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Haggis is at war with the crazy church of scientology (think Spectre with aliens). If you have a run-in with these nutters, they put you on a black-list and go after you and your family. I wouldn't put it past them to use any dirty trick in the book to tarnish Haggis.
I was well aware of the association. But why are you pointing that out? It only adds credibility to their statement, due to their alleged contact with EON. That's why they're a noteworthy source after all.
That's as "early 2018" as it gets.
I could see that occuring as that's what happened with the SPECTRE rewrites. They had committed money and time to building the Bridge set and were forced to have the climax occur there
Very true. From my perspective at least, it cheapens Bond. I'm now almost expecting to see his cohorts save him or inject themselves into things in some way. As I've pointed out, in the SP climax it was Q who shut down Nine Eyes with his keyboard. Bond? He saved Madeline. Oh, and shot down a helicopter carrying his brother.
His return is pretty much guaranteed at this point, but I'm most curious about his remarks on things having recently gone quiet.
And thats personally my biggest gripe with Spectre.
The movie had no real threat to begin with, which made Waltz a weak and non threatening villain. And the little bit of threat there was, wasn't even stopped by Bond.
There was no urgency or tension in the finale. Bond and Brofeld were doing their thing (whatever that was) and Q and M were doing their thing, with C. No one cared about the others. The MI6 building still got blown up.
If Bond hadn't stopped Blofeld in that Helicopter, would it have made any difference to the proceedings? not a single one. They didn't make Blofeld enough of a threat to make me care that he gets caught.
Agreed.
That's why I created this thread ,to highlight Blofeld escaping :
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/16805/blofeld-did-you-want-him-to-escape-from-bond-in-the-helicopter-and-what-next#latest
They tried to have it both ways with that ending since he hadn't committed at that point, and ultimately the film ends up a mess on account of it.
Agreed, but it went both ways, which annoyed me even more.
Everytime the movie had a chance to establish Blofelds hatred for Bond it was thrown away.
Bond supposedly destroyed Oberhausers relationship with his father and forced him to kill him, but that was somehow a good thing for him, and "liberated" him or whatever.
Then we see them meet again in the MI6 building and i thought, "ok his face is disfigured, so now he must be really pissed at Bond", and when Bond asks him "does it hurt?" his response is basically "nah, it's cool, don't worry about it bro, it's all good."
So it's never actually clear what Brofelds problem is with Bond either. I don't even understand why he took the trouble to Kidnap Madeline.
Hell i don't even know why he was in London at all
Too many things were cut in the final shooting script and the film eventually became pointless.
Thats what i always suspected. I always felt the movie was too short, meaning there was too much stuff missing to make any sense of what was going on.
It might be that they initially had a good angle at the whole Brofeld/Bond Relationship, but unfortunately there is non of that left in the movie.
At the Moment they might even make it slightly better if they give a couple clues in Bond25, but i would probably prefer if they stay the hell away from any of it.
If Blofeld doesn't return what difference does it make.
But i believe Spectre will be back. Under new Management perhaps.
There's a dinner scene afterwards where his explanation of the brothergate made better sense (if better is a word to describe the absurdity that is the brother angle).
Bond wasn't kidnapped in a truck to be dropped off at the threshold of MI-6 HQ.
At one point, Madeleine and Irma Bunt had an intense fistfight, and the former was more fleshed out as a character than the bland one-dimensional image she was in the final product. Her love for Bond was made believable.
Many great lines from dialogues were cut.
The Spectre meeting in Italy having more depth.
Franz Oberhauser at the start wasn't even Blofeld, but a man called Heinrich Stockmann, and as such was shot dead on the bridge at the end.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The fact Barry has never even been nominated, much less won, truly is a disgrace.
All of his scores where superb, but YOLT and OHMSS are two of the all time greats, that I would put up against anything John Williams has done.
More interestingly, the Blofeld character was actually an African dictator for a long part of the development process (they even toyed with the idea of making Blofeld a woman).
But it was P&W, who only came on in July 2014 - around 18 months into the script's development who suggested including the Hannes Oberhauser backstory, as the production who going to film in Austria. It was apparently one of a number of ideas they had to better incorporate Blofeld in the script. Once Mendes heard the Oberhauser idea, he loved it. I imagine because it fit into the theme he developed in SF of exploring Bond's childhood.
Personally, Mendes shouldn't have been allowed to use the Blofeld/Spectre mythology if he didn't have a strong enough take on it. His execution was sloppy. He was most focussed on the "Bond falls in love and leaves MI6" angle. You didn't need Blofeld to tell that story. Subsequently, we are left with a mess of a film.
Personally, I don't think Spectre will return. Craig's next film will be a "Logan" type story set apart from his previous films. Just imagine a Denis Villenueve directed Bond film that is an elegiac and soulful farewell to Daniel Craig in the role. It would be genius.
I can't see Dune being made after the flop of BR2049 and Cleopatra is being rewritten. Bond is the only one with a firm release date in place. Surely, if Denis makes Bond and it inevitably scores well at the box office, he gets to make Dune? I think it makes commercial and artistic sense.
Plus he has connections with Bond regulars, Roger Deakins and Dennis Gassner. So I imagine, the current delay in announcing the director is down to Denis being courted by the producers. I anticipate they'll announce him very very soon.
Plus, I want Deakins back.
Rubbish.
Sorry, I couldn't tell whether you were aware or not. No hidden agenda on my part.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5243891/James-Bond-Daniel-Craig-pays-6-75m-NYC-brownstone.html
That's what Logan pitched, hence why MGM announced it in November 2012.
It later emerged (via Bamigboye) that Craig objected to the two-part idea and it was scaled back.
The idea of a farewell to a Bond actor sounds horrible to me. Bond should be the focus, not the actor.
How does shooting one Bond film make Deakins a Bond regular?
Personally I think Deakins is great, but by far not the only one in his league.
I couldn't agree more and still hold out hope that this idiotic idea is dispensed with, if it's even under consideration.
That was my understanding as well.
So this site has pretty much denied that the copter is involved too. Still curious why they purchased it however, unless it's some kind of artifact that will appreciate in the future.