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Sorry, looks like Joker to me, sans make-up...
The script is everything.
I can understand where he's coming from as in theory being writer or director of a Bond film is a dream job but then you don't get the excitement of seeing a new Bond film.
He could at least do one though couldn't he? As a professional writer he must be pulling his hair out at the SP 3rd act.
Once we hit 2018? You make that sound like that's next month.
What makes you think end of 2018 is a write off for a release date @Mendes?
There doesnt need to be announcement about star and director until this time next year for 2018 to still be on. As long as the script is underway by the end of this year.
If we fast forward a year to now and theres still nothing then I would start to think 2018 isnt happening but I'm not panicking just 6 months after the release of SP. Even if they were going for a 2 year turnaround we wouldnt have got much by now anyway except the fact that it was happening.
Haha, I know 18 months is still a really long time, but its alot easier an objective than 3 and a half years. I think most people think of a late 2019 release date and think "god, that's ages away", but really their is a lot to look forward to in the interim. I have a feeling we could see a real changing of the guard happening in the next few years. MGW could well step down as a producer, given his health troubles as of late. Craig might not return. Bond could be going to a new studio. Even the creative team is going to change drastically. We already know Mendes isn't returning, taking Newman with him most likely, and P+W may well have finally been the given boot. So who will fill all these positions, and were will Bond go next? Well over the next few years (starting in about 6 months I assume) we should get a lot of hints to all this. Gradually things will become clearer, for better or worse and us fans will start to get a picture of what may be in store for us with B25. Sure, about 85% of it will be speculation, but it will be enough to wet our whistle and to keep us ticking of the days in our Calenders with growing smiles on our faces. And when B25 finally does arrive, we will all feel like we've just ran a marathon and been given a pale of water to drink.
I'm not suggesting that 2019 is nailed on. But as a pragmatist, I tend to pick the worse case scenario and run with that. Right now, worse case scenario is 2019. If MGM and EON hit another roadblock, as they are known to do, B25 could become a distant light at the end of a very long tunnel. But of course you are right, at the moment there is nothing concrete to suggest that 2018 isn't possible or likely.
I have to agree. The production machine have been spluttering on the last few cycles.
One reason I like Hiddleston is he is a chameleon in almost everything he does.
But I am still on the Craig should do 1-2 more train give it a year or two and then I will be on the replace him train lol
One question I do have is with MGM tied up what can EON do? Looking back at 2009-2011 time period they hired screen writers, and brought in a director as a consultant and developed two video games. I am slightly nervous that not even that is happening... I mean legally can EON bring in say Pierre Morrell as a consultant for bond 25 ( even though that is code for director once MGM signs the dotted line with another production company) can they work with UBISOFT on a new bond game? Like what can they and can't they do it's extremely gray. Apart from not being able to leave MGM and go to Warner brothers I know very little about what they can and can't do. Can they hire script writers? Can they use their money to bring people on board? Etc
I'm sure they could do those things, with regards to a film you can't release it without a distributor, which they currently don't have, MGM doesn't have the capacity to do that now as when they did with the Brosnan films. So they need a distributor for the next film.
The studio, they would still need MGM's backing to do those other things.
Absolutely. Although Sony had a lot more say in their deal than a distributor usually has, but they also contributed more money than a distributor usually does.
Right. So its most likely this new party who will be the most interested in recasting. Woah, thinks really are all up the air at the moment, aren't they?! :-SS