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Heck, most of the Fleming novels themselves are Bond going in to the mission without knowing the villain, save for what gets personal in the way for Drax in Moonraker when Bond beats him in a game of cards (Bridge), Goldfinger similarly, and later Blofeld when he foils SPECTRE’s operations twice, so Blofeld makes it personal and Bond accepts the war. They weren’t brothers, step brothers, childhood archenemies, bullies from school holding grudges or whatever.
But, if you meant with the “personal” thing as in the mission becomes personal for both Bond and the antagonist later on as they fight each other, that I’m not against. That kind of “personal” also played in both Connery and Moore films. Just look at the tension rising between Bond and Dr. No, later Goldfinger, and Scaramanga afterwards, and so on.
The one idea I like however is Bond mentoring a young agent. I just hope they don’t go down the route of the awful Mission: Impossible III, where the protege gets killed, Bond sets out for revenge. No thanks.
At any rate, there is no reason for the Craig era to be so relentlessly "personal" in that way. I mean, I suppose it's fine from time to time but not for every film. It's also not the kind of thing that should characterize a single era.
I'm fascinated by the fact plenty of us feel this way around these parts, yet the people making the films now appear to be so reluctant about taking a different approach.
More details;
www.007.com/announcement-B25-final-Bond-film
I love pranks when they take me to that awesome song.
I still hope the „movie gold“ they were talking about is just that....
The one particularly interesting thing about this is that Bond 25 could be the last EON Bond film at least, if the rumors are true about that. It might be a good thing though given how long it takes for the films to come out these days. Perhaps in someone else’s hands we’d get one every 2-3 years again.
McClory announce Warhead 2021
We throught, that even dead, Kevin McClory will continue to want to make a Bond movie ? Patrick McClory, son of Kevin, have talk to the Irish Examiner yesterday :
"During his lifetime, my father had always wanted to create the biggest James Bond movie. He had begun this great project with the actual author of the novels of the secret agent, Ian Fleming, and managed to do it with the movie Thunderball. Some time ago, I had the chance to be able to talk again with my father during a Spiritism session and his spirit told me, among other things: "junior, you have to finish what I have started", talking about Bond.
It was a revelation and I found the idea great! For reasons of rights it will be again a remake of Thunderball, the agreements signed between us and MGM/Danjaq in 2013 gave them the rights to adapt the novel while allowing us to keep ours, so we both have the right to adapt this particular novel. A script is currently in development and our lawyers are working on the legal issues for a release date that we estimate to be 2021. Although he has retired from acting for several years, Sean Connery [87 years old] will come back to this film, as a tribute to my father with whom he was very close until the end. We are thinking of shooting a large part of our Warhead 2021 here in Ireland, New York and Australia with a lot of underwater shooting, and a good amount of it will be done at the Great Barrier Reef.
Warhead 2021 should also allow us to launch our own cinematic 007 universe, featuring films around key characters from Thunderball and exploring their origins, such as Blofeld, Felix Leiter, Moneypenny, or Nigel Small-Fawcett. We don’t think we’re competing with EON Productions because obviously they don’t want to do films about any characters other than Bond, but again our lawyers are still working on the legal issues. My father at least loves the idea and gave me valuable advice from where he belongs now. In fact we have already talked with Alden Ehrenreich about accepting a role in one of these films, but at this stage, it’s not in our interest to say more about it".
http://www.commander007.net/2018/04/mcclory-annonce-warhead-2021-sean-connery/
The video teaser : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gr9z9
The next bond actor will be a white man
(April fools?)
Who was to play Bond?
Found my post. Here's the link to my comment:
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/comment/774351/#Comment_774351
could have still pulled it off.
Not even death could stop Mclory's greed. Wouldn't surprise me if this turned out to be true.
Lily James would look too young next to Craig / Craig would look to old next to Lily James.
Bond also retired and drove off into the sunset yet here we are. I'm sure I'll enjoy Bond 25, but I do think that if they wanted to do another Craig film they should have bought Blofeld back. I was fine with SP as an ending to be honest. It seemed to bring everything full circle.
It's your opinion but it's nonsense. I'm sick of this attitude about a man over or a certain age looking too old to be with a woman of a certain age. Ridiculous. If the girl is over 18 she can date and be with whoever she wants. Why does such a thing offend you?