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Yes, which makes me feel hungry. :p
The glitz and glamour of the James Bond franchise is awesome!
Wow, this is impressive. I am reading now. Thank you a lot for telling of this!
Perhaps, but he had two chances to prove to me that he has the ability to direct a good bond film and he really failed at both. Lee Tamahori is obviously worse but by how much? Also I find the cgi in skyfall and spectre very annoying especially since Casino and quantum didnt have any of that rubbish.
I find the Mendes films glum by comparison. I don't like his ponderous style but I appreciate there are many who do.
'Shocking thriller' is about right. Terrible, terrible book even by later era Gardner standards. After Win, Lose or Die there's only Death is Forever and parts of The Man From Barbarossa that hold up. Brokenclaw, Never Send Flowers, Seafire and Cold are all awful.
Nice Pan cover mock up though.
The trouble is that without a Tracy figure you rip the heart and soul out of YOLT.
If Madeline is just said to have left Bond or not even mentioned at all (as plenty of people seem to be advocating) then all you've got is Bond going to help out the Japanese government with an embarrassing problem.
Blofeld is Tracy. Without her he's just another Bond villain and not even that good. In Fleming Drax, Goldfinger and Dr No are all far better than Blofeld, who despite appearing in three books makes less impact than any of them. His status as nemesis relies almost exclusively on the killing of Tracy.
If they want to do YOLT they have to kill Madeline don't they because to have Bond choking him at the end screaming 'Die Blofeld, die' just because he killed Hannes Oberhauser (which didn't seem to bother Bond in the slightest in SP) or lured a few Japs to top themselves really doesn't work.
Just one more reason SP's botched execution has left us in a seemingly inescapable predicament and, call me a cynic, I hardly think P&W are the screenwriting equivalent of a gadget from Q Branch to get us out of it.
An entirely reasonable position. Despite my aversion to "drama" in my general Bond diet, OHMSS is my number one.
There's something about that film that resonates deeply. I have a feeling it was a combination of Diana Rigg, John Barry at his absolute best and Peter Hunt's mastery of editing.
Have said this myself many times. Forster gets slated for his editing but IMO 'got' Bond better than Mendes and for my money Campbell.
Well, on average I think this 'duology' is better than average. I have SP as 7th or 8th now on my all-time ranking. SF I have on 2nd, after OHMSS.
On average on this forum here (https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/16631/bond-polls-2016-the-top-10-james-bond-007-film-ranking-contest-results-winner-on-page-60/p64 ), SP came in 12th out of 26, and SF came in 5th out of 26.
At least as well as Campbell I think.
Much of the criticism directed toward QoS centers around what it doesn't have. What we actually get is very, very good.
Who knows, with a little more room to breathe, it might've joined Casino Royale as the best one-two punch in Bond history.
The hotel fire finale wasn't my cup of tea, either, but it doesn't make me thing less of the film. I really, really liked it. I would welcome another Forster Bond-film, if they'd bring him back.
His basic storytelling competencies should be questioned. Not only is the action badly stitched together (I still can’t tell you what happened in that plane chase) but the plot is woefully told.
The runtime is a big issue as Forster is desperate to rush through the story with patchwork editing. Though I do enjoy the slightly more esoteric art-house feel to the movie. It’s an admirable misstep but after CR rejuvenated the franchise, it was clearly a move in the wrong direction.
Mendes had a more stately, rich and auteur-ish take on Bond. Something that was equally as reverent as it was post-modern and subversive. It’s just a shame he came back for SP as he was clearly bereft of ideas.
Yann strikes me as a young hungry filmmaker who wants to make edgy films. His movies and TV work as mostly been pretty tough and bruising stuff set in urban locations. I imagine they want that gritty realism back in Bond. I think we’ll get something more akin to CR with him.
However…..he may not get the job. I imagine the producers want Denis more than anything but much is dependent on his schedule (with Yann the No.1 reserve). Interestingly, Denis has explicitly stated that he wants to do a Bond film:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Sicario-Director-Wants-Do-James-Bond-Movie-Which-Needs-Happen-Immediately-85457.html
I think Sicario is perhaps the best example of what a Bond film from the director would look like:
Personally, I’m backing Damange. I think Denis (like Nolan and Edgar Wright) would make more sense for a reboot.
The shorter running time is One of its strengths IMo. Hope we don't get another bloated and overlong entry for B25.
Hence the fact that the running time of QoS left me wanting more. :-)
I fully agree with you here.
Nuance is a virtue of yours? That's a good one. You should write the jokes for the next script!
https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/tabloids-claim-guy-ritchie-is-on-bond-25-director-shortlist-160918
So I am not sure if we really should rely that heavily on the news that "Yann Demange met with the producers at EON's headquarter".As far as I see it, many directors meet with EON. It's only part of the search process.
Now I know how people feel about Guy Ritchie here, but fact is that there are similarities between the style of Demange and Ritchie.
I still think it's all way too early, and I wouldn't be surprised if Daniel Craig says to Barbara Broccoli: "Hey Babs, what about Steven Soderbergh??"
He said himself: «I can confirm I've had a meeting with Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. They are fans of «Headhunters», and wanted to know if I was available in the near future, and that I should read a script.»
Yeah, but that means they skipped Morten Tyldum altogether, since they went for Sam Mendes with Bond #24. We are talking about Bond #25 now. The news from Guy Ritchie dates back to earlier this year. Still, who knows, maybe EON's shortlist consists of 25 directors, including Morten Tyldum :-).
Yeah, that's the point. He had a meeting with them back then, and in the end they chose Mendes instead. Relatable to the directors meeting EON for B25 now. Demange might be talking to them, but the director who'll end up directing B25 can be someone else.
Re. Tyldum, it looks like he's directing the pilot episode for the new Jack Ryan tv-series, the first two episodes of a show called Counterpart, and a movie called Pattern Recognition.
http://www.jborbisnonsufficit.com/2017/07/31/is-an-italian-director-in-the-mix-to-direct-bond-25/
We should change the topic title into:
"Bond 25 Production Diary: Yann Demange spotted at EON HQ, Guy Ritchie spotted with Michael Wilson, Paolo Sorrentino is in the mix now, Daniel Craig had a good time working with Steven Soderbergh, Denis Villeneuve and David Mackenzie also on shortlist, but wait, now the topic title becomes too long"
:-D
This is getting pretty desperate now.
If I hear a bloke in a pub discussing B25 does that count as 'reports state....'?
Of course, what do you think where all those reporters got their stories from?
Thats modern day internet "journalism"