Saturday, September 24, 2005, 1:21 PM EST.
Grass Roots Push for 'Casino Royale' Floods Actor with Books
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LOS ANGELES, CA—In an interview with GQ Magazine, 52-year old Pierce Brosnan has hinted that he may be open to returning to the role of James Bond in a fifth outing in the upcoming 21st official film incarnation of the agent’s adventures.
Meanwhile LDJW Films has cited a source at Pinewood Studios in predicting 37-year old Daniel Craig is a front runner to take over where Brosnan left off with the Bond character.
However, both scenarios are contradictory to the idea of a 28-year old James Bond as described in the original Ian Fleming novel “Casino Royale” upon which the next film is to be based.
Screenwriter Paul Haggis stated to the Hollywood Reporter that his vision, too, is of a young Bond and that is reflected in how he is scripting the upcoming feature for director Martin Campbell.
Fans of the James Bond films that favor the 28-year old character created in the book “Casino Royale” that started the billion dollar 007 entertainment empire are taking the casting director job into their own hands.
Prime Time Entertainment, the U.S.-based management office for actor Rikki Lee Travolta of the famed entertainment family, has been inundated with copies of the Fleming novel from fans.
Thousands of copies of the book have swamped the offices of Travolta’s managers – each inscribed with the simple message “You’re the One.”
“It appears to be a rather well organized grass roots marketing push of some kind,” observed a movie insider from an adjacent office building.
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