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Those of us who were a bit more optimistic felt that 2018 was plausible, but I've felt for a while now that 2019 is more likely. We're a year plus from the release of SP, and this distribution deal still doesn't seem any closer to being finalized, so I'm sure late 2019 is the soonest we'll be getting this next installment.
Totally agree
"People were already in pre-production on the film”, he recalled, “and they wanted to see things all the time. And sometimes they couldn’t decide what they wanted until they’d seen it written. So you write scene upon scene upon scene. You write so much. But how it finally got shaped was probably down to [Sam Mendes,] the director”.
The Craig era has lasted 11 years going on twelve.
I'd love to see a stripped down budget and a much tighter production schedule. Every two years like clockwork.
Choose an edgy actor in his early 30s who can do his own stunts.
Write the first film with FRWL as the template. Keep the locations in Europe, for example, and bring back some old fashioned spying and espionage.
Make it standalone, forget about navel-gazing, ponderous movies about bond's various existential crises.
Make Martin Campbell resident bond director a la John Glen.
That's what I'd do anyway.
I'm in!
Something has to give at some point.
Perfect.
=))
Agree totally with this, in fact I posted something very similar about Live Schreiber in the actors part a few weeks ago. I think in that he is every bit the Connery type - albeit American and moving forward 50 years. If we could find British / commonwealth version of him I think we would have a winner!
Mayor Sadiq Khan met directors Stephen Frears, Gurinder Chadha, Amma Asante, Sarah Gavron and Bond producer Barbara Broccoli along with other leading industry figures to discuss how to make the capital more attractive for film-makers and to improve skills training. - Evening Standard
January 2017
->It is reported that Lionsgate Entertainment is eyeing MGM as a possible distribution partner for future projects, which may well include James Bond
->Sony Pictures confirm that it will not be selling its movie business despite the stepping down of CEO Michael Lynton, though later reports indicate otherwise
->Naomie Harris meets with Bond producers, who reiterate that all gears are shifted towards non-Bond productions
->Bond scribes Neil Purvis and Robert Wade weigh in on Bond's place in the current political climate, and avoid ruling out the possibility of penning another Bond screenplay
->Sony pictures write-down a $962 million impairment charge for its film division (and are presumably tightening budgets) which will undoubtedly affect the 007 series going forward should they choose re-secure distribution rights
Surprised Peter Capaldi isn't the new favouorite to replace DC ... though it's only been a day.
I stand corrected: he also shares false assumptions, too! At that point in time, I know it's trivial, but it always bugs me that Bond doesn't try to correct her. I suppose "Well, I DID throw him off a roof, but I definitely didn't shoot him" would've been irrelevant and not helped his case with M whatsoever.
Believe me, that bugs me so much but you're right it wouldn't have made a difference to Bond's situation.
This could work just fine, but I fear Babs is waiting on both Craig and probably Mendes too, to put out a direct Spectre follow-up.
But as @doubleoego suggested in a very pointed lengthy post, a page or so back, and I paraphrase, Eon can't let an actor-director combo hi-jack the franchise like this again.
Once Shatterhand :) is finally released, I think the template that @getcarter suggested is the way to go.
The Craig-era has become tedious.
As if "OK we have to barf out this one last Craig era film, and ideally with Mendes, and it doesn't matter how long it takes, we just have to do it.
Only after that's done, can we get down to working out an actual sustainable direction for the franchise."
Post QoS, the Craig-era it seems, has been lurching from film to film.
I think maybe that bothered me the first time I saw it, but now I take the scene for what it is. Bond definitely registers what M tells him and purposefully keeps silent on the matter. M already distrusts him to the extreme and has made that clear, and I think Bond fully understands that saying anything contrary to what she thinks won't help his case with her one bit. He's processing things in the moment—figuring out where he stands in all this and what he can do to continue on with his mission. Perhaps he's already working on his escape plan from the four pups M brought along to escort him. That's much better I think than Bond whining, "No I didn't."
Well, firstly, Craig in his early Bond days looked suitably Bondian in a strange, Connery-esque way.
I think his Bond look peaked with SF and some parts of SP.
But most of the film he seemed to look like...
I think he no longer has that same "look" he did before which could prove problematic.