WTF?

[Warpe]

These people need to get lives...

http://www.craignotbond.com/

[Pelion]

That has to be a joke site

It has been revealed that months before the
recent announcement of new James Bond actor
Daniel Craig, EON Productions actually
approached basketball player Zydrunas Ilgauskas
of the Cleveland Cavaliers to play the role of
James Bond.

In an interview, Ilgauskas revealed the details of
this casting call.

Ilgauskas: "Is true. Broccoli lady call me to play
British stud James Bond. I wear tux and talk like
Bond for camera, 'Give me vodka, chaken not
stirrup'. Next day, Broccoli lady call me, say I no
get the part. I ask why, and she tell me they go
with someone shorter and uglier.

I still not know where they find man like this."

[Warpe]

Mebbe...if so, they've suckered the press nicely...

Angry Bond fans threaten boycott
Associated Press

New York — They're shaken, stirred and just plain angry. And several months late with their response.

A group of James Bond fans have launched a website to protest British actor Daniel Craig replacing Pierce Brosnan in the 007 film franchise, and boycott the upcoming Bond movie Casino Royale.

The fair-haired Craig, whose recent screen credits include Munich and The Jacket, was tapped last October to play the secret-agent icon.

“EON Productions angered fans around the world when they fired Pierce Brosnan at the height of his popularity as Bond,” said a statement on the site. “To add insult to injury, EON cast a short, blond, odd-looking Daniel Craig in the role of Bond.”

“Craig, described by the New York Times as having a ‘pale, flattened face and large, fleshy ears' is a terrible choice for Bond. If EON Productions and Sony Pictures will not accept they've made a big mistake, then Bond fans promise to boycott Casino Royale!”

Calls to EON Productions and a representative for Craig were not immediately returned Tuesday.

Brosnan stepped into the shoes of dashing predecessors Sean Connery and Roger Moore to play a blue-eyed, dark-haired Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

In its statement, the website claimed EON did not want to pay for Brosnan or other high-profile actors Hugh Jackman and Clive Owen as replacements

[Demiparadigm]

It is a joke site.

They did cast Daniel Craig.


Cast Notes:
(2/20/05) After Brosnan reportedly requested a package deal that would have earned him over $40 million for his fifth Bond movie, a year of negotiations has been come to an end with confirmation that Eon is planning to cast a new, younger James Bond for the 21st century. Among those reported (or rumored) to be considered for the role are Clive Owen, Julian McMahon (Dr. Doom in Fantastic Four, Jude Law and Orlando Bloom. With Brosnan's departue, it's very likely that past series regulars like Dame Judi Dench (M) and John Cleese (Q) might likewise be replaced.
(3/29/05) According to "The Hollywood Reporter", Dame Judi Dench will indeed return to play M, but Cleese will most likely not return, most likely making Dench the one tie between the previous and new Bonds. The bigger news, however, *might* be (if this story is accurate) that a movie rumor site called IESB.net may have gotten Clive Owen to confirm his casting as James Bond. We'll see if there's anything to this.
(4/6/05) Right, well, now a week later, the British tabloid "The Sun" is reporting that Daniel Craig is close to being announced as the next Bond. All sorts of crazy stories get printed in British tabloids, so once again, take this one with a grain of salt.
(10/14/05) It took another six months for Eon to make it official, but they have, selecting Daniel Craig to be the sixth official James Bond film star.