Why, oh why, did they go with Daniel Craig? Isn't it obvious that Clive Owen is the only contemporary contender for James Bond? Obvious, it seems, to everyone but Owen (who doesn't want to be typecast) and the people at Eon Productions. Admittedly, Craig does have the weathered features of the James Bond novel covers, but he looks like he needs a good scrub followed with diction lessons.
I know that they're stripping the Bond formula back to bare basics with Casino Royale, something long overdue for the franchise, IMHO. No gadgets, Q, or Moneypenny. But is this going to work, or is it some half-assed attempt to mirror Batman Begins?
As for Owen, he is in London filming the thriller The Children of Men, based on a P.D. James novel. Set in a dystopic near-future where humans cannot conceive, Julianne Moore plays a woman who falls pregnant, and Owen is the bodyguard assigned to protect her. Shooting is planned for the Fleet Street area all weekend. I know this because we got an e-mail about it at work. Fleet Street is totally off limits on Sunday to allow some effects sequences to be shot. Apparently, a cafe will explode, and a vehicle will crash. I'm sure it will be more exciting than it sounds.
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