No, Daniel Craig Hasn't Quit Being James Bond (Yet)
Never Say Never, but not today.
Fact-checking Is Not Enough, it seems, as reports are hitting fast that Daniel Craig is quitting James Bond, despite that not being the case (yet).
In a rumour kicked off by reports from The Sun, Craig having recently signing on for an adaptation of Jonathan Franzens Purity means that he's going to be handing in his licence to kill and is leaving the franchise. After that interview where he claimed he'd rather "slash his wrists" if he had to play 007 again (something that appears to have been motivated by Spectre's troubled production) there's a ring of truth to this, which has meant a bunch of other sites have ran with the story before even checking if this goes beyond wild speculation.
And, what do you know, it doesn't. All the initial rumours have done is taken the original Deadline report about Purity and assumed that it'd be impossible to shoot a Bond movie in a couple of years. That's it. No word from Craig. Nothing out of MGM. Pure speculation and the assumption an actor can't have two projects in various stages of development at once. Looks like he's going to Stop Being Bond Another Day.
I'm in two minds over whether Craig should return for Bond 25 - Spectre's ending certainly teased a return, but the movie itself was a rather rote retread of Skyfall, meaning there may not be much left for him to do in the role - but let's wait until the man himself says something before we start rabidly expecting Luke Evans/Aidan Turner/that guy off War & Peace to be announced any minute.