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Actor Daniel Craig told Collider that his Bond series is not meant to be a trilogy as so many other films series are today. “No fucking way. I’m done with that story,” told them. “I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail.”

While Quantum of Solace, which broke the $500 million worldwide revenue mark this weekend, was intended as a direct sequel to Casino Royale, a third film would be something else entirely. Director Marc Forster had filmed a scene that would have sent Quantum right into a third chapter but cut it from the final print.

“We’ve finished this story as far as I’m concerned,” Craig said. “We’ve got a great set of bad guys. There is an organization that we can use whenever we want to. The relationship between Bond and M is secure and Felix is secure. Let’s try and find where Moneypenny came from and where Q comes from. Let’s do all that and have some fun with it.”

Although he has said much of the above in other interviews, he admits to not knowing what the producers have in mind.  No screenwriter has been hired and Forster has said he will not come back. "We don’t know when we’re going to do the next Bond. Nobody’s thinking about it at the moment. We’re giving it a rest for the moment. If I can squeeze something in next year I will…but I haven’t figured out what that’ll be yet. But nothing in the cold."

Emo Boy, a comic from Steve Emond and published by Slave Labor Graphics, has been optioned by Vanguard Films. Kyle Newman (Fanboys) is said to be directing and will cowrite the script with Emond according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Vanguard hopes the film will be in the vein of Napoleon Dynamite “but with a more prominent musical component, which will satirize the hyper-sensitive ‘emo’ musical genre.” The series is described as “the travails of the most self-dramatizing young man in the history of the world, whose emotions were so intense he even had ‘emo powers’."

Emond first gained attention with Steverino, a comic strip that won the national contest sponsored by Andrews McMeel/Follett College Stores.  The strip ran in several Connecticut newspapers before moving to the web.

Newman’s Fanboys finally will be seen in February after years of delays and re-edits courtesy of The Weinstein Company.
 

ABC has commissioned a pilot for an hour-long television series based on Vertigo’s acclaimed Fables.  The network has committed to a “put” pilot which means Warner Bros will produce the pilot for consideration for the 2009-2010 season according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner, the team behind the series Six Degrees, will write the pilot based on comic written by Bill Willingham and mostly drawn by Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha. David Semel will direct the pilot that reveals the hidden society of real-life fables living in a Manhattan enclave, exiled from their lands. Semel is a veteran at pilots with credits including Heroes.

"Their lives become interconnected in vary big way," Zicherman said. "They share a secret and a bond." The writers indicated the core characters of the Big Bad Wolf and Snow White will likely be focal points for the show.

"We set up a structure to allow any fairy tale character to show up in any one episode," Metzner said.

The comic debuted in 2002 and has since won 14 Eisner Awards.  The series has been collected in ten volumes plus one original hardcover with more planned.  James jean’s award-winning cover paintings have also been collected in separate volume. A spinoff, Jack of Fables, debuted in 2006.

Previously, NBC had the rights and attempted a pilot for the 2006-2007 season with writer Craig Silverstein but it never got beyond a script. A film version had also been shopped around for years with no takers.
 

Warners to The only question is what took so long.

After three installments of Pirates of the Caribbean brought in plenty of filthy lucre to Disney, Warner Bros. is finally announcing a remake of Captain Blood.  The classic Rafael Sabatini novel was immortalized in 1935 when it arrived on the silver screen with Errol Flynn in the lead back by a stirring Eric Korngold score.

John Brownlow (Sylvia) has been signed to write the new version for director Philip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger) according to Variety.

The swashbuckling tale is about a “doctor wrongly sentenced to slavery in the Caribbean, where he and his comrades become avenging pirates. It was nominated for the best picture Oscar.”