Daniel Craig over James Bond: Skyfall

Hij is er van overtuigd dat de 23ste Bond-film ons de teleurstelling van Quantum of Solace kan doen vergeten.

Daniel Craig heeft tegenover Time Out aangegeven dat de laatste James Bond film, Marc Forsters Quantum of Solace, slachtoffer is geworden van de schrijversstaking in 2008. Hij voegt hier aan toe dat de 23ste Bond-film, Skyfall van regisseur Sam Mendes, een stuk beter zal gaan worden.

"On Quantum, we were fucked. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was the strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn't employ a writer to finish it. You swear you'll never get involved with shit like that, and then it happens!"

Craig voelde zich uit hoge nood zelfs genoodzaakt om samen met Forster enkele sequenties te schrijven: "And a writer I am not..."

Voor Skyfall wordt de doorlopende verhaallijn uit QoS en Casino Royale even aan de kant gezet.

"[Quantum] was never meant to be as much of a sequel as it was; it just ended up being one, starting where the last one finished. For me personally, on a level of feeling satisfied, I would want to do better next time. That’s really important to me."

Ondanks zijn teleurstelling met betrekking tot zijn tweede Bond film, is Craig zeer enthousiast over zijn derde.

"I really think this one is better even than Casino Royale. [Director] Sam Mendes has lived with Bond all his life, and he grew up with Bond in the same way I did. We have exactly the same reference points, we both like the same Bond movies, and we both like the same bits in the same Bond movies we like. We sat down and we just rabbited for hours about Live And Let Die or From Russia With Love, and talked about little scenes that we knew from them. That’s how we started talking about it. That’s what we tried to instill in the script. He’s been working his arse off to tie all these things together so they make sense... in a Bond way!"

De opnames van Skyfall zijn momenteel in volle gang. De release staat gepland voor 1 november 2012.

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