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No, Mr. Bond. I Expect You To Die: It's Official - Javier Bardem Will Try To Kill James Bond

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)

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It’s been floating around for some time now that Spanish Sex Bob-Omb Javier Bardem had been cast in the new James Bond film, but never really confirmed. Well, consider it confirmed. And he will play the bad guy, though who that bud guy is is a closely guarded secret, with Bardem quoted as saying, “I am very excited, my parents took me to watch the movies, and I saw all of them, and to play that is going to be fun. They chose me to play this man, but I cannot give you many details.”

Personally, I couldn’t be happier. The current streak of Daniel Craig Bond movies has been getting better and better — I initially wasn’t sold on Casino Royale, and while I still don’t love it, it’s certainly grown on me. Quantum Of Solace, however, was fantastic, and Craig is truly the first actor to own the role as it was meant to be owned. Don’t get me wrong, I love Connery, but Craig is Bond the way Fleming intended him. Rough-edged, dangerous, with “something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes [that] were cold.” He’s that to a fucking T. Lazenby was decent, Moore was a clown and completely painful to watch, Brosnan was too smarmy and not even remotely tough, and Dalton was close, but just never really worked.

Remember kids: James Bond is a solitary, womanizing, possibly alcoholic, cold-blooded assassin — a borderline sociopath, really. In many ways, the new films and Daniel Craig are goddamn perfect.

The cast also includes Ben Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes (who said that it’s, “a role so top secret, I swallowed a pill to make me forget what I was told”), Judi Dench, Helen McCrory, Berenice Marlohe, and Naomi Harris as Ms. Moneypenny.

The film, to be directed by Sam Mendes, still has no title, though one rumored title is Skyfall.









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Comments

now make out with each other.

Posted by: twig at October 12, 2011 11:34 AM

Everything about QOS was awesome except for the overall plot. Stealing water in Bolivia? Bullshit.

Posted by: roland at October 12, 2011 11:40 AM

Yes. Who cares if the plot makes sense when these two go at each other? I can already picture the fight...mmmhhh...

Posted by: Phedre at October 12, 2011 11:52 AM

Quantum Of Solace, however, was fantastic,

Everything about QOS was awesome except for the overall plot.

Shenanigans! QOS undid everything that was awesome about Casino Royale. That dark shaky cam shit in the beginning? A CG Daniel Craig for some odd rope thing? (There is no reason - EVER - to CG Daniel Craig. Dude is perfect just as he is.) And all the technology porn which had no real purpose??

The bright sunlit opening sequence of Casino Royale set a new wonderfulness that was completely destroyed by Solace. Royale was a real movie about a real dude. Solace was poop.

I will fight this battle for eternity.

POOP!

Posted by: Sbrown at October 12, 2011 11:58 AM

I love both QoS and CR but this is probably the first time I've ever seen anyone express a preference for QoS. I would love to get another cut of that movie where a shot lasted longer than 2 goddamn seconds. I STILL have no idea how Bond flips the boat in the chase scene due to the nutball editing and I've seen the movie at least 4 times now.

Posted by: TylerDFC at October 12, 2011 12:05 PM

Ben Whishaw! I cna never get enough of Ben Whishaw.

Posted by: PaddyDog at October 12, 2011 12:13 PM

I completely and totally agree with your assessment of the various Bonds, which is awesome. Thank you!
However, I think you got the Casino Royale vs. Quantum of Solace bit backwards. Still, I am hoping this one gets back on the right foot. Judging from the cast list, how can it go wrong??

Posted by: Samantha at October 12, 2011 12:20 PM

Agreed on CR being better than QoS. And as a child of the '80s, I have a certain affinity for Moore. And nobody will be as cool as Connery.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Connery, but Craig is Bond the way Fleming intended him. Rough-edged, dangerous, with “something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes [that] were cold.” He’s that to a fucking T. Lazenby was decent, Moore was a clown and completely painful to watch, Brosnan was too smarmy and not even remotely tough, and Dalton was close, but just never really worked.

I think what imprinted on my young self was that Bond was this playboy/spy who used gadgets and wit to get the job done. I like what Craig has done, but I just miss the fun the old Bonds seemed to be having.

Posted by: phase10 at October 12, 2011 12:33 PM

Quantum of Solace was fantastic?? So other than the plot being retarded...can we please address the fact that this was suppose to be a revenge movie in which very little revenge took place? And the ending of the movie was like an add-on...I can hear the intern now, "Hey Mr. Director, this movie is cool and all but...didn't we forget to put in that part where he's trying to find the man who killed the woman of his dreams?" Director, "Oh SH--uh, no no I didn't forget. We'll have a cool scene in some arctic place where he kills someone that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. It'll be edgy" Intern - "O...K."

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at October 12, 2011 12:41 PM

I just used Google image search to refresh my memory as to the appearance of Naomi Harris.

The second image implies that it is a picture of her drinking Franzia.

Click it and hate yourself. Bloody vikings!

Posted by: Schpida at October 12, 2011 12:43 PM

The cast also includes [blah blah yadda yadda] and Naomie Harris as Ms. Moneypenny.

Stop burying your lede! This should be the main focus with every piece of Bond news.

Posted by: branded at October 12, 2011 12:50 PM

QoS is so not better than CR. And fuck Marc Foster and his earth elements theme.

And what bout the villain for QoS? you pit him against Danny Craig in a one on one? Seriously?!

Should've used him in CR and gave us LeChiffre to do some hand to hand. not the other way around!

Anyhoo, what's done is done.

Just happy that Bardem is in.

And oh, Ralph Fiennes better not be Q.

Posted by: haplo at October 12, 2011 12:52 PM

Shove it, TK. Roger Moore was the best Bond, period.
Come here, so I can slap you and challenge you to a duel.

Posted by: Haulie at October 12, 2011 12:53 PM

Uh QoS was vastly superior. Maybe the plot about stealing water doesn't mean anything to us here in America, but in places where they don't have 5 huge bodies of fresh water in the great lakes, water scarcity is actually an issue.

And there was very little revenge? He gets to kill his man (twice, one with oil,) and the chick gets to kill her villain too. The only flaw was the opening chase in which you couldn't tell what the hell was happening. Sam Mendes won't make mistakes like that too. And I expect the movie to be SUPER dark, since Mendes filmography proves he can't stand a happy ending.

Posted by: aroorda at October 12, 2011 1:02 PM

I love you, TK (Full disclosure: I had to scroll back up to see who wrote this...although I knew who DIDN'T write this). I love you for breaking all this delicious news fraught with foxy men and badassery (Is Naomi H the one from 28 Days Later? if so...yeehaa!), but also for agreeing with my feelings about Bond and the actors who inhabited the role. I love you I love you and might I add you are very intelligent (because you agree with moi...natch).

I don't get all that excited about seeing a movie in a theater very often anymore but I may need to locate my sleeping bag so's I can spend the night in line for opening day of this one.

Nah. That's lame. But I will see it.

Posted by: klingonfree at October 12, 2011 1:34 PM

Could we have hold that cow-hammer thing in one hand, flip a coin with the other and tell Bond:

"Call it, Friend-o"?

And then kill Bond with it in the first five minutes?

Cause that would be awesome,

Posted by: , at October 12, 2011 2:16 PM

I wanted to love Quantum Of Solace, and I think I might be the only person that thinks the title is great. I even liked that maligned Jack White / Alicia Keys theme song, but the whole movie had a sort of half-baked feel to it in terms of characterization. Unlike Casino Royale, we were just sort of thrown the heroine's tale without any sort of character development, and as such that revenge climax felt labored to me. Although I didn't love Casino Royale, I did appreciate that it grounded Bond a bit more, and I thought Quantum regressed in that respect. I wanted to care about the resolution regarding Eva Green's character at the end, but I agree it did have a very tacked-on feel to it by that point. To the movie's credit, I did think that opera surveillance scene was a highlight in Bond history.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 12, 2011 2:49 PM

I thought the TITLE of Quantum of Solace was great too. The movie itself, though, was... possibly entertaining but also a huge mess.

The next one, however, sounds like it has the possibility of being great.

Posted by: MM at October 12, 2011 3:26 PM

So who is going to play Pussy Galore?

Posted by: MRod at October 12, 2011 3:38 PM

MRod: I am. I am playing Pussy Galore. As usual. I play the part beautifully and with conviction. But around this house we just call it "Friday Night."

Posted by: klingonfree at October 12, 2011 4:03 PM

I wrote a one man show based on James Bond: Moon Raker. Mine is a much darker version. It's called James Bond: Moon Raper. Now it's not what you think it's about. It's about James Bond who is this spy, who goes to the moon, and rapes it.

Posted by: googergieger at October 13, 2011 12:49 AM