Daniel Craig can’t drive 007′s car

February 24th, 2006 // 66 Comments

*daniel_craig_thumb2.jpgNew 007 Daniel Craig shocked producers of Casino Royale when he revealed that he cannot actually drive Bond’s trademark Aston Martin. Craig told Bond bosses that he is actually only qualified to drive an automatic transmission vehicle, which was a huge problem with driving the manual Aston Martin DB5. Filming had to be halted so that the actor could actually learn how to drive the fictional spy’s hi-tech car.

This is getting ridiculous. Our new James Bond can’t get even a d-list actress to pair up with him, gets his teeth knocked out, can’t drive a stick, and looks like his face was carved out of yogurt. The only way it could get worse is if he spent the entire movie in pink hot pants with the words “shaken, not stirred” on his ass and introduced himself as “agent double-o-pretty princess.”

Thanks to Jacqueline for the tip.

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  1. mamacita

    I,for one, happen to think this new James Bond is pretty hot. Check this picture out.

    http://people.aol.com/people/galleries/0,19884,1161618_6,00.html

    Not too shabby, I say.

  2. Binky

    The PR is getting a bit feeble for this flick, when they have to promote the new Bond as “licenced to drive”

  3. Maeve97

    You’ve got to be kidding me. How believable can this guy be as a sexy spy super agent when he can’t even drive stick? I wouldn’t consider dating a man that couldn’t drive stick. What a gine.

  4. Devil Is Chrome

    A man who cannot operate a manual transmission just isn’t a man.

    Am I wrong?

  5. sqongo

    Daniel Craig is a real actor,maybe not as pretty as Pierce,but 100% better actor!!

  6. theyareidiots

    Devil, you are correct. A man who cannot drive a stick is Al Reynolds. Just ask Star.

  7. Is Kevin Federline doing the title track for this film?

  8. Xanthia

    Whoa! And nice feet too – I LIKE!

  9. Coren

    Y’know who’d make a better 007…Austin Powers…

    Get Mike Myers on the phone!!!!

  10. kuennen sux

    Where can I get a pair of those panties?

  11. Jayne

    awwwwwww no one’s perfect.
    Especially…not him.

    I can’t stand Pierce so I hope this guy makes the Bond movies a tad more interesting.
    Hell, these stories themselves makes me eager enough to watch Casino Royale.

  12. LaydeeBug

    Get rid of the pommie!

    Jesus, EVEN my mother can drive a standard. What kind of Englishman is he? Flipping fagola!

  13. always answer b

    Which again makes me wonder, why oh WHY didn’t they just stick with Clive Owen? Now that man can DRIVE. He was the driver in many of those short BMW films featured on their website. Not to mention that he just LOOKS so much more Bond, as well.

  14. LaydeeBug

    Nice Detls and Lats, though. (Shoot, I ain’t BLIND!)

  15. LaydeeBug

    Oops Delts

  16. LaydeeBug

    CLIVE OWEN!!!!CLIVE OWEN!!!!!! YESSSSSSS!

  17. SMF121490

    Okay, let me get this straight. This guy is going to try to compete with Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Bronson in the looks department? I don’t think so. And, he can’t even drive the fricken car.

  18. lysistrata11

    This guy is going to be another George Lazenby. He’ll be in one film and the viewers are going to ABSOLUTELY hate it. He looks like he was carved out of wax and has all the personality of a scarecrow.

  19. gossipmonger

    He’s creepy looking, in my opinion. It doesnt matter what he looks like naked, I dont think I could get past that face…

  20. lysistrata11

    By the way, in that picture (post #1) doesn’t it look like he has a pin head on huge shoulders?

  21. kenniem

    At first I was not pleased with the choice, but then I saw him in Layer Cake and he really is a good actor.

    And really some of the Pierce ones were so painful to watch at times.

  22. Bob Denver

    If you haven’t seen Layer Cake you shouldn’t even comment on this guy as an actor.

    As long as he does a better job than Peirce did in the last two gawd-awful Bond films, then it will be a blessing.

  23. dimestoredetective

    He’s the Brokeback Bond for generation Q

  24. MonkeyBoy

    Sounds like the Daniel Craig wants to be known as Agent Double-O Pussy.

  25. ByMennon

    Hey don’t kill the guy for that, I didn’t know how to drive stick until a couple years ago when I had to learn it.

    Personally I’d rather own a shitty automatic car than a nice manual car. Who wants to think while they drive?

  26. djyuckfou

    ?? everyone in england can drive a stick,its like standard teaching practice of learning to drive,what the hell,theres something terribly wrong here!!

  27. naus

    #25, you don’t need to think when you drive a stick shift, it becomes second nature.

    It’s lame because he’s European, most Europeans can drive a stick shift, and also it’s just out of character for 007. Now when the movie comes out, and he’s driving the car, i’m going to be thinking “the poser couldn’t even drive this.” It’s just not good, and he is a TOTAL poser. Remember the swimming vest he had on at the press conference thing?

    Ask yourself, what kind of Bond can’t drive a stick and is afraid of water? Next thing we’re going to find out is that he can’t drink martinis and is gay.

  28. derekd

    The WORST looking James Bond to date. I fear it is the end of a great series.

  29. Kevin

    This is going to be the worst Bond movie since, well, the original “Casino Royale.” Craig is going to make George Lazenby’s weepy, girly-man Bond look macho.

  30. LoneWolf

    Maybe they’ll hire Jackie Chan as his chauffer/sidekick, put him in a black mask, change his character’s name to Green Hornet, and call the movie “Drive Another Day”.

    Or “Dr. No (I Can’t Drive Manual)”.

    Or “In Her Majesty’s Driving Class”.

    Or “Live And Let Someone Else Drive”.

    Okay, I’m tired. Someone else take over….

  31. jennifer11

    and his new lady love, Geargrinding Galore.

  32. jennifer11

    or maybe

    “Craigsapussy”

    “Can Only Shift Twice”

    “The Man with Missing Teeth”

  33. Binky

    And if the lessons don’t work out – he’ll be issued a ‘double o’ bus pass.

  34. ESQ

    Perhaps he should be in the remake “License to Drive”

  35. CakeGirl

    He was really good in Layer Cake, and pretty hot. But Clive Owen is hotter.

  36. ESQ

    In response to comment #1 – Thanks for providing the link for a picture of this douche. In a word “hoagie wrap” I do not care how fit you are, wearing that type of bathing suit is just not warranted.

  37. Poster # 9 – I agree. Mike Myers would own.

    LOL Poster # 33 – Double 0 Bus Pass. Nothing like riding the boneshaker. :D

  38. LaydeeBug

    Oh you Lone Wolf and Jennifer 11, you guys kill me.

  39. jennifer11

    oh and if he’s gonna wear my bathing suit bottom, he needs to go on ahead and wear the top, too.

  40. that-dog-is-shifty-eyed

    Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone’s neck, and then the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing?

  41. ProbablyTooOld

    I’m unsure why this guy’s a pussy for getting his teeth knocked out and being unable to drive a stick shift. It seems to me a pussy would do everything possible to avoid doing anything that would endanger his teeth and there are people in London who go their entire lives without driving a car, let alone a shift stick. New York, too. Pussies, all of them, by such criteria.

    Plus, wasn’t Pierce Brosnan the Bond who cried and complained about the heat in Thailand, eventually “collapsing” from dehydration then hiding in his trailor, holding up shooting while he pouted about sweating in a tux? Yeah… That’s manly. Didn’t he bitch endlessly about the stunts he was asked to do because his pretty, pretty face was endangered, again holding up the film while he fumed like a fat girl denied ice cream?

    Bond is not about being a handsome face. Ir’s about being a charismatic badass. Sean Connery is not the best looking man nor did he have a wonderful physique as Bond but he was the best Bond because he was so very f-ing charming and no one ever doubted that a man with no muscle tone could kill everyone in the room. If the franchise is gonna survive, they need to get a skin scraping from the man and clone him because few actors can measure up to him. Craig is no Connery but he sure as heck comes in a distant second to Brosnan in the “Who’s the Biggest Pussy Category.”

  42. mamacita

    Speaking of gay bathing suits…………. Has anyone seen those pictures (not new) of Ricky Martin and an unidentified other guy where they’re both in Speedos, playing frisbee? There’s actually one of the both of them doing pushups on the beach! What?!

  43. Tania

    Post #6 said “A man who cannot drive a stick is Al Reynolds.”

    Sound to me like Al Reynolds knows his way around a stick. That’s the problem.

  44. JollyJumjuck

    They need to cast another actor for James Bond, like Russell Crowe. During most of the movie, Q and Moneypenny are baffled (as are the rest of the characters) because, to them, both Bonds look alike. Then we could have the plot as Daniel Craig’s character being “faux-Bond” while Crowe is “real-Bond.” Then Craig and Crowe could have a punch-up, and real-Bond could knock out faux-Bond’s teeth with a thrown telephone. The real-Bond escapes in one Aston-Martin, while faux-Bond throws a tantrum because he can’t chase real-Bond in the other Aston-Martin. And faux-Bond’s pen (designed by Q) in his shirt pocket explodes, covering faux-Bond in week-old warm yogurt, which causes everyone to gasp and say, “You’re not the real Bond, you’re Daniel Craig!”

  45. AmberDextrose

    This SOOOOOOO can’t be true. No one in England learns to drive an Automatic – unless they’re disabled!

    Don’t rate him with his kit off. And his face is like a wadded up tissue. But he looks like a gentleman.

    Mm, Clive Owen. Mmmm mm, Clive Owen.

  46. Q must be rolling in his grave.

  47. velvet_morning

    When I first saw him I didn’t think he looked the part either, but after seeing him in Layer Cake he’s actually really very good, what he lacks in appearance he makes up for with actual talent.
    I think he’ll be a good Bond, better than Pierce.

  48. azcoyote

    Pierce was the best Bond since Sean and this jackoff is no where near the caliber of actor to be Bond. Acting skills are only one part. Charisma is important. He has to be suave and smooth. You could cut roast on this asswipe’s face he is such jagged looking bastard. Besides it is Bond, not BLONDE. The franchise is even more in the pisser than the Dalton days. So sad… Bring back Pierce.

  49. TDubb

    If I see one more person say “Daniel Craig proved he was a great actor in Layer Cake” I am going to have a f’in meltdown. Daniel Craig was ‘brooding’ in Layer Cake – anyone can do brooding. My grandma does a kickass ‘brooding’. Hell even that kid on the O.C ‘broods’ well. I’m not saying Daniel can’t/isn’t a good actor but Layer Cake did nothing to prove that he was. All he did was act like a hard ass and keep a straight face the entire film. Which by the was was also superbly over-rated. Was it cool. Yes. Was it revolutionary. Hell no. I can’t wait till Every British director stops trying to make the next Trainspotting or Lock, Stock. It’s getting old – real old.

    Oh and if an actor can’t drive stick he shouldn’t be Bond.

  50. jujucabana

    i’m officially never seeing this movie. daniel craig is the ugliest guy i ever saw. he cant drive stick. and the babes in this movie are not worth the status of ‘bond babes’. so i will be watching something else. they could have really switched it up, and said jane bond. that would have been cool. but no. . .they never ever do things i want!

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