The Daniel Craig Forum

Posted: **Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:53 pm**

ad78472 wrote:
Will the the Daniel Craig and Marc Forster interview be in this week? You know, Ask a question from them.

ComingSoon.net's Heather Newgen is headed for London the week of September 15th to speak to Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster and star Daniel Craig, but we won't be asking our questions - we'll be representing you, the fans!

You can submit your questions for Marc and Daniel by using the comments below and we'll pick the top two (possibly three) questions for Marc and Daniel each.

Then, be sure to come back the week of September 22nd to read their answers to the questions that were picked and we'll have some more new things that week as well!

Comingsoon, com

Posted: **Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:37 pm**

2 Minutes of the Bond song
http://www.archivo007.com/audio/awd.wav

Posted: **Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:51 pm**

Sorry, but I don't like it at all.....

Posted: **Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:22 pm**

I wonder, if its a grower. Maybe if we get the full release, but so far...
But better the song is crap than the film, though

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:16 am**

http://www.premiere.com/features/4727/o ... olace.html

On the Set of 'Quantum Of Solace'

Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace
Courtesy of Columbia Pictures

Daniel Craig: James Bond
Q&A: James Bond Extra
Was making Quantum Of Solace more enjoyable because it's your second crack at Bond?
I think there's probably more pressure this time, but I'm just trying to apply the same rules as I did last time. And hopefully that'll work out, that you make the best movie you can. Certainly, we couldn't repeat what we did last time. It'd be nice to be able to repeat the success, but we couldn't repeat the film so we're into a new way of thinking.
Is that reflected in the hiring of Marc Forster as director?
We'd started something in Casino Royale but we had a book to work from, and we adhered quite closely, emotionally, with that story. Now we want to continue this story, but we have to make it different. So when Marc's name came up, I jumped at it because I want the audience to be attached, I want the audience to be pulled in and get involved with the characters.
One of your co-stars — Jesper Christensen (Mr. White) — was describing your Bond as "slightly dumb" compared to the other Bonds. Do you agree with that?
[incredulously] Dumb? That's what I like about him, is that it's shoot first and ask questions later. But I take that from the books; that was always Ian Fleming's image of Bond. It was always, kick the door in, see what happens. If he's standing on top of a tall building, there's a 20-foot gap, he can't see what's down below — he jumps. And if he hurts himself, he hurts himself. The chances are he won't hurt himself, and therefore he'll move on. And if that's dumb...
It seems you have a love-hate relationship with Olga Kurylenko's Camille. Is there more punching or kissing between your two characters?
There's been an equal amount of both. [laughs] It's physical at first, but Olga is playing an agent and she's on her own mission, so we kind of clash at first. But, you know, in the nicest possible way.
According to Marc, he plans to bring a more psychological dimension to 007.
That's why he's here. He's tying all these people together. That's what you want. It's going to be a major part of this film, is tying together all those psychological battles that are going on.
Did you feel any challenge coming back to the role?
No, because we're picking up an hour after the last one finished so I'm picking up where I left off. If it was 10 years down the line and he'd had four more wives, then there would be a challenge to find out where he was at, but I was pretty clear where he was. I'd been working on this all last year. We'd been having script meetings and discussions; I've been living it for a long time. It only brings me the challenges I like.

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:22 am**

Jack White unhappy with `Another Way To Die` use in Coke commericial

Quantum Of Solace - 15-09-08

Jack White has distanced himself from a new TV advert for Coca Cola which uses his new James Bond song, 'Another Way To Die' reports NME.com.

The song, a duet with Alicia Keys, will appear as the theme song for the forthcoming James Bond film, 'Quantum Of Solace'.

Jack White's song is soundtracking an advert for the drink Coke Zero, which Coca Cola have re-branded Coke Zero Zero 7 to tie in with the film.

However, White's management have issued a statement distancing The White Stripes and Raconteurs man from the advert, claiming that it was not his decision to license the song for use in the promo.

"Jack White was commissioned by Sony Pictures to write a theme song for the James Bond film 'Quantum Of Solace', not for Coca Cola," read the statement. "Any other use of the song is based on decisions made by others, not by Jack White.

"We are disappointed that you first heard the song in a co-promotion for Coke Zero, rather than in its entirety."

http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?ite ... mi6&s=news

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:23 am**

Dunda wrote:

Sorry, but I don't like it at all.....

Me neither....

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:23 pm**

Aragorn wrote:
Dunda wrote:

Sorry, but I don't like it at all.....
Me neither....

But we will listen a lot. Daniel will be in the video, so it will be better when you will hear it for 1000 times!

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:26 pm**

ad78472 wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
Dunda wrote:

Sorry, but I don't like it at all.....
Me neither....
But we will listen a lot. Daniel will be in the video, so it will be better when you will hear it for 1000 times!

and about 30 times in the theater

Ok, you're right! Maybe it will grow on me! But however I suppose I will hear it a lot

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:54 pm**

Aragorn wrote:
Dunda wrote:

Sorry, but I don't like it at all.....
Me neither....

Two thumbs down from me. Alicia Keys doesn't seem to have the voice range to fit the drama of the rhythm. It's too repetitive and leaves me wishing for a bit of melody.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... ds_new_duo

"White wrote the song after reading the film's script, picking up on its themes of mistrust and paranoia"

I'm definitely feeling the mistrust and paranoia and not in a good way.

Sorry Barbara, hope others won't be so critical.

Posted: **Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:53 pm**

Germangirl wrote:2 Minutes of the Bond song
http://www.archivo007.com/audio/awd.wav

i like it

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:47 am**

Did anyone else see the new Quantum of Solace promo spot that aired during NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno about 25 minutes ago? It was a 60-second spot that featured some scenes from the trailer and some scenes that I hadn't seen before. I didn't expect to see a QOS promo on TV so soon.

~ Wendy

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:52 am**

DanFan2 wrote:Did anyone else see the new Quantum of Solace promo spot that aired during NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno about 25 minutes ago? It was a 60-second spot that featured some scenes from the trailer and some scenes that I hadn't seen before. I didn't expect to see a QOS promo on TV so soon.

~ Wendy

No, but now I'll be staying up to watch it.

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:38 pm**

I saw the longer trailer during House .

Posted: **Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:56 pm**

From Ukraine, with love

As a young girl, Olga Kurylenko could never have dreamed of growing up and playing a Bond girl - because she grew up in a world where the Bond films did not exist. Imagine it. No Sean Connery. No Roger Moore. No Q. No Bond girls.

Sitting on the set of the latest film, Quantum of Solace, the 29-year-old smiles at the irony, having just won out over thousands of other actresses to win the role of Camille opposite Daniel Craig. Kurylenko was born in Berdyansk, an isolated town in southwest Ukraine, at a time when the Bond series was banned by the Communist government as a threat to Soviet culture. Even if they had been shown, though, her family were simply too poor to afford a trip to the cinema.

"We didn't have anything," says Kurylenko. "It was such a different life from how kids grew up in Europe and America." However, Kurylenko credits that difficult existence as fuelling her need to succeed. "I still have that survival instinct. It's great now that I can support my family and my mother."

The change of fortune that eventually led to the Bond film set came after a 26-hour train ride to Moscow for her first holiday when she was 15 years old. It was there that a talent agent spotted her and offered her a modelling job. "It was crazy, because I then started travelling constantly back and forth between my town and Moscow for all these modelling jobs," she says. "I missed a lot of school." Within a year, a French agency scouting Moscow's newest faces offered Olga a major contract and the opportunity to move to Paris. The only problem was sneaking out of her homeland. "It was so insane trying to get out of the country. I was so nervous going through passport control and was sure something was going to happen to me. When I finally made it through, I was completely shocked and yet so relieved I was able to get out."

Within six months of arriving in Paris, Kurylenko had not only learned French, but was soon on the covers of Elle, Glamour, Marie Claire and Vogue, as well as becoming the face of Lejaby lingerie, Bebe clothing, Clarins and Helena Rubinstein cosmetics. All the while, she was studying acting. Unlike most of her model-turned-actress contemporaries, she succeeded, eventually winning substantial parts in such French language films as L'Annulaire, The Serpent, and most recently Hitman, one of her first English-speaking roles.

The news of the Bond role came last Christmas Eve. "When my agent called, we were eating Christmas dinner and I just let out this enormous scream. I couldn't believe it."

Kurylenko was needed in London almost immediately to begin working with a dialect coach to learn how to speak Spanish with a Bolivian accent. And if that wasn't enough, she also needed to undergo intensive kickboxing, weapons, skydiving, and stunt training. "They kept pushing and pushing and pushing me, but I'm so glad because I was able to do all the fight scenes myself without a stunt double."

To prove her point, Kurylenko rolls up her sleeve and shows me some of her bruises, wearing them as a badge of honour. "The fact that I overcame my fears - especially of skydiving - makes me more proud of what I've been doing for the last six months," she says. "I like to try things that seem impossible. I don't want things in life to be easy - then what am I going to achieve? What am I going to overcome?"

Bond girl Agent Fields Played by Gemma Arterton

Step by step, Gemma Arterton has quietly pushed her way to the front of film and television with a series of leading roles, including Tess in the recent BBC dramatisation and the ITV comedy-drama Lost in Austen. And now, of course, Bond.

Arterton, who is 22, won the role of the MI6 operative Agent Fields six months after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. "Gemma is incredibly talented and extremely witty," says director Marc Forster, who chose Arterton from around 7000 actresses.

The daughter of a welder and a cleaner from Kent, Arterton supported herself through drama school by working at a Covent Garden beauty shop. Last year, she completed roles in St Trinian's and Capturing Mary for the BBC, and Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, but it was while on stage at London's Globe Theatre playing Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost that she caught the eye of the Bond casting directors. "I still don't know why they chose me," she says. "I don't have huge boobs and I'm not really a hot girl'. Olga (Kurylenko) is such a hotty totty ... I'm more like a Miss Moneypenny!"

In contrast to Kurylenko's more contemporary Bond Girl, Arterton says Agent Fields (whose first name, revealed in the film, is a classic 007 double-entendre) is a deliberate homage to the 1960s. "She's very old school, kind of funny, with some very cheeky lines." Aterton cites Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore in Goldfinger) and Diana Rigg (Countess Teresa in On Her Majesty's Secret Service) as influences. "I love those old British Bond Girls, the ones who were a bit snooty, but were really quite a bit naughty inside."

The making of Quantum has been exciting; she remembers her love scene with Daniel Craig. "Can you believe it happened my first day on set? I was so nervous. We had to do take after take after take, and each time I was, Goodness me, I can't believe this is happening'." Arterton thinks it was the right decision to get one of the toughest scenes out of the way quickly. "Doing that scene before Daniel and I got to know each other was probably best; otherwise it would've felt weird - like I was kissing my brother or something."

Her next project after Solace is the romantic lead opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia. Despite these high-profile film roles though, Arterton is determined to remain anonymous. "I change my look completely and I think that's a really good way of keeping your privacy."

From http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/fea ... h_love.php

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=jdewu-eN8v0 2nd TV spot