Tuesday 8th August 2006

Bond car becomes top seller

Vanquish sells as 'Bond' spurns gearshifts

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James Bond's AM Vanquish

James Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish -- as seen in Die Another Day -- was sold for £144,500 at an auction this weekend. It was the highest ticket item on the day.

The sale, held in Newport Pagnell by auction house Bonhams, was entirely made up of Bond memorabilia and included five signed photos of Bond actors which went for £14,950.

Meanwhile, the new James Bond, to be played by Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, due out in November, has said that he's afraid of heights and a fan of automatic cars.

He said that shooting scenes high on cranes and even at the top of a flight of stairs triggered his vertigo. He also hates guns, Martini, and said that he couldn't get on with the Aston Martin DBS -- built especially for the film and not due for general release until next year -- because it had a manual gearshift. "I don't do gears", he reportedly said.

[havoc]

The new Bond is a pansy! That says it all...

[abarthchris]

havoc said:

The new Bond is a pansy! That says it all...

i hate guns, booze, women and manual gearchanges... i want my mummy!!!

[skinnyboy]

More like Jane Bond!

Probably waxes his chest too, and they have to use a custom guinea pig mirkin for the dear boy!

[fidgits]

what a perfect Bond for the 21st century...

a complete wuss - and no doubt the 'bond girl' will be the one to save the day in the new movie

[chorlton]

And they cast him as Bond for what reason again? Maybe the modern youth can relate to him, he migh have a hoodie and hang around shopping centres in the film, although the escalators might scare him.

[sprinter885]

fidgits said:

what a perfect Bond for the 21st century...

a complete wuss - and no doubt the 'bond girl' will be the one to save the day in the new movie

On this information he probably drinks petty coloured cocktails & "Bond girl" more likely to be Graham Norton/Dale Winton!!

Edited by sprinter885 on Tuesday 8th August 10:40

[fidgits]

sprinter885 said:

fidgits said:

what a perfect Bond for the 21st century...

a complete wuss - and no doubt the 'bond girl' will be the one to save the day in the new movie

On this information "Bond girl" more likely to be Graham Norton/Dale Winton!!

I was thinking Jade or Jordan with those sort of comment to be honest!

[B10]

What a pretentous, pathetic luvvie.
Making comments like that even if you believe them mean that he feels that he is bigger than the Bond franchise. Bit like that other big headed luvvie who left the role of Dr Who

[HUGE]

Daniela Craig more like....Burton,Marvin,Mitchum,Reed and Harris must all be turning in their graves......what happened to "real" men in films
Poor luvvie...every days filming must have been hell.....what with all those loud bangs and nasty men running around...

Edited by HUGE on Tuesday 8th August 10:57

[skinnyboy]

bet the only gadgets he has in this movie is a foundation compact designed by Q to dispense rouge at 100mph!

Utterly metro!

License to Kill? More likely License to Curl (brought to you by Babylis)

[havoc]

I've got it.

I'm unfit, slightly overweight, not exceptionally good looking, and I'm not the biggest fan of heights. But I like guns, I like Aston's (WITH manual boxes), I'll drink Martinis and I'll stand at the top of the stairs. I've also got a hairy chest and have never been NEAR a waxing salon or a hairstylist (they're called BARBERS for men!!!)

So...can I be the next Bond?!?

[TonyHetherington]

So is ShadyTree going to be doing the EuroHoon in his newly acquired JamesBond-esque Vanquish, then?

[fidgits]

mind you... in his defence.

Martini is a girls drink

[hendry]

Plot: Bond has to kill baddy who is single handedly threatening the life of the entire planet, killing children, devastating forests and gassing animals on his way... Bond pulls in front of Cayenne driver and offers him a free Oyster card. The end.

Is MI5 on the South Bank in the Congestion Charging zone?

For the first time since the Bond franchise has been running, the World actually does have a united enemy (well, united excluding Syria and Iran) in Osama Bin Laden - the perfect 007 baddy. How obvious will Commander Bond's Aston look doing the rounds of every cave on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border?

By the way, does Daniel Craig have vertigo or is he afraid of heights? Or both?

Edited by hendry on Tuesday 8th August 11:18

[Seasider]

TonyHetherington said:

So is ShadyTree going to be doing the EuroHoon in his newly acquired JamesBond-esque Vanquish, then?

Only if he can fit the Taxi light on top

[Mr Whippy]

What a bloody puff!

Run up to a gay welsh Jaymes Boynd by 2010!

Dave

[beasto]

In this country, he might as well have said he has a p***s the size of his little finger.

Elsewhere, it's not so important -- still, Bond really ought to be on top of all things mechanical, as well as the ladies.

[SCOOTERMAN]

Did Daniel Craig actually say those things? Rumours have been circulating for eons now (started by those unhappy there's a blonde guy playing the part of Bond) that he can only drive autos, that he'd be driving a Mondeo, that he gets sea-sick, that he's scared of heights, that he chipped a finger nail blahblahblah...Funny that I can't recall Craig actually going on record with such comments. The gun scenes and the tower-block scene in Layer Cake would suggest to me he can cut it quite happily.

I'm lookng forward to this. His performance in Layer Cake as a slightly arrogant cocaine dealer was spot-on; he'll do this new "badáss" Bond well.

Edited by SCOOTERMAN on Tuesday 8th August 12:02

Edited by SCOOTERMAN on Tuesday 8th August 12:03

[tombstone]

Mr Brosnan must be laughing!!!! even good ole Rodger complete with furry rug and spray on tan must be having a little chuckle!!

[:J:]

I know for a fact that he did really well with the driving after a bit of training.

The comment that appeared in the Top Gear and the Sun about paying £500 to say he is a good driver (or something along those lines) was just made up, so who knows what else could be ???