Thanks to Casino Royale, James Bond has never been so popular - even though the movie would have been way cooler if the Parkour guy from the beginning got to be James Bond instead of miserable old Daniel Craig.
But now the time has come to expand on the success of Casino Royale with the next James Bond film. Nobody knows what Bond 22 will be called, or who'll be in it apart from Daniel Craig, but at least now we do know that Marc Forster has been signed on to direct the movie based on a script co-written by Paul Haggis. So that's a James Bond movie directed by the man who made Monster's Ball and written by the man who wrote Million Dollar Baby. Call it a hunch but we can't see this new James Bond movie exactly being a warmhearted chucklefest, can you?
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