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At that point, Bond might as well be re-cast for each film.
This is true. What they have with the bond franchise is a vast, ready-made audience with a strong consumer appetite.
Every other year is not only attainable with the right business model, it is actually behind what Marvel and Disney are doing.
Every other year is right for Bond, one feels.
I have no doubt the producers are talented, intelligent people.
They've lost their way, plain and simple. 3-4 years will be death for Bond. Someone else will step into the breach and and try their hand. Bourne has already succeeded. MI has resuscitated itself. Tom Cruise is actually the Cubby of that franchise.
He'll, even XXX got greenlit for another run.
Sooner or later, a Bond imitator with 21st century sensibilities will hit a home run. Unless Bond claims a more regular market share.
Bond got way too big with Spectre. Worst of all, the dollars weren't really there on the screen.
Now we are lumped with an ageing actor with four films in twelve years. If he's not sure, then he shouldn't be doing it.
Creative personnel who dictate when they're available. Should be the other way round. Can you imagine Star Wars letting Adam Driver go do hamlet in a production year?
The producers have dropped the ball big time. Sometime after QoS wrapped.
Three changes in six years.
I think we should be more flexible with the actors used.
If Craig can't do Risico, get Fassbender or Hardy in for one, then bring Craig back if the others become unavailable.
Bond needs to become a production juggernaut again.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Just a fan positing an opinion, nothing more :)
I don't think we're quite there yet. They Just have to look past Craig and think about what actor could work for the next decade as Bond. EON still has a chance to save it, I think, like they have done before with TSWLM and GE and CR. They just need to do that again. But, I agree, if it doesn't work out this time the franchise is in trouble.
Anybody else read this in Rachel Dratch's voice and then picture her turning to camera with a big frown?
Maibaum's role is underappreciated. The man knew how to structure a Bond film. After TLD, it all went downhill in the writing department.
My apologies. It seems like the majority of Rolexes I've seen in passing have them these days.
We live in a society/culture where things move at a quicker pace than 30 years ago, people IMHO are generally less patient with a lower attention span. Plus we have other genres that seem to be able to crank out a product at a quicker pace.
IF I was a shareholder in Bond, I would be focussing in this issue.
We've certainly had some substandard films in the canon, but the franchise always bounces back, even after a protracted period of rubbish (mid 90's imho).
It's like the Bat. Bulletproof.
As I said a few pages back, they have a pretty good track record on the 4+ year mark, but the films delivered by the current regime after 3 and 2 year gaps have been subpar in my view.
So your saying trends are that the longer the wait on the bond film the better the quality it is
I also expect B25 to knock it out of the park, as long as they don't go back to the SP story well again. That would be a big mistake imho.
GE, CR & SF worked because they were new stories.
there is nothing to be gained from this valuation and everything to be lost.
Plus my observation mentioned "negative impact" so Im not saying Bond can be destructed as a brand but it can be harmed.
The public will forgive, because there is a history to draw from.
Bat will bounce back after BvS, as an example. Maybe not with the next film, and maybe only after Affleck is out, but it will bounce back, reborn.
EDIT: Prolonged periods of mediocrity can certainly harm a brand though: like what happened with Spiderman and Superman.
I think bond 25 can knock it out of the park with a new story but using the same characters as spectre like hinx and Blofeld Swann probably not but the rest of the characters spectre got us spectre now future films get to shows what they do with spectre
Here's one of multiple stories.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-brad-grey-paramount-exit-20170217-story.html
I see what you did there!
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