The James Bond franchise was one that had sort of lost its way. It wasn’t a dead franchise, but Bond had lost his relevance in many ways to various new breads of action heroes. For decades when you thought of “Super Spy Movies” the name Bond would instantly jump into your head… but it seems like more and more other names had taken his place (Bourne for example). And more and more the image of Bond was being used for nothing but satirical material (Austin Powers, Johnny English ect.)
But with Casino Royale, Bond announced he was back with a vengeance. In my opinion it was the best Bond movie ever made and it firmly put Bond back in the throne. With Bond 22 set to go into production, it seems we now have our bad guy. ComingSoon gives us this:
Fox News’ Roger Friedman is reporting that The Diving Bell and the Butterfly star Mathieu Amalric will play James Bond’s villain in Bond 22 and that Leona Lewis may sing the new theme for the film.
Ok, now I’ve got to admit here that I know next to nothing about Mathieu Amalric other than the fact that he’s the one who is going to be trying to cut off Bond’s balls. If you feel a little nervous about them putting in a guy like this who many people have never heard of… keep in mind that a lot of people said “Daniel who?!?!” when Craig was announced as the new James Bond, and that worked out quite well I’d say.
