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I think 2'746 sounds about right.
I'm almost feeling by the time we get to that many pages- the headline will STILL say "No Decision Made Yet".
Look at all these comments and you can see why. We're posting rumors and reiterating the same hopes and wishes once a week.
I recall how some seemed furious at the thought of closing this one up for a bit before the real news began.
Netherlands as a location?
I see a lot of potential in this, but I think the screenwriters will add a twist in which Blofeld is safe in the Bahamas. Is one of his clones being judged at the court. :D
Sam Mendes, if given a chance, would turn this into a Godfather Pt. III homage. :P
Also have this playing on repeat:
True SP was successful... and to be honest even in NA. I just think the audience is ready for a new take.
And you and I both like one of Mendes's Bonds just not the same one lol. Agree or not I think Mendes is tapped out on Bond. I could be wrong.
Bring someone who knows how to make a great James Bond film with load of espionage inside. Not make homages to this film, that film, some in-jokes, some other pop culture references from the past. Just don't. Build up on the story, not the characters and Easter Eggs.
...he sorta looks like Dr.No.. maybe he was the inspiration for Dr.No?
I've always been a fan of Herzog's films, both his documentaries and his fiction. I find the man an immensely interesting character. I would be happy to have him onboard the franchise as either a villain or as director.
Whenever the series has hired a director known for their art films/drama, I've enjoyed the results (see Michael Apted with TWINE or Marc Forster with QoS). Even with Sam Mendes—Spectre aside, of course—I've been warming to Skyfall, appreciating more and more what it did do right, and that seems to be the kind of Bond story he really wanted to tell. I see nothing in Herzog's filmography to suggest he would be a worse candidate than Apted, Forster, or Mendes. To the contrary, he has proven time and time again that he is capable of working within vastly different genres to produce endlessly fascinating stories.
Just so long as the gunbarrel doesn't open on Bond nursing a double bourbon at the airport bar with Herzog narrating, "What is this man thinking? Who is he and where has he just come from on this mechanical bird that transports people through the sky? Is he even really a man or is he just a shadow that will dissipate as slowly and as invisibly as the ice in the glass from which he drinks?"
Then again...hmmm.
Somebody call Babs and Mike. I think I may have Bond 25 locked and loaded and ready to go for them.
Dumb or not dumb, I prefer the new 'status quo' as mentioned in those headlines :-).
Well said. Unfortunately for us....those who know how to make a great James Bond film......Terence Young, Peter Hunt, Guy Hamilton, are all gone now. Seems the trend in this current batch of Bond films is to get a prestigious director a'la Mendes and let him do whatever he wants with it while trying to make the film seem Bondian. The result ends in needless homages to previous films, misplaced gunbarrels, amazingly dense in-jokes and references to the past.
I imagine if someone like Peter Hunt or Terence Young were with us today, he could take a rubbish script (DAD) or even an unfinished script (QoS), and possibly make a great James Bond film out of them without all the homages, past references etc. They knew Bond well and what the films needed.
Perhaps instead of the Mendes approach, Barbara and Michael could do what Cubby did and promote from within. Cubby was very very loyal to his crew and rewarded excellent team members like Hunt and Glen with promotions. He would also bring back the right directors to match the tone of the next film-hence getting Gilbert back for the very YOLT styled TSWLM.
Of course the newer films have changed editors so often, I can't think of one off hand who might helm a future Bond epic- not Matt Chesse.
Hunt knew Bond inside and out by the time OHMSS was filmed- and was not only attempting his first gig in the directors chair, his film was to break the current mold by NOT having so many gimmicks and gadgets. He had his work cut out for him and turned in what many including myself feel was one of the very best entries in the series.
I could go on with praise for Glen as well having directed the bobsled sequence/Mt Asgard jump, etc before landing FYEO.
I somehow think Barbara and Michael will continue with directors along the lines of Lee Tamahori, Mendes, Apted, and Spottiswood based on their previous work as opposed to someone who was already part of the family/team.
Someone working on the next film will see this, not realize it's a joke, and decide to give fans what they want with that title.
Mendes can't be trusted, it's as simple as that. It will only be a matter of money and if he needs another ego-wank.
After the two most successful Bond films ever, it wouldn't surprise me if they did a third round with him, P+W, Craig, Newman.
We can only pray it will not be another Skyfall. That only worked because of the 50th Anniversary.
After he successfully re-made TWINE (Skyfall) and TSWLM/YOLT/GE in one with Spectre he probably will do DAF/MR/DAD with his third one, of course combined with a clever plot involving M being endangered by an ex-something that wants revenge.
Oh, Tanner will be the traitor with a grudge in the next Bond, that's a given if P+W return.
Logan's idea, not theirs. They actually came in and stopped that from happening.