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Okay, but we are not living in the Sixties anymore... those titles worked perfectly at the time of their release... at least to me, Shatterhand sounds a little corny for "the big finale of the Craig era" in 2019. BTW it's also true that The Death Collector doesn't sound too Bondian, I'll give you that... but at least it's still Fleming. :D
"PropertyOfALady123", perhaps? :-D
For all this talk of the “Old Shatterhand” title being previously used by German novelist Karl May and made into a 1962 movie starring Lex Barker (mostly an unknown quantity outside of its German native country), it’s a good thing that none of you were around when Moonraker was first announced as a future Bond title. Because, if you had been, I’m sure that you’d all be moaning that Eon couldn’t possibly use that title due to the conflict and confusion of the 1958 film “The Moonraker” starring George Baker and Sylvia Syms. But of course that had “The” as a prefix, just as Old Shatterhand has “old” before it. In fact, let’s change the name of Thunderball just in case anyone confuses it with the UK National Lottery draw and it affects the future sales of TB DVDs.
Dam that's one of my other passwords, I knew it was a mistake using Bond related words and numbers :))
“Members of the crew had recently been in Namibia in Africa, scouting for suitable locations to build sets for a planned sequence.”
Which kind of squashes the previous rumour that Bond was mostly shooting in and around the UK and wouldn’t be venturing beyond these shores.
Thanks for the link.
I find it hard to believe Boyle would quit because Eon said no to his casting suggestion for the villain. If he got in a huff and said "if you don't cast Tomasz Kot then I quit!" - he wasn't the right man to direct Bond 25. Quitting over that seems a bit childish. There must be many actors suitable for the villain. I'm assuming there is more to Boyle's departure than a disagreement over one actor.
I think the director should direct and leave the casting to the producers! I suppose if the director thought an actor was completely unsuitable for the role (wrong look, acting not good enough) he/she should speak out, but overall I think the director should accept whoever is cast. At the end of the day the producers are boss, it's their franchise.
Who knows, Bond 25 may out-budget SPECTRE! If there is a delay it's bound to increase the overall budget.
Yes @talos7 -- like any producer who hires a writer(s), they own the script and can do with it what they will (hire other writers to tear it down and build a new story around the main concept (I mentioned a funny story earlier in this thread, about the original writer to Chain Reaction (Keanu Reeves/Morgan Freeman film). The writer, Josh Friedman sold this script on spec-- his first sale. When he finally saw the film, exactly one line from the original script made it. The rest was flushed down the loo and re-written))...
This may not be as eye-catching as the Mirror or Sun's reporting, but this sounds like the most likely scenario playing out at the moment: it's business as usual.
Bloody awful..........sounds like a 40s horror film. Shatterhand is far better. Sounds more Bondian.
So: Skyfall > Spectre > Eclipse
Translations of titles are rarely literal for that exact reason so that's not really a problem. I'm fine with Shatterhand - it doesn't blow me away, but it could be worse.
Shatterhand sounds too western for me, basically. But to each their own.
When you say it's an ugly word in Dutch, what exactly do you mean?
How boring.
Of course not... I'm just saying that I don't see how a title like Shatterhand could successfully suit the conclusion of Craig's more grounded Bond, in 2019. BTW "Shatterhand" is exactly an uninspiring and insipid title, something so lazy everyone would came up on a forum. Just my opinion.
The way one would pronounce it, quite harsh. It could make for a nice IPA beer though
1. Are they going to use the full name at some point in the film
Or
2. Are they just going to shoe Horn the title in like the climax is taken place on a boat called Shatterhand?
"Despite the doom and gloom that has been around in the media about Bond 25 since it was announced that Danny Boyle had stepped aside from the director’s chair, as far as the JBIFC understands it EON hopes to be able to make an announcement about a replacement director very soon."
I realize it's just words, but making an announcement is not the same as finding one. Perhaps they already have the replacement, and are just waiting for an opportune time to announce.
I wonder if Hodge left out of loyalty to Boyle (since it was Boyle who insisted on bringing him in) or for other reasons. I'm also curious about what actually caused Boyle/Hodge to exit, given that they appeared to be so far down the road in pre-production. I would have thought that the key elements of the script would have been locked by now - so casting and/or purely script tinkering was presumably what caused the falling out, as has been reported.
I can't see Eon, with so much riding on this massive film, having no idea about who would be stepping in should Boyle quit. And I reckon Boyle's jumping ship would already have been half expected, (can't think it came completely out of the blue). They must have had a few meetings already and sensed an issue with working relationships.
Haha! Better look at non-Bond passwords then! :))
Actually, a '40's horror film title would be more along the lines of "HOUSE OF SHATTERHAND" I'd place "THE GARDEN OF DEATH" more in the late '60's.
I like SHATTERHAND as a title, but I'd also settle for THE GARDEN OF DEATH.
It has a certain air of mystery about it. No more unusual than say, Goldfinger, GoldenEye or even Octopussy.