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Officially kicking off, i.e. pre-production, as @ColonelSun outlined above.
You might want to rethink that statement.
Funny man, who are you Steven Spielberg!?
Why, he really hasn't a clue.
Eon are sticking to their established schedule. The really tough part (and it's all tough) is that post-production is always so tight. I've many editor friends, from my days in the cutting rooms, who have worked on the Bonds since GE, and they work very very long hours, seven days a week in the last months, to meet the late Oct early Nov release dates.
'my cutting room days' - love it!
Er? But everything I said re: production
/ pre-production was correct. How is that without a clue? I suspect your nose has been put out of joint. Get over it.
Not really mate.
Yeah, totally agree. They really could do themselves a few favours by extending the post-production schedule. The post schedule on Bonds is notoriously short.
You accused me of being clueless which sounded like an emotional reaction and like your perfect nose was, momentarily, put out of shape. Your understanding about what production actually means and your theory that Eon will add months to the shooting schedule because Craig hurt himself last time were wrong and ill informed. Simple as that. Enjoy your beer.
No, I don't think production will be that long, that's why I doubted that production would start in May 2018. I think you should calm down. If you think I was upset then fine you think that, I really honestly don't care.
Obviously you're an American, because you clearly didn't see the sarcasm in my previous comments. Please don't get uppity over something that really isn't all that important.
None that I'm aware of.
I heard it from a two colleagues a couple of weeks back, but couldn't take it as official. The World of James Bond blog heard similar according to recent post of theirs. Given that we've both heard the same from reliable sources, I'm inclined to think it's true. Can't officially confirm, obviously, hence why I said 'apparently'. It's not unexpected, though, it tallies with a late '18, early '19 start for principal photography.
Why are you being a twat to The Colonel?
Come again?
I think he's a legend - what you on about? He's someone who's worked in the film industry and knows what he's talking about. I was merely joking about the fact that he knows so much - you know - like he's a Spielberg - no offence was intended - in fact the opposite.
Is it my fault he can't take a compliment?!
#bantz
Absolutely - bantz.
This is correct.
Hm. Dubious.
I'm a producer, I'm aware of that, thanks Panchito.
Perhaps I should've been clearer. The intel I had stated that 'production' was to begin in May '18, but I believe they were just using that as a catchall term. It makes sense that they're going into pre-production May '18.
Good question. It's kind of silly at this point. Making these films for over 50 years and they're still subscribing to lastminutepostproduction.com. One would think after all these years they'd try to lengthen their post production period; but then again time management for EoN as of late isn't something they're terribly good at.
However, in EoN's defence post production is the least of their problems. I just hope they don't squander preproduction. They've had and still have all the time to get a great script together and that's the most important thing to get right all things considered.
The tight post production is a sign of our times. Before digital post production speeded up the process everything physically took longer to do when working with 35mm prints ( the rushes or dailies in US) and sound stock etc., and in ten to eleven minute reels - the cutting copy - and physically laying up hundreds of sound tracks, all in reels. VFX could take a long time to get right as well. On LTK we had about eight months post, even time for a few very long lunches and a the occasional round of golf with our director - compare that to the present Bond's post schedules. I don't know any editor who wishes the post schedules were longer these days.
Bond 25 will continue the Spectre Blofeld storyline and with production starting in May I can see this being a close to 3 hour Bond film to finish the story.
That means a 250 million budget. It will be a big risk, but you might be right.