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In the film, Moore does a double-take, which always led me to believe there was some kind of in-joke there. I still think it could be Jagger.
I don't believe work has begun on B26 whatsoever. I seriously doubt there will be an announcement this fall.
Presented the right (= straightforward) way to a modern audience, it can be appreciated and even serve as a relief from a lot of nonsense perpetrated in media today. But I'm biased.
It's a fear that I have myself sometimes - but mostly in regard to the US market. While I think that there will be a lot of public and media buzz when Bond #7 is announced (both pro and con), will that interest translate to the film itself? Time will tell.
It's telling that the two big films this year (Barbie and Oppenheimer) have production budgets in the range of $125 million - far less than any Bond film since Casino Royale. Will this cause a rethink on the part of EON? Again, while they aren't entirely a valid apple to apples comparison, it is food for thought.
So yes I'm looking forward to what they present. At this point I truly trust their judgment. And they should really stir things up in anticipation with some (IMAX or otherwise) short features or other Bond products as a lead-in.
Absolute BS clickbait article. No news in there at all. Just another blogger trying to make a name for herself by jumping on a random quote Higson said a while ago, which was just his opinion, pure speculation, taken out of context, and with no real insight at all.
The only announcement will get this year is "everyone is still really tired and we haven't even begun to think about Bond 26 yet"
The state of Hollywood ain’t good right now. Big projects, like Dune 2 have moved into next year. Everything’s being pushed.
It's likely some of these projects will get cancelled altogether, due to the massive stress it's going to put on the studios, with the demand to get all these movies made.
How will Bond 26 fair?
It's hard to know right now.
Eon could eventually revive Bond, but my hunch is that would be really far down the line and most likely streamed. Honestly, hardly anyone I know actually goes to the movies anymore.
Ironically I think a part of it might actually involve going back to the novels, at least in terms of writing Bond as a character. I think nowadays if Bond were introduced in the same way that Connery's was in DN it'd ring as false to a lot of viewers (it's worth saying that despite Connery's great performance in this film, in terms of how much it compares to Fleming's character I always got the sense that it heightened Bond's womanising and vices to tongue in cheek degrees. It also included scenes like Bond killing in cold blood without much thought, which is obviously different to the novels, and compared to his relative lack of self assuredness in FRWL, Bond seems very much in control of the situation and even plays Dent in a wry manner, which again clashes with the literary Bond).
I think nowadays more viewers, particularly younger ones, would relate more to a Bond who is more similar in spirit to Fleming's Bond - a loner, a man with lots of vices and really only a couple of redeeming virtues, a man who is constantly torn between cynicism and devotion to his job, a man who isn't always assured that he'll get out of the situations he faces. We've seen with Craig's Bond there's a precedent for going back to some of these qualities, and I'd argue there's actually stuff in those novels that even the Craig's version of the character never fully adapted.
I highly doubt that. Bond is too big a money maker for EON to simply cast aside for a while.
As far the the theaters go, I’d say your correct to a degree, though if Barbie and Oppenheimer are any indication, it’s that audiences will flock to the theaters so long as word of mouth is incredibly strong, and B26 will need that strong word of mouth.
“Oh boo hoo when are they gonna make an announcement?!?”
THERE ARE TWO STRIKES! Eon can’t do Jack squat if they wanted!
Don't really agree with any of this. First, NTTD is a bad film, and a shockingly awful ending to the series.
Second, Barbie and Opp have shown there is still life in the old box office.
Third, even if EON have lost any appetite to keep the franchise going, Amazon or other studios will gladly step in and take over as Bond is a huge cash cow, but I personally think EON will already have things lined up ready to go, once this strike is over.
“I don’t think Eon wants to make Bond movies anymore.”
More like they literally cannot, unless they know how to make a Bond film without actors and writers.
Well I appreciate the encouraging words. :D I do hate feeling like cinema itself is going downhll and NTTD would be 007's final big screen epic.
Personally as far as demographics go, Eon could easily get young audiences into Bond with a great film and solid story. It's worked before. I just hope we get a release date announcent in the near futue. :D
NTTD made nearly $800 million worldwide. Apparently there are a lots of "diehards'...
I understand your concerns, and after an entire summer where several high-profile projects have either “flopped” or “under-performed”, I’d be concerned too. But I just trust EON at the end of the day.
If making near $800m is considered a failure, then that should mean THE BATMAN was a failure too.
The only real dings for its box office run is that the budget was $300, which made its RIO not so great. Had it been something like $150m, then I don’t think there would be so much scrutinization over the budget. It also needs to bring in a bigger audience in North America, but I think this has been true for a long time when you think about it.
Bond had been a hit in the US, but it hasn’t really done blockbuster status like contemporary films. The only exceptions were GF, TB, YOLT, and SF. All the rest were respectable hits but nothing as big as contemporaries.