Bond Fans: Here's Some Really Good News

http://images.askmen.com/entertainme...9954-flash.jpg
Sony has announced that the follow-up to Skyfall,Bond 24, will hit cinemas in 2014. This will move the Bond flicks backto a biannual release schedule following a four-year gap between Quantum ofSolace and Skyfall, which was caused by the fallout from MGM’sbankruptcy. Bond 24, however, will be the first Bond moviethat DanielCraig can walk away from. The actor’s contract tied him into threemovies -- with Skyfall being the last -- while giving him the option to refusethe fourth. If Craig doesn’t fancy it, the resulting recasting would certainly be abig old spanner in the works for Bond 24’s mooted 2014 release date. The actor explained in this month’s Empire how he was mentallypreparing himself to walk away from the iconic role during the turbulent four yearsleading up to the production of Skyfall -- the same sort of delays that once sawTimothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan hand in their Walther PPKs. “I wasvery sanguine about the whole thing,” Craig says. “There was nothing I coulddo about the situation. I could have made a phone call and gone ‘pleeease,’but that’s not really my style.“So I was thinking‘It’ll work itself out, and if it’s not to be, it’s not tobe.’” The actor was certainly keen to get back to Bond duties forSkyfall, though. “The longer things went on,” continued Craig,“the more desperate I became to make another one. [The delay] gave us a chance toprepare ourselves [for Skyfall] in a way that we hadn’t had on the othermovies.” Skyfall opens across North America in November. Continue Reading

http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/news/daniel-craig-james-bond.html ]More...[/url]