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That is interesting. It is as if Elfman has to call Burton and ask him if he can please score his next movie. 😉
Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, just presented with the 2022 Pioneer of the Year Award, talk MGM's future, moving on after Daniel Craig and why not to expect a scripted Bond TV series.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-bond-producers-are-finding-villain-007-1235225507/
Makes a lot of sense, really. The villain = the story.
P&W could be working on it atm ?
P & W probably do the same thing with EON. Forget Barbara’s loyalty to Craig, her true loyalty is with them. Everyone must have some ideas at this point.
Interesting. Sounds smart actually.
A more planned out version of Blofeld and Spectre perhaps? We probably should expect them back in the near future.
No idea. I think it might be a bit too soon though, and I'm guessing they'll want the villain as a 'lone wolf' for the first one just to get audiences settled with this new Bond. Either that or they'd really have to do something different with SPECTRE that we haven't seen before.
That, or will we get a mad industrialist in the vein of Dominic Green or Elliot Carver? Villains who are on the surface rather small and unthreatening men, but have these sadistic tendencies and Napoleon complexes.
It is hard to think of a fresh take on the Bond villain. I hope they manage to come up with something good; it's really hard to come up with the baddies' plan for these type of films.
100% agreed.
I can see them going for one of those villain outlines I mentioned, but they'll put a different spin on it/evolve it. Again, that's what they did with Silva. Yes, it's hard coming up with a good villain scheme, and usually it'll be an indication of the tone/direction of the film.
Yeah, a female villain would be great, but a proper one. So not an Elektra type who tricks Bond, or someone who has a sexual relationship with him. Just an elegant woman who is a legitimate threat and is depicted unambiguously as the antagonist of the film.
The villain, not the henchmen, obvs... ;)
It is hard, yes. I look at the recent Mission Impossible films and they've really struggled to come up with villains' plans- for the last four or so films they've all been sort of rebels who want to blow the world up to prove a point, which is a bit vague really. The films have been amazing, but really despite the baddies' plans than because of them.
And of course the last few Bond films have all been about baddies wanting revenge for such-and-such, which is a touch samey too. They tried to do something a bit different in NTTD with M being accidentally responsible for the evil weapon, but arguably that was a bit of a bad idea as it made M look weak and a bit foolish. The previous M had made mistakes in Skyfall perhaps, but I don't think it stepped over the line as to make her look foolish.
Yeah I'm definitely up for a female villain, just for a change if nothing else. And yes, I don't want a Bond girl gone bad as Electra sort of was, I just want a proper villain who happens to be female. A Helen Mirren or someone like that.
Actually Helen McCrory would have been a great villain (best known to Bond fans as the minister in the enquiry in Skyfall), so sad.
A bit more diversity in the villains would be good, and not even for the sake of representation: it'd just be nice to have a bit of variation! The past five villains have all been white blokes, it's a bit samey.
Yes but it's not stated as such in the film. Clearly the script needed work. Both Mendes and Logan should have been one-and-done.
Unfortunately.
I would very much disagree that Mendes and Newman didn't get Bond; Skyfall felt way more like a Bond film than its predecessor for my money. And it was the most successful British film ever at the time, so it was hardly just chasing Oscars.
The film itself was vague, hollow, riddled with plot holes and pretended to have a psychological layer. It was wannabe (super cringey) bondian moments strung together without any coherent story or arc or resolution. Stylish film, but extremely stupid, and lacked finesse like most pretentious art films.
Not everything sucked, but it could have been so much better. Even with the directional choices they made.