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I certainly agree that we’re more likely to hear about a director and script before we have a new Bond.
Villeneuve does seem like a good prediction, he’s just found great success doing a blockbuster and he’s exactly the sort of name they’ve gone for lately. My only worry is, would his style be a bit too Craig era for the reboot? I can’t picture him giving us anything lighter in tone for example, and I’m sure a Bond film from him would be as long as the last few. He’s great, but I don’t know if he’d be my personal choice for the next one.
I really have no idea where they’ll go next myself, and I’m trying not to set myself up with any expectations, but I do like the idea of a Bond in his late 20s/early 30s doing a Royal Marines/SBS origin story. I’ve always been resistant to the idea of someone so young doing it, but I like the idea of exploring his military service, and someone so young would immediately be able to set himself apart from Craig.
But if they did for some reason want to do a flashback or even god forbid a Young Bond series with Auntie C, Vickie McClure with her s6 LoD haircut looks almost the spitting image of Kev Walker's artwork, which is somewhat ironic that she plays Mrs Jones in Amazon's Alex Rider adaptation.
I've said it before, but I would greatly enjoy a kind of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead for the Bond universe. Two guys in Q's IT department during Skyfall or even henchmen in the crater base in YOLT or something like that. However, that's probably too meta and too fan-fictiony to actually work.
I also always liked @mtm's idea of a show about Francisco Scaramanga, but I think the problem there is that there would always be speculation and confusion about whether that will culminate in the film TMWTGG or the book or in a completely different way. The typical prequel dilemma.
I agree. Another director should do it. Fukunaga might end up repeating himself...maybe he might include a child/children again, like he loves doing in some of his films. I'm also not a fan of the inconsistent tone in NTTD. Sam Mendes balanced the tone of his two Bond films better.
Yes I agree. Fukunaga got the dramatic very well, but he didn't make it feel like a Bond film for my money. Mendes never lost sight of that.
Yeah, he never. Mendes understood the Bondian way better.
I've only watched NTTD twice. It's a decent film, but it just doesn't feel like a Bond film to me- I don't want to watch it. Not because of the child or his death or anything in the actual narrative in fact; it just doesn't have the texture of a Bond film. And I guess I'd have to put that at the director's feet.
And to be honest, it doesn't have the thrills or fun or tension of something like MI Fallout.
Honestly, from the trailers I expected something truly Bondian to happen in Cuba. A great deal of the Cuba sequence feels like a generic Netflix spy film. The only time it begins to get a bit interesting, is when Bond takes his drink and slides over the bar, wields his gun stylishly out of the bar's entrance and starts shooting, with Paloma crashing the car and it was in that moment that Zimmer also thought it appropriate to bring back his version of the Bond theme that can be heard in Square Escape and Opening The Doors.
The Bond series needs directors who understand that these are action movies, not prestige movies, and films them accordingly. More importantly these movies need directors who understand the Bond character, unlike these scarf-wearing types who are more concerned with subverting Bond than respecting him.
It's just a shame that Bond ends up just shooting a gun rather than doing anything cool (I liked the bit where he threw the tray, but that's not exactly a hearty meal for a Bond fan).
The only person who does anything Bondish is Paloma with that car thing: that's his usual style of getting things done i.e. coming up with an inventive and even amusing use of what's around him to get what he wants, no matter how destructive it is.
As you mention, Zimmer doesn't really play the Bond theme in the film because there's no place to play it: Bond doesn't do anything Bondish after the bike jump. We get that rendition when he returns to London, but that feels kind of half-hearted more than anything, and is a pale imitation of the exact same sequence from Skyfall.
I agree about a workmanship director. It’s time for the artsy directors to a break. That’s why Martin Campbell is so well regarded. He also had the balls to tell Purvis and Wade: your work sucks.
Correct! Previous Bond directors also understood that inventiveness makes Bond standout....that's why Martin Campbell also knew that the statue staying on top the tanker as Bond drives it in GE, and then putting the statue between the two cars was what would make it standout, not necessarily smashing things on the road. A James Bond film director has to be inventive....mostly in the action scenes, or else the films become like any other action film. Also, forster in the scaffold sequence in QoS, makes sure a rope holds Bond upside so he can reach his gun then turn and shoot Mitchell....so Bond doesn't just shoot Mitchell, as if it's a Steven Seagal film.
Oh I have nothing against Paloma, and she was as much fun there as she was in the rest of it; I just wish Bond had had something cool to do too. He just fired guns and punched people, it's boring.
I always considered the term as “workman” as a positive in regards to Bond films. It was a family system that promoted from within. You wanted a dependable grounded director that understood the legacy and the system. Once they went for the big or the hottest name the results were dramatically mixed, which is to be expected, but something has been missing as well. The “house” look, or feel. I miss it.