The new blonde bond Daniel Craig has signed up for two more movies as the suave super-spy - but at a knockdown price the Sunday Mirror speculates.

Craig is being paid much less for the role than Pierce Brosnan.

Craig is reportedly banking £1.5 million for the new Bond film, Casino Royale, which opens November 17.

For the next film, set for release in May 2008, he will receive £3 million. And he will pocket between £4 million and £4.5 million for his third outing as Bond two years later.

The movies could earn him a total of £9 million. But that pales in comparison to the £22 million Brosnan, 56, received for his four Bond movies.

A Bond insider said: "Daniel is very much a poor man's 007. He's facing an uphill battle to win over Bond fans before Casino Royale is even released, and it looks like the producers got him slightly on the cheap. For a role like this you would actually expect him to get a lot more."

Brosnan lost his role as the super-spy when he reportedly demanded £22 million to appear in Casino Royale.

Craig's spokesman refused to comment on how much he was being paid, but said: "Daniel is very happy with the arrangements."

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New James Bond Daniel Craig has vowed his 007 will be the baddest ever - reports The Mirror.

Craig, 38, insists he has injected some evil into the suave secret agent and claims fans will be shocked by his take on the character.

He said: "I think there has to be an element of cruelty. Certain things he does should be questionable. I think you should go, 'F**k, that's not nice'. He IS an assassin."

Craig, whose first outing as Bond comes in November with the release of Casino Royale, has been given a rough ride by 007 fans who have dubbed him James Bland.

And he told US magazine Esquire he was not amused by the criticism. He added: "You lose your sense of humour rapidly. But I vowed to work twice as hard to get it right."

Audioslave's third album Revelations is out on September 5th, but that is not the only thing on frontman Chris Cornell's mind these days.

Cornell is entering the world of film music, writing and recording songs for the next James Bond film, "Casino Royale" and for the independent movie "Bug." He also plans to start recording his second solo album in September.

"I'm always writing," Cornell tells Billboard.com. "There's a song here, a song there that I wouldn't be able to put on an Audioslave record. Audioslave's really been more of a collaboration, anyway, and I'm a guy that writes a lot of songs, and I write a lot by myself."

Cornell says he's "just finishing up" the songs for the solo set, which he'll release in 2007. It will be the former Soundgarden singer's first since 1999's "Euphoria Morning," and he says that it will sound "completely different" than Audioslave.

"I wrote the film songs," Cornell says, "and I've had some other ones lying around [and] a lot of new songs, just because the ideas are coming. Once I realized I was enjoying doing that again, then I definitely started taking it more seriously and have put together material for a whole record."

The Bond track, "You Know My Name," came as a surprise to fans -- and to Cornell himself. "I just got a call," he recalls, "and at first I thought there must be some kind of mistake." But after seeing the script and studying up on the new Bond actor, Daniel Craig, Cornell decided "I'm actually the right guy for the job. Everybody I met with said the same thing -- 'This isn't anything like any other James Bond film, so we don't really want that song, either. So go do whatever you want.'"

Cornell co-wrote "You Know My Name" with longtime Bond composer David Arnold and describes it as "more uptempo and a little more aggressive than any other Bond theme has been, maybe since Paul McCartney ['Live and Let Die']. It has an orchestra, but it also has some angry sounding guitar, and it's got feedback."