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I don't think they've ever really caved to rumors, speculation, and false reports, lest they surely would've responded by now. They'll make an announcement when it's time.
Spot on. People take it as a personal attack, but it's very far from that. They are, when all is said and done, a family business. They aren't Marvel. They aren't Disney. When they know what's happening they'll let us know. They don't want to be caught with their pants down - something Marvel and Disney can deflect by shifting focus to one of a plethora of other films under their stewardship. EON don't have that luxury, hence their reluctance to pipe up with a few soundbites to please a minority.
I wouldn't go Banco on that.
The Internet really is one big breeding place for mass hysteria. It'll happen when it happens and they'll talk when they talk.
I fail to see why so many here are making so much fuss over simple speculations and pseudo-scientific deductions about what the producers of one of the biggest film series will do next.
Somehow, Barbara Broccoli is taking a lot of heat too. If I understand some posts well, she can't wait to destroy the franchise by feminizing the whole thing up like a mad suffragette. She's become the black sheep in our "interbondum" discussions. And when the new movie hits well and hard, many members just "know" that Michael Wilson probably had had to sedate her to achieve this or that magnificent result. Yes, Cubby's daughter, producer of some of the most critically acclaimed and financially successful Bond films, has somehow turned into this forum's private toilet. You got issues with something? Blame it on "Babs" because she's a girl and what does she know, right? I mean, I keep reading tons of stuff about how she constantly sabotages the series, while most of the problems the series has ever faced were the fault of Harry and that a-hole Kevin McClory and many problems are still leftovers from Harry's clumsy conduct in '74.
But then the Internet is the place to be for people who "know" everything, who read the same bogus in ten different articles, not checking the sources, not realizing that one article with lies can easily spread around and spawn nine more citing the original article as a "reliable source" but no official source whatsoever. Internet lies spread like a virus; Internet hysteria and shared obsessions even faster. For some mysterious reason, many here have become obsessed with "Babs" as the ultimate antagonistic force behind the Bond productions, something I haven't found even an ounce of proof of yet. Like Vatican cardinals, more obsessed with sex than people who actually practice it, many here pretend they know more about Babs and her intentions with the series than folks who have actually walked in her office or had meetings with her and MGW.
I have learned my lesson by now. I'll start discussing things when we hear from EON. Meanwhile, whatever issues I may or may not have with the recent Bond films -- and I only have a few, if any -- are not directly aimed at Barbara Broccoli. I have faith in the producers. And whatever they deliver, I'll see it and review it. But as long as the cook hasn't ringed, I'll stay out of the kitchen and feed off some salty snacks. Plenty of those in my movie collection. The next Bond film will come but when and how and with whom and so forth remains to be seen and isn't something we have any saying in.
http://movieweb.com/aladdin-remake-disney-live-action-lead-actor-problems/
Daniel doesn't look that old. I'm sure he can look like an Arab teenager given the right make-up and some blurry cinematography. :P
Also, is preproduction when the script is being drafted, locations scouted etc.?
The lack of any news about Purity is a bit strange. Perhaps it's never going to happen.
No, Bond 25 is in development. Not pre-production.
And perhaps I should stress - that doesn't mean these developments will come to fruition. My understanding is it's being developed for Craig, but I just want to make that clear before @Mendes4lyfe graces with another pro-Turner diatribe.
Thanks for clarifying.
Right now they need someone who can deliver intensity and danger, and also ham it up when called for, something Craig lacked doing. It'll be something of an ultimate amalgam of the previous actors, perhaps the most ambitious yet, while on the surface perhaps appearing rather conventional. Again, I'm reminded of that 89 - 95 gap, and the film it produced. That was the dawn of the amalgam Bond, playing on the constituent elements from both Connery and Moore. With Bond 25 they will need an actor that can bring back that escapist Brosnan vibe from the 90's, but maintain that sense of realism that has been introduced in the intervening years. In a way, it's a return to the early 60's films which found that balance the best, and that we have been waiting for ever since.
The gunbarrel should be the least of Eon's and our concerns.
Bond not havig his ''wide look yet'', till that moment the search light is left where be, QOS.
Closing the movie with search light, if that be possible.
Stil i think there is option it wil be back at the start with search light as symbol that this wil be the ''wide look movie''. But of course Eon should show there cards in his final movie. Or that can be Bond 26 we wil see.
Cracking stuff GL.
002) remove Craig from creative decisions
003) establish an ongoing bond script house with a revolving team of talented writers
004) spend time on perfecting a ripping spy caper
005) commit to a production schedule of one film every two years
006) hire a proficient journeyman in the vein of Hunt, Glen or Campbell to direct
007) allow Craig to continue but only if he adheres to the above schedule
Naturally, the above is merely a flight of fancy. I appreciate the cool heads who say "it'll happen when it happens", but that doesn't change the apparent transformation of EON into a matey clique with a heavy focus on vanity projects.
Which is, of course, entirely their prerogative. Just as it is the fans' prerogative to lament the lack of momentum in this space when so many other franchises are cashing in.
The more I've seen of Turner the more I think he just couldn't carry the Bond series.
Brosnan wasn't particularly a Bond actor I wanted or a representation of Bond I wished to see but he did have some good moments and as far as an amalgam Bond I don't think he can be bettered.
I sense Craig isn't done yet but even if he is, the next Bond needs to take us in another new direction again. It seemed that half of the press criticism about SPECTRE was as much about the redundancy of the franchise as it was about the film itself. Reliving a past era wont wash again. We just need a forward thinking and contemporary action-thriller peppered with those all essential Fleming elements that make it recognisibly Bond rather than a regurgitated Bond.
I don't think he's AAA Bond material to be honest.
I just think he'd be an immensely exciting, dynamic, unpredictable Bond. Bit on the short side, but we've trending downward with DC anyways :)
Also, I don't think Hardy would embrace the emotional themes that DC seems to have been encumbered with.
Agreed....Hardy would be a great Bond.
Here's a nice article from Bill Koenig's Spy Command:
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/eon-non-007-portfolio-bond-25/
In all honest opinion? I think EON Productions are starting to trash the Bond fan community these days. I can understand that without a distribution deal, no Bond film can be made. But really? EON invests all their money in two....TWO non-Bond film projects? With such a lacklustre attitude from a pre=produuction perspective on Bond,we might as well face the longest hiatus since the 6-year hiatus between LTK and GE. With a difference: This time there's a completely indifferent, lacklustre, creative void at EON House in Piccadilly.
It's time we Bond fans let our voices hear. And not just that, but to strongly oppose EON Productions towards the Bond franchise. In part EON is to blame, and if Daniel Craig stays Bond, then he might well look like this for his 25th film: