No Time To Die: Production Diary

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  • Posts: 1,680
    Mendes best action sequences were the pts & ending of skyfall
  • JamesBondKenyaJamesBondKenya Danny Boyle laughs to himself
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    Tuck91 wrote: »
    Mendes best action sequences were the pts & ending of skyfall

    That PTS is awesome, then everything kinda falls apart. Though the spectre plane scene is very fun and inventive
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    For Mendes action, I liked the SF PTS & the finale. That's it.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Agree about the SF PTS, totally loved it.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    it’s the second unit that does the action, and I thought SF had great action sequences both large and small. The PTS and the finale, for the larger ones; the sequence following Patrice and battling him, and escaping Silva’s thugs after Severine is murdered as examples of the smaller ones.

    The fight choreography was beautiful.
  • Posts: 12,473
    I enjoy most of SF and SP’s action. The lowlight IMO is SP’s car chase.
  • Podcast with Barbara Broccoli. Interview lasts almost an hour, but doesn't begin until a little over 40 minutes in. Says all the major decisions to be made sometime early next year. Comments about the past are more interesting.

    https://player.fm/series/awards-chatter-1401973/barbara-broccoli-film-stars-dont-die-in-liverpool
  • edited December 2017 Posts: 5,767
    Podcast with Barbara Broccoli. Interview lasts almost an hour, but doesn't begin until a little over 40 minutes in. Says all the major decisions to be made sometime early next year. Comments about the past are more interesting.

    https://player.fm/series/awards-chatter-1401973/barbara-broccoli-film-stars-dont-die-in-liverpool
    Thanks for the link, @AlexanderWaverly!

    The consistency with which Barbara and Michael tend to tell stories makes them appear quite honest, and Barbara´s passion for film is contagious.
    But I will have a hard time forgiving her not interrupting the interviewer when he disses QoS by relating to Mendes as succeeding Martin Campbell.
    Even though she doesn´t go directly into the sacking of Brosnan, she sounds honest enough when she says that a transition from one lead actor to the next is always very difficult, and how she says it.
    She skirts the edge of believability when she brings up Cubby´s advice, "Don´t let them screw it up." I was just starting to get annoyed to hear that with a film like SP in my memory, when she went on citing Cubby, "When you screw it up, you screw it up, but don´t let them screw it up." That kind of redeems her a bit.

  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited December 2017 Posts: 4,520
    Interviewer saying before there started, the movie wil be released in November 2018.

    There don't talk about QOS. I am more disapointed about Judi Dench comment from him that he thinks that Sam Mendes idea. She correct him, that it be writers. A disapointed from her is that she don't say that idea already be something there think about whyle making Casino Royale. Also she anser quistion about production company that is open for more then one movie and no intrest in spinoffs and crossovers whyle she producers.

    Intresting that she in 1998 already think about Daniel Craig as Bond. In my opnion disapointed there let us wait 4 years then. Also intresting that Dana let Barbara born in Vs, but after a couple of weaks go back to England.

    Overall a interview with quistions and ansers we heard before. I am not naive i thinking we get more ansers if interviewer ask better quistions.
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    With Disney taking over 20th Century Fox? It does make we wonder whether they do have their eye's on the Bond franchise in the future?
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    RogueAgent wrote: »
    With Disney taking over 20th Century Fox? It does make we wonder whether they do have their eye's on the Bond franchise in the future?
    Probably not. However, the Bond franchise has become extremely valuable as a result and as a counter to Disney's influence.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/12/15/disney-fox-deal-makes-james-bond-the-most-valuable-free-agent-in-hollywood/
    M_Balje wrote: »
    Intresting that she in 1998 already think about Daniel Craig as Bond. In my opnion disapointed there let us wait 4 years then.
    What, you didn't like TWINE or DAD? ;)
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    edited December 2017 Posts: 11,139
    RogueAgent wrote: »
    With Disney taking over 20th Century Fox? It does make we wonder whether they do have their eye's on the Bond franchise in the future?

    Disney don't need Bond at all. Like seriously.
  • re: podcast, there were a couple of other errors beyond the ones cited above. None are terribly awful but for the record:

    --Interviewer refers to MGW as her stepbrother. They're half-siblings (same mother). But I see this mistake made every so often.

    --She says Dr. No was filmed in 1961 (a reference to being on the beach in Jamaica). Filming began January 1962. But this is the kind of thing people can mis-remember, especially if the interviewer doesn't catch it.

    --As noted above, they say Bond 25 is coming out in November 2018 when the announced date is November 2019.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    edited December 2017 Posts: 15,423
    doubleoego wrote: »
    RogueAgent wrote: »
    With Disney taking over 20th Century Fox? It does make we wonder whether they do have their eye's on the Bond franchise in the future?

    Disney don't need Bond at all. Like seriously.
    The only reason I might think they'll get it is to smother and silence the franchise or competitions... if they ever called it that. Bond opposes their views and everything they stand for, after all.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited December 2017 Posts: 23,883
    doubleoego wrote: »
    RogueAgent wrote: »
    With Disney taking over 20th Century Fox? It does make we wonder whether they do have their eye's on the Bond franchise in the future?

    Disney don't need Bond at all. Like seriously.
    The only reason I might think they'll get it is to smother and silence the franchise or competitions... if they ever called it that.
    I agree that this is a reason they may want it, but if so they will go for it once Broccoli is out. I can't see them wanting to deal with her. They do things their way.

    Additionally, they can crush Bond at the box office if they want to with any of their franchise offerings. Honestly, as @doubleoego said, they really don't care about it. Neither do Warner, given what they did with WW (perhaps they know what's going down with a potential release date move or they have insight into the script and aren't concerned).
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    Anyone think we’ll get big news about Bond 25 in January?
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    Anyone think we’ll get big news about Bond 25 in January?
    We'll get news before April. That much I'm sure of. I don't know how big it will be though. I think it would be appropriate to expect some disappointments given how expectations have moved here.
  • JamesBondKenyaJamesBondKenya Danny Boyle laughs to himself
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    Anyone think we’ll get big news about Bond 25 in January?

    Even if we do, the film is still just under 2 years our, strap yourself in, it’s gonna be a long wait...
    They may announce the director soon but cast will be announced in a year
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    In the old days, when the next was just under two years away, the latest was still running in the cinemas, so not sure why so many clamour for big news already.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    In the old days, when the next was just under two years away, the latest was still running in the cinemas, so not sure why so many clamour for big news already.
    I think you've answered the question. It's because the latest isn't in the theatres. It's two years old.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
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    There was literally no new info in that interview. I never heard that any “major decisions” are being made early next year. Keyword was “hopefully” so that’s not even definite.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    DonnyDB5 wrote: »
    There was literally no new info in that interview. I never heard that any “major decisions” are being made early next year. Keyword was “hopefully” so that’s not even definite.
    Precisely.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    News will come when it comes. Until then, have patience. Assuming news will drop by X date or by X conference call will only lead to disappointment. Give it a few months, we'll get something.
  • DonnyDB5 wrote: »
    There was literally no new info in that interview. I never heard that any “major decisions” are being made early next year. Keyword was “hopefully” so that’s not even definite.

    Between 1:35 and 1:36, re: distributors.

    "They are some interesting people out there. We'll hopefully be be making that decision sometime early next year."

  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited December 2017 Posts: 10,591
    Additional things to note:

    ->The "one picture deal" is not a sure thing, with Broccoli stating that they're more open. Passion is the main thing they're looking for.

    ->"I'd like to think the family will continue, but Bond belongs to everybody. He'll survive, whatever happens."
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    I thought that was a great interview, revealing a woman who is passionate and protective of Bond, speaking of him as if he were a real, flesh and blood man.

    After listening to the podcast, I was hoping other readers would temper their impatience just a little, and know that the franchise is a family business, that the matriarch of the enterprise loves the character and respects the history (going back to Fleming), and understands the character will "always survive"...

    I think she has an inkling of what she's doing as a producer.

    SP was nowhere close to a perfect film, but, as was discussed, the shit really hit the fan when DC blew out his knee.

    And it was Babs, and her team, including her co-producer and star, that kep the show on the road.

    It gave a little insight into what productions are actually like (constant problem-solving), or as @RC7 and @ColonelSun have already explained: it's like going to war.

    Thanks @AlexanderWaverly for sharing the podcast. I found it insightful, and my already high-levels of respect for Barbara have just gone up again. She's hardly the lazy, feminist-militant trying to re-shape Bond into something unrecognizable; she's not the directionless, clueless fool that's often been characterized on these pages.

    In fact she's sharp, a great story teller, articulate, a cinephile, as said before, passionate, but incredibly and shockingly humble.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    peter wrote: »
    I thought that was a great interview, revealing a woman who is passionate and protective of Bond, speaking of him as if he were a real, flesh and blood man.

    After listening to the podcast, I was hoping other readers would temper their impatience just a little, and know that the franchise is a family business, that the matriarch of the enterprise loves the character and respects the history (going back to Fleming), and understands the character will "always survive"...

    I think she has an inkling of what she's doing as a producer.

    SP was nowhere close to a perfect film, but, as was discussed, the shit really hit the fan when DC blew out his knee.

    And it was Babs, and her team, including her co-producer and star, that kep the show on the road.

    It gave a little insight into what productions are actually like (constant problem-solving), or as @RC7 and @ColonelSun have already explained: it's like going to war.

    Thanks @AlexanderWaverly for sharing the podcast. I found it insightful, and my already high-levels of respect for Barbara have just gone up again. She's hardly the lazy, feminist-militant trying to re-shape Bond into something unrecognizable; she's not the directionless, clueless fool that's often been characterized on these pages.

    In fact she's sharp, a great story teller, articulate, a cinephile, as said before, passionate, but incredibly and shockingly humble.
    Very much agreed. Well said.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I can only hope there aren't some more cool stunts axed in this due to Craig's inability to perform them. Still bummed we didn't get a ski sequence/chase in SP because of his knee/inability to ski, and were given that dull plane chase instead.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    jake24 wrote: »
    Additional things to note:

    ->The "one picture deal" is not a sure thing, with Broccoli stating that they're more open. Passion is the main thing they're looking for.

    ->"I'd like to think the family will continue, but Bond belongs to everybody."
    Those were great insights that give me hope for the future (near term and longer term).
  • "SP was nowhere close to a perfect film, but, as was discussed, the shit really hit the fan when DC blew out his knee."

    Actually the shit hit the fan when they decided to film that script. Nothing she could say can redeem her as a producer in my eyes. There is just too much going wrong in so many of her movies.
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