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James Bond Actor Breakdown

Daniel Craig in Skyfall courtesy MI6-HQ.COM

  James Bond is a family tradition and a family business. My dad took me to my first 007 movies as a kid and we could always reflect on our favorite moments as we both got older.

  007 Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are continuing the legacy of their dad, Albert R. Broccoli. After the first official Skyfall set photo was revealed Wilson talked about the men who’ve played Bond over the years and how team Skyfall is bringing back elements that made the 007 adventures of the 60’s and 70’s such hits.

  “Sean was a tough guy; he set the tone,” Wilson said. “[Roger] played it more comic. Roger was lighthearted. Timothy brought it down to earth and Pierce brought a touch of charm and touchiness.”

courtesy MI6-HQ.com

  “[Daniel] is a great actor who takes it back to the Sean days,” Wilson said.

  Did you notice no mention of George Lazenby who played Bond once in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service? I think that performance and film never gets the praise it deserves.

  In an earlier story, Daniel Craig referenced From Russia, With Love and Live and Let Die as influential Bond films he enjoyed.

  Thanks to MI6 for the story.

Daniel Craig on Classic James Bond

AP Photo/Joel Ryan. Daniel Craig and the new Bond girls.

  Daniel Craig has said he wants to go back to classic elements of 007 for the next James Bond movie Skyfall. In previous interviews he cited From Russia, With Love (Sean Connery’s second and my personal favorite) and Live and Let Die (Roger Moore’s first) as two classics he wanted to influence the new film.

Craig talks about classic Bond in a new interview with Hollywood Outbreak.

Here are some highlights:

  “I think when Saltzman and Broccoli kick-started these movies, cast Sean Connery, spent the money they did, took the books – which are great had great stories… There was a huge amount of impetuous. Sean Connery has a lot to do with that.”

“They always made them about a family experience. They made them about going to your first movie as a child… ‘I remember my first Bond movie‘.”

“They continue to put the money on the screen. Whatever has happened, however good or bad [the movies] may be in the past, they’ve always put the money up there and have always had the ability to entertain. Barbara [Broccoli] and Michael [G. Wilson] are total lovers of this franchise and protect it fiercely and continue to do exactly the same thing as their father did.”

Thanks to MI6 for the story and their excellent coverage of all things Bond past and present.

My first Bond movie? Moonraker. Going to James Bond movies with my dad became a big tradition.

My dad’s favorite moments:

The fake horse’s ass lifting up to reveal a mini jet in the pre-credit sequence to Octopussy.

In A View to A Kill May Day (Grace Jones) dumping a man out of an airship then Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) saying “doesn’t anybody else want to drop out?”