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You all seriously need to start following industry goings on outside Bond...these sorts of underhanded confirmations and slip ups happen ALL THE TIME. Not everything is announced in a shiny press release from the studio. Hell, most of the time they offload stuff to the trades like Variety/THR/Deadline and it's all used as leverage when it's not a done deal/when it's just 'in talks'.
Sorry, I meant bedroom.
"You all seriously need to start following industry goings on outside Bond..."
Why? Craig returns or he doesn't, the end. No harm waiting for official confirmations, lest I may as well believe every single rumor I've read in the last 920 pages.
Work on the script has been on going for some time.
That's literally why the CEO said what he said about Craig. It CAN be delayed and it is being delayed because of B25
If we believe Showtime, Purity is done filming already and will air within a few months. So how can they delay something that is already finished? Which obviously isn't true, since there are no actors attached to the project apart from Craig. So this means production is already over half-a-year late based on their previous filming schedule. Which begs the question that why has there been zero news, reports or even comment from Showtime that they are behind schedule, and only now that B25 has a release date they confirm the delay?
Again: production for Purity has ended already according to their previous schedule, so how can they delay something that is completed? And since this is obviously a lie, because nothing has happened on Purity in over a year, why has there been no news or comments from Showtime they are over half-a-year late already, and we only hear about delays once B25 was confirmed for 2019?
Either 1. production is already completed based on their previous schedule, so it can't be delayed, or 2. there is nothing to delay because Purity is a non-existent project.
Dude...they haven't filmed anything at all from Purity. And all they said previously was 'production will begin in 2017'. Could mean January or even December 2017. That's as specific as they made it.
And read back that last sentence again. They were waiting to say stuff probably BECAUSE of EON being being tight lipped and sorting B25 out. The project wasn't even made official until a few weeks ago.
EDIT: to your reply - why are you ignoring option 3 - production has been delayed because of Bond 25?
Showtime gave a filming schedule for Purity which would be completed already. So why do we hear about the delays now, in August 2017, since filming should have started over 7 months ago?
They said 'over the course of' and 'production begins' 2017. That doesn't necessarily mean January 2017. Could even mean they planned to start in December for all we know. http://www.slashfilm.com/daniel-craig-purity-james-bond/
From that link: 'This will be completed I believe during the course of 2017.' It raises no concerns that, as you say, B25 wasn't official until a few weeks ago, meaning that more than half of 2017 has gone by and they still don't even have a single actor/actress confirmed in the cast for 'Purity'? I'm not trying to start arguments, I am just saying there isn't anything to delay as Purity was hugely unlikely to film at all in 2017 even if B25 was still in limbo for X amount of months. That Showtime TCA comments are irrelevant as Purity was going nowhere anyway.
Agreed here
Purity doesn't have a confirmed cast, so what is there to delay anyway? If they were really wanting to shoot sometimes in 2017, surely the project was going nowhere even without the B25 confirmation as we are now in August 2017 and still no actors/actresses are confirmed for Purity.
Haha. Agreed @dominicgreene. If the announcement is as others have speculated then anticlimactic would be an understatement. I'll honestly be at a loss to explain what they have been playing at.
Even here, we've spent two weeks debating something which we've all pretty much known since April.
The only thing that can make it interesting now is if all of this is a red herring.
The comments are relevant as they indirectly confirm Craig for B25, if Showtime's CEO is saying himself that Craig's shooting Bond first and then Purity.
Showtime knew about Bond 25 plans before the public did for sure given the fact that Craig is involved with them, my point is they just waited till now to say something on Purity not moving into production this year because B25 was made *publicly* official only a few weeks ago
Yes, the comments are relevant about B25, but are irrelevant about Purity. B25 confirmed or not, there was nothing to delay as Purity was dead-in-the-water already (at least currently, maybe the project will get off the ground one day, but it was going nowhere for a long time.)
Obviously SP left his options open but I don't think anything ever suggested that in his own mind DC felt he was finished.
Oh yes he is!
This one? :D
Mendes is talented. He's an artist. But he took the grit away from his efforts (although, thankfully, DC was still able to portray some of it still); in short: Mendes, IMHO, "pussyfied" the Bond that was born from CR and grew in QoS...
The blood was all but gone.
And, if these rumours have even a shred of truth, I think that bodes well for DC's return. He's restless in SP and I think he wants to be more active and involved as a character. DC did appear very uncomfortable in more than one scene in the last film. All his screaming would be an example.
The Bond from CR and QoS was a growler and a grunter (see stairwell fight in CR; Slate fight in QoS)... apart from that, he was quite controlled and quiet in demeanour.
I want Craig, the actor, to have a juicy steak to bite into again, and; I want Bond, the character, to bleed again (albeit quietly...).
Yes! I've referenced that interview frequently.
Franzen's books are notoriously unadaptable.
And if the producers want to wait for an actor, or a director, that's absolutely their right. I don't have a say in that, one way or the other. They know what's going on behind the scenes. I don't.
I also can't get in DC's head and surmise why he said what he said about the wrist-slashing comment, other than to say: it sounded like an ill-timed joke, by an actor who just finished a nine month shoot, which he came out of with a blown knee that required surgery.
I personally didn't find it a funny, but I never once took it seriously either. Say what you want about Craig, but he wasn't trying to sabotage his, or his fellow cast and crew's, work on the film. My guess it was a joke from a guy who was tired.
Unfortunately it's the quote heard around the world now, because people delight in the negative. The entire thing's been blown out of proportion. But, when the time comes, and if he is still Bond, it will be coming like a steam train, he will have to answer for it.
Personally, I could care less. I love him in the role and welcome him back, as an admirer of his work in the role.
If there is a new 007, I will have to accept that this will be the first actor to play the role who will be a younger man than myself (I'm 43). It'll be an interesting dynamic since Bond has been a character I've always looked up to and admired. [/quote]
The "wrist-slashing" and that it would "only be for the money" and that "all I want to do is move on" as well as "I've been trying to get out of this since the moment I got in" are all comments taken from separate occasions, separate interviews at different times. Again, he's entitled to say what he wants so long as he makes good on his words, otherwise it just comes across as a hissy fit from a spoilt overpaid actor. Basically, I expect a little more decorum from the guy.
The 007 actor being actually younger than myself has already come to pass with DC in the role, so I'm personally beyond that now. What does concern me more than anything else is that we're pretty much in the same age-bracket situation that Roger Moore found himself in with TSWLM. Sure, RM looked good, he was an incredibly handsome and fit man. The major difference was that Moore always played Bond without the worry of his advancing years creeping into the storyline, unlike Craig, where this has already been touched upon in SF. I just can't see it not cropping up again in the next movie, especially as Craig will look slightly physically older, plus the absence of an additional 4 years between movies. Okay, I acknowledge the Bibi and Bond scenes in FYEO as being an example of Bond being older, but it's soon forgotten come OP and AVTAK.
I happen to like Craig very much as Bond, but not at the expense of believing he can keep going until he's 55 or whatever age he is when Bond 26 is finally finished (if we're to believe the rumors). The ideal age for casting an actor is early to middle Thirties, and then making sure you damn well use him every two to three years in a movie, before he begins to look like a lecherous old man perving after girls half his age.