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My favorite video on YouTube.
How can they overhaul the script when they were already casting?
Surely those characters have to stay the same, otherwise whoever is already cast would have to play a different character than what they were hired for?
I mean they are actors, of course, but they went through a casting process precisely because the filmmakers had characters set in mind.
Kinda confusing.
I'll add I'm surprised by the reactions of longtime Bond fans for the wide range of familiar content they accept from the past versus the strictures applied to recent and future missions. To me it's beyond simple likes and dislikes, that sensitivity.
Doesn't dampen my looking forward to BOND 25 a bit. Unfortunate, though.
Wow!!! Amazing video!!! Just goes to show that Bond always survives, both on and off screen.
Seems like you may have like my earlier choice for giving Bond 25 the title "Fiasco!"
That would go along with what a few members here are saying. ;)
@ringfire211 I will be absolutely over the moon if we ever get this kind of proper Bond movie again.
That said, Burns wrote the screenplay for The Man from UNCLE that Steven Soderbergh was going to direct. It was approved by the director. So, if Burns is good of a screenwriter to work with Soderbergh on numerous occasions, that’s good enough for me. Fukunaga doesn’t seem like the sort who would be harmful to the source material or the audience for the matter. Not so far, at least. So, I trust him.
As long as none of the malware left by Danny Boyle is there, I’m relieved.
Yes we definitely dodged a bullet with Boyle. I’m fairly certain we would be looking at worst film in the series territory if he had gotten his way. Bond dying would have been absolutely ridiculous. And I am optimistic about Burns. I expect B25 will be a good movie.
Barbara has no talent and no vision. She should resign right now for robbing the world from a truly unique once in a life time Bond film.
It sounds like Boyle’s style is the antithesis of proper Bondian qualities in every possible way. I agree, good riddance.
You don't know that.
His movie would’ve been an anti-Bond fan’s wet dream. You got it backwards there.
Anyway, I just read the blurb on our site here, which reinforces that I would have hated the Boyle film with that script. We've been saved from some truly awful ideas.
@4EverBonded What blurb? At this point we have no idea what Hodge’s script was about. All we know about that script is that it was written by a very talented writer with input and approval from a huge Fleming fan who also happens to be one of Britain’s most talented filmmakers. And that this script did not meet the approval of someone who has an abysmal track record.
In part it says this: (bolding is mine)
Back when Danny Boyle was going to direct the film, it was rumoured that Bond 25 would end with the death of 007. MI6 can confirm that this was an ending considered for the film when it was being penned by John Hodge. We can also reveal that for most of the script Boyle was developing, Bond was incarcerated by the villain. Daniel Craig has been keen to deliver a film in the style and substance of 'From Russia With Love', and it is no coincidence that Ian Fleming's original novel also ends leaving it unclear as to the fate of 007.
It is not unusual for a Bond script to go through several twists and turns before the cameras roll, however, Bond 25 has already seen two different directors announced, two delays to the release date, and at least five different writers. If Bond 25 turns out to be one of the better entries in the series, these hiccups will be easily forgotten.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond-25-new-writer-to-overhaul-shooting-script?id=04454
Interesting article from Mi6 - aside the woeful journalism (I mean Playbill instead of The Playlist?!? Is it that hard to name your source correctly. Yikes).
But they 'confirm' the theory that Boyle wanted to kill Bond and a large part of the film dealt with Bond being incarcerated by the villain. Which doesn't quite scream exotic locations and action....
Bond getting captured is always a great conceit. We have seen hospitable villains in the past. But I'm unsure if we need a significant chunk of the film taken up with it.
I imagine the script issues have stopped them from reaching out to actors. Hence the lack of concrete news.
So onward we go. I am very thankful to Barbara and EON at this point. And hiring Cary was very smart. He is a very good storyteller, just get him a decent script.
Let me repeat my profound feelings towards Boyle: Good Riddance!
Better make that two.