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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 17 augusT 2017
Daniel Craig, back as Bond, keeps 007 fans on edge

By JAKE COYLE been a year-round busi-
AP Film Writer ness. Tom Hardy, Tom Hid-
NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel dleston, Jack Huston and
Craig’s 007-era will die an- Riz Ahmed are just some of
other day. the actors who have been
After months of gossip and linked to the role — some
denials, Craig on Tuesday of them for the better part
night confirmed to Stephen of the decade.
Colbert on the “Late Show” Others have lobbied for
that he will indeed return a female 007, like Charl-
for another James Bond ize Theron . Idris Elba has
movie. The yet-titled film is been a favorite for at least
due out November 2019. two years, going to back
“We’ve just been trying to to when Bond author An-
figure things out,” Craig told thony Horowitz suggested
Colbert. “I always wanted he was “too street” for the
to. I needed a break.” part.
The 49-year-old actor’s The meetings of producer
stewardship of James Bond Barbara Broccoli are spied
has spanned four films — on as if they concern na-
and now will go for a fifth tional security. In a way,
— but it has generated they do. Bond is a nation- This is a Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 file photo of actor Daniel Craig poses for the media as he ar-
enough rumors to power state of its own, with more rives for the German premiere of the James Bond movie ‘Spectre’ in Berlin, Germany.
the kind of doomsday de- than $7 billion in box-office
vice Bond is usually trying to revenues alone. And that’s suggested it will be his last “I just want to go out on a don’t bet on it. Or to put
stop. a heavy burden for any ac- one. high note.” it another way: Never say
Craig’s time as Bond has tor to bear. “I think this is it,” he said. Though many surely will, never again.q
been distinguished. His Craig’s constant dance
“Skyfall” remains a high- with Bond has very possibly
point in both dollars and been a smart strategy to
quality for the 55-year- deflect some of that pres-
olf franchise. His last one, sure. He has, perhaps more
2015’s “Spectre,” grossed than anyone since Sean
$880 million worldwide. Connery, eluded being
Most consider him a terrific completely defined by 007.
Bond who has raised the Last year he did “Othello”
bar for the franchise, and off-Broadway with David
his official return was greet- Oyelowo. He gives a comic
ed warmly on Wednesday. turn in Steven Soderbergh’s
But the Craig-era, far more “Logan Lucky,” out Friday.
than its predecessors, has It’s as though Craig has
been characterized by a always wanted his future
steady supply of Bond dra- with James Bond a little up
ma. in the air — shaken, if you
Rumors and debates over like — so as to avoid the
who should be the next stasis that could set in for
007 have been nonstop for a decades-old franchise
years, as has Craig’s fre- now preparing its 25th films.
quent hints about calling it Craig acknowledged on
quits. In 2015, he famously Colbert that his return had
said he’d rather “slash my been settled months ago,
wrists” than make another meaning he was evading
Bond movie, a comment questions about Bond as
he later explained as a kind recently as that morning
of joke from the fatigue of when he told a Boston ra-
just completing one. dio station that “no deci-
Yet even while Craig keeps sion has been made.”
donning the tux, the next- And even as he confirmed
Bond handicapping has he was returning, Craig