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In what way is she not professional? And how is it that Wilson is more professional when he’s also a producer on the exact same play?
I don’t think producing West End and Broadway plays is exactly a hobby.
Edit: I see Peter made the same point, I beg your pardon Peter.
When in realty Broccoli has been the co-leading force that had kept her father’s legacy not only “just” surviving, but the legacy is thriving! And part of this is because she did have the balls to cast against type and went for Craig.
To make films the size of Bond, and being a family run and independent film company (without the teams of writers and producers as Marvel have on the pay roll), it boggles my mind that 007 competes very well against the titans in commercial/mainstream films of today!
But as the old saying goes: haters gonna hate.
"Speaking on the Being James Bond documentary (which is free on iTunes should you want to relive Craig’s tenure in his own words), Broccoli said, "Daniel has taken the character, the series, the whole thing to a place that is so extraordinary, so emotionally satisfying that I cannot imagine Bond after Daniel."
https://www.gamesradar.com/james-bond-producer-cannot-imagine-the-character-after-daniel-craig/
I mean, it's kind of a silly thing to say about the sixth actor to play Bond. I think because Craig was the first actor she got to pick (Brosnan was Cubby's, right?) she might have put him on a pedestal and allowed him too much creative control that ultimately became detrimental to the series as a whole.
Nobody's saying she's a bad person or anything, it's just about the decisions she's made, or allowed Craig to make. If an actor had said that his price to coming back to Bond was killing the character, Cubby would have told him to F off.
BTW I only hate the second half of the Craig era, the last decade, which I consider to be absolute cringe.
Yeah,that’s pretty much what I was getting at.Her comments over the years come across like she’s absolutely in love with the guy ( fair enough she’s entitled to her feelings ) but saying that she “ cannot imagine Bond after Daniel? “ I wonder how the next actor who takes on 007 will feel about that.MGW seems to be a lot more professional in interviews.
And yeah, I don’t think Cubby would have delayed the production of a Bond film for so long and let them dictate their price to come back as killing the character off.
No one has said they can’t be criticised, but calling them unprofessional is clearly way off the mark. They made films which scored billions at the box office, no one is being unprofessional.
Praising and hyping your star is not unprofessional. Cubby, don’t forget, ended his run with Sean with the two of them basically in a feud. Is that more professional?
Well, BB and MGW fired Brosnan over a phone call. I'd say that's pretty unprofessional, not to mention cold.
I don’t see what’s unprofessional about that; it’s how business is done. Sometimes you have to let people go (technically in his case it was a matter of not rehiring him rather than firing). I’ve certainly never seen Brosnan call it unprofessional, and it’s more his business than ours.
As far as we know it was all done amicably, reportedly both sides thanked each other and that was that. It was them doing it directly on the call, not some intermediary: far from being ‘cold’, they did it personally. Much more professional than feuding with your star and ending up not talking to each other.
And anyway, I thought we were saying Wilson is the professional one? But now we’re not?
C Broccoli was trying to win back money he'd lost to R Moore playing games - backgammon ? - between takes...
Ha! That’s a perfect reason to give for that :))
It's not anything to do with producing the play. It's to do with the general fawning comments over the years, something which Wilson avoided, and kept it more level and measured, the same way he spoke of Brosnan, Dalton, etc.
I also think this fawning to get Craig back at any cost went some way in explaining the very poor decisions that were made for NTTD.
And no, I don't hate the five films Craig was in. CR is still in my all time top 5, which shows you are way off the mark in your opinion what I think of the Craig era.
I see I'm wasting my time here with this opinion, because not many agree with it.
Absolutely. Watch Cubby and Wilson in action. That's how you do it.
And actually I often found Cubby to seem pretty insincere in hyping interviews, like the stereotypical Hollywood conman who’d obviously say this is the biggest one ever, you’ve never seen anything like this. Not very convincing at all.
Yeah that was pretty lousy.Especially since he’d already agreed to a fifth film.If the producers changed their minds fair enough but the way they did it.
As for Cubby keeping Moore on for so long,Cubby had pretty much replaced Moore with Josh Brolin before filming on Octopussy began.But then the announcement came that Connery was going to star in NSNA which made Cubby hesitant to compete with him with an untried Bond,so he went back to Roger.
Yeah you’re probably right.
Yeah I don’t really see the problem. He was in the Bahamas, they were in maybe LA, possibly more likely London… I wouldn’t expect them to fly there just for the result of a decision; especially when we all expect them to be getting on with making the movie we want to see. Also if they’d have done that it also possibly suggests they’re willing to have a conversation about it, but the reality was their minds were made up.
They made the call personally, it wasn’t done through agents or third parties… I’m not sure what people want.
You have zero proof of that though, it’s an entirely imagined scenario.
She hired him with a phone call, after all.
‘At any cost’? Slightly hyperbolic there.
And yes, they decided to do something different with CR, that’s all very well-documented, and their decision was more than vindicated as we all know.
We can look at how Cubby was desperate to keep Roger on ‘at any cost’ though, and how the series became a mild laughing stock because of his advanced age. Or how he was desperate to get Connery back, quite literally 'at any cost' i.e $1million.
Yep.If Brosnan told Babs that he wanted to be killed off in his fifth Bond,I think she would have told him there was no way that was going to happen.
No proof, just an opinion based on years of commentary from Babs. And bringing him back for one more on the proviso that Bond is killed off, Craig has already stated this now as his desire, and willing to return one last time if they did this, so `at any cost' isn't hyperbolic at all. Expressing a desire to come back to kill off the main character of Bond, what else would deem a higher cost than that?
All previous actors would have been shown the door if they had told Cubby this was their condition to come back.
$1million in 1971? That's a pretty high cost. To hire a lead actor for the same amount as the budget of your entire first movie, only nine years before. That certainly snacks of desperation and fawning if this does.
As for the killing off, it's clear they agreed with that, it's not as if they were held to ransom. From the years Craig was Bond it's obvious that their creative impulses aligned: they picked him, after all. It's much like the hiring of Sam Mendes: Craig's idea but I doubt he exactly had to twist their arms much to hire such a top director. So yes, pretty hyperbolic.
Maybe he did hold them to ransom like Connery did to Cubby, and insist on them doing something they didn't want to, I don't know. But there's absolutely no evidence of that at all, and a fair amount to the contrary.
They should have given him a few drinks, then Barbara should have held his hand while Michael stood standby with a handkerchief.
I'm quite happy to be the lonely voice on here that sees a lot of sense in the above. I was also on board with the Craig era, especially after CR, but he's got to take some of the blame for the car-crash that was the second half of NTTD.
But who had the smelling salts? :)