Eric Bana is apparently the next 007

[Taualumna]

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...toryid=1710370

Not sure if he's going to do Bond 21 or not though.

[LeslieAGD]

His Troy co-star, Orlando Bloom, is playing the new younger Bond.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/3472004.htm

[AlphaSigOU]

This one oughta be interesting... if he becomes the sixth James Bond, that makes him the second Aussie to play the role. (George Lazenby was the first, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.)

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by LeslieAGD
His Troy co-star, Orlando Bloom, is playing the new younger Bond.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/3472004.htm

Cool

Rock on Bana

[ISUKappa]

I don't care how many people they go through, Sean Connery will still be the best James Bond, followed closely by Pearce.

If Eric Bana is as difficult to work with as some report him to be, it may be a short-lived role.

[CSUSigEp]

dude they cant do spinoffs of Bond, that's always a surefire sign of a downward spiral...

just curious, does anyone know how many Bond books Fleming wrote?

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by CSUSigEp
dude they cant do spinoffs of Bond, that's always a surefire sign of a downward spiral...

just curious, does anyone know how many Bond books Fleming wrote?

Thirteen, beginning with Casino Royale in 1953.

The rest of the Fleming books (in order) :

Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds are Forever
From Russia With Love
Doctor No
Goldfinger
For Your Eyes Only (collection of five short stories: From a View to a Kill/Risico/Quantum of Solace/The Hildebrand Rarity/For Your Eyes Only)
The Spy Who Loved Me
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
You Only Live Twice
The Man With The Golden Gun

Short stories: Octopussy, The Living Daylights and The Property of a Lady

All the film rights to Fleming's novels except for Casino Royale and Thunderball were sold to Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions. All titles (and their plots) have been used in some form or another.

Casino Royale was bought by Gregory Ratoff, and used it for the 1954 CBS Climax Mystery Theatre presentation of Casino Royale. When Ratoff died, the rights were sold to Charles K. Feldman, who made the spoof of Casino Royale in 1967. The rights are now owned by MGM.

Thunderball is owned by Kevin McClory, who won a lawsuit against Fleming in 1963. It was originally one of a set of screenplays Fleming, McClory and Jack Whittingham collaborated on for a TV series that never made it off the drawing board. Eon Productions worked out an agreement with McClory to make Thunderball on condition that he not make a competing James Bond film for 10 years. Several more years of legal wrangling ensued before McClory released Never Say Never Again, essentially a modern re-telling of Thunderball. He hasn't made one since.

[AXOKatie]

Well that's a crying shame, i was hoping that Hugh Jackman would take on Bond...he is SO incredibly hot and he's got the Bond-suaveness going on

[Taualumna]

The Eric Bana thing was a slight shock to me too, as my first choice is Ewan McGregor (with Hugh Jackman a very, very, very, very, very close second). I heard that they wanted Pierce Brosnan replaced because Britney might be in the next movie, and it would be really gross to pair her with Pierce. Basically, Pierce is too old.

[AlphaSigOU]

Remember, folks... it's still pure speculation at this stage of the game... it ain't official until Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson make the next James Bond sign the contract on the dotted line.

Likewise, it's all very much dependent on the actor's schedule - signing up as the next Bond will tie the person up for the next five to eight years (assuming a new Bond film every 2-3 years).

While James Bond has been a part of the movies for over 40 years, through five actors and twenty films; you have to keep the franchise fresh and relevant to today's audiences, otherwise, the franchise will die.