Daniel Craig on what went wrong with Quantum Of Solace

Chatting to Time Out about his upcoming role in David Fincher’s take on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Daniel Craig inevitably was directed to talking about his James Bond work. And he had some interesting things to say about the muddle that was Quantum Of Solace.

When asked if the script sometimes was “an after-thought on huge productions”, Craig related that back to Quantum Of Solace.

“On Quantum, we were fucked”, he said. “ We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, ‘Never again’, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.”

When pushed further on the fact that he was having to write scenes himself, Craig contined:

“Me and the director [Marc Forster] were the ones allowed to do it. The rules were that you couldn’t employ anyone as a writer, but the actor and director could work on scenes together. We were stuffed. We got away with it, but only just. It was never meant to be as much of a sequel as it was, but it ended up being a sequel, starting where the last one finished.”