Bad Wolf
14-10-2005, 12:45
Actor Daniel Craig has been unveiled as the new James Bond.
The English star of gangster film Layer Cake arrived at a press conference in London by speedboat to be confirmed as the next 007.
The 37-year-old actor will be the sixth James Bond, taking over from Pierce Brosnan, 52, for the next Bond movie.
Production of Casino Royale is due to start in January and director Martin Campbell has said it will be "tougher, grittier and more realistic".
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Craig's first major role was in the BBC Two drama Our Friends in the North in 1996 and he rose to prominence in Hollywood alongside Tom Hanks in Road To Perdition in 2002.
He has since played poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Sylvia and headlined Layer Cake. He is also to appear in Steven Spielberg's new drama Munich.
Asked earlier this year if he would take the role, Craig replied: "Well, the emotional level is not there and that's important for me.
"I'd want that to change but I don't know how ready they'd be to change."
Casino Royale will be an adaptation of author Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel and will be directed by GoldenEye film-maker Martin Campbell.
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In the book, the spy was introduced as a more youthful and cold character than the films, and Campbell has said the film will
Screenwriter Paul Haggis has said Bond will be reinvented as a younger character with no gadgets. Brosnan, who appeared in four Bond films, is now 52.
Speculation over who will play 007 was rampant since the last Bond movie, Die Another Day, came out in 2002.
Big names such as Clive Owen, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and Colin Farrell were all named as possible contenders. Craig will follow in the footsteps of Brosnan, Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore, George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton. David Niven appeared as Bond in an unofficial spoof version of Casino Royale in 1967.
The English star of gangster film Layer Cake arrived at a press conference in London by speedboat to be confirmed as the next 007.
The 37-year-old actor will be the sixth James Bond, taking over from Pierce Brosnan, 52, for the next Bond movie.
Production of Casino Royale is due to start in January and director Martin Campbell has said it will be "tougher, grittier and more realistic".
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif
Craig's first major role was in the BBC Two drama Our Friends in the North in 1996 and he rose to prominence in Hollywood alongside Tom Hanks in Road To Perdition in 2002.
He has since played poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Sylvia and headlined Layer Cake. He is also to appear in Steven Spielberg's new drama Munich.
Asked earlier this year if he would take the role, Craig replied: "Well, the emotional level is not there and that's important for me.
"I'd want that to change but I don't know how ready they'd be to change."
Casino Royale will be an adaptation of author Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel and will be directed by GoldenEye film-maker Martin Campbell.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif
In the book, the spy was introduced as a more youthful and cold character than the films, and Campbell has said the film will
Screenwriter Paul Haggis has said Bond will be reinvented as a younger character with no gadgets. Brosnan, who appeared in four Bond films, is now 52.
Speculation over who will play 007 was rampant since the last Bond movie, Die Another Day, came out in 2002.
Big names such as Clive Owen, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and Colin Farrell were all named as possible contenders. Craig will follow in the footsteps of Brosnan, Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore, George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton. David Niven appeared as Bond in an unofficial spoof version of Casino Royale in 1967.