Connery Back in Bond?
Filed under: Action, Casting, RumorMonger, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, James Bond, Remakes and Sequels
Oohh, there's a rumor flying around the Internet right now
stating that original Bond, Sean Connery, might be making a cameo
appearance in Casino Royale. According to The Irish
Examiner, the actor is set to take on the role of a coward. Wait, so Connery is returning to the Bond franchise after
all this time only to get his ass kicked and look like a fool? What's that about?
You may remember that, back when everyone was pissed off at the producers' choice to cast Daniel Craig as the next James Bond, Connery actually stepped up to the plate and said Craig was a fine choice. The ex-Bond was also glad the series was "returning to a more realistic type" of Bond girl instead of trying to impress us with another Denise Richards or Halle Berry. However, the fact that Casino Royale is being shot outside the UK for financial reasons did upset Connery, even though the man lives in the Bahamas for the same financial ... er, weather-related reasons. Coincidentally, guess where Casino Royale is shooting right now? If you said Milwaukee, then you're not paying very close attention.












Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
4-07-2006 @ 8:42AM
John said...
im a bond fanatic!............I really hope that the producers either make it where Connery hands over the reigns or cast's him into the fold as an agent but not a bad guy or as a wuss...
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4-07-2006 @ 8:45AM
John said...
I reaslly ho-pe that the producers make him into an agent for M and not a bad guy.Maybe a gadget kind of guy..that would be cool.
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4-07-2006 @ 8:50AM
ann said...
It doesn't matter who he plays, just so we can hear that brogue and see those eyes!!
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4-08-2006 @ 8:19PM
Ole Carlson said...
If they are going to give Sean a role then his previous record as Bond should be recognized. Perhaps make him the father of the new Bond or let him be a retired agent or something. Certainly not as a loser.
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4-08-2006 @ 8:39PM
jShirley Brown said...
Either make him a good guy or leave him out of it! He was great as Bond and we wouldn't have him any other way.
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4-08-2006 @ 8:42PM
claudia said...
coooool!!!! he's really the ultimate Bond, as we all know!but please, dont make him a wuss. he just doesnt look like a whip! i think the father of the new Bond would be much better!
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4-08-2006 @ 8:45PM
Marshall(another Scotsman) said...
Sean Connery and his Scotland Forever tattoo has always been the epitome of James Bond. The others have been only passable, SOME of them at least, and his protrayal will always be THE Bond...James Bond.
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4-08-2006 @ 8:47PM
Sandy said...
Sean Connery IS James Bond - He has the class and sophistication that all the others just don't have. The older he gets the more sexier he is - You either have it or you don't - and Sean Connery has it!
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4-08-2006 @ 8:52PM
merrilyjo said...
There is only one Bond! The rest are imposters.
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4-08-2006 @ 8:53PM
1_bad_MI-6_Agent said...
"Perhaps make him the father of the new Bond or let him be a retired agent or something"
Sir Sean as his father would unfortunately, not be possible because in Goldeneye, it is revealed that both of Bonds parents died in a climbing accident. A retired agent would be cool, however.
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4-08-2006 @ 8:54PM
will said...
Well , you know we all may have it wrong . after many years and many differnts actors doing Bond maybe this is where it is finally revealed that there are many James Bonds and Sean Connery can hand off the reins from james Bond to the new James Bond. After all james may not be his real name after all he is a secert agent and there are many to have just a limited number so maybe all 007's are called James Bond. We can show Sean Connery on the beach with the new bond saying . Hey, I was once James Bond agent 007, also but my real name is Sir Sean Connery.
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4-08-2006 @ 9:09PM
Lynn said...
Definately not a wuss or a bad guy...don't do that to us! Training a new Bond, or the go to guy for advice -- yes. I can see some very funny scenes of him imparting his wisdom and "cautions" to the new 007
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4-08-2006 @ 9:09PM
Terry L. Abram said...
I think that if his fater was not really dead from an accident would be a nice little twist to James Bond, but do not kill or defame a hero!
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4-08-2006 @ 9:15PM
dcp said...
There never has been, or will be, a Bond like Sean Connery.....and the man just gets sexier as he gets older....the way he talks, and lifts that eyebrow! If they bring him back in this movie, he needs to be an advisor or something to the new Bond, and show him how it is done. Connery rocks.
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4-08-2006 @ 9:16PM
tom said...
Connery should be cast as Q, since the original Q passed away....Roger Moore should be cast as the wuss who gets beaten by Bond, Pierce Brosnan should be cast as an assassin that Bond has to deal with,like metalmouth's recurring role....Timothy Dalton ,well, he could work for craft services or if he's lucky, an extra
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4-08-2006 @ 9:18PM
Mike Lewis said...
In my opinion, ROGER MOORE was the real James Bond!!!
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4-08-2006 @ 9:26PM
Make more Bond films said...
Why Casino Royal?
Wasn't that done already?
How about something totally New Like one I thought of many years ago, called Apollo, with a New space program to colonize space for example and the evil guy tries to take it over so that any space craft leaving Earth will have to pay him tribute or something like that.
It could have all the flair of any Bond films without having to go the "remake" route which I think would be bad for many reasons.
One is that we don't need comparisons to the "old vs the new" one. and we don't need the whole Bond franchise to get old and stale going over old material again and again.
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4-08-2006 @ 9:29PM
Cindy McKinney said...
Sean as a coward, not in this life time!!!!!!!!! I could handle him being a retired agent but no way would I pay money to see him as a wuss!! Sean Connery is James Bond, all the others pale in comparison!
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4-08-2006 @ 9:37PM
Bert said...
Maybe most of you are too young to know but Casino Royale was not a "Bond" movie per say, it was a spoof about James Bond. So don't get to uptight about how they do the story unless this "re-make" is trying to be a real Bond film. And speaking of re-makes, have all the writers died or jumped ship? It seems like most of the movies coming out are re-makes and for one I'm sick of it!
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4-08-2006 @ 9:43PM
Jim, the "Orange Yodeler" Dautry said...
Sean Connery giving advice and such to our new James Bond would be very classy. I'd also love to see George Lazenby in a similar role as he made a very real and total person out of James Bond in OHMS!
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