Goodbye, Daniel Craig: How the actor became bigger than the character James Bond
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Goodbye, Daniel Craig: How the actor became bigger than the character James Bond

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James Bond #25, No Time to Die, is finally going to be opening in theatres — in 3D no less — on September 30. Casino Royale followed Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan’s final outing as Bond. Directed by Martin Campbell — who incidentally also directed Golden Eye which introduced Brosnan as Bond — Casino Royale was a rigorous reboot, including direct quotes from the 1953 novel. The sadism that Fleming was criticised for, is very much present from the torture scene in Casino Royale to the one in 2015’s Spectre, which is taken from the first continuation James Bond novel Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis. This is however the first time, an actor has grown bigger than the character, and so the sooner we give Craig’s Bond a solemn send-off, the better.

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