Mads Mikkelsen has been cast as Le Chiffre, the villain in the next James Bond movie. You can read the fully story at CNN. Now I think that the casting of Daniel Craig as Bond will make the George Lazenby fiasco look like a good move, but I had held out some hope for the other roles. At least they could have cast somebody with at least some name recognition to fill the chief bad guy role. Zero name recognition in either of the two leads isn't going to help ticket sales. As an aside, the CNN article also confirms Judi Dench as M. Now maybe the producers slept through the last few movies, but the rest of us should remember that Dench was introduced as the "new" M in GoldenEye. In fact, there was a scene between M and Bond referring to her predecessor, someone whom Bond had obviously worked with for a while. Now since this movie is being billed as a prequel of sorts to all of the other Bond films, how can Dench's M already be on the job when Bond is just beginning his career, when she has been previously introduced as taking over as M long after Bond has been on the job? Anybody want to bet that before the month of November is over (Casino Royale opens November 17) some folks at MGM/Sony are going to be wishing that they had brought Pierce Brosnan back again?

¶ 2/16/2006 11:08:00 AM

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