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They have ruined so many lives on this community.
You don't know what you're talking about mate - but at least you're amusing us all :)
Clearly.
Well, you obviously think it's a piece of piss given you believe a 'large' number of people here could do it better than EON.
True, I will be going to see 2 out of the three of them.
Me too! I wonder which they are?!!! Lol!
I wouldn't be surprised if one of these moves slots (and it will probably be WW or Bond).
@RichardTheBruce yeah if they can get 200 million or more from there 200 mill from uk 300 million from us and rest of the world 700-800 million bond 25 will be in good shape they may need to get as much money out of china as they can since the us market went out the window with the SW release date change and it would make sense to target china anyway since mgm tried to be bought out by china never thought bond was so relaint on china until now and now I see why.
Panchito you're accusing CatchingBulllets of not listening? Seriously? You have had the script writing and producing process broadly explained to you from people with years of first hand experience and you choose to ignore all this and continue to insist that it is "NOT difficult" to write/produce a good script in 1.5 years. You also state Eon fail to hire competent writers and are therefore incompetent themselves.
As I asked you earlier, are you saying someone like Jez Butterworth is not a competent writer? Or John Logan is a hack? Logan may have failed to deliver a strong or good draft for SP, but that can happen to the best writers in the world because the writing and creative process is very subjective and screenwriting is particularly hard because a script has to be very well crafted, precisely staged, clearly structured and much much more, and therefore even the most experienced writer can make missteps. Generally producers allow for 3 drafts of a screenplay to get off the blocks because it frequently takes that many drafts just to begin to get a concise and strong screenplay. Producers understand this, and that's why it can take time to get a script in shape. Many writers and producers and directors spend years on a project to get the script as they want it (even projects they are developing with a studio or production company). And yes I agree with you, Nolan is a remarkable talent, but don't think a script like Dunkirk just popped up out of nowhere in a mere year or so, Nolan had that project formulating for years - most writer/directors have projects that they have been planning, researching and working on for years before they finally script. And sometimes, under the pressures of deadlines and release dates, scripts fail to completely gel, especially big budget franchise films which are also scrutinised by producers, execs, financiers etc. many with different or opposing agendas or opinions. That's the reality whether you choose to accept it or not.
About Logan. Has he actually ever done a good script? His work for the Star Trek franchise is probably the low point of the series. A task not too easy to achieve if I might add. Gladiator is nothing but a rip off of The Fall of the Roman Empire with some dialogs added.
Actually dialogs are probably the only thing which he does quite well, I give you that, but otherwise ...
Bond is M's cousin
Bond is Moneypenny's half brother
Bond donates kidney to Tanner
Bond is Blofeld's adopted brother (sort of)
Bond marries Swann and they live in a 3 bedroom semi in Tunbridge Wells
We have gut reactions to whether ideas work or not. I dont think its down to execution at a later stage. Good execution cant save a bad idea. Producers have a role in kicking these bad ideas into touch at the earliest possible opportunity (even better, hire writers who dont suggest them in the first place) in order to save time and money and in order not to produce movies that are poorly received..
He might be compenet but they brought him only after they fired their initial writer and had Purvis & Wade work on the script for months. As for Logan, I wouldn't say he is a hack but he is clearly no Christopher Nolan. Also, hiring compenent writers is only the first of the two main things the producers need to focus on when it comes to script development. The other is getting the writer deliver the script on time. Logan failed to do that, and despite that, BB + MGW did not replace him on time. 15 months after the release of Skyfall they still had no idea whether Blofeld should be a black South African who is completely unrelated to Bond, Bond's white foster-brother, or an "ugly lesbian".
On a big budget movie the script can have a lot of fingerprints on it from more writers than are officially mentioned or announced. Also, the timelines of announcements has zero bearing on when those processes were initiated and where exactly they are in their creative timescale.
The warlord idea could have added grit, and I'm open to it but not for Blofeld. They can perhaps draw on this for a new villain in the future.
I would still like to see Bond in a ski parkour chase sometime. I feel like that is going to be used in near future.