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Woah! That is....possibly true...but I would rather cling to the belief that as we are 2 years away from the next film, and over one year away from meeting the new cast, we are decidedly in a sort of limbo where nothing much is likely to happen for months.
But that sense of meh does linger, and I have always been a Bond optimist.
My concern is for the franchise after Craig goes. Are there major plans to shake it up and create a Bond universe? If there are I may simply retire with my 25 film box set and sit in a corner somewhere telling myself it was all so much better in the old days.
Regarding retiring with the 25 film box set and pontificating about the old days being better like an old fogey, I'm afraid I'm nearly already there.
I agree with the Wiz that based on what we know at the moment, B25 does seem like a lame duck 'stub' effort, apparently motivated more by business than creative considerations. I am open to being pleasantly surprised however. I still retain a glimmer of distant hope.
What a crock of...
Arguably they lost most of 2016 and really started to get going sometime this year.
One of the best, most accurate posts I've ever seen on here. We've entered Bond inertia.
I don‘t mind a lot of things Mendes brought into the series: I like the new M, especially like the new Q and am OK with the new Moneypenny (I don‘t understand why she had to he a field agent, but ok so be it).
Is Craig really just back for the money? I doubt that - more that he wants to go off on a high note which can be only good if this motivates him the way he was with CR, QoS and SF. All stellar performances of his and thus I think this is a very positive thing for B25.
I agree on one thing though: B26 will most likely bring a radixal change - as radical as CR was. And it can turn out good or bad ... we‘ll see.
I am not as excited about B25 as I was with SP ... because I felt let down by it‘s last third especially. But I think excitement will kick in once there are more substantial news
Could explain a lot of things, including Waltz not being asked back. Hopefully more radical changes coming too.
They always say you don't have to be the fastest in the herd to escape death, you just have to be faster than the slowest. Looks like Denis has drawn the short straw and may have to do it. I don't envy him.
Actually this is not a plot hole. It's just laughable and impossible. The plot hole is that this "newborn" gets recognized within a year by the royal family and made knight.
Yes, yes and yes! Better make it two or three of them.
Could you please point out where exactly @TheWizardOfIce was wrong in his reasoning?
Seriously??? I won't even waste my time.
I feel all this stems from Craig being given way too much power and however much people want to say 'Cubby made mistakes too so get off Babs' case' that comes from mismanagement at the top.
Yes he's a very good Bond. Yes it's nice he wants to have an input. Yes I wanted to see him continue as long as he is credible.
But
The Blofeld and SPECTRE arc is too big to set up from scratch and then resolve in one film. They realised that and planned it as two but then they were scared Craig wouldn't come back for a 5th so catastrophically decided to condense it all into one film. That's one of SP's other flaws (among the many) - trying to fit too much in.
They needed to sit down with Dan and have an awkward conversation along the lines of:
EON: We want to do SPECTRE and Blofeld but it will take 2 films at least, 3 would be better. Can you commit to that?
Dan: No I'd rather slash my wrists.
EON: Fair enough. We'll save it for the new Bond when you're done. Ok let's talk about B24 then a nice standalone film, a big epic, your TB or MR as it were.
Instead it seems we got something more along the lines of:
EON: We want to do SPECTRE and Blofeld but it will take 2 films at least, 3 would be better. Can you commit to that?
Dan: No I'd rather slash my wrists.
EON: Err Ok. Would you be alright if we cram it all into one? Pleeease Dan.
Dan: Yeah I suppose so.
EON: Thank you so much. We're pathetically grateful. Obviously it will be a terribly unsatisfactory film now and Christ knows how we'll follow it up but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
They couldn't even get him to sign up for B25 (even give him a 4 year 'rest' if you must) so we have this bizarre scenario where he drives off into the sunrise so he's done or Blofeld is still alive so he's not done depending on Dan's whim about doing another one.
This will he/won't he cockteasing didn't matter in Rog's days because they were all standalone entries but if you want to make a grandiose story arc about SPECTRE and Blofeld then surely you need to know if your star is returning don't you?
Just show some leadership and get him to make his mind up and either we get SP in 2015 and then at the end of SP 'James Bond will return in Blofeld 2017 and Shatterhand 2019' (not blown away by those titles - just using them to illustrate the point).
And if he doesn't want to sign up he can just do B24. If he wants to go on and they decide it makes business sense to keep him on he can do B25 as a standalone (as appears to be happening anyway) too and then at the end of whichever turns out to be his last film we get 'James Bond will return in SP' and the new guy gets to surf on that wave of expectation and goodwill.
Being bezzie mates with your employees is rarely a good idea in business.
Well said Wiz,cant fault that post and totally agree.
Especially with the final line you wrote as well,so so true.
I thought that was a vegetable ?