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Who is this guy?
It's not a bad idea - you could do a Snowden-esque film featuring Q as a central character. It also makes sense to perhaps give Moneypenny her own action starrer (after all Naomie Harris is a great actress and deserving after her work in Moonlight).
BUT...it's not happening. Why? Jeff Snedier is a hack. He's a idiot chancer, who made his name being a nomark on Youtube talking abou other people's scoop. He's stuck his neck on the line numerous times and been wrong. he said that Marvel wanted a non-white Peter Parker and said Dev Patel was going to get the role. He was wrong. Don't trust this dude.
EON have always said that Bond is the brand. You can't have other characters take precedence. Making one decent Bond film is difficult for them, let alone a whole stable of them. Look at Lucasfilm and DC crashing and burning for moving to fast with building a "universe".
Don't do it EON. A new Bond film is a national event in the UK. Don't dilute it's power.
He's got his own Hollywood trade outlet The Tracking Board, and previously worked at Variety, The Wrap and Mashable. He's def one of the legit Hollywood reporters in the game.
Now, the question is, how good are your usual trade reporters when it comes to Bond....and again, could be just conversations.
And @Pierce2Daniel - may be a 'national event in the UK' but what about in the U.S. and in other countries?
NO THANKS!
I mean, SP did feature an entirely unnecessary scene featuring Moneypenny, the contents of her fridge, and a man in her bed. Surely, it wasn't just die hard fans who were left scratching their heads over that. Two multi-million dollar custom cars zooming around Rome in the middle of the night, and they wasted time in her flat, when she could have just been present as a voice. I hope that was not them flirting with the idea.
As much as I want Bond 25 to come out, I can fill the void with things other than Bond spin-offs. And honestly, I've never sensed a demand or interest from fans wanting a cinematic Bond universe.
If they couldn't handle the issues on SP, why are they looking to give themselves even more work and worry?
Unless, they finish the Craig era with Bond 25, and then reboot/recast/spinoff from Bond 26.
It would be a big gamble to take, recasting Q/MP and then giving them their own films.
I still hope this Sneider is full of it.
If I see anyone pushing for this, it could be MGM, who rely heavily on Bond for revenue and profits.
Felix is the one who could have a legitimate spin off I suppose.
With a mix of old and new.
Still, if you consider how willing and almost eager EON were sacrificing everything Bondian in the franchise, I wouldn't deem it beneath them.
The reason is Marvel started out small and are willing to take a few hits along the way a certain property doesn't do well ok then it's sequel is scrapped and we will focus on other characters one character is super popular cool let's try and get that actor to cameo in other films in this franchise the issue is other production companies believe the lies that Marvel tells and tries to plan out a whole universe instead of starting small and moving bigger
Case in point Wonder Woman is clearly more popular then Batman or superman at this point so really the universe should be focusing in on her rather then anyone else as she is the D.C.'s Iron Man
(Though honestly I think a scene in Matt Reeves The Batman with Diana in Bruce's bed would be extremely welcomed as I always liked Batman and Wonder Woman as couple far more then superman and Wonder Woman)
Again adapt and change and then lie saying it was the plan all along rather then try and have a plan all along.
As @RC7 said: there's no market. Who wants to see a movie about M? MP? Even Leiter-- to make a movie, a character has to have a hook, and none of these characters have a particular hook.
Ridiculous...
To take on a universe, I'm not seeing that kind of broad activity coming from Eon. I know they do non-Bond projects at times, but still.
On the other hand, it could serve as journeyman activity for the younger Wilsons or others in the filmmaking team, a proving ground for who succeeds Broccoli and Wilson.
They could start small. A cooking show for Msssr. Mendel. On vacation with Tanner. Hunting game birds with Kincade and his two British labs.
Yup, that's all that is to be said about. Still there are many crazy and downright embarrassing ideas ( look at Ben Hur. That idea alone was completely ridiculous!The guys who commissioned it should be tied in front of a cannon) floating around in Hollywood, so ...
And not to forgive Ben Hur, but at least it was based on a classic property-- the characters of Bond aren't hooks, they're there to serve the narrative and to get Bond going...
Imagine spending at least a hundred minutes with Tanner, with a cameo from Bond... now THAT's entertainment!
An idiot.
You are of course absolutely right about the classic property aspect, but really can you get any larger than life than 3 1/2 hours of Charlton "Moses" Heston in what probably is the most dramatic race in the history of filmmaking (and that at a time when they had barely had heard of computers, let alone using them for filmmaking process )?
That said, I'd be down for a Naomie Harris-led actioner. I actually like Harris and her version of Moneypenny could lend itself to such and sustain its own film, probably.
And that said, I never want to see Bond spinoffs.
On the plus side, maybe spinoffs would let them "get it out of their system" so Bond can be Bond and the Scooby gang can have their own movies.
I'm there. "Then we add to the soufflé any herbs or spices you nominate."
Drying Out Paint with Tanner...not so much.
Leiter comes with a hook.