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Yes, I'm aware, thank you Jake24 for that advice . Just being a smart ass out of boredom. ;)
Silva though, that annoyed me because it was so obviously meant to be a stand alone film. Silva's motives were entirely personal, there's nothing to indicate he has any ties to a pre-existing organisation, and it's something that really doesn't fit his character at all. Skyfall was Craig's Goldfinger, a break from the recurring villains. And it had enough of an impact on the overarching story (the death of M, the destruction of the MI6 building) for it to not seem pointless in the grand scheme of things. There was already enough of a personal link between Bond and Blofeld, and Spectre's influence in the first two films was enough, and the events of SF had already had enough of an impact on the film, so there was no need whatsoever to throw link Spectre back to Silva imo.
There wasn't that much point in Green being a Specre member either actually. White provided enough of a link between Quantum and Spectre as it is, and I think it'd seem a lot less forced if it wasn't every single villain that was working for Blofeld.
By "brave," I meant that they would never do a full reboot. CR is as close as we are going to get because they wanted to keep Dench (for good reason). I expect they'd want to keep Fiennes as well.
If it's a total re-boot, I not sure they should. It was done with Dench, but I think they either should maintain the existing incarnation, which would mean casting an actor who's somewhat close to Craig's age, or start from scratch with a new, younger, actor and a new supporting cast.
Now, if they do a reboot, which I am sure they will... I mean, let's face it, this isn't the 1980s to transit from A View To A Kill to The Living Daylights as if things were the same yet Bond is younger than in the previous installment. Things are very different, now. And so is the film handling business. A reboot is inevitable, whether now or in the beginning of the next decade. Why? Dates. Aging characters. Tight continuity. People won't take ignoring and changing the chronological orders lightly with the new actor being younger and picking up where Craig left off. The Craig Bonds are different from what came before and certainly game changers... And Ralph Fiennes doesn't have the same iconic mark left on the series as Judi was, so I doubt they will keep him, let alone anyone else if a reboot occurs.
I'd love to see YOLT done more faithfully (call it Shatterhand) but I'm against using the characters of Tiger and Kissy. They could easily create new characters (or really just new names) to fill their roles in the story.
The reason I'm so against this is that I think rebooting one off characters, however minor, could send us down a rabbit hole to the point where classic Bond villains and girls get modern reboots, which I really don't want to see. Recurring characters like Felix, Blofeld, etc, that's fine. But one offs should stay one offs imo. If Fleming didn't feature them in more than one novel then I don't think they should be rebooted. The only scenario I'd accept is if they decided to do faithful period adaptations of all the novels (preferrably on TV, I wouldn't want the film series to go down this route).
The next Bond will be or have .......
Filmed on the planet Earth
Both male and female characters
Walking will take place
Villains and their plan will be prominent
It will have one or two action sequences
Clothing will be worn
The film will have a soundtrack.
My powers are strong today !
:-? ...and this will hold true even if Logan writes?? Please confirm.
Thanks!
Is that what we're calling the noisy thuds and boops and beeps that Thomas Newman creates?
Sorry...couldn't resist.
It had SF's. ;)
So very true!
I don't know. I enjoyed the SP soundtrack more than SF minus the theme.
Had an appropriate ghostly style to the music. Thomas did retread many themes from SF just like Arnold and Barry did occasionally.
More than a new actor, the one thing I want for B25 is a completely new person for the score. No more Barry-lite retreads with Arnold for me. Let's try something new.
That repetitive cliched typical action movie cue during the Mi6 climax bothered me to the point my friends and I couldn't help but mockingly comment on it in the cinema. Although many cues seemed copy/pasted from SF, I didn't feel the music itself was particularly bad. At least it wasn't Eric Serra's "Ladies First" track from GoldenEye repeatedly inserted throughout SPECTRE.
I do hope B25 brings in some fresh talent to provide the score, or Arnold to make a comeback.
Agreed.
http://www.oddschecker.com/novelty/james-bond/next-james-bond
Interestingly, Huston has quite the Bond connection. Firstly, his grandfather is the great John Huston, who directed a segment of Casino Royale and starred as M in that film. Jack has also worked with Barbara Broccoli before on a stage production of Strangers on a Train.
I like this idea.
I'm advocating Ramin Djawadi or Harry Gregson Williams.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I agree with @bondjames ...excellent choices.
I'm surprised now their names haven't been suggested before especially Harry Gregson-Williams.
However, its probably not a coincidence that he has Ben-Hur coming out in a few weeks, and 'Bond buzz' is now an obligatory part of the hype whenever a British actor is doing promotion
My guess is not much Bond 25 activity will take place while the other film is under way.
I didn't realize she was working on a non-Bond film. You're right, we probably shouldn't expect to hear any new Bond developments any time soon then.
We know some of this because of the Sony hacks, but BB didn't see any SPECTRE script until the spring of 2014 and didn't like what she saw. But given the normal screenwriting process (there's a reason they do treatments before a full script), she shouldn't have been *that* surprised.
Sure, there are some things that can be done/ Location scouting. Writing (if it hasn't started already). But the Eon brass aren't like, say Marvel's Kevin Feige, who does a lot of multi-tasking.