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Do we? I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
Yeah, by now I'm following a lead on who the caterers might be. Some foods cause gas, which interferes with the creative process.
I thought my comments were obvious. They're going to have a "reality" show where people compete for a $1m prize, somehow involving actual or Bondian locations.
What I am suggesting is that the show will be used for making announcements about Bond 26. You want to know who will be the next director, singer, actor, etc. ? Tune in and find out ! A ratings booster.
That would be hard for them to resist.
It would reach every news station within the subsequent minute so I am not sure such a marketing gimmick would ultimately be successful.
That show sounds pretty horrible, but it apparently has been in development for four years, so it’s basically independent from the Amazon-MGM deal: variety.com/2022/tv/global/james-bond-amazon-show-mgm-1235214551/
Anybody want to apply? https://shortaudition.net/007roadtoamillion
As others have pointed out, cheapening the brand also occurred - depending on your personal level of tolerance - with comix and, more recently, graphic novels (as I said, depending your personal LOT), toys (especially in the Bond/spy heyday of the mid-1960s) which were targeted (ahem) at children, special features in Playboy magazine, HEAVY participation in marketing with Promotional Partners with products or advertisements shown conspicuously in films (and not just Aston Martin, by far not just Aston Martin), cologne, a CARTOON show of "James Bond, Jr." (though he was supposed to be James Bond's NEPHEW)...Not that I am fond of the concept of this forthcoming show, either.
Sure, it's more old-school marketing, but:
EON is an old-school company,
NOT "every news outlet" Bond is not that pervasively relevant anymore HOWEVER quite likely on the Internet, sure,
Some BIG fans would tune in to "see it here first !"
It certainly allows for a very controlled environment to announce stuff, but it’s not like EON have had problems with putting on announcement events…
Indeed, they have not, and they still can present during one of those events, but I fully expect it will be broadcast or presented, for the very first time, on their new show. Cross-promotion.
Campbell needs to direct the next film and why not bring Neeson as 007 for a final mission heck even call it
The Final Mission
Yes ! You're in sync with my idea, then, to have a new actor over and over and for Bond to die in each film ? And, NO, I did NOT lift this idea from South Park ("OMG, they killed Kenny !")
On Instagram today the posting entity from the producers, 007, makes a statement confirming the game show. The comments are uniformly negative and come on pretty strong. OK, so the internet is prone to that but commenters on 007 are not always "haters."
So Bond in purgatory. His Angel Heart. I note there are seven terraces/levels.
Brilliant !
Or bring Tim Dalton back!
I have asked for that too
I think that's very likely, a bit like how CR followed on from Batman Begins/used a similar reboot premise. I can see them having some sort of little arc for Bond within the film if that's the case (I know some fans don't like that, but it depends on how it's done. Hopefully no retreading of the Craig era in terms of what they focus on). Also, after NTTD broke even they'll want something more stripped back, or at least cheaper, and The Batman's a good example of a franchise film that's ambitious while keeping its budget under £200 Million and being faithful to the tone/spirit of the source material. Perhaps we'll see some the mystery/detective elements of it creep into Bond 26 (much like how the Fleming novels take a lot of inspiration from the 50s hardboiled detective novels and have Bond doing more investigating than in a lot of the newer films). I enjoyed that film for what it's worth (the script had its faults, but the cinematography, direction, editing, score and sound design were excellent. I enjoyed it a lot).
I wouldn't be surprised and I'd be all for it: it would give them far more creative leverage.
Personally, I think the Craig era is too close to The Batman in tone and they would be more likely to go with their own well received Bond/Paloma styled light hearted adventure. Or at least I hope so.
In terms of tone, Eon's endgame is, imo, to get that magical balance of humour and seriousness, grit and fantasy, that will please nearly everybody. |You can see from the way Craig's era went that they don't just stick with the one tone, they've been trying to integrate all the aspects of Bond into Craig's grittier era, including humour and over-the-top villains. Ultimately, they want it all (imo).