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You're right. This is from "Some Kind of Hero".
The book also says "May 2008" was the first release date they actually set, meaning the 2007 release was only something they discussed but they most likely never thought they would be able to release a movie that fast.
http://entertainment.ie/cinema/news/Danny-Boyle-reportedly-quit-Bond-25-over-casting-clashes-with-Daniel-Craig/407745.htm
That strategy didn't work either. In 1993 they had at least three writers on staff -- Michael France, John Cork, Richard Smith -- and they ended up scrapping almost everything they wrote (France at least ended up with a story credit on GE).
The writing of TND was an absolute disaster. EON had a ton of writers on that movie and still went into production without a completed script.
With the possible exception of CR, the scripts have never gone smoothly since the departure of Maibaum and, as a writer, MGW.
Hiring Demange is this film's only potential saving grace as far as I'm concerned.
EDIT: I wasn't in favour of him previously due to his lack of brand stature, but maybe he can bring that fresh dynamism which I feel has been missing for a bit.
I guess you're right. However, GE got changed because of True Lies. It still turned out ok.
Spot on. With 3/4 year gaps it really is unforgivable to be three months away from shooting without a completed script. One that's been polished, one that the key players are happy with. Quite how the current team would have coped in the 60s when the series operated on a one year cycle, I dread to think.
Thank you everyone just needs to calm down don't you think eon would've announced a delay while announcing boyle's departure.
In most circumstances, it is a bad idea to go into production with an unfinished script. In rare circumstances, the production salvages the script somehow (The Bourne Ultimatum comes to mind).
I like the multiple scripts idea. Hey, it worked for TSWLM. Because there have been so many Bond films, each new one presents a unique difficulty in coming up with a fresh story. And there are writing constraints that go back to Cubby, such as Bond not putting the public in danger (which is why the SP PTS doesn't totally work, IMHO). This particular writing constraint is also why you see ludicrous moments like the policemen getting out of the tank-crushed car in GE.
The reigniting of the Cold War is a timely idea and made total sense when I started to hear the casting leaks. The US and the UK are both in a Putin-ruled world now. I feel like there is more to Boyle's exit which we may or may not hear...
If Craig is staying for Bond 25, they need a new director ASAP. If demange was viewed as unworthy before, they might want to reconsider now. Same goes for Mendes, but it seems like Craig burned that bridge. Point being, EON cannot afford to be picky at this stage.
Hear hear. This is a big frustration for me. It may emerge that Boyle was simply impossible to work with, and in that case letting him go was the right thing to do.
But they've painted themselves into a corner again.
After SF and SP, they'd made 2 billion $ and gained a lot of momentum and goodwill. The day SP hit theatres they should have been sitting down with their dream list of directors, plotting out a long-term plan and seeing who had space on their calendars. They should have hired some great people to put together a few rough treatments.
Basically, they should be coming from a position of strength here. And instead, the clock is ticking and they're going back to the drawing board, again, with no director, no cast, and the script in limbo. It shouldn't be this way.
It could all work out fine in the end, but you're now scrambling to find a director who's free on short notice, instead of moving from the start with the director you're most keen to work with and a solid plan in place.
Oh dear God...
Yes. QoS and LTK both were hobbled by writers' strikes and loss of writing talent. (IIRC Craig was writing his lines on the fly.)
TSWLM is probably the closest correlate. Cubby was striking out on his own for the first time, was coming off TMWTGG's poor performance, and was fighting off McClory in the courts.
"While the production and release date may be moving, one thing is for certain, and that is that Craig won’t be hanging up Bond’s signature Walther PPK anytime soon. When the announcement was made on the official 007 Twitter handle that Boyle would be leaving, the statement was not only attributed to Broccoli and Wilson. Craig, who has been a producer on the franchise since “Spectre,” also provided a quote."
It seems more and more likely the reason they are clinging to Craig this much is that they have already decided to sell the franchsie (or at least retire from it) after Craig is gone. MGW will probably exit the franchise after Bond 25 anyway because of his age, and it's entirely reasonable to believe that Barbara Broccoli has no interest in producing future Bond movies without Craig.
This is a new dark age, but remember, the night is darkest just before the dawn. Bond will rise again.
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(can someone hand me that Ryan Reynolds gif?)
On Nolan, as long as Universal is attached to B25 as distributor he can’t really come on board because of his deal with WB. Distribution would have to be renegotiated. Happened once with Interstellar- was originally a Paramount project with Spielberg, when Nolan came on board WB took over international.
I see.