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Yes. Boyle doesn't and won't start in the hole.
His idea is completely independent of the Mendes sequels BUT grounded in DC Bond's world-- or he would have no interest in coming on board (by his own admission). He came up with an idea that even he thought EoN wouldn't go for, but; they bought it, hook, line and sinker (even though they had financed the development of the P & W script, which they have since dropped).
This should be very exciting news for all Bond fans.
Saying the producers loved the script is better. lol
Don’t you think Craig was the one who bought Boyle though? EON are more in the business of making Craig happy.
Yes, you're correct, @fjdinardo.... Better semantics next time....!
I suppose what we're hearing is exactly that: Boyle thought they wouldn't go for it-- and they did (no tricks included).
I have a feeling, @DoctorNo, that there may be a re-imaging of Fleming in B25. No other reason than, before Bond was on Boyle's radar, he genuinely spoke gleefully of the Fleming stories (where, at the same time, Mendes worried me; he primarily only spoke of one-- film that is. Not Fleming at all, but LALD the film (from my re-collections)).
I also find it hard to believe that Boyle will be working with a 300 million dollar picture-- so something far more stripped back is in his comfort zone. Fleming has some amazing thrillers that are stripped back and rely on tension. Updating any of MR (and GE and DaD don't count since they go so far off plot with the tech-crap), TMWTGG, or any of his short stories would work well in the DC Bond universe.
Boyle is a bit of a maverick director. What we see in B25, I will bet, will be very unique to the Bond cannon-- and a fitting end to DC's tenure.
(much like OHMSS may be a fitting end to the Glory Days of the 60s-- although SC returned for one more)...
I think there was a published account, @DoctorNo, where Boyle approached DC about this idea, then they approached EoN (both not thinking they'd bite).... But, now we're on the road
Well, before then Nicholson was competing against the memories of Cesar Romero. After 1989 it was "Cesar who?" and nearly two decades passed before the Joker reappeared onscreen.
It was a badly designed wrong train as well. To reclaim a character you can't copy the campy trappings that smothered it decades earlier. You have to strip them off and go back to the core, basic qualities that made the character interesting in the first place and re-imagine them to meet modern standards.
I hope Boyle also views OHMSS as a model for how to make an exciting action film with a lesser budget, one that doesn't need costly hyper-spectacular setpieces to work. The action in OHMSS--a ski chase, a car chase, a bobsled chase, some fitsfights--sounds modest and unspectacular on paper but pops into life onscreen thanks to direction and editing that convey the visceral excitement within the action. It's far more exciting than staging the world's biggest explosion or other nonsense. I'm very pleased that Boyle knows his Fleming--I just hope he has a feel for action too, and that we won't end up with the old scenario of a middlebrow drama director delegating the action to second and third units and getting bland results.
At the moment I feel guarded optimism.
Given we've had a lacklustre interpretation quite recently, I think they need to put him to rest for some time, and two decades seems about right.
@RC7 called Mendes a Bank Holiday Monday Bond fan— I cant disagree. At no time, prior to Skyfall (and I do love this film), did I ever hear about his love of Bond.
Yet, over 20 years ago, Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING makes reference to the 60s Bond films; he cast Bernard Lee’s grandson as a lead; he made the Bond/Queen Elizabeth short, and; he’s on record for his love of Fleming (years before he was hired, or even before he wanted to be hired!!).
I have a feeling we’re in for something very unique (but grounded in DC’s universe)
Did that for Spectre. My family thought I was insane. But so worth it. Can't wait for December
Now I didn't do it for spectre kinda wish I did lol maybe we should now speculate when the press event will be given that the film starts shooting December 3
That can return. Up to you.
Please no. The retired/dismissed/going rogue routine is getting old.
Just give him a damn mission where he succeeds with flying colours. That would be a first for Craig.
It was the 5th if I recall correctly.
Give that man a jaffa cake. Totally agree old chap.
THIS!!! All of this!
You're lucky you've never seen it.
How the makers had the affront to even associate it with the TV series is quite beyond me.
This is why projects like these should be well cooked and crafted before rushing into production.