Bond XXI rumours

[sparklingblue]

;D ;D ;D

Just wanted to vote, but the poll has already been closed. But...

BROSNAN TOPS BOND POLL

March 24, 2004


Yesterday, ET viewers were asked to vote on who they'd like to see as the next James Bond. PIERCE BROSNAN still tops the list with 42 percent, with fans hoping to see him slip on that famous tuxedo for another installment of the 007 franchise. ORLANDO BLOOM gave Brosnan a run for his money, however, with a close 38 percent. HUGH JACKMAN and COLIN FARRELL followed with a respective 14 and 6 percent.

Brosnan recently told a Canadian newspaper that he has reached an impasse about the next Bond movie with its producers, however. The actor is quoted as saying, "The bar for these movies was raised so high with the last one and they don't seem to know how to improve on it. They don't have a script or a director so the rumors that we will begin filming in the fall are just rumors." 'Die Another Day,' co-starring HALLE BERRY, marked the 20th Bond film on its 40th anniversary and pulled in more than $300 million at the box office. Should Brosnan bow out of doing a fifth round as 007, other actors have already been mentioned including Bloom, Farrell, Jackman and 'Bourne Identity' star CLIVE OWEN.

(check out the pic of him on the page, it's nice )

[curious george]

Orlando Bloom?

::laughs hysterically::

cg

[Ace]

They actually report on their poll findings as news? A poll that lets one vote until one's fingers falls off or spam with a voting bot... very scientific. ;D

Ace

[xenos]

I confess I never heard of a guy named Orlando Bloom so I searched a bit...

home.t-online.de/home/autographsuccess/orlando_bloom.jpg

ähm..that should be the new Bond, James Bond?

good joke!

::shakes head::

[xenos]

www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1728155&nav=15MeLhQS


If pop singer Britney Spears is going to be a Bond girl, it's news to James Bond's Pierce Brosnan. The actor says he knows nothing about Spears becoming a Bond girl, in spite of rumors to that effect.

Brosnan says, "Bless her cotton socks and good luck to her."
If given a choice, Brosnan says he'd like Keira Knightley or Monica Belucci to be in a Bond movie.

While the 21st Bond movie is supposed to be in theaters November of next year, Brosnan says the producers are having a hard time of it. He says "there's a certain sense of paralysis that has kind of blanketed production at the moment. The last Bond broke all records. They don't know what to do."

Add to that the matriarch of the Bond empire, Dana Broccoli, recently passed away. Brosnan calls the Broccoli's death "a terrible loss." But, when things do get moving and the next Bond movie is ready to be filmed, Pierce Brosnan will be there. The actor has appeared in four Bond movies and says they know where to find him, "if they want to set sail with a fifth."

[Yuliya]

From Hello mag, posted by Nancy Eddy in another group.

www.hellomagazine.com/film/2004/04/01/piercebrosnan/

Pierce Fancies Keira as New Bond Babe

Despite his immediate future as 007 being still in the balance following changes at the film's production company, Pierce Brosnan has apparently been considering who he'd like as his next Bond babe. While there have been reports about raunchy US pop star Britney Spears having been approached about the role, the inimitable Mr Brosnan apparently thinks it's not for her.

"Britney? No, it's a rumour," says the dapper onscreen agent. While admitting that he doesn't get involved with all the speculation surrounding the movies – "I try to stay occupied with other films when I'm not doing it," he remarked - the 50-year-old is quite clear as to where his preference lies. "Keira Knightley maybe. She is a fantastic talent – if you know what I mean!"

The actor is reported to be a big fan of the 19-year-old Pirates Of The Caribbean star who, if she undertook the part, would be the youngest Bond love interest in the iconic series of films.

This latest episode will be the handsome Irish actor's last. "I'll do this but I'm not doing another one. I think it's time to move on," he says.

Perhaps with the thought of more free time on his hands Pierce has been showing an interest in purchasing Dylan Thomas's favourite watering hole in South Wales. According to the landlord of Brown's Hotel in Laugharne, the actor, who is known for his interest in the Welsh playwright and poet and whose seven-year-old son is named after him, has had "a good look around".

"He may well turn up on auction day," says Tommy Watts, who is asking £600,000 for the pub.

[Ace]

Cinema Confidential: Carrot Top is the new James Bond


04/01/04 AT 9:00 A.M.
BY THOMAS CHAU




The Los Angeles Observing Standard is set to report that Carrot Top will replace Pierce Brosnan in the next James Bond movie titled "Two Plus Two Equals Four Point Dead" for MGM Films. The studio is set to make the announcement today, April 1, 2004.

"We believe that Carrot Top, as you so call in here in the United States, is the best person to carry the torch that has been held by the greats, starting off with Sean [Connery] and now Pierce," a source from EON Productions said privately to the newspaper.

Pierce refused to comment on the matter but did offer this quote to the paper: "Does he even have a British accent?"

Carrot Top, real name Scott Thompson, is best known as a comedian with outrageous pranks. His first major starring role was in the comedy, "Chairman of the Board." He currently can be seen in annoying 1-800-CALL ATT commercials all over television.

The plot to "Two Plus Two Equals Four Point Dead" remains unknown but it is assumed that with Carrot Top's casting, the film will not feature any kind of action whatsoever. Instead, the script will focus heavily on James Bond's loud, obnoxious ways and will feature several scenes in which his fellow agents will go deaf after hearing him speak.

Carrot Top would be the first American actor to not have a British accent to play the part. The role of 007 has been played by five actors, including Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, George Lazenby, and Pierce Brosnan. He has beat out other A-list actors who were rumored for the role, including Colin Farrell and Hugh Jackman.

"Two Plus Two Equals Four Point Dead" will be released December 2006. Stay tuned to Cinema Confidential to find out more on this APRIL FOOLS DAY....

[curious george]

Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

That's not a joke, that's...that's...there's no word low enough to describe the idea.

I can't stand that guy. Do people really pay money to see him?

cg

p.s. sorry, thought I was still logged in!

[xenos]

haha very funny...hmm...not really

[sparklingblue]

Don't they have to draw the line somewhere, even if it's April 1st?

[Yuliya]

Same old rumor mongering but nice pictures.
Brosnan blasts spy series, The Sun, April 2, 2004.

[Ace]

Nice to see they use the most flattering (cough) current photo of him with that horrid mustache for the "too old?" pic. Fits with the rest of the muckracking tone of the article though. I do like the one on top though from the EW shoot back in '95.

Ace

[curious george]

You're right, Ace, that one with the moustache is particularly cheesy looking -- not that it's ever really flattering. Yuck.

cg

[xenos]

The Sun?! bah!

[Yuliya]

That's a hell of a way of saying, "Dear Yuliya, thank you for finding the article with the nice GoldenEye picture we haven't seen for a while."

[Ace]

www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film.html?2004-04/05/13.00.film

April 4, 2004

Tarantino, Brosnan Want Royale

Quentin Tarantino told SCI FI Wire that he has talked to Pierce Brosnan about adapting Casino Royale as Brosnan's fifth and final James Bond film. The director noted that his challenge would be to convince producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to diverge from the current formula of expensive action set pieces.

"I don't see that they have anything to lose at all," Tarantino said in an interview while promoting his latest film, Kill Bill, Vol. 2. "They've got this gigantic franchise, they can't do anything wrong with it. Pierce Brosnan's only going to do one more movie for them, if that, so if he stayed on to do one more with me, let's just this one year go my way and do it a little differently. I won't do anything that will ruin the series."

Tarantino hopes that the offer of a low budget and Brosnan's return would convince the producers to approve a one-time-only return to the character-driven spy plots of the first several 007 films. "Wouldn't it be great to have a James Bond movie that didn't cost $115 million and only cost $40 million or something like that?" he asked. "You know it's going to make its money back, and we [would] all do good. Maybe we win the critics this time, then you're back in business the way you were before."

Tarantino felt there was only "a thin chance" that he would win the project, and said he would concede to update the 1952 novel for the present day. "If I owned the material, I would set it in the '60s, but I'm sure I'd have to do it now." Casino Royale was first adapted as a comedy in 1967.

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Interesting and will alas never happen. EON would never give over that kind of control, and as for making it's money back on that budget, yeah, but probably not enough for it to subsidize all the other MGM loses like a tentpole pic needs to do.

Ace

[Piper]

Also on a different site:

New Bond ?
Wednesday April 07, 2004 (0713 PST)

HOLLYWOOD — Pierce Brosnan is finished with James Bond, according to his friend, neighbour and one-time 007 co-star, Michael Madsen.

HOLLYWOOD — Pierce Brosnan is finished with James Bond, according to his friend, neighbour and one-time 007 co-star, Michael Madsen.

“Pierce lives right down the beach from me. Our kids play together,” Madsen said during interviews for his own new movie, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1. “And he told me he doesn’t want to do another one.

“I also heard that they bought him out. I really don’t know but an impasse is an impasse.”

Madsen said he was told that Brosnan will be replaced with an Australian, although he did not know who and could not confirm if it was Hugh Jackman, who has been touted as a possible future Bond.

So has Englishman Clive Owen.

Madsen’s comments seem to put in stone something that Brosnan has only hinted at.

The Irish-born actor admitted last month that, while he was willing to do his fifth Bond picture if the filmmakers could get a decent script written and find a director for the project, the negotiations were not going well.

Neither was the script development.

“We’ve reached an impasse with the producers,” Brosnan said in March.

“They seem to be paralysed and cannot move forward. If they want me, they know where to find me.

“I was prepared to do a fifth film and then walk away. I made that very clear to the producers. We had started negotiations and I want to follow through, but conversations and telephone calls have dried up.”

Madsen said he himself is interested in the new Bond because he was supposed to get a role in it.

He last worked with Brosnan as Bond in Lee Tamahori’s Die Another Day (2002), playing Damian Falco. Now Madsen is wary.

“Well, I was going to do it with Pierce but, now that Pierce is out of the Bond picture, I don’t know what is going to happen. If (producer) Barbara Broccoli calls me up and says: ‘Michael, I want you to be in the James Bond picture,’ I’ll probably go do it, but I’m not going to call her.

“I don’t know the new Bond guy. I’ve never seen anything he’s done. I don’t even know what he looks like. I can’t remember the guy’s name. I would have to feel like he’s going to be a good Bond for me to want to do it.”

Madsen, who plays the assassin Sidewinder in the Kill Bill films, said that watching Brosnan on Die Another Day taught him how torturous it is for the star on a 007 set.

“You know, making a Bond film is not an easy thing to do. That’s a heavy shoot, man. That’s a long, long, big, big, heavy thing. The Bond thing is a tremendously gigantic production and the last one was hugely successful.

“For Pierce, that was the fourth one that he did. He’s tired, man. You know, he’s James Bond. He doesn’t have to do another one. Why would you? Why would you bother?”

[Piper]

Oops I mean to post that ( the post above) on the udate thread with the other story. But I messed up. Ace feel free to delete this or move it or whatever. Sorry I was temporarily confused.

[Ace]

Piper, that's fine it fits on either thread.

As for this new rumor. Pfffttt... PB had no option and no contract so he couldn't be "bought out" like Madsen said. As of Friday PB said he still wanted to be Bond and he was in Mexico City... so any info Madsen had was old or wrong or both. Either way it's a bit much for Madsen to be announcing PB's retirement if PB hasn't... some "friend".

The new rumor is that the above unnamed or rather unremembered Aussie is Heath Ledger... 26 yrs old balding blonde, who's recent films have all mega-bombed at the box office and who's great claim to fame is that he's dating Naomi Watts. If he's the new Bond then EON is officially on crack.

Ace

[sparklingblue]

I doubt Mr Madsen will be able to maintain his status as a friend of Pierce's after this.