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Oddly enough, the Raymond Benson novelization credits Feirstein, Petrie, Nicholas Meyer and David Campbell Wilson for the screenplay. Some of the early promotional materials may have those credits as well.
I don't believe the plan was for Vesper's child to be his. It was apparently Bond finding out that Vesper had a child prior to meeting Bond.
My copy of the novelization only lists Feirstein. But there may be different editions out there. I knew Petrie was one of the screenwriters. He's with Spottiswoode on the latter's commentary track. But they don't mention he was one of the scribes.
What color is the sky in your world?
On the other hand, two main concerns:
-First, adding more and more credits to a script that's already been touched by many hands is usually not a good thing.
-Second, if I could be so bold as to agree with Panchito - bear with me - I find the timelines here troubling. As many have already said, yes: we simply need to bear with EON and let them produce films on their own time. But it seems like bad management to me, having long waits and a delayed, disorderly process. I'd have thought a keen manager would want to have fresh treatments in hand the day SP closed.
Alas, we wait.
Dick Maibaum and the producers are also American? It's nonsense that a 007-director needs to be British.
That is Craig's two best movies, in my opinion.
+1
Someone once wrote that we should have gotten Skyfall now , with two other movies QoS. I tend to agree.
Wish the Mendes films, had more dynamic and kinetic action admittedly
Introducing Bond's son will give Eon an excuse for a spin-off franchise!
Paul Haggis told Variety:
Just go with Andrew Bond, Jr. :))
CR : total rookie
QOS : still total rookie
SF : old dog new tricks/played out/its a young mans game
SP : No mention of age or what stage his carrier is at.
So inconsistent,almost embarrassing.
Having started the era with CR, it was a great opportunity to have some form of timeline across the era but it's a shambles IMHO.
It certainly is...the Craig era is definitely losing its popularity with me by the day tbh.
Scientology smear.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-scientology-behind-the-paul-haggis-rape-allegations
@echo how we know that for sure though?
Is that allowed here? I thought only picking on the guy was permitted. ;)
I agree with your point though, but this leadership doesn't seem to have that approach. They may have other qualities, but the evidence suggests to me that they aren't the strategic process type. They seem to work best with a gun to their head - witness how quickly they pulled in a new director at short notice when they had no choice. Contrast that with how long it took them to get the first one lined up.
I agree and that's why I'm personally done with it. He should have left after SF and it would have been near perfect as an 'arc', even if compressed on account of going from rookie to 'old dog' over 3 films - at least we could imagine that the 'Bond we all know' was in the middle & played by all the other fellas. Instead they royally cocked it up with their attempt at connecting everything and wrapping it up with a bow. Sometimes things are better left 'unsaid' and to the imagination. As I've mentioned previously, the last film has negatively impacted my experience of the first two due to the Quantum/White connection. Only SF stands alone for me (I find it easy to ignore the hamfisted after the fact connection), and that's why it's the Craig Bond film I enjoy the most these days.
It is.
One thing I find curious is when Fukunaga was interviewed about a month ago he seemed to have no idea whether Waltz, Seydoux or Scooby were in the film. All he seemed to know about was that there was to be a continuing arc started in CR. Then a few weeks later Baz drops the scoop that Fukunaga told him personally that Scooby and Seydoux were back, the latter at Craig's request. So I wouldn't be surprised if he had not had much involvement with the script up to that point. I suppose he will be more involved now, working with Craig since he's done with his Knives Out gig.
I'm not so sure he knew at the time of that first interview. If he did, he could have easily confirmed Scooby and Seydoux at that time. If I'm not mistaken he said the screenplay or script was still being worked on at that time.