This is not helping...

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Fans threaten to boycott 007 film.

Bitch, please, fuckwits.

I can only think, off hand of two people I'd like to see as Bond less than Daniel Craig. Clive Owen and Robbie Williams, if you were wondering.

I really do think that Daniel Craig, who is both blond and apparently a big girl's blouse, will make a truly fucking awful Bond.

But I might get proved wrong. Casino Royale is a decent enough story that it might not matter. Of course, it also might... not least because if Orson Welles isn't Le Chiffre, I might have issues (he was the one truly stupefying thing in the spoof Casino Royale back in the day, even moreso than Niv.)...

I think Daniel Craig is a terrible idea for Bond... but I might be proved wrong. And the only way to find out is to watch the damn thing. I even listened to the offensively awful Swing When You're Winning by Robbie Williams before tearing him a new one. It's nice to be proved so comprehensively correct...

Anyway, these people are doing nothing but giving Eon and their Bond a shedload of new and free publicity. They're not helping their own cause.

I love James Bond, I really do. I find good things in all of them. Even in Moonraker, although I'd have to think really hard on it. Even the dodgy Lazenby was not without redemption although I'm glad he didn't return for a second outing. I might yet find something to love about the new Casino Royale... I personally doubt it will be the star, but stranger things have happened.

No foolish fan boycott will change what's going to happen.

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I loved Moonraker. It was HILARIOUS. Absolutely loved it! Who'd you like to see play Bond then?

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The only truly brilliant moment in the nadir of Bond known as Moonraker is the final line from Q...

The Bond Question has been bugging me ever since the rumours began (circulation started around the time Dana Broccoli, the wife of the original producer and mother of the current ones, died)... I've even been writing a Bond movie, so it's been on my mind.

As far as I'm concerned, Pierce Brosnan could quite comfortably have continued on for another film. In fact, even if he carried on to the same age as Rog was in View to a Kill, he'd be good at it...

Other than that, Dougray Scott might have made a good go at it, having seen him do dashing and charmin in Ever After (and also in To Kill A King) and cold-hearted action stuff in M:I2.

Chrismiss and I also have a theory that Orlando Bloom might make a decent Bond... but not for at least ten years or so.

James Purefoy also might have made a decent go, but I haven't seen him in enough stuff to be sure.

Thing is? CELTS do Bond best. The worst Bonds are Moore and Lazenby, an Englishman and an Aussie respectively. Those from the Celtic nations of this septic isle have done best- Scots Connery, Welsh Dalton and Irish Brosnan. The Quintessential Englishman needs to be played by a Celt. Irony is brilliant.

I also think Gerard Butler would make a stellar Bond, but I'm biased and don't want the man pigeonholed ;)

Colin Farrell, by the way, would make a perfect Bond villain. The psycho henchman of a Bigger Bad, you know.