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Shall I quote the passage the killers make their way toward bond in a car bond shoots the driver and car goes over the cliff and it was in both areas
So a car chase and shoot out is now a direct adaptation of TSWLM? lol. Don't waste my time with crap like this.
I never saw that as a direct adaptation of TSWLM whatsoever. Where is the seedy motel? The gangsters threatening rape. Bond knocking at the door seeing the vacancy sign? Viv beckoning Bond in, and then him exchanging dialogue with a couple of thugs once indise, knowing something is wrong.
Id be pretty pleased if we simply got a Gunbarrel, a great PTS, and then a nice, old school Bond adventure that brings back some of the male fantasy.
Craig has undoubtedly done some interesting things with the role, but it's the first time I have genuinely felt that I wouldn't actually like to be Bond.
I've said many times, with the material left you could use it as the basis for a few movies (ala TLD), as short stories or scenes that can be adapted into a new script, like Maibaum did expertly in the 80's.
Weren't the two thugs sort of like Jaws and the bald guy?
I also think the end of QoS was a bit inspired by TSWLM.
Fleming knew what he was doing when he withheld the adaptation. But the man knew how to write a title. Trying to think of a comparable modern writer who introduced so many phrases to the vernacular. The many cultural riffs on FRWL alone...
There are loose adaptations littered all over the films - MR>DAD, TMWTGG>LTK, SF>TMWTGG, MR>QOS, etc. Some more looser than others, when you really have to dig deep to look for similarities, such as the very loose ones mentioned above regarding TSWLM, when they could be nothing more than mere coincidences.
But true adaptations are what we are looking for. FYEO directly takes the characters and plot from the Fleming shorts stories, plus a scene from LALD, OP directly adapts the same short story, as does TLD, and LTK directly adapts scenes from LALD.
And CR also does so with the entire novel (updated to fit modern times, of course).
The closest we have had to this in recent times is the torture scene in SP, which is pretty much a direct adaptation of the scene from Colonel Sun.
I think they read the source material before writing, which is why we got the Paris location (and nothing else) in (F)AVTAK.
These are more like subtle nods, if anything. Simply not good enough.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/rumours-tom-hardy-cast-next-22708705
2022 will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the series and it seems to me unlikely that Bond 26 will be released on this year because of the too short period of time that will have elapsed since the end of the Craig era and the difficulty of imposing a younger (and possibly unknown) actor so soon in the role. If the rumor about Hardy seems unlikely, some have mentioned that his only way to actually get the part, and only for a one-off, would be if Nolan is directing the movie.
Thus my idea: if Nolan is a name able to generate interest from the general audience, to the point of moving forward from the Craig era, why not make Bond 26 a special entry in the series, allowing a 2022 release. The chosen actor will not sign a multi-pictures deal; thus his successor, thought to remain in the long term, will have a lighter weight on his shoulders than if he had directly followed Craig.
+1 Indeed.
Either of these two would be great.
Agreed.
As for a "one-off" Bond with Tom Hardy ? Hardly. These producers had but one "one off" and it was not intentional or planned. The "two-only" with T Dalton also was not intentional or planned. By the way -- Tom Hardy is rather short to portray Bond. Given the duration of time between films now, I estimate they'd want a minimum of three. Were the time between films briefer, I'd say more, but three films several years apart places the actor at an age by the end of it -- over a decade -- of being old enough for them to move on.
If you play the odds.
No, he’d make it too long, torture everyone about how right he is, and plagiarize the screenplay.
Yes!! Denis is masterful, but don’t count out CJF and Sandgren though. NTTD has the potential to be the most visually artistic Bond ever.
As for material, I’m going with Moonraker novel adaptation. There’s so much potential there.
I agree about Denis, I would support him. As for future movie material, I say start adapting other novels. Icebreaker, The Union Trilogy, Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day (with Anthony Horowitz writing) would be great places to start. Take a break from original screenplays for a while (namely from Purvis and Wade). People want stand alone missions again? The books are mostly them. If they are interested in multiple movie story lines, plan them in advance. Not at the last minute like Daniel Craig’s.
Yes I think most here know that by now. Fleming has been dead for over 50 years, and legal issues have never stopped EON, right back to 1965 when TB was trying to get made and McClory had a hold over the rights. Likewise, it took EON years to get the rights to CR too, and the name SPECTRE. So it wouldn't be too difficult for them to get the legal rights, or get permission from the Fleming estate if they wanted to.
Covid wasn't intentional or planned, but the world may look very different post Covid, including how films get financially backed and greenlit. Whatever was the norm before 2020 automatically gets chucked in the bin now. The world as we knew it is literally changing before our very eyes.
I can easily see Hardy been picked as a one-off for a one-off movie to ensure it gets the green light to go ahead, because this is the strange world we are now in. Hollywood backers may not give the green light to an unknown young actor now (even though I personally would prefer this).
Long term plans for a movie franchise won't exist for a long while.
I think they would nail it, and people would love the escapism, specially now. And then, when things settled down, they'd come back to the classic cinematic big event format, set in the present, with yet another cast.
Definitely. That would be automatically better than most of the Bond films already, excluding the 60's classics, Dalton's 2 films and CR.
...but mainly would general audiences be that interested. As Bond fans, of course we love the original Fleming material, but would the series pull in enough numbers to keep the series afloat? I mean, as cool as it would be, I don't think EON or any other studio would trade in the amount of money they make at the box office making the films to make a series. They could maybe do it side-by-side, but again is there a real interest among general audiences to make this series worthwhile.