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Similar to Elba too; this is the media game. If you keep the fire burning and plant the seed in the public consciousness about being associated with Bond, then some rival studio is going to want to hire you for a Bond-like action role. It worked for Owen, he appeared in several Bond-lite flicks like Shoot em up, The International, Duplicity etc. Has ANY actor ever flat out said no, not interested in Bond when asked about it? I don't think there has been.
Similarly, if you keep saying Yes, I'd love to play Bond! every time you're asked, it starts coming off as desperate. So the polite, evasive non-answer is what works.
At least make effort to get Craig firmed up now, and get a timetable established.
As for Tom Hardy, if it ever came to that, I think he may have passed the audition as the less homicidal Kray brother, in the recent Kray film.
He was rather convincing as the tough but, smooth, stylish gangster.
Hardy wants Bond ...he said in an interview but doesn't want to comment to ruin his chances or something like that. Said both in an interview.
Same as the last decade and the decade before (although the 90s had a bit of an excuse and still managed a 2-year cycle once things kicked off again).
Me: "Move your ar—!" [composes self] "Who's that one coming up from behind there?"
Q: "Oh, that's just every other competing franchise in the known universe."
Patrick McGoohan - famous for The Prisoner tv show - said he didn't want the part because he didn't regard James Bond as moral.
The thing is Bond is the elder statesman of franchises and it doesn't need the sausage factory approach of Marvel, DC and the Disney Star Wars proposals.
Bond's audience is slighty different to the above, more reliant on adults and less on kids and teenagers. I think people would soon get bored if Bond films were churned out with the same relentless tedium as Marvel films. A new Bond is a special event these days can the same be said about a new Marvel film? Although fair play they keep getting idiots to buy tickets so can't blame them.
I constantly hear people saying the last two MI films have been better than Bond. Well SP was disappointing but at the end of the day Bond is still Bond. Ethan Hunt is just what Tom Cruise uses to get studios to pay for his extreme sports hobby. The MI films seem to be inhabiting the Moore/Brosnan lighthearted romp ground vacated by Bond when we got the serious Craig era.
The only time Bond has been threatened by another franchise was Bourne 1&2 in 02 and 04 but this was only really an issue because Bond was at its lowest ebb at that point.
Yes we'd all prefer the standard 2 year cycle but I'm sorry folks that's gone forever and it won't be coming back. More likely we are now stuck in a 3 year cycle at best. The productions are too big and more crucially there just doesn't seem to be the desire from EON to get them out faster.
I've never been an avid comics fan but I'm enjoying Dynamite's run on the character. I have a soft spot for Vargr, Dynamite's first effort although I admit it has faults. Their second series Eidolon is far more engaging so far and the upcoming projects Casino Royale and Hammerhead look very promising as well.
Nov/Dec 2019 is a big no go, that's Star Wars territory, and we are all desperate to see how rey and fins story ends.
But at the same time, 2018 seems too soon now. They will not have a new Bond film in the cinema in just over two years, no way. Not with how long it takes these days.
So whats the solution? I can only think that they should consider summer 2019, or maybe autumn. Its not an easy decision.
Yes, 2018 does seem a bit early doesn't it. If things are moving in the pace which speculation in this thread implies, could we be in for a longer wait than 2019? 2020, for example?
(all depending on Craigs return (or not), script, casting, competition from other releases etc.)
Given the madness of going up against Star Wars it's 2018 or 2020 then.
I don't see why 2018 isn't still on. We have no idea how advanced they are on the script.
For all we know they've said to Dan 'we're aiming to start shooting in early 2018 are you in or not?' and he has said 'come back to me with a script by end of March 2017 and I'll let you know which will still give you 9 months to cast a new Bond.'
What perturbs me more is Babs getting distracted by these other ventures she is involved in and the studio problems. With MGW semi retired and no distributor who is actually pushing B25 forward at the moment?
It's called 'speculation' which is err the title of the thread. If you want a thread called 'B25 facts' go ahead and create one but you'll find it a lonely place.
Re a new actor getting the script. You have a basic story idea which is tailored and polished to an actor's particular approach. You don't need to rip the script up and start from scratch just because Dan says no. You're making a James Bond not a Daniel Craig film so amazingly you can use the same script you have about a bloke called James Bond and get someone else to play him. That's called acting.
The TLD script was originally written for Brozza and then when that fell through at the 11th hour they didn't shred it they merely adjusted aspects to complement Dalton's approach.
And wasn't Logan's script ripped up and they started from scratch less than a year before shooting, granted SP not the best example as it was still a shambles, but 1965-1989, 1995-1999 and 2006-08 they only ever had about a year to come up with a new script before shooting started. You're not writing Chekov here.
I couldn't care less.
It may be almost that long before all the non-007 projects (the current ones) conclude, for all we know.
Maybe lost in translation in German but 'for all we know' means 'it's possible'.
For all we know DC has quit but for all we know he has also signed on for another three.
Anyway never mind. Es ist nichts.
Say what you like, but its possible the next two Star Wars films will have Avatar level production values. It'll be a massive cultural event, with Rian Johnson and Colin Trevorrow finally clueing us in on the remaining mysteries if the Star Wars universe - We can't pass that up.
I'd rather 2028 than let Logan have another crack.
EON execs were apparently unimpressed with their recent auditions subsequently have ruled them out for the role.
According to one source James failed to recapture the Bondian aura he had demonstrated in a series of Hugo Boss ads earlier in the year.
Google it. The inquisitor.
Finding nothing.