Daniel Craig has broken the record!
jorgem1
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It has been exactly 12 years when Daniel Craig was announced has the 6th James Bond on October 14, 2005. And he will definitely beat Roger Moore's record as the longest serving Bond! -{
Today is also (the late) Roger Moore's 90th birthday.
Today is also (the late) Roger Moore's 90th birthday.
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Well, Roger Moore was anounnced on August 1, 1972 I believe, his last Bond film AVTAK was premiered on June 13, 1985 in the UK, and his retirement as Bond was announced around December 1985. So he spent more than 13 years, Dalton's announcement as the 4th Bond happened in August 1986.
AVTAK was released on VHS in the USA around December 1985 also. Buying those videotapes back then would cost you about $60-70!
7!!!
So there you go. Roger Moore was in the role for 13 years and it has only been 12 for Craig.
As for time on screen, Moore has 14 hours and 46 minutes. Craig only has 9 hours and 2 minutes so far.
Craig has not even started there - just sayin....
And I was just talking with the wive the other night:
He took over the role from a truely iconic actor who defined the role and from day one he played it his way and his version -successfully and made it his very own. That is somehing remarkable!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
figures may be bettered, or length of tenure discussed.
Roger made the Role his own, and the public loved him
For it. For many years on screen he put the Great in Britain,
And always kept the British end up. -{
RM was such a great Bond, and being such doesn't necessarily take away from the other guys. For a long time, poor Sir Rog suffered as Sir Sean's second fiddle, which still continues today but at least he's getting his due recognition instead of being portrayed as the totally bad Bond.
Yes, it's the number of films that count. For example, had TD resumed to do GE, at that point he would have Bond for 8 years counting, but with only 3 films under his belt, which is kind of like DC’s going rate nowadays
I suppose we all fall into the tendency to compare one Bond over another to establish this Bond is best at this or that, which boils down to who is our favorite Bond...but we just want to make sure that everyone else recognizes that our favorite Bond is indeed "the best."
That totally depends on the people‘s age imo.
If they where born in the 60s, they haven‘t seen Connery first and for those many Connery was just the old-time bloke and Moore was Bond! Period!
And we are speaking pre-DVD age here.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Very true, just as there is a generation for which DC is Bond, period
I'm not so much a fan of the hunger games.
HUWAATT?!? How can you not be a fan of the life and times of Katniss Everdeen and her adventures with Peeta, Haymitch, the desperate residents of District 13, and the miraculous eradication of acne in the dystopian future!?
And even faster women
Bond 26 would mostly likely be released around November 2022, just in time for the 60th anniversary of the franchise and possibly a new Bond actor will be cast.
I don't think that was a good record to make in the first place for Sir Roger and depending on who you ask, either MR, FYEO or OP should have been his last. I caught some of CR on tv just recently and marveled how young DC was, and in terms of ideal optimum age, I'd say DC was at that point in SP, comparable to Connery in YOLT, IMO. It doesn't help that the gaps are getting longer while on the other hand, viable new Bonds seem to be missing but ideally, we can really use a new Bond now.
Why do you care so much about Craig being in the role the longest? What really matters is how many films they made. When Craig’s tenure is over, Moore will still be the Bond who did the most. It’s the movies that will be remembered, not the time between them. If anything, Craig’s long tenure will be remembered as a bad thing because of all the time we had to wait between his films. As much as it may pain you, Moore will still maintain the real record. I don’t picture your man doing 7 Bond films.
What's kind of sad about the Craig era, is that previously when a new Bond was cast, it was most certainly feasible he could match Roger's record. Tim's films were planned with 2 year intervals and Pierce's continued that consistency until DAD broke the mold with a 3 year break.
Now that the Craig era has established it acceptable to have 3-4 years in between, each new film will probably entail some effort to re-introduce Bond to the current generation.
I miss the times when Bond was a consistent mainstay.
(especially when some of them are just plagiarised Austin Powers plots)
at Craig's current rate, when would he complete seven?
2019, 2023, 2027!
he'd be in the part twenty years if he ever made seven!
I find him rather amusing and all, but they should have hired someone more interested in getting some actual films done
new rule: no Executive Producers credit for actors who only manage one film every four years