JAMES BOND | Casino Royale "Daniel Craig" Screen Test 

Pretty good description

I definitely saw some young Nolan in him there.

Lmaooo. I was thinking that he does remind me of someone, but couldn't remember who. but now that you've mentioned Nolan, I can't unsee it 💀..

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Shit you nailed it lol. A grownup Draco Malfoy lol

And he changed his hairstyle for Bond. Why? So he wouldn't look blonde or he would be taken more seriously?

@@hunterxsimple3821 more serious

Looks like mr potato head

He looks a lot different or really young, his hair or something. I really liked him as Bond. Wish he had made a couple more movies in that 15 year span.

In this screen test I honestly find it hard to see Craig as Bond, he looks skinny, with long hair, he looks more like a university history professor than a secret agent. Without a doubt, the hair cut and having worked on his muscles, made a difference and gave him the touch he needed to become the brutal Bond of Casino Royale.

agree. I'm sure that was a big part of why they wanted to cast him so bad

PERFECT.

I totally agree. The train scene where he met Vesper was the perfect example of this

@@Mark-lj1dj Fallen in love with Eva Green ever since!!

Casino Royale is still the best bond movie, bar none.

Not only is Casino the best Bond film, it might be up there as one of the best action films of all time. It’s certainly in my personal top 20.

Are you guys high??? Casino Royale the best Bond movie??? You guys must be under 20.

@@laurencewhite4809 41 actually.

@@laurencewhite4809 Casino Royale is generally considered one of the best Bond movies, and consistently makes it into the top 5 lists of best Bond movies all time. It’s an incredible film.

Exactly..., it takes a lot of talent to spot the potential of what he can be, and to take him to that level.

I can't say if that's entirely the case. I mean, pick any actor that played Bond before Craig. Connery, Moore, Brosnan and the few others. None of them were muscular and chiseled like Daniel Craig. In fact, they all bear more resemblance physically to how he looks in this screen test than the actual movies. I think the character of James Bond is more about being sharp and suave than being strongly built, but it's just my opinion.

@@gogoi.p bond was never a huge muscular man!!! but look at craig here, he looks lanky and seedy, almost like gareth from the office!

I could see "Bond" in him in the movie Layer Cake.

@@hatsigeo1283 no way. he looks like gareth from the office in that movie

I absolutely loved Layer Cake! I agree, he was the beginnings of James Bond in that film.

Probably Tomb Raider helped a lot. He had a shower scene where he was totally ripped and gorgeous.

Munich didn't do him any harm either. Although it wasn't released until after he signed on, it was already in the can.

Munich was the movie that made them want him. Spielberg even spurred on Craig in taking the role. Is in documentaries etc this was the movie that made them want him,

Are Flaming novels the ones from Fahrenheit 451?

I saw this (Layer Cake) much later after Casino Royale and finally understood why he was it was an unintentional audition for Bond. Brilliant film

Casino Royale, Skyfall and No time to Die are the best.

Yeah. Casino Royale is, for me, the most Bond movie of all. Skyfall was good but it was back to movie Bond again and it’s tropes. It was a bit of an attempt to bring all the Bond fans together with mixing the new (and closer to the original concept) Bond and the old movies Bond. But most have been just bad. Even the last one. Casino Royale, in my opinion, proved that we could have a serious Bond, like in the books. But it seems people just want cheap comedy and gadgets and so they just went back to it quickly. Hooray for popcorn casual viewers and focus groups, I guess..

@@Quetzalcoatl83 You are exactly correct!

@@Daniel__Nobre Quantum of Solace doubled down the serious and gave us a shitty movie. Not because it was dark, but because it was shitty.

Casino Royale is the only movie that is impressive. In fact, amazing! The others were a serious decline in likeability of the character, script, cast, and so much more.. Skyfall is the most overrated of them all. The last one I refuse to watch. I can't see them do what they did to Bond's character. Pure writing garbage --ever since after Casino Royale.

Not with any innuendos.

I’m not glad to see back of him

@@jcw9539Craig was the best Bond. I bet u are a connery fanboy top 3 Bond films: 1. Casino Royale 2. GoldenEye 3. Skyfall 4. From Russia With Love 5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service 6. Licence To Kill 7. For Your Eyes Only 8. The Living Daylights 9. The Spy Who Loved Me 10. Goldfinger Bond actors: 1. Daniel Craig 2. Pierce Brosnan 3. Timothy Dalton 4. Sean Connery 5. Roger Moore 6. George Lazenby

horrible truly horrible.

Not in my view Ghastly piece of casting

“Thug bond” as my wife labelled him after watching Casino Royale. They clearly didn’t want the new bond to be sauve and sophisticated as they went with short and charisma free instead. Thankfully the new bond - Aaron Taylor Johnson - at least looks the part.

Bond should have dark hair, and plenty of charisma.

The worst of them by far, he literally looks like the neighbourhood plumber

It wasn't just the press. Above all, it was embittered internet fanboys who hate everything new at first.

Oh, I remember the bitchy British press at the time though, some quite funny. The line that stuck was “he isn’t TERRIBLE looking, but he kind of looks like a dropped pear.” 😂 I mean they went from the prior guy who looked like a literal model from a middle age nappy commercial, to this one. So the bitchy press had a point in the context of the time. The thing was the new films HAD to have a different vibe. It wasn’t that the script, that made the reboot with Daniel Craig so good, it was that start of the Bourne franchise just DESTROYED what people expected of spy films, and the level of professionalism people were entertained by. If they hadn’t gone for the gritty new Bond aim, with nods to the past, then they would have killed the franchise. So they had to lose the cheesy jokes (mostly), put a more normal looking person in the role, lose the stupid gadgets (again, mostly), and the crazy womaniser jokes… “I thought Christmas only comes once…” for a pre-Craig example, in the the last one I think. Or Octopussy…. as the movie’s title. That crap wasn’t going to work. As an Omega watch fan, this was the first film where the Omega watch told the time… and that is it.

My mother has never had any serious opinion on any movies. She´s the casual viewer, like the lady who plays Candy Crush. Oh but when Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond, I remember her saying "But Bond has dark hair! How can he be blonde now??"

Looked better here, more like Bond than he did in the movie

Exactly right.

He look so young. He aged fast.

​@@olakarlsson7496He didnt age that much. Especially compared to Connery and Moore (and Craig was Bond for longer).

Sounds like he clinched it before he carried himself here

"Not a bond fan" "Seen all of them" Which is it

same

You must be a chic

Wow not even Sean Connery.... then again I'm old lol

I really loved Bond until he came.

It was the director.

I was just thinking the same thing!

Craig's style of Bond was very similar to Timothy Dalton's

Brosnan did cheer Craig up after facing the tension from the audience, so

Yes. That was the most boring part for me. No gadgets, no womanizer but brute force. Urgh. Good this bond is gone

And now it’s fucking ruined!

Roger Moore made no secret of playing Bond as a joke. He said it had to be comedic and over the top. Not the Connery did it.

Bond is supposed to caricature.

Spot on

You exaggerate. It's too simplistic to dismiss the first 20 films as caricature. But you are probably just ignorant. Most of the scenes you see in the Craig movies are variations on scenes from previous Bond movies. The basic first-act formula - as used during the Craig films - was introduced already in Die Another Day with Bond being captured and then have to go on a personal mission before he "becomes" Bond. Campbell directed GoldenEye 11 years earlier and lots of stuff is reused for Casino Royale, including how Bond is written. In terms of quality, the Craig films covers the whole spectrum if you go by the general consensus from fans. From the very best to the very worst. Sort of like the Moore films. And the Connery films. And the Brosnan films. So what has changed really? And what will you say when we are 5-10 years into the next Bond Era?

I could play a younger hanibal lecter perfect...

Yeah with the longer hair he definitely has a creepy vibe. Shredded Daniel Craig bond would have a fist fight. This guy would just stick a knife between someone's ribs.

@@thegamingcook785 I'm pretty sure the point of a test footage is to see what the result will be.

That was never say never it was an unofficial bond move hence why lathered wasn’t a gun barrel sequence Connery produced that one he had a part of the bond franchise

Connery was 9 years (if you don’t count his brief absence). More comes in 2nd at 13 years. Craig lasted longest, but had less films.

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Mine too

@@Gildete257 respect

@Matt hunterman why didn't he?? Because he looked young??? If it's because he looked young give me a break LMAO. Sean connery looked just as baby faced in his first movie. And I love sean. Daniel Craig in CASINO Royale looks like bond. He has that cold assassin look and the eyes look cold that no others have. They all look like models and too charming.

@@justamerica856 no it’s the hair. In skyfall he looked like bond, his suit and his hair and facial expression was bond. That’s why I love skyfall. He was always great but he looks better in the skyfall

@@matthunterman1 He looked most like Bond in Quantum.

You know my name.

Great film 👍

Fantastic movie

Also worth mentioning that Ben Whishaw (Q) also plays Sidney in Layer Cake. Tom Hardy is also in it but goes unnoticed.

@@gamingflixx Whishaw also plays with Craig in The Trench.

I was thinking the same thing!

i had to laugh at that 🤭

For sure. I only restart to watch bond movies because him.

worst Bond ever no style , no charisma nothing

@@markjones9020 yeah, to each their opinion, its implied that his acting will not please everybody. I think even my dad would have concurred with you. However, i think you are in a very minority as most of us thinks he did particularly well.

He is so stylish so perfect for bond. But I think if back in the day that we know he will be the next bond. I think I will don’t like him too in that time he doesn’t have a bond look at all. He looks more like villains. But after we all watch casino Royale and he got a new haircut. He becomes my favourite bond ever. So stylish so realistic very good acting. And I think he is handsome. I don’t understand why people say he is not handsome like another bond. He just don’t have black hair.

@@markjones9020 It's a toss up between him and Lazenby.

Yeah, he got classic look of Bond.

But he did turned out to be a good bond, well at least to me 😄, i think casino royale is Daniel’s best bond movie, he did pretty good job for portraying a whole new different bond concept from before, but anyway everyone have different opinion and I respect yours 👍

@@thegamingcook785 ​ HAHAHAHA OMG YESS 🤣 , i just realized it now, it's the usual jokes where it's like you predicting something as if it never happens when it actually already happened, loll idk how to explain it but yess i get it now, thank you and sorry bro for misunderstand your joke @SPECTRE NOIR 😅

@@thegamingcook785 I "and many others knew you were joking it's called a dry sense of humour 🤣

I don't believe this guy could be Bond, too skinny and not blue eyes enough. Maybe one movie and then they replace him.

They found him in "Layer Cake," Watch that, and you'll clearly see it.

That’s a good thing?

It's called not being able to act.

That I feel was a downer for his Bond and what makes him my personal least favorite of the 007 Potrails (Eon only) He was less of James Bond after awhile and just himself, just Daniel Craig and there's nothing wrong with adding your own flair but he had a huge flair in the first two but it disappeared after Skyfall

Dalton is my 2nd fav after Craig. My least fav was Moore. Connery was okay I guess. Olga Kurylenko from Quantum of Solace took first place for the Bond girls.

@@randmayfield5695 Your comment screams "Modern Bond fan"

@@q.h.s5051 I saw my first Bond movie in 1962 at the Roxy Theater in Pacific Beach, San Diego at the age of 8. It was Dr. No and that's when I became a fan so haven't missed one since then. The Catholic Digest had it listed as "sexual content" so my mom gave it a no-go for me. I snuck in anyways not really knowing anything about it other than I wasn't supposed to see it. My dad took me to see it again, so he could come back and report to my mom about what the big deal was. I think I remember him saying something about how all the female actresses tending to be "well endowed" with specific reference to Ursula Andress and her bikini. Those were great times to be alive. Remember the Saturday matinees? I saw the double feature matinee Goldfinger and Mysterious Island all for 35 cents. Lol My dad would always give me his "pocket-money" or loose change and tell me to make sure all my friends got what they wanted from the concession counter. I had wonderful parents.

yes, totaly. His haircut has a lot to do with it ! He's not James Bond yet at this time.

this was just beta testing, the recordings and shootings where the alpha, and the whole movie the full relase lol

Aidan MacKay --- Daniel was 40 year's old in 2008. So he looks younger plus hadn't built-up his body muscles yet. He had his hair cut for the Bond movies. Change how he looked.

worst bond by far.

@@purefoldnz3070 He stumbled when he tried to become more like the previous movie versions of Bond. He was much more successful as a thug/blunt instrument Ian Flemming Bond.

@@cookieface80 he was a great actor but the problem was he hated the role and you can actually see his contempt for the character on screen. He only continued the role for lots lots lots of cash.

Cufflinks.

What are you talking to about? He doesn't have loose sleeves as a, "signature look"? Craig wears cufflinks in every movie he's in, so stop making up fake lore to be special.

@@lewis7515the first. have you ever read GQ last bond role? the second. you’re fake.

@@MyCandyBlue137 He does absolutely not have "loose sleeves as a signature look".

They have. I mean, the actor or actress is not in shape for the movie (maybe for a different one, but still), not in the real costume, no perfect makeup, etc. The scenes might not be worked out that well, the director doesn't know exactly what he searches for. etc. Sometimes it is a massive contrast and just shows how much all parties involved invest for such a movie.

it's the hair cut ;p

@@MartenGehman props to a casting director

Well, acting is a process. You have to find the character. It's like how most of your favourite songs probably sounded like shit in the first demo.

Well, Brosnan was Bond during a time when people wanted to see exactly that. Some of the movies were more about the gadgets and who plays the bond girls than about Bond. (Like the over the top Bond films with Roger Moore.) But I think there are some solid stories and Goldeneye is still one of my favorites. But, one usually likes what one grows up with. The actors can only work with what the producers, writers and directors allow them to work with.

That's true😁

That’s funny, I think it’s Craig that comes across more as a businessman or some adversary for Bond.

Ok.

@@jackcavanagh1869 👍

@@jackcavanagh1869 right?

@@arrieflaveaux9355 hahahjaa, i laughed so much when I read "ERIC"s comment 🤣🤣🤣