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Do you mean Daniel "a scriptwright I am definitely not" Craig with having had significant input into the script?
Pitched that right! Lol! So hopefully we get something early doors officially just into the new year.
I have no doubt that Craig has significant input into the script (& a lot of other elements), and has done so since QoS.
well, originally they wanted QOS to come out the year after CR - thats because they started working on QOS while they were still in principal production on CR, and had their choice for director at the time (Roger Michell i think was his name) not fallen through, it's likely it could've come out in 2007 - but its something after the fact they admitted they really didn't want to do again, because they spent the better part of 4 years constantly working every day..
the 4 year gap between QOS and SF was thanks in large part to the MGM bankruptcy and restructuring - the movie was originally supposed to be out in 2011..
and of course the waits between SF and SP and SP and B25 are in large part due to them waiting on either Mendes for SP or Craig's decision for B25..
I personally feel like they know who is going to succeed Craig, or least have an idea - they obviously had their talks with actors before Craig made up his mind, to cover their bases.. i dont think we'll get another 4 year gap again, i'd be shocked
But surely he has enough clout nowadays to say no if he thought brothergate was a shit idea?
If Fiennes could kill the M as a traitor storyline then Dan could kill brothergate if he so desired which implies that even if he was not 100% behind the idea he was at least complicit in its implementation.
an actor having influence over the character he/she is playing is always a positive - the good ones really get into minds of the characters, what makes them tick.. as someone who directs actors often, it helps a lot....
no, i believe the Blofeld debacle was all John Logan and Sam Mendes' idea... BUT... Craig signed off on it, and/or was convinced to go along with it.. my gut instincts tell me it was the latter.. because i could see him not being too overly keen on the idea - but Mendes and Logan reassuring him "no no, it'll be great, trust us - plus you are not really brothers, just foster brothers.. don't worry about it, it'll be fine."
i think he has significant input - but he is too busy to be sitting around a room with writers creating anything..
i think he meets up with the producers and writers, expresses his feelings and opinions on where he thinks the character should go, what his frame of mind should be - maybe if came up with any story ideas/elements himself, he'd share it.. but beyond that, i assume he (like most other actors) let the writers do their job - then once they have a draft, he is sent a copy. He reads it, makes his notes, sends the notes back to the writers and producers - who then go about updating a new draft of the script - whether they abide to all/few/none of his ideas are their decisions...... then, once they get a director, the process repeats itself all over again, once the director brings on his own guy to rewrite/polish the script.
CR and QOS?
I know SP has flaws, but to me it would have been 10 times more stupid if M was revealed as a traitor. That alone would have made SP become a bottom-tier Bond film for me rather than a middle-tier one.
I presume in the original script M being the traitor merely replaces C as the traitor so we'd still get brothergate as well!?
So if it wasn't for Fiennes putting his foot down this abortion would've actually been filmed?
When you consider how much worse it actually could've been from the shambles we still got then none of the people involved in this script should be involved in making a Bond film ever again.
I just hope the stories of him and Craig falling out are true and he won't work with him again and we get someone else, DV would have been my ideal candidate but Yann or Mackenzie would be fine by me.
I guess we'll see but my expectations have been lowered considerably after Blohauser gate.
I agree 100% ; It would have been very effective to have Blofeld reveal to Bond how many times their paths had crossed, first with Le Chiffre then Green, with both being operatives of Quantum which was part of the larger organization, SPECTRE.
Bond then asks, "And Silva"? To which Blofeld responds cryptically, "No, we were aware of him, but he was too....eccentric for out organization,
Not all of the previous villains had to be linked and the two did not need a previous connection.
Yeah I'm sure they have an absolute OHMSS beater ready to go and are just keeping it safely under lock and key for a year until filming starts. There's literally no chance that that isn't the case. 8-|
-Babs