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You should write Bond 26….
But since you will say no I still say if they are unsure where to go the obvious answer as always is GO BACK TO FLEMING….
Again let’s take what many consider a weaker book like diamonds are forever readapting that’s for modern audiences woukd be fine as gangster films seem to be on the rise/more popular today
I know Bond vs the Spangled mob is not on everyone’s bucket list but it will be good and well well
Because mob movies are in :)
+1. You are correct. This is always MGW's approach.
I think Eon will go back to Fleming as their template for Bond 26, and to MR specifically.
Eon will think about the success of CR: how it was a close adaptation of Fleming, how there was a major gambling sequence, and how strong the story was, not caring that the story had already been adapted twice.
If Eon is trying to recapture the CR magic in a bottle, all signs point to MR.
I had the same thought.
That's fantastic! I hope you get the chance to document some behind the scenes stuff on Instagram :)
I lost my original account— it was hacked!!!
So I started to document the writing process on my new IG… And will continue posting through the process!!
But like EoN, and everyone else: lots of news to share that’s interesting, then…. Lots of radio silence where a lot is going on, but the machinations of the minutiae are not “newsworthy”…
Join me at peter.d.sheldrick
Just let me k ow you’re following is all I ask, 😂
YOLT ended the excitement along with adolescence. Sixty years on I haven't given up on Bond films, but they haven't left me shaken and stirred. Good ones here and there, but uneven. And never ever as shattering as those first four.
For many, especially younger Bond fans, those early films must seem awfully crude, not vulgar, just crudely made. Like The Beatles, those early films burst onto the scene and burned bright for a while. Perhaps because they became familiar and predictable the new wore off. I don't share the opinion that Bond needs to return to the sixties. Even the old Bonds evolved. Note SC's clothing styles in DAF. But it won't be enough that the next Bond will younger and contemporary.
Much has been speculated about a lighter Bond after Craig. But that can be taken too far, as in the RM series. Humor in the face of danger robs danger of its believability.
I want to be wowed again. I want to be moved by a big, brassy title song. Not old school, not Shirley Bassey. But something that says, "Hold on to your hat." I want a stylish Bond who owns the role instead of renting it. I want wit, not silly quips. I want a pulse pounding opening. I want to be excited by a Bond film again, not just glad there is a new Bond film.
Don't cock it up.
George Lazenby
is
James Bond
in
Don't Cock It Up
Until Craig, no Bond actor came even close to Connery in cultural significance.
Oh my, didn't know that! I know people who have got their accounts hacked, so I guess you can't be too careful. Anyway, you've got a new follower!
@Torgeirtrap … yep I got rope-a-doped… someone contacting me about being a writer influencer. I went on what I thought was a petition, and that was it.
Learned my lesson.
Scams can be very smart these days, rather than the ridiculous stuff you'd never fall for in the past. It's actually impressive how clever these scams can be!
(Sorry for going off topic, everyone!)
Indeed. Very weak villain, plot, etc. Would not happen again until TSWLM, which was deliberately a different sort of story, but even that one had better villains. The next time there was a villain and plot that weak in the books was TMWTGG. Some of the books, if folllowed, would not serve well as films.
This exactly mate. There's something truly special about those first four films
So, do I have to hand in my badge and gun?
Because it keeps the signature while bringing in the essence of Fleming, that's why there's the originality.
From the 70's onwards, Bond had became the shadow of its glory days, the essence was no longer there, Bond is no longer the trademark, it's like a Fashion Brand that died out so easily after inspiring some new trends, Bond was just copying those films that dethroned him from the spotlight, in short, replicating the same essence of those big blockbusters at the time.
Maybe, if one may think of it, Lazenby's agent was at somehow, right, Bond and the spy genre did really died after the 60's, he'd made a decent argument for that.
Bond, in terms of dominating the trends, never seemed to recover again.
Now, that's what I would liked to see, two things for me to expect since Babs and MGW are busy on reinventing the character: either it could be trying to reclaim the glory (which I'm expecting and hoping at some point), or just continue in what they're doing of serving what the trend had set by another film.
I'm hoping for the former, not to the latter.
The gulf between these posts and their approaches to the next Bond era are massive. And irreconcilable, for that matter. Though I’m more inclined to agree with @peter, which also acknowledges that while Bond as a franchise hasn’t always been a trendsetter as it was in the sixties, it has seen off and outlived plenty of trends that led others into dead ends as “the next big thing.”
I get the nostalgia for those early films (he says with Thunderball being his favorite Bond film and having just been replaying parts of the FRWL video game), but the past is the past for a reason. I get that a return to the sixties era has its appeal to the long time Bond enthusiast, but does it appeal to anyone else? In the last few years, we’ve had two big budget retro spy films flop and flip pretty hard (The Man From UNCLE and The King’s Man). You can read the reaction to The King’s Man) especially as a warning against doing the same for Bond, given the modern-day setting of that series before it went back in time. Indeed, the only successful retro spy film I can think of is 2011’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy adaptation which had both an all-star cast and a budget the fraction of a Bond film or those two aforementioned flops.
In addition to your question, has everybody seen EVERY Bond film in a theater? original release, revival theater, museum showing, special screening etc. I can't imagine only having watched a Bond film on a TV.
Yet none of his films hit the stratosphere the way Connery and Craig’s have on first release. GE did exceptionally well on the 60th anniversary re-release, whereas his latter three films dropped like bricks. I was genuinely surprised by that because I was positive that all of Brosnan’s four films would have powered through on nostalgia alone, but it was only GE.
1. Live And Let Die being inspired by the Blaxploitation
2. The Man With The Golden Gun being inspired by those Kung Fu, Karate Martial Arts, Chinese 70's action.
3. The Spy Who Loved Me inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, and Jaws.
Moonraker by Star Wars, Licence To Kil by Miami Vice/Lethal Weapon action 80's TV shows.
Now the Craig films being inspired by Bourne, Marvel, and Dark Knight.
I hope in the next Era of Bond (Bond 26 onwards) there would be no like this.
And dare I say it, The Bond films has always reminded me of the other films!
Let Bond had its own style again! Like how the 60's Bond films had its sort of originality in them but at the same time putting in the Fleming spirit.
The originality is what I've missed.
I have no problem with Bond in the modern world, I prefer that too, but please, have some originality, don't make me think of other films when watching Bond films.