Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Day Lewis has been described as the perfect Bond by writer William Boyd.
Boyd has penned the new Bond novel Solo and believes that the triple Oscar winner has like the character Ian Fleming described in his books.
Speaking to The Independent the writer said: "If there was going to be an actor to play my James Bond, I'd choose another actor who's been in a film of mine and who is also called Daniel.
"Daniel Day-Lewis actually resembles the Bond that Fleming describes. He was a tall, lean, rangy, very dark-haired, good-looking man. There's a sense that image is what he saw his Bond looking like."
Daniel Craig is the current 007 and is set to star in two more movies before he comes to the end of his contract.
Bond 24 will be hitting the big screen in 2015 and will see Craig reunite with director Sam Mendes.
And while the Bond film franchise has been enjoying huge box office success, Boyd believes that the character is moving away from the original creation of Fleming.
"The current Bond is fantastically interesting even though the current films are half a century on than the novels. The link gets fainter and fainter. The Bond films are all contemporary."
'Solo' - which was released on Wednesday (25.09.13) - is published by Jonathan Cape, Fleming's original publisher and comes 60 years since 'Casino Royale' was first released.
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