They also have the number of movies in Danno's contract wrong.Napoleon Solo wrote:This line in the MI6 story caught my eye:
//Studio executives have been alluding to a return to the two-year cycle to produce the 007 adventures, which would peg Bond 24 as a late 2014 release.
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They didn't allude to anything. They flat-out announced it at a gathering of theater chain executives. (MI6 ran a story about it at the time.)
Then, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig commented. BB had her usual "northing's been announced" comment while Craig said the Sony executive got ahead of himself.
MGM and Sony need Bond to be viewed as productive/in production, for the studios well being they need this fiction to be in someway credible. The key question of who stars in the movies (since Craig can be dismissed after Skyfall) comes down to money and ease, will it be easier to make it with Craig or not, followed by does it make financial sense.
Thing about Craig is he is a prickly pear -a very difficult "talent" to handle and he goes off on sour notes and sulks about doing PR. He's not a big enough talent to demand the attention required to keep him moving forward. He had better be on his game promoting this movie, be affable and charming every stop. Almost impossible for him.
He also is hosting SNL last I heard, Big step for him and not what he is used to at all, it's a very arduous scheduled on a demanding production set. I don't think he'll have the chops to pull it off. He is scheduled for 3 days after the first presidential debates, for the love god don't let Danny boy show up in black face.
For the sake of the frachise Danny needs to take it easy on being involved in any political controversy / content . With his lack of ability at these kinds of productions I'd imagine he setting back stage on his duff most of the show sweating his next scene while letting the main cast take on the political satire they have to do during the election season.
SNL with Babs Boy Lollipop will be interesting if only because it is so far out of his comfort zone, plenty of better actors have gone there and bombed. Of course he could just get a cold -I suppose Alec Baldwin steps in.