No Time To Die: Production Diary

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  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    You do know the more people promote Aidan Turner as Bond the less likely he will become Bond?
    I don't recall any Aidan promoting in that post?
  • QuantumOrganizationQuantumOrganization We have people everywhere
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    jake24 wrote: »
    You do know the more people promote Aidan Turner as Bond the less likely he will become Bond?
    I don't recall any Aidan promoting in that post?
    I know. I'm talking about his posts where he does.

  • I think making Gregory Beam into the the main villain as a newly elected senator or something while working for SPECTRE would be cool.

    Given Harbour's stunning turn on Stranger Things, I'd be all for this. Bring back Wright, Forster, Arnold, Kurylenko, and a badly disfigured, roided-out Elvis covered in burn scars ("Long live the king?"; "Hair today, gone tomorrow?"; "I think I get the pelvic thrust of it...") and you've got yourself a proper reunion.
  • 007Blofeld007Blofeld In the freedom of the West.
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    Barbara's play the kids stay in the picture ended April 8th its April 10th I wonder what she is doing next hopefully its now working on bond 25
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
    edited April 2017 Posts: 1,755
    007Blofeld wrote: »
    Barbara's play the kids stay in the picture ended April 8th its April 10th I wonder what she is doing next hopefully its now working on bond 25

    I think she's working on that historical war movie or whatever it is. Could be totally wrong though...
  • dominicgreenedominicgreene The Eternal QOS Defender
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    I think making Gregory Beam into the the main villain as a newly elected senator or something while working for SPECTRE would be cool.

    Given Harbour's stunning turn on Stranger Things, I'd be all for this. Bring back Wright, Forster, Arnold, Kurylenko, and a badly disfigured, roided-out Elvis covered in burn scars ("Long live the king?"; "Hair today, gone tomorrow?"; "I think I get the pelvic thrust of it...") and you've got yourself a proper reunion.

    I haven't watched Stranger Things but wow he looks completely different normal than as Beam.
  • I think making Gregory Beam into the the main villain as a newly elected senator or something while working for SPECTRE would be cool.

    Given Harbour's stunning turn on Stranger Things, I'd be all for this. Bring back Wright, Forster, Arnold, Kurylenko, and a badly disfigured, roided-out Elvis covered in burn scars ("Long live the king?"; "Hair today, gone tomorrow?"; "I think I get the pelvic thrust of it...") and you've got yourself a proper reunion.

    I haven't watched Stranger Things but wow he looks completely different normal than as Beam.

    Yes, and his performance is completely different as well. He's humorous in a deadpan sort of way, sympathetic, and even a bit heroic in the Indiana Jones mold. He's definitely the surprise highlight of the cast. You should check it out. (Off-topic disclaimer, but what the hell in this thread isn't?)
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Wright on!

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    I'd love to see Harbour back as Beam in a little scene where he returns from the past. It would make sense that after the failure of the Tierra Project SPECTRE would give him a job to avoid him spilling his beans to authorities, in payment for trying to at least axe Bond with Greene's help.
  • QuantumOrganizationQuantumOrganization We have people everywhere
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    I think making Gregory Beam into the the main villain as a newly elected senator or something while working for SPECTRE would be cool.

    Given Harbour's stunning turn on Stranger Things, I'd be all for this. Bring back Wright, Forster, Arnold, Kurylenko, and a badly disfigured, roided-out Elvis covered in burn scars ("Long live the king?"; "Hair today, gone tomorrow?"; "I think I get the pelvic thrust of it...") and you've got yourself a proper reunion.
    I like it all except Camille and Elvis.

  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Harbour is a great actor. Chameleon like. He's one of those you see in a film & he seems familiar but you can't place him. Then it hits you.

    I'd be all for his return, along with Wright.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
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    Every report on the internet is echoing that Babs has persuaded Craig to do one more, yet Baz is saying he's "still undecided."

    What's the verdict? So, so sick of the suspense.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    I still think Craig, and the powers that be, know exactly what he's going to do.

    In the big picture serious Bond fans are a small group. these movies are made for a mass audience and the truth is that audience, in large part does not give the status of Bond 25 a thought .

    We, the hardcore fans are impatient, and that does not matter a bit to Craig, Babs or anyone else involved.

    Again. they know what's going on.
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    Is the general audience tired of world domination plots and generally unrealistic ones? Do they want a Bond film that's very realistic? They were unrealistic in the sixties too. The Bond films and books have always been somewhat of a fairytale but what revolved around the outrageous villainous plot was generally quite realistic or at least in the books and earlier films. Casino Royale was popular with general audiences as was Skyfall. If the audience is ready to suspend their disbelief with ridiculous scenes like Bond ripping the back off a train where the conductor doesnt even bother stopping it afterwards or a plot where Bond has to stop Le Chiffre from winning back the money in a game of poker, then I would think that they wouldn't mind an outrageous villainous plot as long as the general story in the movie is a good one. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that Purvis and Wade are thinking too much or possibly just making up excuses from not having any decent ideas. Maybe their line of thinking is just wrong.
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    Unless they think of something really original and worthwhile, I'd rather see a standalone film for Craig rather than continuing the arc. I do enjoy SP plenty, but I'm definitely ready for a standalone experience again.
  • SeanCraigSeanCraig Germany
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    Call me nuts but bringing back Beam, Felix, Camille, Lucia plus the MI6 team would tie Craig's Bond movies together WAY better than SP attemted to.

    I love your ideas about Beam coming back and pulling strings in the background for SPECTRE! It could be really cool. And Bond and Leiter teaming up like in Thunderball for example ... why not?! A plot playing in Miami, Jamaica and Aspen ? Why not!

    Put Blofeld back in the shadows and just have him appear in TB-like meetings and pull strings. I like these ideas very much - could become a great espionage thriller plus the kind of sendoff for Craig working better than what we got with SP. Add Goodnight as a local contact on Jamaica for example and inject plot parts from the LALD novel ... Sounds all exciting to me.
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    SeanCraig wrote: »
    Call me nuts but bringing back Beam, Felix, Camille, Lucia plus the MI6 team would tie Craig's Bond movies together WAY better than SP attemted to.

    I love your ideas about Beam coming back and pulling strings in the background for SPECTRE! It could be really cool. And Bond and Leiter teaming up like in Thunderball for example ... why not?! A plot playing in Miami, Jamaica and Aspen ? Why not!

    Put Blofeld back in the shadows and just have him appear in TB-like meetings and pull strings. I like these ideas very much - could become a great espionage thriller plus the kind of sendoff for Craig working better than what we got with SP. Add Goodnight as a local contact on Jamaica for example and inject plot parts from the LALD novel ... Sounds all exciting to me.

    I love all of this, but do you think Waltz would come back, just to sit around and be a sideploy to the plot?
  • walter1985walter1985 Rotterdam
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    perhaps Wright is just saying 'hey, don't forget me this time'.
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    Maybe Wright was just bored, on Twitter, and thought that's a cool photo.
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    tanaka123 wrote: »
    Maybe Wright was just bored, on Twitter, and thought that's a cool photo.


    Yes, I suspect this is the right interpretation. But it's a sad indication of where things stand at the moment that Wright's old photo is about all that Bond fans have to grasp at.

    C'mon, EON. Get on it.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    More like C'mon MGM get on it.
  • SirHilaryBraySirHilaryBray Scotland
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    SeanCraig wrote: »
    Call me nuts but bringing back Beam, Felix, Camille, Lucia plus the MI6 team would tie Craig's Bond movies together WAY better than SP attemted to.

    I love your ideas about Beam coming back and pulling strings in the background for SPECTRE! It could be really cool. And Bond and Leiter teaming up like in Thunderball for example ... why not?! A plot playing in Miami, Jamaica and Aspen ? Why not!

    Put Blofeld back in the shadows and just have him appear in TB-like meetings and pull strings. I like these ideas very much - could become a great espionage thriller plus the kind of sendoff for Craig working better than what we got with SP. Add Goodnight as a local contact on Jamaica for example and inject plot parts from the LALD novel ... Sounds all exciting to me.

    I love all of this, but do you think Waltz would come back, just to sit around and be a sideploy to the plot?

    Waltz's talking after SPECTRE, it was clear he has unfinished business in the role. He did he say he would consider another but only if Dan was returning. But there is a problem, if you do the whole jail break thing you replicate something already done with Silva in Skyfall. And I agree you can't have Waltz play a bit part sat in a cell. So what do you do if you do bring him back.

    The prison he was held in was privatised by the UK Government, and the private Company who own it links straight back to quantum. And he walked straight out?

    Guy Haines uses his political influence to have him pardoned?

    The officers on the bridge who arrest him on the Bridge were actually Spectre decoys.

    Or scrap Act 3 as a dream sequence and PTS Bond 25, Bond wakes up still on the chair with the drill still his neck, he has no knowledge of who he is and he sent to kill M stealing the start of TMWTGG novel? - I would be totally opposed to this FYI.

    Or what about this one, the American's do a deal to take custody of Blofeld and you stage an elaborate mid air rescue. Completely stealing from the Dark Night Rises.

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    It also looks like Sean Harris' character may have some kind of jailbreak in M:I 6 too.
  • RC7RC7
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    A Blofeld jailbreak shouldn't happen imo. My preference is that (if it were to roll over) Blofeld has been out for some time, the details are covered as exposition, but the present day scenario is that he is off grid and has been for years.
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    RC7 wrote: »
    A Blofeld jailbreak shouldn't happen imo. My preference is that (if it were to roll over) Blofeld has been out for some time, the details are covered as exposition, but the present day scenario is that he is off grid and has been for years.

    That's the best way to do it. Otherwise we all know what will happen at the start of B25, but it will take up screen time to get through it - as long as Tanner doesn't do the exposition, which may take even longer.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    vzok wrote: »
    RC7 wrote: »
    A Blofeld jailbreak shouldn't happen imo. My preference is that (if it were to roll over) Blofeld has been out for some time, the details are covered as exposition, but the present day scenario is that he is off grid and has been for years.

    That's the best way to do it. Otherwise we all know what will happen at the start of B25, but it will take up screen time to get through it - as long as Tanner doesn't do the exposition, which may take even longer.

    Tanner: "So then all these-ah-men, with guns, came in and...and-uhhh-then there was--uh..."

    Bond: "An escape?"

    Tanner: "An escape, right. Yes. Thank you, 007."
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    A while back I proposed a scenario where we see Bond on a mission; he's gaining entry into a heavily fortified facility. At the end of the sequence he makes his way down a hall to a steel door he enters a code; the door opens and tersely says (in my best Craig voice) "Get up" a figure stirs in darkness. "Let's go, now"! A smiling figure steps forward, it's Blofeld.

    Now what is the motivation behind this? I haven't thought that out. But the grin on Bloefeld's face tells us that he has masterminded this and has for some reason manipulated Bond into being the device to gaining his freedom.
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    talos7 wrote: »
    A while back I proposed a scenario where we see Bond on a mission; he's gaining entry into a heavily fortified facility. At the end of the sequence he makes his way down a hall to a steel door he enters a code; the door opens and tersely says (in my best Craig voice) "Get up" a figure stirs in darkness. "Let's go, now"! A smiling figure steps forward, it's Blofeld.

    Now what is the motivation behind this? I haven't thought that out. But the grin on Bloefeld's face tells us that he has masterminded this and has for some reason manipulated Bond into being the device to gaining his freedom.

    24 Season 7, been there done that.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    talos7 wrote: »
    A while back I proposed a scenario where we see Bond on a mission; he's gaining entry into a heavily fortified facility. At the end of the sequence he makes his way down a hall to a steel door he enters a code; the door opens and tersely says (in my best Craig voice) "Get up" a figure stirs in darkness. "Let's go, now"! A smiling figure steps forward, it's Blofeld.

    Now what is the motivation behind this? I haven't thought that out. But the grin on Bloefeld's face tells us that he has masterminded this and has for some reason manipulated Bond into being the device to gaining his freedom.

    I've thought over a similar scenario where Bond-unmanipulated-frees Blofeld from capture in a stealthy PTS. SPECTRE had possibly been taken over by a massive battle for power between its top members and there is a sense of chaos, leading the organization to act out. Bond then needs Blofeld's help to track the main players and get rid of them.

    Not a great idea, but it's not something you'd see anywhere else.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    I've never seen a single episode of 24 so I guess was a pretty good idea. Thanks for confirming that :D
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