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I am sorry but killing off bond (which I can confirm is exactly what Boyle wanted) is not genius but lazy story writing. Killing the main character to mix things up is right up there with “it was all a dream” or “evil twin”
It’s lazy soap opera garbage that has no place in a bond film period
The other major issue - is it a marketing gimmick?
If Bond dies in Bond 25 we all know he's going to be alive in Bond 26. I assume Eon/MGM want to make more Bond films. Bond 25 is not meant to be the final James Bond film. Won't Bond's death be cheapened if he returns in some rebooted form in Bond 26? I guess so.
Justice League featured 'a back from the dead' Superman. The film underperformed. In terms of a plot device - Superman dying in Batman v Superman and returning in the 'sequel' Justice League - it didn't enhance the box office.
I think the best way to 'kill off' Bond is have him fall from a great height or some other dire consequence and he's missing, lost in action, presumed dead. The follow-up Bond film can start with 'Bond is dead, we have a new 00 agent taking his place' and the story continues with rumours Bond is alive and Bond is found and returns in the second or third act. That might work. You give the impression Bond is dead but not really, he's back!
Hey, it's James Bond. You can't kill the world's greatest secret agent!
People sometimes don't understand that a later release date does not mean a worse release date. April makes far more sense to me than February.
But still younger then Moore in A View to a Kill
But not nearly as charming!
BvS/Justice League and something like Avengers Infinity War are completely different cases to what a Bond death would be in this particular film.
But they just did Bond falling from a great height in SF.
I think the best way to "kill off" Bond is the ending of the YOLT novel. Burns is too busy working to read this and wouldn't for legal reasons, but my God, go back to Fleming!
It's also possibly Fleming's best title, full of meaning and mystery.
Age is only a number. Craig looks amazing for his age. Look at Tom Cruise. He is 57 and looks like he is in his early 40s.
We are veering off talk of actual bond 25 news and discussing Boyle's aborted attempt.
I endorse @PanchitoPistoles notion to set up a 'Danny Boyle's Bond 25' thread. Any discussion of Bond dying/being incarcerated can be dealt with there. It be a tify and neat place tos tore the info, so we don't get it lost in here.
Here we should talk of the Burns/Fukunaga version of the film.
+1. “Killing Bond” doesn’t mean goin for a Logan kind of resolution.
You're right, and I have found better franchises that are suited to my tastes. Though as a lad I really liked all of the campy Bond fun, as an adult I find myself most invested in a down-to-earth tale with decent characters. There's nothing exciting about ticking off a check-mark box for me. "Generic" cinematic Bond isn't really my thing. I'm patiently waiting for another QoS, FRWL, OHMSS, etc. I think Boyle could have given us something like that.
Excellent.
It would be pretty weird to see James Bond die and then at the end credits there’s a big “James Bond Will Return”. Killing the character off would cause a lot of uncertainty over the future of the series, and I’d rather not have that.
For all those swearing they would never see a JB movie where he dies... do you refuse to read FRWL on the same grounds?
Absolutely not. Again, Logan. We all know sooner or later Wolverine will return to the big screen, played by a new actor. This knowledge does not cheapen the dramatic ending of Logan. Craig's era is a very self contained era. The death of Bond at the end of it would have no negative effect on the future of the franchise.
1. It underperformed because it was a horrible movie
2. It's a completely different scenario. Caville's Superman at the end of Batman vs Superman did not die for good. Craig's Bond at the end of Bond 25 would be dead for good.
I suppose it could say :
JAMES BOND WILL NOT RETURN
if they killed him off.
Personally I'm against the idea. For one it seems a current trend these days that 007 doesn't need to follow. LOGAN and so forth.
Also Fleming never killed Bond off and said if he did Bond would go out with a bang, or something to that effect. I believe that was after the FRWL novel.
Bond isn't Christopher Lee's Dracula who can be killed at the end of every entry then brought back for the next. If I want to see that I'll just watch TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA.
Done right, though I could see Craig in a cliffhanger ending that implies Bond was killed.
However I think it's too late for Craig , and the films aren't out frequently enough to pull it off.
If he were to die, and then they carried on making them, that would just be plain stupid. I don't know what Wolverine is, but Bond doesn't die. It's a stupid idea.
What you’re looking at with Boyle’s blurb is a two and half hour extension of the DAD main title sequence that ends with Bond facing the firing squad after getting humiliated, tortured, kicked around, berated, belittled and finally put down like a dog.
That said, there's a next time for Bond too. If, indeed, Craig ended his tenure with a good death for Bond, then so be it. The next actor can start the cycle all over again.
While I prefer to see Bond drive off in his Aston Martin at the end of the film, if B25 killed off Bond, or did something shady like The Dark Knight Rises, it certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings.
I don’t think Wolverine would return (at least for a long time). Hugh Jackman, for all intents and purposes, was Wolverine and I’m not sure they’d be able to bring in another guy to play the character the same way we’ve seen with Bond. And the key thing was the Jackman’s Wolverine was a part of the X-Men film series that could end as soon as the end of next year. Craig’s Bond series is the same as the Connery Bond series even though they don’t follow the same timeline.