{"id":345391,"date":"2017-08-16T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345391"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:56:20","slug":"daniel-craig-is-back-as-bond-how-did-fans-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345391","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Craig is back as Bond: How did fans react?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Daniel Craig\u00a0will be reprising his role as James Bond\u00a0one more time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to go out on a high note. I can&#8217;t wait,&#8221; he said on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Although some people on social media weren&#8217;t too thrilled about the news, a lot of fans are excited about the actor&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user is so happy about the announcement that it&#8217;s probably going to be all they&#8217;ll be talking about for a while:<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-embed\">\n<div class=\"social-embed-post social-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"embed embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"embed-region\">\n<p id=\"jump-linkhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/shesJamesEvans\/status\/897734781886230529\" class=\"off-screen\" tabindex=\"-1\">Doing another James Bond and your gonna have to deal with me flailing about this for the next two weeks, at least.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>James Evans wrote: &#8220;Daniel Craig is doing another James Bond and your [sic] gonna have to deal with me flailing about this for the next two weeks, at least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From one Craig to another, the actor has won singer Craig David&#8217;s approval too:<\/p>\n<p>Ajay Chowdhury, editor of the James Bond International Fan Club magazine, told BBC 5 live: &#8220;He&#8217;s been the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful actor to play Bond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s made Bond such an iconic character, no-one thought Bond would still be this important and get this much attraction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While many fans are pleased to see Daniel Craig back as Bond, some people think it&#8217;s time to give another actor a go.<\/p>\n<p>Prem Mohanty\u00a0wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Seriously Daniel Craig is too old to play James Bond, 4 movies was quite enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Idris Elba had been\u00a0widely tipped in the past to take over, but that&#8217;s not going to happen &#8211; yet, at least.<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>A Twitter user named\u00a0Hood Economist wrote: &#8220;Daniel Craig returning as Bond? Thoroughly enjoyed his Bond films but I was ready for @idriselba tbh!&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">It will be released in US cinemas on 8 November 2019 with a traditional earlier release in the UK<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">There&#8217;s no title yet &#8211; for now, it&#8217;s just known as Bond 25<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">It will be scripted by long-standing Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have been writing the films since 1999&#8217;s The World is Not Enough<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Daniel Craig has said this will be his last time playing 007, fulfilling his five-film contract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Craig as Bond &#8211; in numbers<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/6FCC\/production\/_97402682_gettyimages-510362948.jpg\" alt=\"Spectre car\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>13<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Daniel Craig will have been James Bond for 13 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>51<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; his age when his final film is released, making him only the second actor to play Bond as a 50-something, after Roger Moore<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>$3.1bn<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; the total global box office takings for Craig&#8217;s Bond films so far<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>$37m<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; the value of the cars Bond trashed for Spectre in 2015, according to Gary Powell, the film&#8217;s chief stunt co-ordinator, who spoke to\u00a0the Daily Mail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Craig\u00a0will be reprising his role as James Bond\u00a0one more time. &#8220;I just want to go out on a high note. 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