" James Bond will fall " read the final title card of every James Bond moving picture . The caution : it may not be the same 007 we make love and love .
According toThe Daily Mail , Daniel Craig , the man presently filling Bond ’s bespoke suit , will not give for the inevitable follow - ups toSpectre , last class ’s underwhelming blockbuster and the character ’s twenty-fourth big - screen escapade . source assure the British rag – which touts a spotted track record , so the report ’s drenched in metric grain of salt – that genu job and general exhaustion are the reason behind Craig ’s going . " He mat it was a journey with an ending . "
The studio already postponed filming on the next installment due to Craig ’s duty in the upcoming TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’sPurity . Whatever the pillow slip , these unnamed insiders say Craig order his bosses , " I ’m done , " and that was that . That intend turn down a reported £ 68 million paycheck , or around $ 98 million USD .
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The Daily Mail ’s scoop fans a flame that ’s been raging since month before the release ofSpectre . On the press tour for the film , antsy rag and dealership index players alike wonder openly about Daniel Craig ’s future in the superspy function . When asked byThe Guardianweeks before Spectre ’s outlet if he could opine returning for a sequel , Craigreplied , “ Now ? I ’d rather … convulse my wrists , " He ended his remarks with a slightly more quiet , " I ’m over it at the moment . We ’re done . All I want to do is move on . ”
The young report formalise Craig ’s early remark . Exhaustion , combined with lacklusterSpectrereviews , could keep him out of the game for Bond 25 . At eld 48 , he would be on the untested side of ex-007s ; Pierce Brosnan was 49 inDie Another twenty-four hours , Roger Moore was 58 inA View to a putting to death , and Timothy Dalton was courteously demand to retire at 45 , afterLicense to shoot down . Though , as the Bond picture show stunts grow bigger and bigger , who can blame a 48 - year - old for stepping aside for some acting that does n’t require outrunning explosion while firing a monolithic political machine shooter ? This is why they invented dramatic art .
There is currently no rubric , vent windowpane , or denote game plan for the next James Bond movie . But it ’s come . Spectrepromised : " James Bond will return . " So the question is : which doer should do the returning ?
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