Charlize Theron is new Bond girl

[underpants]

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=181937&cat=Entertainment

London | December 05, 2005 5:15:06 PM IST

Oscar-winning South African actress Charlize Theron is to play the new Bond girl in the upcoming remake of a Bond classic, Britain's Daily Mirror reported Monday.

The attractive 30-year-old has been offered a lucrative deal to star opposite new Bond actor, Britain's Daniel Craig, in the remake of "Casino Royale", the Mirror reported.

Filming is scheduled to start January in Prague.

If the report is confirmed, Theron would follow in the footsteps of former Bond girls such as Halle Berry, Teri Hatcher and Ursula Andress.

[Arkana]

1. And the Bond series continues its graceful slide into the shitter.

How sad.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. What makes this news "into the shitter"?

It sounds like the news you could have for any other release. In fact, the 'Bond girls' are tending to be better actresses than in the past.

[Arkana]

4. When they made Halle Berry a Bond girl, they killed the series.

Historically, the Bond women have been British actresses. It's bad enough that we have a blond James Bond.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Except Ursula Andress

Swiss, in "Dr. No"; Daniela Bianchi in "From Russia With Love" (admittedly dubbed by a British actress); Claudine Auger in "Thunderball"; Mie Hama in "You Only Live Twice"; Jill St. John in "Diamonds Are Forever"; Britt Ekland in "The Man with the Golden Gun"; etc. (I'm getting bored).

Yeah, a fine historical record there.

[LostinVA]

17. gigglegigglegiggle -- You beat me to it

[ixion]

21. don't forget Kim Bassinger

another non-british bond girl.

Frankly, I think Charlize Theron is a goddess. :loveya:

[LostinVA]

25. Cary Lowell and Tania whatshername from "Charlie's Angels"

[MercutioATC]

39. Not only is she a goddess, she can actually act.

Sounds like a great choice to me.

[pokerfan]

36. And in this case the character of Vesper Lynd is British

IIRC. Never saw the spoof, but read the novel a long time ago.

Sent by MI6 to assist Bond, actually a double agent for SMERSH. I'm not giving anything away, cause I'm sure the producers are going to update the story to 2006.

[kwassa]

31. Halle is not even the first black Bond girl

Gloria Hendry was

[SoCalDem]

41. The "end" of the Cold war is what "killed" Bond

As long as the iron Curtain was still up, there was a teensy bit of plausibility..

Bond should have ended when Connery quit:)

[Deja Q]

9. The serious revamp of Casino Royale hasn't even been made yet.

Too early to criticize, and I gather the production staff is going back to the roots with this one (thank God).

Still, when a 'news' article puts Hatcher and Berry in the same boat as Andress, one has to wonder... (Andress being, by far, the best of the three...)

[DS1]

28. What the fuck are you talking about?

A) Bond was in the shitter, flushed, processed, and turned into the plastic that holds your Pepsi YEARS ago

B) She's the ONLY Bond girl in over a decade with any sort of range, or acting talent.

[acmavm]

3. They need to not remake classic bond movies. Especially whacky

ones like this. They can't touch the original. And they don't have actors that can pull it off like they did then.

[AllegroRondo]

5. Why Casino Royale?

It was a spoof of the Bond movies, and not a particularly good one. Cant they get a decent writer to make a new film?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. The original Bond book was Casino Royale

and it's never been made as a serious film (I don't remember anything in the spoof linking up to the book). So making it now seems like a good idea to me.

[Deja Q]

11. It was a tv movie for CBS in 1956, I believe... maybe 1957.

But it's had no serious film treatment and they are going back to the roots.

I hope it works.

[melm00se]

14. Casino Royale, the movie

was a Bond spoof, the novel by Ian Fleming, on the other hand, was true to the Bond genre and the book was 1st (1953 for the book v 1967 for the movie). One of the reasons Casino Royale(movie) was a spoof is that Broccoli couldn't obtain the rights to this book (and I think it was the only Bond book he couldn't get the rights to)

[soothsayer]

20. Plus there were 3 directors of the original, which is why it feels

like 3 different movies. At least one died (maybe 2) and they all had a really different take on it. Fascinating movie, I love it!

[PSPS]

6. Albert Broccoli was the real force behind the Bond series, but he's dead

The Bond "magic" was buried with Albert Broccoli when he died, the same as Star Trek's was when Roddenberry died.

[matcom]

8. NOT KELLY BROOK????!!!!!????1111???

bastards x(

[southlandshari]

24. Awwww...

:popcorn:






























What? You said that one was your favorite. I thought it might give you some comfort in your darkest hour this morning....

:P

[bigworld]

10. why isn't she ever called African American?

She is, after all, South African.

Just wonderin. Then again, I wonder about her a lot...


jim

[LynneSin]

13. Why would you call her African American?

Has she become an American citizen? If not then she would just be an African or better yet, South African since she is from the country of South Africa.

[LostinVA]

19. She did a funny opening skit on SNL about that

A few years ago, with Tracy whatshisname.

[xultar]

12. Angelina Jolie was up for the role but she wanted her to be tougher...

I guess they didn't want the Bond Girl to be tough. They wanted her to be a whimpering nincompoop.

Oh well.

[MercutioATC]

40. I was kinda surprised Angelina wasn't tapped for "Aeon Flux".

I haven't seen the movie yet (I've watched the MTV anime series), but Aeon Flux seems like the PERFECT role for her.

[underpants]

15. Oh I see THIS isn't LBN huh????

:grr:

:bounce:

[In_The_Wind]

18. Not hard to look at ...

[Buck Turgidson]

22. She's smart, too!

:loveya:

[Lerkfish]

23. she should be the new bond.

not the new bond girl.

just my opinion. As someone who loved the bond series as an adolescent, as a grownup, I find the treatment of women adolescent.

[LostinVA]

26. I think Elizabeth Hurley would be a great Bond

And I mean Bond. Jane Bond. Not a Bond girl.

[Lerkfish]

27. I agree.

I guess I'm saying the Bond series is an artifact of previous attitudes that SHOULD no longer be in play. I can watch an old bond movie, and appreciate it in its chronisitic context, but Bond movies made NOW should know better.

[LostinVA]

29. I've thought that about Elizabeth Hurley for several years

And, when I heard they were getting a new Bond, I thought how smart that would be for them to do that.

[MN ChimpH8R]

30. Yeah, Michelle Yeoh's

Wai Ling (Tomorrow Never Dies) was such a frail little flower cowering in the corner and waiting around for Bond to rescue her. :eyes: :hide:

[Lerkfish]

32. ok you may have me there, since I didn't watch that one...

the last one I saw was with Halle Berrie.

[Err]

33. How is this actor that's going to play Bond?

Is he a good actor? I've never heard of him...

[alarimer]

34. Isn't that kind of a step down for her?

She must be getting a big paycheck to play a Bond bimbo.

[Doctor_J]

35. I don't think she's

um...full-figured enough.

[LisaL]

37. LOL. That's pretty easy to correct, isn't it?

[LSK]

38. whooohooo!!!!!!!!!!11 I called it!!!!!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4340157&mesg_id=4340187

[nickinSTL]

42. "in the upcoming remake of a Bond classic"

Please...the movie was not a "Bond classic".

The book, maybe, but not the Niven movie.

I do not consider a spoof a "classic".

On Theron...we'll see (as we will on a blond Bond)...