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Quantum of Solice casting Ukranian woman for Haitian Bond Girl part is much of a screw-up an casting decision as Jar Jar Binks

Look at the poster.
http://www.klast.net/bond/quantum.html

Looks like they casted John Boehner's daughter.

Why bang Q? He's omnipotent, that's why.

Omnipotent? I thought he died?

we don't need another Cold War style space race

Except that the 1960/1970's era cold war won't happen again. Power in the 1960/1970s was concentrated into the US govt and the USSR govt.

Today, there's too much distributed power.

I watched an old James Bond movie not too long ago with my kids. In one scene, the phone rings in the car, and Bond goes to answer it.

My teen children, watching, had no idea that was even unusual, since between my wife, myself, and my household, we have 6 phone numbers, two of them cellular! (work phone, home phone, home-office phone, my cell, wife cell)

I had to explain to them how COOL that was back in 1980 when the movie first came out!

Nowadays, it's not NASA vs USSR space, it's NASA, USSR, China, ID Sofware, Scaled Composites, the EU space consortium, etc.

In short, the days of the two-sided pissing match are over. Power is distributing, as it does with technology, and the rules today are fundamentally different.

Nowadays, it's damn hard for the Bond franchise to find technologies cool enough for the next Bond movie. Recently, they've all but stopped trying.

Though I suppose it would be cool to be able to kill Lazenby...

Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger

FWIW, that'sout of order, for the books. But you probably realized that when the beginning of Dr No had Bond recovering from the poison boot-knife from the end of FRwL. The Fleming novels. Other authors also listed here.

In fact it seems a bit too perfect for the job... I knew there's a Holywood job description of "find the next James Bond wild transport" - after all, someone there has found the para-ski for the world is not enough. But given how well this beast fits the bill, it seems they've upgraded the job description to "go build us one" and added a few 1M$ to the budget. That's one really nice job (if you can get it). And it seems the money was well spent too.

So expect it to be "coming soon to a theater near you" - not in the parking lot, that is. Speaking of which, I wouldn't suggest parking anywhere near this beast, radar or no radar :-)

In fact it seems a bit too perfect for the job... I knew there's a Holywood job description of "find the next James Bond wild transport" - after all, someone there has found the para-ski for the world is not enough. But given how well this beast fits the bill, it seems they've upgraded the job description to "go build us one" and added a few 1M$ to the budget. That's one really nice job (if you can get it). And it seems the money was well spent too.

So expect it to be "coming soon to a theater near you" - not in the parking lot, that is. Speaking of which, I wouldn't suggest parking anywhere near this beast, radar or no radar :-)