Martin Campbell has spoken out about his involvement in the next Bond movie, Casino Royale And like last time, it's good news, bad news.
In an interview with New York Daily News, Campbell has spoken about what he plans to do with the character;
""There are things that will have to be changed from the original novel. The Cold War elements will have to be reconfigured, for example, but 'Casino Royale' will be a grittier, tougher and more realistic Bond movie.
"We'll be getting away from the huge visual effects kind of films. In the new film, Bond is essentially starting out in his career, and has just recently become part of the double-0 section.
"The idea is to put a bit of the dash back in Bond. By the end of the movie, the character will have been forged into the wiser, harder Bond we know. I'm looking forward to humanizing Bond a bit."
So... it looks like some form of compromise between what the public want and what the Broccoli/Wilson machine want has been reached; the good news is we're ditching the Spy Hard wannabe US sci-fi action movie pretentions that have ruined the recent movies and moving back to the gritty spying movies of old. The bad news is it looks like we ARE going to be left with a deliberately younger actor cast as the new Bond as they stick to the book as far as making it a "prequel" to the other Bond movies.
The result, either way, should prove interesting.
