Mazer Rackham wrote:I already allowed for the possibility you mention.
However when Sir Rog hits all the main company talking points I take notice. When he reverses his other publicly held opinions on violence in movies, yeah I wonder what going on in this melon.
He may have asked Eon what could he do to help, unless there is a major undercurrent to end Bond then his remarks come out of left field.
Personally I think he was after the attention and to leach on for some major books sales.
When he said everyone will forget about Sean and me once they see Pierce (apparently he already forgot about Dalton

), yeah he was making Eon friendly sales pitches. However because of the abuse he has taken he feels the actor can not be questioned or criticized. So as I said before he would defend Paris Hilton cast as Bond.
You may have a point regarding book sales. All this topical stuff makes for headline quotes for people to buy his book.
However, there is one thing merely defending Craig `Give the guy a chance, he's a great actor, etc.' and another in the amount of praise he has heaped up on him, including comments about comparing him to Fleming's Bond. This has been given a bit more thought than a corporate friendly line to defend him. It sounds to me like Moore is a Fleming fan too, by what he says on the books, so he obviously knows enough on the subject to comment on it.
With regards the violence, he has merely pointed out this Bond is more appropiate for the uncertain times we live in now. EON have evolved Bond, updated him to this modern world.
Incidentally, one of my mates queued up for hours in London a couple of days ago to get Sir Rog to sign his new book. I was going to go too, but got called into another meeting at the last minute. I was gutted, as I would liked to have met him.