So Daniel Craig seems to be back tracking comments on Bond.

There were no 'comments' (plural) to backtrack on, merely a single taken out of context joke in an interview he gave at the end of months of filming. The whole will he/won't he return tango has been played by Bonds ever since Thunderball, so it's really just business as usual.


"Security - release the badgers."

My mistake.

It's a very easy one to make - that one off-the-cuff joke was repeated out of context by hundreds of news sources and thousands of internet sites as if it was a Sean Connery-esque tirade against the films when really it was the equivalent of asking someone who'd just finished a marathon if they'd go back to the starting line and do another right away. Sometimes people take those kind of throwaway quips way too seriously, and the way it was spun into him storming off in a huff despite the months of subsequent interviews he did explaining it is bizarre but something we'll see a lot more of with the soundbite culture the internet encourages.



"Security - release the badgers."

Of course he is, money talks. We all knew he would be more than happy to come back if they offered him a big enough paycheck.

Self improvement is a full-time job

at LEAST 2 more? he's far too old for 2+ more

He's only 48. Tom Cruise was 52 in the most recent Mission Impossible and got away with it.

I don't think it's the age so much as the mileage, as Indiana Jones would say. He's done four films now and two more would make it six, and no James Bond actor has put in a good performance past a fifth film. It was a mistake for Sean Connery to return for Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again, and Moore was clearly phoning it in for his last two, after being surprisingly effective in his fifth film. I think five would be a good number to finish on.