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Exactly.
Going to need a whole line on the poster just for the credits.
Bond 25. Written by
Neal Purvis
Robert Wade
John Hodge
Danny Boyle
Cary Fukunaga
Scott S Burns
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Also not too keen on
https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/14/james-bond-script-phoebe-waller-bridge-fleabag-daniel-craig?__twitter_impression=true
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I guess that they asked something similar to Wallers-Bridge, bring a feminine voice to the female characters. But it's not a "full rewrite" or a "complete overhaul", nor a source of fear now that a (gasp...) female writer has touched with her dirty mittens the mountain of masculinity that a Bond script is supposed to be.
Not sure whether you're serious or kidding. Regardless, when you put your idea out in a public forum, it's pretty free for people to take unless you copyright it or register it in some way.
In the late 1960s, U.S. television producer Roy Huggins said in an interview in Variety he had an idea for a weekly TV movie, 90 minutes including commercials.
Somebody else then beat him to it. And there was nothing he could about it. To pursue a lawsuit would have required putting up a lot of money with, at best, an uncertain chance of winning because the idea had been put in the public domain. More details in this video of an interview with Huggins.
Being fun isn't really relevant when it comes to believability, so I'd argue that the point still stands.
I think a female double-0 is a fine idea, as these things go, and the series has featured several female agents of various kinds who were effective. But 007 is james bond. If we're to be introduced to a female double-0, make it 009 or something.
They've really run out of ideas. Any day now our beloved character will be unrecognisable, an asexual bruit with no finesse. Not a womaniser gentleman, which is something of a paradox nowadays. I once got accused of harassment for constantly opening doors to women at college. And that was 20 years ago. Chivalry is not just dead, it was murdered. So will be being seductive or flirty. Soon we'll be left with a bunch of colourless characters. Bond will be the first to be hanged on the public square.
Still hoping all, and I mean ALL of the rumours so far are false. Bland, stupid title and all.
I still have faith in Fukunaga.
If not, well, there's always Bond26 for me.
Just catching up. I assume, since this writer is known for her sharp dialogue (a la Aaron Sorkin), that she's been hired to polish dialogue.
If I'm not mistaken, has this idea of a young protege/female 007 been around since the Boyle/Hodge days? Is this the thread of the "golden idea" we heard about?
Hope not.
About the writer. No problem with her. I love Arron Sorkin kind of penmanship. As long as she doesn't castrate our man, I'll be fine with it.
Bond returns to the service, out of duty to protect Madeline. The past PTS bit is a hint at this element but how it figures with the story will be revealed.
Bond then has to find Madeline and protect her, due to their relationship not having worked and possibly ended badly, she isn't going to let him do this easily.
The new female 007 is involved but this is about Bond protecting Swann from whatever threat has emerged from her past (something White did most likely) but she isn't exactly going to cooperate.
....and in a now traditional Craig film finale...........................
I think this is going to be the end of the DC era and we will reset so this is going to be a full stop, however much a full stop is yet to be revealed.
Oh dear. Adapting a novel and shoehorning homages for the sake of it are not the same thing. Also, cool that you're calling The Last Jedi the worst SW movie in a world where TPM, AotC and TFA exist.
That's weird considering SPECTRE was supposedly set not too long after Skyfall. It would mean Bond 25 would be set around 2013/2014 :))
+1
Wasn't talking about the
Anyhow, like I've said over and over again, I still have faith in EON and fukunaga.
We'll see.
Either Bond is immortal, or there will be a new 007 after him. Again, why can't the next 007 be a woman?
Recognizing other possibilities. "Female 007" in a news story can be the 21st Century equivalent of "this time the Bond Girl is Bond's equal". It doesn't have to be literal or contentious.
There is nothing wrong with a female agent, a female 00, or anything of that type. But nobody, apart from the most hardcore left wing nutter wants to see a female James Bond. Simple.
I think you're on a very slippery slope here. Chivalry is dead, and that's good. You don't assume how people want to be treated, and instead you treat everyone well instead of just girls because... you wanted to be "nice".
I'll take you up on this.
I think having Bond be a different ethnicity is a much better way to bring diversity to the series. I think swapping the genders will just change the character a little too much, to the point where you couldn't even call James James anymore.
Even a quick Google search shows that women agree on this issue as well. Eva Green, Rachael Weiss, and numerous journalists think Bond should be a man.
Bond, at the very least, needs to be a British male. His spirit and ego is masculine. Creating a "Jane Bond" would change the character too much, and it's actually insulting to women as well that they'd just be served a sloppy seconds character.
Can you explain to me your argument?
No, they don't. They say James Bond should not be turned into a woman. And they won't turn him into a woman. If this rumour is true, in Bond 25 you will have James Bond (still male) AND a female 007.
I think neither of those are true.
But regardless, you can tone the MeToo hysteria down as the article CLEARLY states PWB was brought in to punch up the script. To bring wit and quirkiness. Which is only a good thing. I want them to go back to Casino Royale type dialogue, where the Vesper/Bond interactions were dynamic and fascinating to hear, Spectre on the contrary felt full of robotic, lifeless dialogue, IMO of course.
Interestingly, the article makes no mention of a female 007 or Bond on retirement. Also, this is a surprising fact I didn't personally know: