OK, I'm looking at D. Craig's filmography at IMDb and among his upcoming flicks, there are;

"Munich": a big Spielberg film about Palestine/Israel conflict during the Munich Olympic. (Co-starring, funnily enough, Eric Bana.)

"The Visiting": a supernatural/sci-fi thing about aliens-among-us by some German director. Also has Nicole Kidman & Jeremy Northam.

"Have You Heard?": ANOTHER Capote biopic--the hell?--in which he plays Perry Smith.

Looks like he's a bit of an up-and-comer; could become big potentially if the Bond thing takes off.

Eric Bana (né Banadinovich) is 37 too.

And Goran--well. Not British.

Not British isn't a problem, considering the previous Bonds. Not able to play British is probably more important.

I don't think that Clive is inherently rougher than Connery was, and I'd love to have seen him give it a shot.

Not British isn't a problem, considering the previous Bonds. Not able to play British is probably more important.

Well, everything I've ever seen him in he's had the same accent. (Even that bit part in that Nicole Kidman/George Clooney movie, where he played a Russian soldier -- ironically enough, because it was a movie about Yugoslavians, he played a non-Yugoslav, and as Russians go, he sounded kind of in the neighborhood, but not quite in the right building.) I don't know if he can mock up the proper accent -- some people just don't do that.

He didn't sound like Hot Doctor Luka to me in Elektra. He didn't sound American either -- weirdly anonymous. But I figure that should be what holds an actor back. Inability to act the part. Forget being the part.

Right. If he were able to believably fake a upper-class British accent, then I'd have no beef with him getting cast. My guess is that he won't be able to. Actually, I can't imagine Goran V. without the vague Eastern European accent, since his voice and the accent is not a small part of his appeal.

Speaking of accents, Orlando Bloom's American doesn't sound convincing even in the ads for Elizabethtown, so I wonder how that will play -- if he'll do more parts as an American or not.

He needs to take off the jeans and ... wait, where was I? Right ... take of the jeans and get back into period garb.

Fuck range.

I heard Elizabethtown got a crappy reception at Toronto Film Festival. (Granted, it was apparently the longer, unedited version.) I've heard it described as one over-long song-fic.

I want Orlando Bloom to have as successful a career as possible, so as best to provide me with eye candy.

But Kirsten fucking Dunst? Playing my most-hated cliché? Oy. I could get past her in Wimbledon, but at least she wasn't the wacky enlightening chick there.

What is your most-hated cliche? Based on the Elizabethtown ads, I am guessing "free-spirit female who opens up the blocked channels of the male, preferably via sex," but that is only a guess.

There have been some truly bad faked accents in the history of film, some honorable failures or "well, that was wrong, but it was consistent and didn't sound like pandering" accents, and there have been ones that were perfect (some, so perfect that they stand out and sound fake because of their perfectness). Favorites?

I don't think I mentioned here that I watched the first episodes of The Wire over the weekend, and there is an accent gone hilariously wrong. Askye tells me that in fact two castmembers are British, but one of them blends in and you can't tell (yet), and the other scrambles desperately after his London vowels.