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Casino Royale is a beboot. Michael G. Wilson said they were starting over. Video from 2012 event:
Starting at 14:00 mark: "After the fourth Brosnan film in 2002, Barbara and I felt stuck...We were uncomfortable in the direction the series was going....Barbara asked me what I wanted to do. I said, 'I wanted to start all over again.'"....She said, 'That's exactly what I wanted to do.'"
Awesome!
Me, too.
To me, these seem mutually exclusive: "Bright, colorful, breezy adventure" and "tone similar to Casino Royale"
How so? :p
@bondjames, third act?? Don't you mean fourth???
(Third act would be after Bond wins and ends when LeChiffre is killed)
And, yes, this fourth Act, which shouldn't work, is why I love CR-- but that's just me (everything other than the falling off the bed, after racing in when the rain drenches the couple)
I wouldn't want something so intense as the ball whacker scene in B25. We already had a somewhat gratuitous torture sequence in SP after all.
I'd prefer if they dial back the 'near death' violence and go for the tone they had up to and including Bond winning the card game. It was real, grounded, and had a nice balance of traditional Bondian style, class, humour and glamour. I liked the fast start followed by the slower more 'old school' pace as the film progressed as well.
The direction, such as gene therapy? Rough CGI surfing? :p
Except Bond and Blofeld are NOT brothers.
Bond only spent around six or seven months with the Oberhausers over two consecutive winters. While under Hannes' temporary guardianship he told his son Franz to TREAT James LIKE a little brother which Franz despised. It's the equivalent of spending the summers at your Grandparents and having to put up with a bratty cousin who's jealous of you.
Bond's presence clearly has a big impact on Blofeld but brothers they are not. After murdering his father and faking his own death I doubt Blofeld gave much thought to Bond anymore, until Bond crossed his path again.
Personally as a different take on the Bond and Blofeld relationship it doesn't bother me at all. The joy I felt when Franz revealed who he really was. The seed had been planted in Casino Royale with Mr. White mentioning "My organization...", for me it was a clear indication that Spectre and Blofeld were coming back. Now that he's back I hope they double down on Bond and Blofeld's relationship to finish Craig's story arc. I don't want to see another fiasco where they abandon the OHMSS storyline in Diamond Are Forever. Finish what you started.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/new-james-bond-movie-shatterhand-10895860
More yoghurt, figs and coffee (very black) dammit!
"Two tickets. The usual box."
I love that poker, too.
Which makes it all the more ridiculous that Blofeld wanted revenge against Bond for something so small.
But Franz' reason for wanting to kill his father was jealousy over his favorable treatment of Bond. The way the story is told in SP it makes it sound as though Blofeld's life mission is to get revenge on Bond; "author of all your pain" and all that. I believe that is the impression the writers wanted us to have, and it stinks.
I hope this is just usually tabloid garbage it probably is
What of Norway?
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/mirror-says-bond-25-benson-novel/
Well, and if true, every Bond fan's ultimate wet dream. If the working title is "Shatterhand" and if Bond 25 will be based on "You Only Live Twice" and Raymond Benson's "Never Dream Of Dying", then I think it's not only a great idea, but also a logical one.
We already knew how creatively uninspiring Neal Purvis and Robert Wade sounded recently. Adapting a continuation novel could very well bring the necessary inspiration and creativity back on the writing table.
Thanks. I had read about it a while ago but wonder if it still stands. Would make sense for Waltz: he'd have a secure revenue for a few years to come.
http://movieweb.com/james-bond-25-director-chad-stahelski/
TRIVIA (I just found out!): Chad Stahelski previously worked as the stunt motion capture performer on the PlayStation port of The World Is Not Enough, the video game adaptation.
Thanks for clarifying the difference between 'brother' and 'foster brother' for us but it matters not a jot.
If they had said Andrew and Monique met in in the Alps aged 16 and had a baby out of wedlock but their kindly ski instructor Hannes Oberhauser, whose wife couldn't have children, offered to bring it up as his own so they could avoid a scandal thus making Franz Bond's blood brother it could hardly have been worse (actually that is a lot worse but anyway).
The point is that there shouldn't be any link at all. The real Blofeld (the one some bloke called Fleming wrote about) was the greatest criminal in the world. This one is just a petulant teenager angry because someone stole away his father's love. He needs a therapist not choking to death while wearing a kimono.
'Joy'??? Jesus.
And what seed had been planted? They made up an organisation to replace the role of SMERSH in CR and carried it into QOS that's all.
When QOS was perceived as a bit of a damp squib they totally ignored it for SF. But then suddenly Mclory dies and they can get the rights to SPECTRE. Which they then went and royally botched because IMO they were worried SP might be Craig's last film and couldn't bear for him not to have a showdown with Blofeld.
But let's not buy into this laughable rewriting of history notion that it was a grand plan when we all know they made it up on the spot once they had the rights.
Actually the thought that this was all planned in advance is even more terrifying. It's one thing trying to retrofit it all together but if building to the narrative shambles that was SP was their masterplan from 2006 then we are in worse trouble than I thought.
Back in the day, I read the same thing about the plot. In fact, it also said Bond would quit the secret service. Was that rumored to be the story of the film?
What's with all the importance given to these directors? Can't these guys just take the script and shoot it?
The relationship between Bond and Blofeld is handled in a unsatisfying, muddled way. On one hand, Blofeld says Bond "is, in a way, responsible for the path I took", and it is established that the relationship between Bond and Hannes Oberhauser was what triggered his psychosis, with Blofeld then proudly claiming he's "the author of all your pain", implying a certain desire for revenge. On the other hand, he also says to Bond that "you interfered in my world, I destroyed yours", making it sound as if for Blofeld, Bond is a nuisance, a small pester. So it is as if they want to simultaneously play up and play down Blofeld's desire for revenge on Bond and Bond's importance in influencing Blofeld's career choice. As if they wanted a big dramatic reveal but were embarrassed by it.
Same thing as Mr White said about Vesper in QOS and be on subtil way showed in Spectre maintile. Octopus take Bond his gun and shoot.
If that is to difficult, then always refer to fames qoute of Goldfinger but with a twist. You expect me to die, no Mr Bond...
Words are peoples best friend. This is why silence in meeting is so good..
That's strange. The incorrect DirecTV description was on their guide around 2012 (which was when I first saw TWINE). They also had a lengthier, more accurate description. It would vary which description was used depending on the channel where TWINE was being aired. It's weird if this misinformation all traces back to some old rumor about the film from back in the day prior to its release.
Wow, I just woke up to read that garbled report-- it's all over the map: Croatia, a blind baddie, a continuation novel, but also inspired by YOLT and OHMSS, with Bautista and Blofeld returning...
It's like they cut and pasted every scrap from a fan forum and published it.
It was as if I was reading something from a five year old suffering from ADD, who didn't take his daily dose of Ritalin.