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You're only provoking debate if you say something that hasn't been repeated ad nauseam and still can't be shown as being anything other than hearsay.
If B25 gets delayed, then anything is possible of course, because they may retool more significantly. Much as I'd like to see a new man in the seat, I'd still rather that they get this film over and done with using Craig in 2019, and then move forward with a cleansing after that. I haven't had a decent new Bond fix since 2012!
I’d gladly go back in time to 2006 when Craig was just starting his run, simply to experience his Bond era all over again. He’s the reason for renewing my interest in Bond.
Hence the reason why I’m in full-blown panic mode over these recent developments. I’m CONCERNED we could be losing our leading man if a solution doesn’t arise. I’m not wishing him away like some people on this forum.
Seeing his old films, what are his qualifying factors aside from having worked on Tin Tin with DC as a writer and also directing some lower budget movies that made decent sums of cash?
I'm not saying Marc Forster should return only because I like QoS and that the film has grown on many people over the years, but because he apparently has many qualifying factors including having written a script during a writer's strike with DC, being the actor's personal favorite director, and having a lot of enthusiasm to return to the series while defending his work produce throughout time.
Lastly, Forster and his team have proven they can create a post-modern look at modernism within a film that uses the environments to display the main character's internal feelings often.
How would Edgar Wright make for a better candidate?
100 percent agreed. Craig got many of us into this amazing character, and I think many of us need to see a finale that kicks butt!
I know I’m rambling, but the point I’m trying to make is that I love Craig’s Bond, and really wanted him to get one more shot after SP. I don’t expect it to be CR-quality, or maybe even QOS or SF level, but I’d love to see Craig go out on a pretty good film - something with more energy and fun than SP brought. I hope he won’t be discouraged and leave early. I will miss him and his era a lot.
That was my take on it as well. It's a funny moment that obviously went over some peoples heads.
What what about the not so faceless and anonymous creatives,such as Mark Tildesley, and the cinematographer, who surely was hired already and very likely is Anthony Dod Mantle?
We need new producers!!
This is one of the best, most accurate and truthful posts I have seen in a very long time. Bond is bigger than the actor playing him, and it does seem like we have lost sight of that. As a community we seem to have drank the cool aid, and now think perhaps that without Craig there can be no successful Bond, that the franchise has peaked or something. It's odd that people describe wanting a fresh start as "Craig hate". As far as I am concerned this is a perfect natural juncture at which to expect a switch-up. Craig is literally the Bond with the longest tenure now, right? All those other guys can long hung up the tux before things got this far, so why is it "hating on" Craig to be expecting him to do the same, especially if there is a 5 year break, which would be the perfect opportunity for a new Bond?
No. We really don’t
Well I can't see that happening anytime soon. I must say there's a lot of negativity and hostility from a select group of members regarding EON, Craig, the writers and directors based on nothing but heresay and speculation.
It's an off putting trend that has become sadly all too familiar not only the forum, but all walks of life.
Stop being so passive aggressive. It's quite irritating.
In defense of Panchito, I'd rather he talk about that then Nolan directing Bond 26.
So when will a new director be announced, and are they still on track for 2019?
I can't see Edgar Wright directing Bond 25. If Boyle got spooked, the chances of Wright coming on are slim to none. Given that the other two were passed up before in favour of Boyle, it seems they are really in a panic to get this film out, and can't be too picky about who they hire. The only question is will Craig be happy with the choice, and will there be a short enough delay that he is still interested in returning.
Only 425 days left until the premier as of now!
Agreed. Some people act like it's a revolutionary landmark film. It's not. It's not a terrible film but more a decent movie at best that gets more praise than it deserves because so many people were butt hurt over QoS 4 years prior and people will deny this but the contributing factors of the 50th anniversary and the Olympics did help in overhyping and overpraising the film.
Ahreed. Fallout makes the lastv2 Bond films look weak AF. At least Forster with QoS made an effort to do something really interesting irrespective of the success of the execution. The opening car chase should have been edited so much better but as it is its still fantastic and one of my favourite action set pieces of the entire Bond series. The fight with slate continues the visceral brutality reintroduced in CR and although the boat chase and aerial dog fight/parachute jump could have been better it's more interesting than the offensively pedestrian "action" Mendes gave us. I'll give Mendes credit for the SF pts but everything else in SF and SP was ass.
For me, I thought Craig ending his era with SP felt natural; both going in to the theatre, and definitely leaving the theatre. This is not because of my opinion of SP – a film I'm unlikely to ever fully enjoy, but because the film made an effort (as half-arsed at it was), to tie things from Craig's previous films together. That felt like a natural ending of an era to me, with Bond driving his DB5 off "into the unknown", with his girl by his side.
That's not to say I can't enjoy a final film with Craig in 2019 (hopefully!).
Excellent Moneypenny and excellent Q is very debatable.
Danny Boyle quit James Bond franchise after he ‘REFUSED to kill off Daniel Craig’s 007 in spectacular finale to 25th film’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7102013/danny-boyle-quit-james-bond-franchise-in-a-row-over-offing-the-super-spy-in-dramatic-finale-to-the-25th-film/