Creating BOND'S Opening Credits -- He's NOT The Spy Who Loved Them

(From The L.A. Times -- By Sheigh Crabtree)

The crew expected a set crawling with sex kittens but what they got instead was a couple of grizzled stuntmen and a chiseled blond BOND.

"When the crew realized there were not going to be any naked girls on-set, some were a bit upset," admits
DANIEL KLEINMAN, the title designer behind the opening credit sequences for the last five JAMES BOND films, including
CASINO ROYALE, which opened Friday.

The lack of sultry dancing females in the segment was a radical departure not only for Kleinman but from four decades of setting up 007's cinematic adventures.

But just as the rest of CASINO ROYALE deviates from aspects of the spy franchise's trademark iconography, so did Kleinman's two-day title sequence shoot this summer.

The crew shot one day of stuntmen slugging it out followed by
a day with star DANIEL CRAIG performing variations of the classic Bond first-person shooter stance.

"Everybody agreed the idea of using images of the iconic silhouetted dancing girls in the titles was not appropriate," Kleinman said.

"In this film, Double-O is not totally formed as the James Bond everybody knows -- the womanizing, slightly un-PC character."

Creating Bond's Opening Credits

Kraig Bailey, thanks for the post.

[I think we all agree here -- bring the babes back!]