)
 
Anamoly said:
It would be really cool if Clive Owen did play Bond--unfortunately he doesn't want the gig. I heard him talk about it on Conan some months back and he said he just wasn't interested. He could always change his mind if they throw enough money at him, but I wouldn't hold my breath though. He seemed pretty adamant about not having anything to with it.
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Uh, that's not what he said. He basically said the role was so much bigger than him that he didn't spend every minute of every day thinking about it.
 
Uh, that's not what he said. He basically said the role was so much bigger than him that he didn't spend every minute of every day thinking about it.
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He implied everything short of no and didn''t seem to be too enthusiastic about taking the role either way.
 
Michael Campbells return is good news because Goldeneye was the best bond movie in a while, but Brosnans departure sucks. Who is going to be the new James Bond? There have been a few names that have been thrown around, Jonny Depp was one of them, so was Orlando Bloom and Colin farrell, but for gods sake, dont let it be Colin Farrell.
 
It's so weird seeing a movie like X3 on it's way down, then seeing a movie liek this on it's way up. Now if only they throw some major cash at Owen, we could get this shit rolling again.
 
My candidates:

George Clooney => I would prefer an english/irish/scottish one...

Ewan McGreggor => Too fucking young !

Liam Neesson => Perfect...except by the fact I don't see him doing it...
 
Fez already has the ladys man role down, infact id say he's probably too good with the Ladies to play Bond, he'd have to seriously downplay himself to pull it off.
 
I always thought Brosnan had the potential to be one of the very best Bonds ever, but they just kept sticking him in one poorly concieved plot after another.
 
Ghost said:
Fez already has the ladys man role down, infact id say he's probably too good with the Ladies to play Bond, he'd have to seriously downplay himself to pull it off.
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Fez is James Bond in WALL OF BITCHES!
 
Clive Owen should do it but he could easily turn it down given how many years he's dedicated to denying he's the next Bond. After Layer Cake, Daniel Craig wouldn't be bad at all though, as long as it's not Russel Crowe or Orlando Bloom or any of those cunts.
 
Uh-oh.

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Paul Haggis, who is working on the script for Casino Royale, said: "It's going to be good.

"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."

Producers have still not decided who will play the spy in Casino Royale, which is due out next year. The most recent star, Pierce Brosnan, is 52.
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No, no, no. No. Getting rid of Q and gadgets would take the series back to the Dr. No era, which might make things interesting. But making him 28 misses the entire point. Bond is a middle-aged Englishman with a sense of entitlement who gets the ladies because he's got style. He's not a 28-year-old.
 
Prospero said:
Uh-oh.

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No, no, no. No. Getting rid of Q and gadgets would take the series back to the Dr. No era, which might make things interesting. But making him 28 misses the entire point. Bond is a middle-aged Englishman with a sense of entitlement who gets the ladies because he's got style. He's not a 28-year-old.
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why can't he be a 28 year old with a sense of entitlement who gets the ladies because he's got style?
 
Prospero said:
Uh-oh.

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No, no, no. No. Getting rid of Q and gadgets would take the series back to the Dr. No era, which might make things interesting. But making him 28 misses the entire point. Bond is a middle-aged Englishman with a sense of entitlement who gets the ladies because he's got style. He's not a 28-year-old.
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That's really great.





Edit: I like John Cleese, but I don't really want to see him in the Bond movies. No Q is great.
 
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