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Yes, spot on. Craig will want to continue and complete his Bond's character arc. It makes perfect sense - and Cary is the man to do it justice IMO.
You need perfect eyesight to pass as a fighter pilot. Or any kind of professional pilot.
On that note, I expect the last scene of B25 to mirror/comment on the PTS of CR. (Yes, I know they did it in QoS.)
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In this century, I can't think of any series - film or television - that does just standalones anymore. The Marvel universe in particular is expected to give its fans cameos, tie-ins and teasers to other related films. Even the MI series didn't have any big callbacks till the last 3 films.
So it's no surprise Eon is following suit.
As far as continuing Craig’s arc, I think that was kind of a meaningless interview answer... I mean you can infer they’re not going to reboot the character with Craig in B25 and that’s about it.
There’s nothing wrong with continuity when it’s done well, but they haven’t so that’s the real issue.
Ha!
SF was a standalone, and it worked out great.
Then some genius three years later decided to undo that.
I am talking about strict rules.
Oh that would be awesome! The Internet would blow off enough steam to destroy the planet. ;-)
They only did standalones because of McClory. Otherwise they would have used SPECTRE through the '70s.
The most reassuring thing about this interview for me is that he's prioritising the narrative over action and locations right now. Get a great story and build from that. Have been wanting this for a long time. Great to hear.
We know that Eon were seeking a writer/director for Bond 25 after Boyle bailed. Fukunaga has written numerous projects that he has directed. Therefore, we can assume that he is going to be more involved in the script. From what we can see from the Sony leaks, it might be the case that Fukunaga is working on the first and second acts, whilst P& W are writing the third act (that was the case with SP only they had Jez Butterworth tidying up the first/second acts)
However, there have been a ton of conflicting reports on the script's progress.
A quick summary of the murky history of Bond 25's script:
- P&W wrote a draft in July 2017, however this has since been labelled a 'treatment' opposed to a draft.
- John Hodge then was bought on to write the script off Boyle's idea.
- That script was said to be entirely original and the P&W draft was thrown out. However, other reports have come out saying aspects of P&W's script were intact in Hodge's version.
- Then Hodge is fired and Boyle quits. P&W are back and said to be working on an entirely new script which uses parts of both their old treatment and the Hodge draft.
- Now Fukunaga is said to be working on the script.
I imagine the credits will look something like this:
Screenplay by Cary Joji Fukunaga and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade
Story by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and John Hodge [& Danny Boyle]
It'll be very curious to see if Boyle's name is attached to the final project....
I wouldn't be surprised if it's a loose YOLT adaptation and Cary has gone back to Fleming. It's always made sense to end Craig's era with YOLT
I think the film will be a reworking of aspects of YOLT (which I imagine P&W leaned heavily on) and FRWL (which I think Daniel Craig is trying to re-do).
We know there was a rumour that Daniel Craig wanted to do his own version of FRWL - with Russia back in the news, I imagine B25 will focus on this angle. I can't see them bringing back Blofeld as the character was totally played out.
However, the older and more morose Bond from Fleming's YOLT and the Garden of Death could be appropriated for the film. You could still have a Dr Shatterhand and cast a Japanese actor to take the role.
However, we really won't know anything solid till casting rumours begin. Fukunaga has been on the film full-time for two months now. Believe it or not, but that's more time than Danny Boyle worked on B25 full-time! Boyle only finished shooting his Richard Curtis musical in mid-July and left Bond 25 on the 21st August. That's less than 6 weeks.
I proposed this scenario before. What if the 'real' Blofeld heard of Bond, and saw him closing in on Spectre. Thus he used Oberhauser to mess with Bonds head, knowing they had a past connection.
Would wash all the Bro-feld nonsense clean, and allow Waltz to step away with no issues.
Interesting
Yes, if they don’t want to abandon the character of Blofeld , clever writers could create a scenario where the quirky, koo,koo, Blofeld, was a surrogate of the real mastermind of SPECTRE.
The key to making this work is to cast a strong , intimidating actor as Blofeld and truly make him an ominous, ruthless genius.
Yes, some may see this as gimmicky, but done right it could work. Blofeld is to good of a character, and integral part of the Bond mythos to abandon.