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Same "rumor" that was posted yesterday - they guessed on a 2018 date to add credibility to the rumor.
This is a good post. Berenice does elevate the film considerably. Her introduction at the skyscraper window is quite impressive, and since the film really loses momentum as soon as Silva is captured, perhaps she could have factored more into the second half.
Why does Mendes cast the secondary Bond women so much better than the leads?
It shows us what a cold-hearted bastard Bond has become post Vesper, and I love it.
Marlohe is a fantastic actress and Mendes made great use of her in the few scenes that she had.
Having said that, this isn't the right thread to talk about SF's use of Sévérine. People here should either talk about B25 or don't post at all. It's that simple.
See, since November 2015, we've had at least five graphic novels offering us a story of sort, without Bond having to develop a mistrust of his work colleagues. So, why are we constantly getting dragged into that territory since Casino Royale?
Christopher McQuarrie, albeit for a different purpose, said on the recent development of the upcoming Mission: Impossible film that he didn't want to repeat painting the image of the previous two films and strive for something different before it would get tiresome, whereas in the Craig era, we're dealing, in all the four films, with the subject of trust issues, insider antagonists, moles, personal angles, hence I have a very strong wish for Bond 25 to just drop all of these and move to a different category in the way.
Actually this probably wouldn't have been necessary. According to P&W SF deviated a lot from their original script from that point on that bond arrives in Tokyo. It stands to reason that they would have, for the sake of a classical bond movie have given her a much larger role. I dare to say "much" because look at her! Is she a smoking hot stunner or what?
Bingo!
Still it doesn't have anything to do with Mr. Fleming's creation. This is one of the very few moments in the franchise where it doesn't matter if you are talking about the bond of the novels or the movies. Both would have been deeply disgusted and would have had no calms of expressing it.
100% agree.
I assume that we're supposed to believe Bond is actually totally disgusted but just hides that because he's got a 'bigger plan'. But it's not really clear how we're supposed to take it.
I seem to remember that Bond looks slightly disapproving
They can have all the racial diversity they want with other characters to make a point, although I'd appreciate an MP recast pronto (not because I have anything against Harris on a colour basis mind you - I just think she's wrong for the role). Get Gugu Mbatha-Raw for the role, or even as a Bond girl next time out.
SP got MP and Q largely right I'd say, while clearly fluffing Brofeld quite badly.
Are you seriously going to nitpick at me with all the non-B25 chaos raining down on this thread right now?
It was a peripheral comment responding to someone's thoughts on my previous comment that was directly related to the larger conversation. Much the same as YOURS was just now. Think I'll put on my Taffin shades and give a big, "Then maybe neither of us should be posting HERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRE!!!"
Now that Felix and MP have been played by a black actor and actress respectively, if the roles are recast for B25, should they remain so?
Or can an actor of Middle Eastern, Indian or Chinese descent (or even a white actress again for that matter) play MP in the future for instance? I would hope so, but one wonders if this will create a media controversy.
And no, I don't think it should remain so. Like the case was with Harvey Dent in the Batman films, a change of "race" shouldn't be a problem. All I'll say, though, is that I'd rather the characters remain true to their heritage and outlines. No "conversion" needed unless we're talking about their personalities and attitudes.
This is not a franchise of superheroes. There's no one character other thand Bond I'd want to see. Felix, Moneypenny, Q, M or even Tanner. That would not honestly work.
Back in the day they would contemplate on working a stand alone film with Michelle Yeoh, that might have worked. But who is interesting enough to warrant his/her own stand alone movie today?. None I think.
So I hope it's just a rumor and will NEVER happen.
Don't try to ape MCU, like every studio these days.
I am also reasonably happy with her if she could:
a) stay behind her desk
b) say her lines a bit more naturally instead of forcing everything a bit.
And stop that wanky 'cheeky/flirty' music that accompanies her scenes with Bond. I'm hoping, given that we've surely seen the last of Newman, that this is something I don't need to worry about any more.
Don't forget Tanner!! They absolutely nailed him. Well they would have if Fleming had written, 'Bill Tanner was one of those men that people didn't notice. When he walked into a room no one ever looked up. Bond tolerated his feeble, weak as American beer banter but he certainly never took up Tanner's invitations to play golf and he most definitely did not regard himself as Tanner's best friend in the service. Bond felt pity for the man as he watched him riding home on his foldable bicycle every night from the comfortable luxury of the Aston.'
Iron Man, Captain America and whoever getting standalone movies are created to be protagonists whereas the former collective above aren't.
Imagine if they made a movie about Iron Man's artificial intelligence butler, J.A.R.V.I.S. or Batman's butler, Alfred Pennyworth. These characters are written to move a story forward, support and serve. Not be in the center of it.
Seriously, what on Earth are they going to write a movie about involving Q? Memoirs of a secret service technician?
The only way they can expand the Bond universe is to come up with a protagonist that has a strong character to stand on its own. Not use existing supporting characters because none of them has any presence whatsoever the way Bond does. He is the protagonist of his universe and that's the way it is.
Oh, and by the way, an expanded Bond universe in films won't happen. In prose or graphic novels, they might and have had. But, not on film. Ever.
Same goes for Han Solo.
For Bond 25, if Blofeld comes back, I hope they kill him off. They can always bring on a descendant in a future film a la For Special Services.
Agreed. Going back to the African Warlord for a second; ditch the whole he's Blofeld rubbish and that would have been a great angle. Has anyone else seen Beasts of no nation? What a phenomenal film. Elba killed in that and if EoN did decide to tell a Bond film with an African Warlord as the main villain, casting Elba will only punctuate a casting coup.