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Quantum Of Solace
Interview with Daniel Craig,
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Pedigree: James Bond is back - with Marc Forster directing, Bourne's Dan Bradley on second-unit duties and Daniel Craig reprising his role as 007. Estimated budget: $220 million. Predicted box office: $170 million (US gross), $700 million (worldwide).
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"What in the name of Octopussy is a Quantum Of Solace" you ask? Let Mr Daniel Craig give you a few pointers. "We could have gone for a snappier title but that's not part of the deal… It ties into the plot, it's not some random title," he says. "Ian Fleming had written about relationships. When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace.
"At the end of the last movie, Bond has the love of his life taken away from him and he never got that quantum of solace." Hope that clears things up for you. Director Marc Foster's first stab at a balls-out action flick will pick up immediately after the events of Casino Royale, with 007 still smarting from the death of Vesper Lynd, so it's fair to surmise that we're gonna be looking at an angry version of Bond who's less kiss-kiss and more bang-bang.
"He's looking for revenge, you know, to make himself happy with the world again," says Craig before adding. "But the title also alludes to something else in the film." Promising that this film will be "more of a classical Bond movie" but with Casino Royale's more realistic edge, we could very well be looking at the definitive version of the character as he straddles Sixties-style grandiose plans for world domination and new millennial ass-kickery. As Craig says: "Bond will be misbehaving more this time".
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