He's in The Jacket and Layer Cake and was Ted Hughes in Sylvia. Also played Conner Rooney in Road To Perdition.


British actor Daniel Craig picked as new James Bond


LONDON (AFP) - The producers of the hugely successful James Bond film franchise have chosen British actor Daniel Craig to take over the role of the suave super-spy, a report said.

The 37-year-old has been offered a three-film deal by Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and is expected to sign up formally in the next few weeks, The Sun newspaper reported Wednesday.

Craig, a tough-looking character actor who has mixed up appearances in many art-house titles with roles in blockbusters such as "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", just beat fellow Briton Clive Owen for the role, the report said.

Craig would be the sixth Bond in the official series of films based on the novels by Ian Fleming, following Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and most recent incumbent Pierce Brosnan.

According to The Sun, Owen -- nominated for an Oscar this year for film "Closer" -- had told casting agents he did not want the job, although Broccoli was already favouring Craig.

While Craig remains relatively unknown outside Britain, he is well espected as an actor and also has the necessary reputation for being something of a Bond-esque ladies man, having recently dated supermodel Kate Moss.

Citing an unnamed "movie source", The Sun said that staff working at Eon Productions, which makes the Bond movies, had been told Craig would star in the next films.

"Daniel is the new 007. He is going through the deal with his lawyers. It's a big commitment for a minimum of 10 years, but he has indicated he will take the job," the source said.

Brosnan's last film as Bond was "Die Another Day" in 2002. Since then a string of possible replacements have been mooted, including Britons Jude Law and Ewan McGregor and Australian actors Hugh Jackman and Eric Bana.

Fleming's novels chronicling the adventures of the British spy codenamed 007 were first turned into a film in 1962, with "Dr No".

the only real bond is sean connery.
i've learned to accept roger moore and pierce brosnan.
lazenby and dalton you can have. that's what this smells like.

I'm balding and craggy, but a dangerous sumbitch, I tell ya

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you've gotta be kidding...

That's not James Bond.

oih ayah come on! As much as I loathe Roger Moore, he's become the quintessential Bond for me of only because of the most ridiculous plotlines EVER (exception: the one where they make Sean Connery "Japanese") and totally absurd judo chops. Hey, I love the Connery, but I can't ever dismiss Moore. Unless he returns to the role at age 60 or whatever opposite Kim Basinger.

It'll be like Buffy The Spy Slayer.

Dude's a very good actor, but they'll have to play up the dark side of the orginal character to make it work. Craig's more menacing and complex than he is charming.

It'll make a lot more press in North America for his roles in Layer Cake and Enduring Love. But I'll see Layer Cake for Colm Meaney, not necessarily for Craig.

Road To Perdition was good, though.

yeah, and that's what eon tried with timothy dalton too. i just don't see the fans buying him.

At the moment Sir Rog is 77. And a half.

there was a dude in tomb raider?

It doesn't matter actually because there hasn't been a good Bond movie in nearly 20 years now.


Die Another Day was so bad, it was laughable.

Just to the left of the boobs, for a few shots.

My wife would chuckle and argue scene-by-scene about why the Dalton and Brosnan films are actually quite good.

The one without the boobs in Tomb Raider:
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It has been said that Dalton was closest to the original character. I think Die Another Day started out as the best Bond flick yet, and then deteriorated into a worthless piece of shit.

I thought it was gonna be Clive Owen

I expect a couple million dingleberries will be at work tomorrow going, "Hey, you hear? Craig David gonna be Bond, yo."

clive owen can do king arthur but can't do a james bond film?

i hope they dye this guy's hair for the movie because a blonde bond isn't going to work.

Layer Cake is a great movie. I think Craig as Bond can work but am not sold that it will.

dalton looks closest to ian fleming's sketches of bond, which were somewhat based on his own looks.

I'm not even sure about 20 years ago...

His hair was pretty dark in Sylvia.

Me no likey.

What about Larry David? Doesn't he get a shot at least?