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Yes, until he did start saying it.
What does he mean!??? Still can't help thinking that they're recasting Blofeld from what he said.
I do hope people aren't suggesting that the ditching of Waltz could pave the way for a Mendes return?
They already got Craig and P+W back. It makes sense to complete the set. If Mendes and Waltz didn't like each other, perhaps he's made it clear, and they are playing to recast. It would explain a few things.
Yes, it's a possibility.
I agree. It's plausible although not certain.
If it was a 3 year gap, then yes. But they might only be in talks now, with still 2 years to go. They have time.
How about this for an idea? Waltz was the real Blofeld, but in this continuity Blofeld is just a figurehead of Spectre and not its true leader. Maybe as a twist Irma Bunt could be Spectre's true leader (a female mastermind leading the greatest criminal organization on the planet would be totally in vogue at the moment), or Dr. Guntram Shatterhand could be used but as his own unique character from Franz Oberhauser.
If Mendes returns then there's no way they will do a standalone but I think we're getting ahead of ourselves somewhat here.
Someone should ring round some film pyrotechnics companies and if any of them say they've had an order for a world record amount of explosives then we can safely say he's coming back.
Could be... if they (EON) didn't have an option on him returning. So they didn't think it was tradition to recast at the time.
I don't think it's Craig's fault to be fair. He isn't obligated to do a certain amount of films. If he said I'll do a fourth and see how I feel about a fifth closer to the time then it's on the producers to plan things with that in mind.
Although to be fair I think they did do the film with that in mind. SP worked as an ending but also worked as a set up for a sequel. My issue is that now they seem to have got cold feet on the sequel idea.
That interview on Colbert always struck me as strange. Raring to go. High. Etc. etc. Why such confidence at this early stage? Either he was bs'ing his pants off or there is an old hand somewhere.
They had an argument so heated it resulted in a record breaking explosion.
You are a man to my liking! This was part of my very first post on this forum and my suggestion how to mend the foster brother catastrophe:
"Why not just make Oberhauser a busybody? Someone who worked rather high-level for Spectre, but just pretended to be the big boss himself.
With a little fantasy all of this could be achieved in just a few minutes of the PTS.
Just imagine the beloved gunbarrel, followed by a group of people breaking in Blofeld's jail ( causing of course some bloodshed on the way), entering his cell and placing in complete silence a video screen in front of the very terrified looking "Blofeld" (if they wanted to save them money for Waltz they could also keep his face in the shadow and just let his body language and widened-in-terror eyes do the talking.
Then a voice out of the screen:
"Hello, Franz. You know, I should be grateful to you for making my name a complete joke all over the intelligence community, just because you were so keen to impress your Mr. Bond, you neurotic little frat. But actually I'm not. I'm afraid not at all. Somehow I feel really sorry. I always found your relentlessly information seeking mind of great use, but you certainly have overplayed your hand costing Spectre in effect all the knowledge to be gained out of the nine eyes project. For that alone you deserve the utmost punishment so at least try to face your fate with some dignity, even though I doubt it."
We now see the men in the cell doing something disgusting to Oberhauser. I'd imagine something along the lines of an octopus pressed on his face who somehow suffocates him.
Then the camera focuses on the screen and we see a man up to his throat, stroking a cat he holds in his hands.
After he seems to have delectated him sufficiently on the site of the dying Oberhauser we hear his voice again:
"So and now we have to teach MI6 that the name of Ernst Stavros Blofeld is to be taken seriously."
That's it and today more than a year later I still feel it's by far the best solution. I would even go so far to claim it can't be bested.
I can't even put in words how much I hate this foster brother Blofeld idea. If I had been in charge for Spectre and someone had come to me and suggested that idea I would have thrown him to the dogs!
I am not doubting in the slightest their technical abilities as producers in getting the money together or know whom to call or to hire for what project.
What I'm doubting are their creative abilities. From the beginning the forte of Broccoli was the money part. After all it was Salzman who had secured the rights on the Bond franchise for himself, but didn't have the money to do it alone. Cubby was kind of a stranger to the movie business and only brought by Salzman to it. He also had to be convinced heavily by Young and HS to invest in those saville row suits we today so much take for granted for the 60ies.
It is not pure coincidence that he never produced something else then bond movies. He wasn't even interested in it. All he wanted was a profit for granted and no experiments. Just look at the unevenness of so many Bond movies just because they weren't brave enough to go to whole 9 yards (LTK comes to mind, for example). Be it father or daughter.
HS On the other hand produced other movies (Call me Bawana of FRWL fame,for instance.)which by the way was the reason he had to sell his part of EON, since he had tanked big time with one of his projects.
@noSolaceleft Broccoli a stranger to the movie business? Both had producing credits prior to DN. Broccoli more then Saltzman.
He didn't need to sell his part of Bond because of other films he produced. It was his investment in Technicolor.
I stand corrected, even though he seems to have have been quite up for failure before the good times began. Might explain why he shunned producing something else than Bond flics
Partly it's perhaps because she's had to (the market is changing and has changed so much over the past 20 years) and partly I think it's because it's who she is. Keep in mind she is operating under a different business paradigm as well, with a partner (MGM) that can't distribute. So we have a distributor giving their advice and input as well. 3 fingers in the creative pie.
I read an interview with her daughter recently, who's a bit of an artsy fartsy, and I can imagine some of this is rubbing off on her (or perhaps is in her too, and rubbed off on her daughter).
Moreover, people change as they age and as their interests change.
She started with the Cubby formulaic template (poorly executed mind you) with Brozza in the lead, and has now branched out to her vision (with her personally chosen and highly non traditional lead in Craig).
I suspect that pure 'template or formula Bond' is unlikely to return while she's in charge, although I could be wrong.
Although some of your facts are questionable (Cubby was a producer in his own right before he teamed up with Harry and Call Me Bwana was an EON production not a Saltzman one - you might have been better mentioning the Harry Palmer films) but your general point stands.
I'm not questioning Babs' organising abilities to finance and get these mammoth productions of the ground and bring them in on time.
What is certainly under severe scrutiny are some of the decisions she has signed off on especially recently; namely stepbrothergate and being in thrall to Mendes and his excesses.
I see a lot of people trying to defend Babs on the basis that Cubby made terrible decisions too as if two wrongs make a right. Cubby (rightly) gets slated for the kung fu schoolgirls, the double take pigeon, California girls etc but these are mostly throwaway things that don't impact on the narrative and cripple the rest of the film. Stepbrothergate was staggeringly misguided from someone who in every interview you see says when in doubt they always go back to Fleming.
And lest we forget Harry wasn't perfect. We only narrowly dodged his legendary elephant stampede.
You are so right, no one can dispute that.