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So as is usually the case, there appears to be some truth to the rumours. It's just that things tend to get exaggerated when speculation is combined with fact, and a little hyperbole.
It adds a little spice to the day and is all good - so long as people don't get too worked up about it.
As I said, I look forward with interest to November 8, 2019 and Daniel Craig strutting out for the gunbarrel.
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson still haven't learned lesson number 1, which is: until you don't have a more or less finished screenplay you are happy with, do NOT start building sets, hiring actors and doing any kind of serious pre-production work.
A smaller scale Bond movie is exactly what many Bond fans have wanted too see for a while. Why does every modern Bond film have to be HUGE? I understand why the studio would want every Bond film to be action heavy, and i don't blame them for only caring about the money. On the other hand, I am blaming EON for being greedy. For them, Bond should be about more than money. It's their family's legacy!
I'm sure Craig has many friends who will never criticize him, but let's be honest here. Craig has demonstrated many times that he could be more professional. ""I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists"... Don't get me wrong, I do like Craig and he is a great actor, but I do think his personality has changed for the worse since CR.
You wrote a long message but hardly say anything new, Colonel. Why is EON seemingly still incapable of producing a decent script on time? Will they keep most of Hodge's script or will it be completely thrown out (the second option seems extremely unlikely unless the movie is delayed)? What kind of replacement director are they looking for? Is Barbara Broccoli still thinking about retiring from producing Bond films after Bond 25?
#KeepCalmAndBond25On
Is he supposed to ask Babs and Michael this?
Lets assume that @ColonelSun knows which way they're heading on this. He would be a member of a very, very, very, very small group of people. Spilling his sources 100% on a fan site would ruin his relationships and would be committing professional suicide for the Colonel (remember, he works with these people!)
Please see the above.
I can say what the Colonel did was clear up a bunch of the misleading and rumour-spreading, and has given us a much clearer picture of where EoN is at today.
You can like something and still want to change it. Rare is the person who buys a house and leaves it exactly as is.
What Bond fans (besides yourself) have wanted to see a small Bond film? Bond is large and in charge. We don't have to go to space, but a Bond film darn well better have lots of explosions, fights, and an epic climax.
It's been said by many the "slash my wrists" comment was a joke badly delivered, but if it was meant seriously, his attitude is hardly out of line with Connery, if we're honest.
Why do you continue to pretend that reading some stolen emails makes you a filmmaking expert?
For the umpteenth time: without knowing who the Colonel is, it is completely meaningless to me that he is working in the film industry. A large percentage of people in the film industry are completely incompetent, and many people working in the film industry know LESS about the inner workings of the industry than the average MI6Community member does.
This isn't your local pub. Have some common decency.
Sounds exciting. Send it to P&W, BB and MGW asap!
Mike Leigh would be a better choice, not as leftist and politically radical as Loach. And he could bring on board Timothy Spall as the villain and Brenda Blethyn as Bond Girl.
This was enlightening and hilarious in one, crazily wrapped package. Thank you.
And, as for who the Colonel is, I know exactly who he is. But, as to my point:
So, swap out what he knows about the script, and slip in, "let's assume Colonel Sun tells Panchito who he is on a fansite"… figure out the rest.
I know Colonel. I know his work. I know he's extremely talented. And he's one helluva Bond fan.
He came on this site and tried to drop pieces of raw info he learnt about Bond, without burning bridges with his sources; he thought it'd be appreciated from Bond fan to Bond fans.
Already today he's not amused by reading a passing and thinly veiled comment, and he's seen your reply.
As he said: these are facts. Take it or leave it. Simple as that, my friend.
A momentary lapse of reason more like.
Nothing new here really. It's all been discussed and will continue to be stewed over and over again in a speculative form, as has been the historic case on this thread, until we get some real official news. Hopefully that occurs in next couple of months.
You have established why it would be unreasonable for the Colonel to tell us BOTH his identity and some cold hard facts about BOND 25 we have not heard before. Why can't he tell us some cold hard facts without revealing his identity? Alternatively: why can't he reveal his identity without telling us more specific things about Bond 25?
"And importantly, trying to express how it (film industry/Bond), all works, so some noted people on the site can calm down and stop panicking etc. That's it"
That's an email @ColonelSun just sent me. What he wrote was not "speculative", but is what he knows "is the state of play".
But, as he has now repeated: take it. Or leave it.
I choose to believe ColonelSun and Peter.
Why not just be happy we have someone who is willing to provide us with information?Bond is something we choose to like and follow. If you aren't happy with the way it's going currently then stop following it.
Nice try @ColonelSun and @peter and I almost fell for your sober, well argumemted and knowledgeable posts. But now I have decided to ignore them and follow my irrational fears. The franchise is doomed, doomed, DOOMED!
Until Nolan takes over and saves everything, that is.
Wise words from a fellow Canuck.
Meanwhile, here is one last thing from Colonel that specifically addresses something you said @PanchitoPistoles:
"... one thing has angered me, how Panchito boldly states how so many people in the film industry are
incompetent. How on earth does he know that? It is an ignorant insult!
"Nearly everyone I have worked with for over 30 years have been superb at their jobs.
Why? Because, in the film game, as we both know, you are only as good as your last job,
and if u are "incompetent", as that ignorant twit claims, you do not get employed again."
Anyways, to conclude what @Thunderfinger and the Colonel predicted, it became the usual passive-aggressive comments, or the outright insulting (with special thank-yous to all the people who were actually positive; I can assure you, @ColonelSun appreciates it, but laughs off a couple of posters as being disruptive and just depressing folks).
They found the perfect balance in OHMSS.
Or CashleyPersia blatantly copying our ideas on these boards.
But what if Nolan Is Not Enough? :D