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Earlier in this thread, it was stated that NOTHING is done without the stamp of Barbara Broccoli. That's true. So those who find the foster brother angle to be ridiculous (and count me as one of them) need to realize that the buck stops with Babs (and Michael).
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I’m actually very pleased at this news. A script by old reliable P&W, but with some fresh blood injected in there.
I’m excited by it too. The fact that P&W started this thing, then Hodge and Boyle added to the pot some killer new idea, has me confident the screenplay is in a good place. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if P&W are the ones brought back to polish things before shooting, which should only lend more cohesion to the final story.
... And Sony and all the creatives-- read the leaks it's all there. Filmmaking is a partnership among many.
Mendes, the director, seemed to want that Bond/villain connection all the way through every draft of the script development....
As @ColonelSun has said in the past: Barbara is known as being a great nuts n bolts producer (think when DC blew out his knee, she re-scheduled the troops, got them all in line and kept the film on track-- much like she is doing right now); story, in its increments, may not be her forte. So she relies on the other creatives (her director and the Sony people, etc...)
And, quite frankly, franchise films are made for many people, worldwide. Good producers hit most of the marks, most of the time (EoN); some fail (the present leadership at DC). It may not always be to your tastes, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong at EoN-- for example: I have a tough time with the Brosnan era. I can't watch the last two films in particular-- but never once did I think this was EoN's fault. I just knew the formula was working for that time and it certainly was not my cup of tea. Had Brosnan stayed on, I would have seen the next one as well (and probably would have accepted that that too was also not the Bond film I wanted).
But as Cubby said, if it makes a dollar, there will be another-- which means they will follow the same formula until it doesn't work anymore-- look at DAF into LALD into TMWGG... That became a re-set into TSWLM and MR... which became another re-set with a new decade... DAD made a bucket-load, but with Bourne, this was no longer going to cut mustard in the new millennium, so, another re-boot...
EoN has been remarkable at the very thing James Bond boasted his hobby was: resurrection...
Sorry for the double post. But--
EDIT: no where in the leaks did DC's name come up during script development. SM wanted brothergate in one form or another, as is easily seen in the leaks. Not DC.
I haven't read the leaks, but I recall Craig speaking in praise of the foster brother angle in an interview (correct me anyone if I'm wrong) and he was one of the producers and seemingly has a good deal of say in what happens or doesn't happen in his Bond films.
The reality is the leaked emails have NO FEEDBACK FROM DC during the very long script development process (we read about Mendes and many executives); SM shepherded the drafts and wanted some kind of relationship between Bond and villain from the very beginning.
DC was never mentioned in the leaks. If he said nice things about SP, that’s his job.
But he also said on Colbert that he wanted to leave on a high which suggests SP wasn’t that high.
As DC said in TGWTDT: "I want to read that." LOL
Personally, I think that the brothergate angle was simply Mendes stealing the same Star Trek Into Darkness Khan rabbit-out-of-the-hat trick, under the guise of John Harrison, and adopting it for Blofeld. I don’t blame P&W for this travesty.
After the “hight note” comment with Colbert, I think it’s safe to say Craig did not love SP, and couldn’t have thought of it as much better than average.
I’m pretty excited about the news of the Hodge script remaining in some form; perhaps they are just cutting the bits from it that they felt were too non-Bond or whatever.
This doesn't totally track. We know P&W would put a lot of action in their script, so even if Hodge stripped it out, couldn't Eon (relatively) easily put the action back in?
I'm thinking of something like Skyfall, where the PTS was originally supposed to be in another country, IIRC.
But you're right, I do remember the mind-boggling threads of everyone and their mother ranking Spectre in their Top 5s.
Is that what happened?
With SP it was Logan and Mendes who were culprits, with Bond 25 it was Boyle who couldn't handle such a big franchise that caused this delay. With that wrist slash comment it was the journalist who was at fault for putting it in his headline. It doesn't matter what seems to happen, EON, Babs and Craig are always just victims of circumstance. Strange.