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Organisations get creatively tired all the time, they dont take a year off and watch the competition move forward. They hire new blood.
What I really want, beyond timetables, is someone in the inner circle to be looking critically at SP (and SF/QoS), and insisting "oh no, we can do better," and is anxious to prove it. I would love someone to ask Barbara and Michael and now Gregg, what their favorite Bond Craig movie is and why? ask Craig too...
If they choose to shake it up and come back with an entirely new team (one that embraces Bond formula and knows how to deliver a Bond formula film), then I can assure you that they will forget about being tired rather quickly.
SP was poorly executed even though it tried to be formula. It felt derivative rather than fresh on account of this, just like TND did. Moreover, Craig may not be the man to deliver on that, given he is the reboot Bond (the deep one who makes deep films).
A properly delivered 'light' Bond formula film on the other hand (with superior dialogue, action sequences, & tight plot) would be re-energizing. I personally have not seen a properly executed 'fresh' Bond formula film since GE, which coincidentally was the last one made during Cubby's lifetime.
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Hit the nail on the head, once again. EON clearly have no idea how to escape the mess they've made for themselves. The only proper solution is to soft reboot with a new actor, but I fear that Craig's popularity will tempt EON to stick the current course. Once the next film is a disappointment due to creatively being tied up in knots from the start, fans will blame EON for giving them what they wanted. Then the cycle will start again, with fans saying that Daniel "needs a proper send off".
Crikey, not only have you predicted the return of Craig, you have told us that the next film will fail and also why; the reaction of the 'fans' and then what the future holds after that.
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It's a bit like Iambic pentameter. Structurally it's always the same, but with skill can be utilized with devastating variation.
If they are pursuing other projects not sure how we are saying they are taking a rest.
Also from Craig's comments I get the idea that EoN is indeed aware that SP did not quite achieve what they wanted ...and I don't mean just financially but critically as well.
And I know some here enjoyed or ranked SP higher and I know most don't take much stock in review sites. However the big three most often cited are very close in ranking ..around 60%.
I truly believe that more is indeed happening than we know.
The amount of times I've said this, yet it always falls on deaf ears. People seem to create their own narrative that, through constant repetition, becomes a 'reality'. 'How dare EON not meet my demands, right now!'
But EON are sneaky though, right? Quite a switch in thought for you Mendes, because, when only a couple of months ago Turner's casting as Bond somehow seemed plausible to you (still don't get this), you were in EON's corner big time, saying gears were clearly moving behind the scenes and great things wold be happening in the near weeks (this was before June, mind you).
Keep in mind that they just finished a film whose entire plot was leaked to the press months in advance.
So I think it's clear that they will do whatever it takes to prevent such a shambles from occurring again, for fear of giving away ideas to competitors.
That really is some crystal ball you've got yourself there @Mendes4Lyfe.
Our old pal bjmdds used to have such powers. I wonder...
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And gears quite clearly were moving. Either that or the "electric enthusiasm" with which Craig refused to give us an answer either way comes down to wishful thinking, wouldn't you say? :)
And FYI, EON are most definitely sneaky. More than any company I have come across.
What happened to him?
Nowadays, or what seems recently, they aren't giving the public that expectation for a new movie. And when they do it's so far fetched and distant the public loses their interest.
you cant start using little things like that to explain production delays?
No matter how advanced they are in the planning stages, nothing can happen without a distributor.
The current state of play is clear to those who aren't blinded by their own fantasies, yes, but still people carry stars in their eyes. Dan's comments only serve to underscore how mindless and trivial an exercise it has been to listen to bookies and their "choices" for the next Bond for all these months, dear Turner included, a charge you were proud to be the face of, for whatever reason.
Now, months removed from those days of your baseless confirmation of Turner's casting, all we've got is a random photo of the actor taken at a party or red carpet where he's failing to properly fix his cuffs, and you being the butt and punchline of an endless stream of jokes.
One thing that hasn't, and won't change, though? Dan is James Bond and will be for at least one more go-around.
I know many here who seem to expect another Bond film be financed, shot, edited and released by the time they get out of the showing of the new one.
What becomes more clear is that so many fail to grasp how the movie industry with all its moving parts actually works, such that they let their Bond fever and spoiled demeanor drive off their sense and critical thinking for a long holiday.
Coming on a little strong today, I must say.
As you wouldn't understand, after a while the non-sensical comments of others continue such that a breaking point must be reached.
It's like being strapped to a table in a maternity ward full of a thousand whining toddlers while being stabbed by a hundred tiny pins for five months straight.
That would have been a great torture scene in SP