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I agree that DC should retire as Bond and get a new actor and Director.
Get Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE for Bond.
That was more than four months ago. Why would anyone assume they have a first draft done? I could see a treatment by now. But a complete first draft?
Logan's hiring for Bond 24 (and 25, though that came undone) was announced in November 2012 on one of the MGM investor calls. He didn't have a first draft until March 2014. Yes, he was juggling other projects but so do Purvis & Wade.
I can see where you're coming from as the hole they've dug with SP seems very difficult for them to extricate themselves from.
It's hard to see how they can get from where we are now to the set up for YOLT without it seeming like they are treading over very familiar ground (Bond in love and the girl being killed, a miracle escape from prison by the villain). In addition YOLT is a pretty bleak story throughout and I think that particular cinematic trend has probably peaked so whilst personally I'd love to see a full on YOLT adaptation I'm not sure commercially it's as much of a winner as it was 5 years ago.
But then again we've never had more suitable conditions for the garden of death and so a large part of me thinks they should go for it and bollocks to the box office.
Let's just say this says more about Logan than it does P&W.
Was DAF the ending Connery deserved? Was AVTAK the ending Moore deserved? Was DAD the ending Brosnan deserved?
I don't understand how what some see as an unsatisfactory ending to the Craig era necessitates a whole new chapter being bolted onto it, just to end things on a high for this particular actor playing the role. And what leads you to believe that a fifth Craig film would somehow repair the problems?
If Craig had a unwhelming exit, dems the breaks, I'm afraid. It happened to Connery and the others the same. They got bad exits, thats what happens. I don't see whats so particular about Craig that he doesn't deserve this to happen to him, whereas the others did. If anything, he's lucky he saw it through to the end. He earned his millions and won his plaudits just like Connery and Moore. The focus now should be whats best for Bond, not what's best for Craig's Bond.
And, as if we didn't all know already, I wonder what your suggestion for what's best for Bond could possibly be?
Yes, in general. And part of this is because the films were set in the era they needed to be: the Cold War.
I thought CR did a masterful job of resetting the story in a post 9/11 environment.
There is always talk of where Bond should go...I contend that placing Bond in the late 50s/early 60s and leaving him there is the way to go after DC leaves. Imagine Nolan directing Hardy in a Bond film set ca. 1958, with the cars, the music, the London of that period? yeah, I am salivating over those prospects.
Funnily enough, this is exactly what comes to mind whenever I see someone say "SPECTRE wasn't the ending Craig deserved."
That's funny :) and you're right.
NOW GET CUCUMBERBATCH BABS...........He's a much better actor than DC.
I don't see the rationale here.
You are indeed a very frightening fellow.
Is he? I see him as just as much a one trick pony as Craig.
What don't you understand this time?
Never mind.
But you don't understand, @Murdock. We're the internet people. We want product and we don't care if it's any good. We download games, play two levels, then download other games. We post half a sentence on facebook and expect to receive 200 likes for it. No sooner will we past the next half of a sentence... at least within the next 90 seconds. And we'll constantly refresh the page because, hey, why would you actually do something useful? Those Bond films? We've seen them already. Been there. We need something new or else we won't sleep well at night. Surely you're not still using that phone you bought last Chistmas? The was model 7.5; they put out model 7.5X now. You're yesterday's news, man. So if the producers don't announce the next Bond film soon, I'm either going to cry like Justin Bieber when Orlando Bloom punched him in the face, or I'm going to start paying attention to rumours on the internet. Fake news is better than no news at all, right?
Who the hell cares about 24 excellent Bond films when it could be 25? Huh? When . It . Could . Be . 25??? See, now you got me crying. I feel deserted by Barbara Broccoli. "Babs" doesn't care about us, Bond fans, no sir, because she would have given us way more Bond films by now if she did. I mean, she should take lessons from Disney. They deliver up to three Avengers films per year! That's how you do it. Same with Star Wars. Lucas was a loser for spending three years making Empire. And Cameron? What a fag. How long has he been making that Avatar sequel? Look, let's just forget Kubrick and Mann and Nolan altogether. If you can't deliver one film every four months, you have no business calling yourself a filmmaker.
So yeah, "Babs"... What is she doing in this business anyway! She's been pushing for that black, gay, female Bond for decades. It's all over the internet so it must be true! I mean, it's never happened despite her 2.5 decades of producing but that's not important. Putting things together requires brains and we lack that because we need facebook to tell us how great we are and Rotten Tomatoes to give us an opinion on a film. So I believe everything they say about "Babs" and how much she hates us, her kind fans, by not showering us with more Bond films, Bond spinoffs and Bond crossovers.
Keep your DVD or BR collection, @Murdock. A View To A What? I want a NEW Bond film, now! Because I only have 15 films to look forward to in the next 2 months. Be reasonable man, that's not at all enough.
Keep Calm and watch DR NO. The Doctor will see you now. :)
There was a poster on the old 'leaks thread' who claimed to know Mendes. He postulated prior to SP's release that Craig and Mendes both set things up so that it would be very difficult for him to return. I'm beginning to believe it.
Craig strikes me like Michael Corleone. I'm pretty sure he wants out, but Babs has relied on him (and Mendes) for so long that I'm concerned about them being rudderless after these two exit.
I maintain this is the worst idea possible and I'm 99.9% convinced EON would never entertain it. Kiss goodbye to Bond if this ever happens. He's a man of the moment, that's his appeal. I don't get what's so hard to grasp about that.
Great post, but I think your 'flogging a dead horse' there, mate.....
The issue is that Craig's tenure has been rather disappointing. Craig is a fantastic bond, his preformances in casino royale and spectre in particular are excellent, however he has been let down by production issues/ poor scriptwriting etc. Royale did its thing very well, quantum was very disappointing, Skyfall did world weary/ old bond well, spectre was a poor attempt at classic yolt/ tswlm esque bond which fell flat due to the infusion of unjustified drama/ personal story. I consider Craig's preformance as in sp to be one of the best of "classic bond", and think it would be a shame if we never get a bond film which truly matches it in his tenure.