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A very good description of Ritchie's style. He does often come across as a big time Charlie playing at being a film director.
The situation now is not what it was when Glen and Campbell took over. Now Bond is a billion dollar (aspirant) tentpole franchise. Are you really going to trust Guy with delivering that? You're only as good as your last film and UNCLE was a flop.
Glen worked at a time when Cubby controlled everything and there was nowhere near the freedom given to the director that EON gave Mendes (although after SP it's doubtful the next guy will get that) or expectation that there is now. Campbell came in when the series was at a low ebb so there was no way they could attract a big name and as @RC7 states Edge of Darkness had far more substance than anything Guy has done.
Bond is massive these days and until loads of big names have turned it down we shouldn't even be entertaining the thought of Guy.
Apart from anything else the bloke who made Swept Away should be banned from ever working again.
Only time one really needs to defend their opinion is if they are trying to convenience someone else to share that same opinion.
Everyone has the right I suppose to have opinions.
That's just my opinion.
Silly, we all know EON never thinks past the next film they make.
I'm assuming you mean 'convince'?
I always think it's good to challenge 'opinion', because most are half-baked and some are just brain farts.
Yes ....unfortunately
Double post ...but yes. Autofill
people are a fickle breed Brady..
personally, i don't care what they do - i've had enough films of both that if they want to create a storyline - or rather, series of linked events that play out over the course of 4-5 films, then i am game, as long as they do it right, and don't piss it down their leg by film 4...
but i think that when the time comes for Craig to move on, and we get a new Bond - i believe 1 or 2 stand alone Bond films are the way to go - then if they want to do 2 or 3 connected stories to round out that Bond's run, then so be it..... but i just want them to continue the loose continuity between actors - the same as they did from Sean thru Pierce... Craig's Bond shouldn't be the only special one that gets to play in it's own box, untouched from the others - it's already enough that his was the start of a new Bond timeline - no need to give it further preferential treatment... i mean christ, even the one film that many for years considered the bastard child of the series (OHMSS) was still referenced in 5 other films.
Silly, we all know EON never thinks past the next film they make.
Go back to casting relative unknowns in the films, seek good directors and crew who know what a Bond film should look like. Not someone trying to put their stamp on the series. Bond doesn't need to copy or a new direction. It's Bond.
I fail to see how originally we got four films in four films in four years, then basically a new film every two years from 1967 - 1989. Even the Brosnan era managed it for three of the four. Then all of a sudden, the films come out three and four years apart. Why?
Bring back Bond!
There'll be a newer model out before Bond 25 even gets into production.
and... it's just the boatversion of the TND-car.
I wouldn't say Newman impressed me but IMO the SP score was superior to his SF effort.
I'm still convinced that he won the Oscar for SF because people associated the score with Adele's song.
Wait, wait-hold up. There's a difference? ;)
He didn't win the Oscar.
You're in danger of sounding hypocritical there, Gustav.
Plus, that line of thinking doesn't really hold up on a forum meant for dissection and analysis.
Great idea. Who do you think would be better? P or W?
Are you telling me that they're individuals?
I would hope that would come from hiring a director that has already worked on the series in some capacity (like Peter Hunt and John Glen). On saying that, I do like your suggestion of Jaume Collet-Serra, and those three films put forward a strong case for him possibly directing a Bond film. Suddenly, i'm in the mood for a Liam Neeson action film-athon.
I am on the whole positive about Mendes' involvement in the series, but his auteur control is visible in both his productions and it's inarguable than an in-house director would never have been as reckless spending-wise as he was allowed to get in SP. With in-house talent I don't think you'd see as many folks going so far over the line like that or have instances where they refuse to move on a creative decision as you would with a more auteur-like Mendes.
On another subject, I whole-heartedly agree that EON choosing to focus primarily on British directors shuts them off to a lot of great global directing talent. There must be some worry on their part that without a Brit director at the helm, the films will lose a sense of Britishness about them, which I don't agree with. While it is important to make Bond feel British, as its national values are what he fights for, I think it's just as valuable to make him feel like a man of the world.
In fact, choosing a director foreign of Britain-French, Italian, Australian, Irish, American, etc.-then allowing that director to stage a considerable part of their Bond film in their native home would allow them to provide their own genuine cultural voice to the franchise, and really display for audiences the cultural mosaic of that particular part of the globe. Location shooting would be a priority once again, and the lack of culture we see on the screen these days would return through these directors, because they would be shooting their film in an area that shaped them and that they know like the back of their hand.
With Mendes as director we got two proudly British Bond films from a man with a culturally British voice. In the future, EON should expand that opportunity to other directing talents and allow them to showcase their own native homes. Get Alfonso Cuarón to do a Bond film with Mexico as a crucial part of the plot, or Denis Villeneuve with Canada, Steven Soderbergh with sections of America (Bond returns to Vegas?), Peter Jackson with New Zealand, and more. The list is endless.