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I love it! However, my post SP cynicism leads me to predict:
B26 will not be released until 2025, a full decade after SP. Between the very DN like B25 (possibly titled Colonel Sun) and B26, Michael and Barbara have indeed resigned and sold the franchise.
Christopher Nolan sadly does not end up getting the rights to Bond. It goes to Michael Bay, who creates a new Bond series inspired and influenced by the Transformer Films.
The first film, another two word title: JAMES BOND casts not a lesser known but probably the biggest name to ever be chosen as 007 upon his casting: Robert Downey Jr. Much will be made in the publicity on him being the first American Bond actor since Barry Nelson (who by 2025 is considered canon). The imdb trivia section for this film will also note that at 60, Downey is the first actor to commence his era as Bond who is actually older than Roger Moore was when he had resigned. But he looks great.
Downey plays Bond in between Marvel films, thus his 007 looks just like Anthony Stark. In his first outing Q even equips him with a robot like suit that resembles Optimus Prime.
The film loses traditional elements such as the Bond Theme music, title sequence (seen only at the end), no PTS....well actually the entire movie is a PTS, and the gunbarrel. The gunbarrel will be jokingly referenced in the dialogue akin to the "yellow spandex" line in the first X-Men film.
Sadly after his 2nd outing in 2027, Downey wisely resigns from the role due to creative difference explaining: "Connery was my Bond growing up and these new films don't quite live up to the classics, FRWL, and GF".
Michael Bay then casts Shia Lebouf to replace him in 2028 and decides to set the films in the 1950's based off Shia's performance in the iconic Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull. Yes that film gets a resurgence and by 2029 is considered a classic.
If only ...
What a disaster....
Oooh I wouldn't go that far ;)
I would :)
1) Bring in Campbell for a dialled back reboot in 2022.
2) or EON should sell up and hand over to Warner who can make a Christopher Nolan Bond trilogy in 2022.
As long as one of these happens they can send Bond to Mars in Bond 25 for all I care.
I think Marvel is unfairly critiqued around these parts. They have done an excellent job in bringing their entire portfolio to screen over the past 10 years. The only other person who has done it so well has been Nolan.
But with what he is you don't get a GF or TSWLM.
Not quite.
As mentioned previously, my biggest concern in such a scenario is him. I would be much less concerned if someone told me B25 was going to be a Logan style angst driven finale because I know he can pull that off with ease.
A vision truly fit for Halloween!
Montenegro is my favourite DC sequence and the one that demonstrates that if he is placed in the right location and surrounded by the right actors, he can do Moore-style lifestyle porn on his ear.
Forster didn't allow QoS to breathe enough for this type of element (to its detriment) and I don't believe Mendes truly understood what Bondian elegance is all about.
It's about stuffing yourself with caviar after winning millions at poker, not stilted exercises in lush cinematography.
They have handled a number of things in a sloppy way, but I wouldn't at all say they don't care. The brother idea was a misguided and poorly-executed attempt to psychoanalyze Bond, but as much of a rehash from Skyfall as it may have been, I acknowledge it came from an attempt to do something distinctive with Bond, or at least more distinctive than the pre-2006 entries. I doubt they approached the brother concept in a cynical "let's just replace the mother with the brother and we're done" way.
Flaws and all, I enjoy it very much myself. Second favorite of the Craig era after CR. It feels more inviting than the two previous films, and it's funnier too.
The Marvel and Nolan films are similarly soulless.
There's nothing soulless about Nolan's movies. They're the exact opposite of those assembly line type films.
They're just too depressing. That's the issue with his films.
That's not the issue. That's all a matter of opinion. For me the nice thing about Nolan-movies are the fact that they want to tell us something, that you can discuss the purpose of the film afterwards, that you can talk about the themes and tropes of the film, and that afterwards you realize that the world we live in today is perhaps much better and more positive than the world mentioned in "The Dark Knight", "Interstellar" or "Dunkirk"....and that by realizing that you actually look at the real world with a nice positive smile :-).
But again, that's my personal taste. I just don't want to see dumb, mindless action for the sake of action. And for the sake of CGI. Which is really my 'personal issue' with films like "Furious 8", "Die Another Day" and "Kingsman 2".
The Nolan films, with their depressive attitudes towards life, try to tell people how ingenious the storylines he delivers are, whereas it isn't. He's not the inventor of Rubik's Cube nor crosswords. Every film is depicted with the sense that Armageddon has occurred and the world is ending with a bleak, dark and depressing tone. That's not what I want from a Bond film. We've got Shakespeare for tragedy and other theatrical dramas.
I hope Nolan will become Bond director after Daniel Craig retires. Would be interesting to see how he revives the franchise with a new Bond actor. Try to stay open-minded. Try not to rule out things so early.
Good for you, I hope he doesn't. I don't like what he brings to his films and hope he never directs a Bond film. I don't have to be open minded because I see the same basic elements in all of Nolan's films that just ends up being sappy melodrama I don't care about. If I want depressing drama I'll watch Magnolia. I want entertainment and excitement in my Bond films. I want to feel excited and pumped up, not sad and deflated like a popped balloon.