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I'd be very down with this!
Madeline doesn't need to feature, she could have left Bond like Tiffany in the FRWL novel or alternatively she can die in the pre-title sequence.
Bond is NOT Bourne.
You have got to be having a laugh.
Agreed
This is just one long drawn out game until they get details on the distributor and start moving forward with the new film. Then the announcements will come thick and fast.
Jesus.
No silly gunbarrels.. just a traditional gunbarrel at the start done properly.
But considering B25 might be awhile no sense fretting now.
I also believe that he wanted it to be a self contained reboot era (a sort of parallel universe definition/redefinition of Bond's history and that of his arch nemesis).
My sentiments exactly! I know a lot of people are indifferent about the gunbarrel, but to me it's as much a tradition as Halloween being on October 31st is. It should never have been messed with in the first place. Putting it at the end of the Bond films is like waiting until after New Years Day to put up a Christmas tree. Who does that? I'll concede that structurally working it into the PTS of CR was smooth and many liked it. However, origin or no origin, I would have preferred a traditional no frills GB in that film, too.
Makes me wonder: Is there no respect for Maurice Binder's genius in the 21st century? It's like it's trendy to screw the smallest things up for the sake of being different. Even that astonishingly stupid "Dead are Alive" card in SP. Ugh! It would have been so simple and much cooler to have the circle open on the skull.
There have been numerous Bond films that tried different things, and maintained tradition without tiring out the formula. Pop in OHMSS and LALD, for example. TB and TLD, etc etc.
I want BOND 25 to be as traditional and classic as TSWLM, yet as different from SF and SP as TSWLM was from, say, LALD if that makes sense.
x3. Many, many films have ended with the trope of Bond switching off the radio (or ignoring the rescuers or whatever) so that he could curl up with another woman. I don't really think that anyone believed Bond was going to quit the service and run away with Christmas Jones, and I don't really understand why people think Spectre has to signal the end.
I suspect the filmmakers don't agree. Rather that simply say, "Times have changed," we had a series of explanations why the gunbarrel wasn't at the start. Finally, it went to the start of SPECTRE, but you got a feeling the filmmakers' heart wasn't in it (including Craig wildly swinging his right arm to show he'd holding a gun and isn't remotely trying to hide it).
Your mileage may vary.
Nobody here is. Eon is.
Ah. Sorry.
My problem, increasingly, is I'm finding it harder to care if he is or not.
If he is, we can look forward to more stories from the actor describing the agony -- A-GONE-EE (as Bugs Bunny would pronounce it) -- of doing a James bond movie.
If he is not, we can look forward to more stories about Eon is "going back to Fleming," regardless of whom is chosen to be Bond No. 7.
Of course he will.
I'd bet most general audiences didn't remember Swann the day after seeing the film. "I wouldn't recognize you anywhere." Spectre's a strange beast - it builds upon an intimate familiarity with Craig's three other films, which ends up confusing general audiences who were never asked to understand Bond films as anything but standalone. Does anyone recognize bearded Mr White as the shady guy whose last appearance was halfway through a Bond film in 2008? And if you do understand all the references, the reward is Brofeld claiming credit for the previous films' events and crushing them into meaninglessness. I didn't think EON would be boneheaded enough to do another direct sequel after QoS, but here we are.
To be fair to Craig, he seriously injured his knee in Mexico and kept filming. A sequence that was almost entirely walking and running - likely over and over for the tracking shot. Must have been grueling.
It's over eight months since SPECTRE, Daniel Craig has got new work in the pipeline. Surely he would know 100 percent if he wants to return? Over eight months is enough time to know if you want to come back. I reckon so. The lack of any news from Craig would suggest he isn't coming back. But then again he could come back. ;))