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Let's hope Bond is standalone then, so the continuity of the other films has no bearing.
A lot of the shots ooze classic Bond glamor.
I don't see any retcon problem, to be honest. In Spectre is established that Silva was "part" of one organization. They never said that he was an actual Spectre agent. Just like LeChiffre was no agent. In Skyfall Silva was a kind of "freelance" terrorist. Blofeld/Spectre just gave him the resources to fulfill his revenge plan against M(ommy) Dench in order to kill her. From Blofeld perspective hiring Silva was just a plan made for punish Bond (maybe also kill him) after he jeopardized Quantum organization in QoS ("You interfered in my world, I destroyed yours"). As Silva said in his first meeting with James: "All to the best bidder" (aka Blofeld).
I really like how they smoothly connected all the 4 movies in Spectre, really. The "author of all your pain" angle is something I loved. Can't say the same about the "brother" angle... but that's another story.
As I said earlier, you could have the ‘same’, Blofeld with a different appearance. It’s difficult to pull off, but not impossible - and is evocative of Fleming.
If they really wanted to homage Fleming's Blofeld, they could give him a gold tooth. An idea for the future.
This was the lizard that crawled on the window of Blofeld’s lair in SP. The continuity is amazing!
I agree. Skyfall should not have been connected at All to spectre. Bad mistake by Mendes
Not saying it’s necessarily preferable, but it is achievable.
...to this Lucasfilm announcement from June 2017:
The Lucasfilm announcement sounds about 10 times more professional, is much more hopeful and far less vague. By comparison, it seems like EON is trying to hide something.
Now that you compared those announcements I find the Lucasfilm announcement more professional and detailed I don't understand why eon had to be so vague with their announcement and let us bond fans wondering what's next it's pretty frustrating.
It may have been personal. Not just different work styles and ideas.
Hi @ringfire211 , I’ve written about this quite often. But here it goes: a producer hires you to write a script. With the contract and payment out of the way, they now own this script forever.
If this is a franchise, you will most likely be replaced while the producers and directors bring on other writers and even uncredited script doctors (that’s actually where the big money is— 2 weeks work and pick up a million bucks if you’re a “name”).
So whatever Hodge wrote (and I will say it was a complete draft), or didn’t get around to writing, EoN owns the script— not the writer.
He gave up his rights to the script as soon as he signed his name on that contract.
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A lot. Why?
Boys, I’m not downplaying this. I know losing a director is a big deal. I’m saying production, producers, crews are carrying on, biz as usual, as the director is formally replaced.
No one, from MGM, Universal, EoN, wants a massive delay. So as directors are reading the script (s?), they will all go about their business (scouting, building, designing).
I’m of the mind that there is one front runner and an announcement will be made between now and around TIFF. Gut feeling.
uh oh, Something big is happening?
RIP Hype.
Universal's dropped out of the one pic deal and 20th Century Fox has taken their place. The've asked for a re-cast immediately, and Days of Future Past star Michael Fassbender is the new 007 for a one pic standalone.
Yes I was just going to say Eon told me that in our daily meeting when they also pay me to point out how great they are