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Shlongfinger... WaWaaWa!
I must admit, as much as I enjoy DAF it always feels like Bond should be going through the Spang Brothers to get to the actual baddie. The film, as odd as it can be, more effectively uses the diamond smuggling plot to build to something bigger.
Actually, I'd kinda like to see some of the novel adapted, but not faithfully. Again, use the more 'small scale' plot of gangsters, some sort of smuggling operation, Bond having to infiltrate it, but slowly lead to a much more sinister villain/plot.
I hope they go back to the novels for inspiration going forward. That said, I don't want them simply to copy and paste certain scenes or ideas into future films. Something like the Garden of Death at the end of NTTD didn't work for me because it felt like they only included it as a sort of reference to YOLT without ultimately doing anything with it (that and the 'die Blofeld die' moment which... well, doesn't work in the film, to be polite). In the novel Blofeld almost seems to have descended into madness since SPECTRE's dismantling, his castle/garden very much tied up with his narcissism and God complex. He even says he's providing the country with a public service. It's actually kind of nightmarish. I didn't get that same sense during NTTD's climax. It would have been interesting to have maybe adapted this with Safin's character, maybe tie it with the nanobots a bit more (I dunno, maybe Safin could have modified the nanbots to spread in the way they do using one of his plants as inspiration... certainly some of Blofeld's dialogue in the novel/seeing his scheme as some sort of humanitarian project made by a great man could have been used to have clarified the character's motives).
But yeah, there's plenty to use. As I've said, I hope future films are able to evoke that sense of Fleming-esque fantasy while also having an appropriate streak of darkness. Looking at the Folio Edition illustrations of the novels, for example, you get these fantastic images that really give a sense of how nightmarish some of these situations and characters are. Like, here's one of DAF.
Looks almost like a still from a Horror film, especially with how the light on Spang is done. So yeah, I hope they try and lean more into that aspect of the novels going forward.
Indeed ! Would that we all mature so handsomely !
Barbara Broccoli Says Next James Bond Film Is Two Years Away From Production: “We’re Reinventing Him”
From Baz Bamigboye, an article from Deadline
https://deadline.com/2022/06/james-bond-daniel-craig-next-007-reinventing-barbara-broccoli-1235053969/
I'll reserve judgment until more news comes out, which will be a while.
Blimey, so he is.
His Scots was so understated and neatly done in Highlander I assumed he was. Usually when you have to put on an accent for US productions in those days it was turned up to eleven.
I'm all in!
If it means changing Craig Bond back into Connery Bond, or even Dalton Bond, then yes, Bond should change.
If reinventing Bond means rethinking the series' direction, then great. It's worked successfully before.
Anyway two years is not that long. Remember we waited five/six years for a Spectre sequel lol. And we already had a Bond actor.
I think they should go dark glamorous and nostalgic for the first one, campless ultrarealistic and gritty for the second one and funny tarantinoesque and cartoonish for the third one.
Every 2 years in the 70's/80's for me. Cubby was very committed to the Bond Films....
I would even go for the next guy jumping time periods. Start with a contemporary film, jump back to a period piece (maybe b&w), then back to follow up the first, or even come up with alternative scenarios. I know that’s not where we’re at right now, it’s very unlike they would even consider that. But, times change, and you never know what’s going to come.
Did they not reinvent the film series in 1987?
Films are harder to make now, and they can't just use a novel as a basis for a script because there aren't any left. Their leading man also left after just five years (and checked out before that).