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I love Memento. I rewatched it recently. It still has that bullet pace. David Julyan's unique score. Guy's immersive performance. A Bond film in the style of Memento would undoubtedly be unique with the complete Bondian elements, but it might still be divisive though.
I can already hear general audiences' misguided complaints that it's another Bourne copycat or something. Regardless, it'd certainly be something properly fresh for the series.
Precisely. I want traditional 007 for Bond 7 was well. It wouldn't hurt now, especially in times like this when people are simply seeking straightforward, but highly entertaining films.
Yes, but you are also the first one, and the middle one.
Check out The Matador - for me, that's Brosnan's "unofficial" fifth Bond, where he's now removed from MI6, under a new name, taking on contracts while he's simultaneously burnt out from decades of alcohol and sex and being overworked.
Just kidding, obviously, but it's one of my all-time favorite films and it was a fun lens to view it through after dozens of viewings.
And backwards.
I could see them "pulling a Fleming" and having it start in medias res. Eon has already shown themselves open to experimentation in NTTD (opening on a love interest and villain, not Bond, for the first time since TMWTGG).
I really dig that NTTD PTS as a result.
@Last_Rat_Standing, I take that as them not wanting to back themselves into a corner by revealing anything too early. They'd be fools to not have discussed anything concrete by now.
Isn't that almost every PTS so far? :D
Better yet, Bond 26 could begin with Brosnan taking off the VR device and John Cleese turns around and says, "Rather fun, isn't it?" To which Brosnan replies, "You have an interesting definition of fun, Q."
A special edition could be done using Cavill’s effects team to do mustaches removal on Pierce. 😉
I agree, and said this at the time of NTTD’s release.
I do think that they are a little further along than they may be letting on.
Yeah, but the thing is Nolan hasn't shifted in 15 years from the style he solidified with The Dark Knight, and the last three Bond films all pulled heavily from that style. If what the producers are looking for really is reinvention, then Nolan is the last person they should hire. Style and mood-wise, Bond 26 would simply be SF/SP/NTTD 2.0.
Thinking of Villeneuve, I feel like Shanghai in Skyfall was fairly reminiscent of his Blade Runner; maybe we'd get more of that mood and feel if he were to direct one.
I mean, he wished he could make him dissapear, so...
That’s not how Eon has functioned. At least since GE, they’ve claimed that they work on each Bond film thinking it could be the last. They never think ahead. The Craig films are proof of that. They were only ever going to start thinking of Bond 26 once the dust settled with NTTD after release.
Honestly, I don’t want Eon to rush a Bond 26 just because fans are so impatient. I actually want some distance between Craig and the next actor, just like how we got it with Brosnan to Craig. A good four year hiatus that makes fans even hungrier for a new Bond than they would have been if Eon had simply cranked out a film in 2022.
I kind of like it that way, too: I want each one to be the best it possibly can be and for them to stuff with everything they've got- I don't want them holding things over for the next one. Also you never know how well things are going to go down, you put a Jar Jar in one film and find people hate it so you need to keep things fluid. You might lose an actor between films, anything like that- none of these things can be planned tightly.
At the end of CR, Bond is the But at the start of QOS, Bond wasn't at that point yet. Then in SF Bond was supposedly burned out. In SP he had regained his spark... sort of. And I am not even going to touch NTTD with a broom handle.
EON's map for the Craig era, leaked from the Sony hacks: