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Well, if there’s a date in the bottom of the gunbarrel, I’ll be happy.
I doubt it’s anything of interest. I doubt it’ll merrit any bottle openings.
LOL.
Oh, shoot. I completely forgot about that. If we get anything, it will absolutely be Road to a Million related. Or something about the new Bond video game.
Honestly, overall, whilst I'm slightly hesitant towards Christopher Nolan, more for his track record of female characters, the only thing I wouldn't be keen on is a period setting. I just feel like it's not something you can easily come back from if it doesn't work and there's a high chance it wouldn't, even with someone like Nolan, whose generally celebrated by audiences.
Can guarantee no actor will be announced, because the SAG-AFTRA strike continues.
What was the screenshot?
Yes, it’s not something that I’m looking forward to, sadly. I know some Bond fans were upset with Kim Sherwood and her spinoff series. That however, was a risk that felt worthwhile. It expands the Bond Literary Universe. RTAM brings Bond into reality television, something I fight against in my industry. Imagine if Guy Hamilton and Tom Mankiewicz were working on the series again. They’d probably make fun of the US with a reality show that has a woman bimbo. I won’t badmouth it yet, but I feel that between rehiring Purvis and Wade and straying into reality television, EON could be making better choices.
How involved is Eon in the show? Their label is nowhere on the recent Apple game nor advertisements/announcements for RTAM, afaik.
1. Adapting them in order. Very unlikely as CR was pretty recently already turned into a highly acclaimed film that was pretty faithful to the novel.
2. Blofeld trilogy. Pretty unlikely, IMHO, for two reasons: Blofeld was already in the last two Bond films. And although YOLT has not had a faithful adaptation yet, TB did have one that followed the novel relatively closely, and OHMSS had an even more faithful adaptation already.
3. Adapting a book that has not been faithfully adaptated yet. As some have said before, Moonraker might be the most likely candidate of this category.
What do you think?
I'm hoping for a fresh, non-Nolan approach the next time around.
Indeed.
Moonraker would've been unlikely either, as some aspects of that book had made it to the screen, think of Die Another Day, for example.
The only one that I'd liked to see is The Spy Who Loved Me being adapted to the screen as the Pre Title Sequence to introduce the new Bond actor into the role, but modernized.
Honestly, the closest thing I can imagine story wise to a period piece Bond 26 directed by Nolan is Forever and a Day. I’m not actually the biggest fan of that novel incidentally, but it’s got some interesting ideas (certainly a much stronger female lead than what Nolan usually offers).
LALD
Moonraker
DAF
TMWTGG
All 70's movies can be remade.
Maybe Thunderball (It's a good story, they can make 50 versions of that book)
Yes I must admit that a film version of MR or TSWLM or TMWTGG doesn't really excite me much. It's either that we've seen quite a few elements of those relatively recently in the films or the stories just aren't all that thrilling to adapt now.
Original story with parts inspired by the novels is my favoured direction too.
It's my favorite of the lot and I'd be very excited to get a full, proper adaptation of it.
That's a bit like saying "I already have two knock-off Picasso paintings in my house. I don't want a real one!"
What stuff in it do you fancy seeing? It's been a while since I've read it.
Everything at Blades (though it's a straight-up casino battle, of sorts, something we've already seen before for the most part, but those are always exciting), Bond's sleuthing and investigating, the cliffs/beach scene, the car chase, and some other tiny moments. The finale would be great, but that'd also be a mixture of stuff we've already seen (particularly from the films of MR and some aspects of TSWLM). I could even do with some flashbacks into "Drax's" uprising.
For a film version, however, I’m just not sure if all that much would be added by showing us Bond’s desk work. Stuff would have to be heavily adapted (ie. The reason for Bond investigating the Moonraker project with the suicide of one of the workers I fear would play a bit flimsy in a film as it has little pay off in itself, and is only recounted through dialogue). As thrilling as the car chase with the newspaper lorry is on the page too I think it’d have to be amped up for the screen. Same for the climax which amounts to Bond and Gala talking for about 5 minutes, getting burned, and then recalibrating the Moonraker which isn’t very cinematic. The escape with the blowtorch I suspect would look a bit daft onscreen too. So I can see why it’s not a novel that’s had a faithful attempt at adaptation in the same way other novels had.
There are, however, passages that can inspire a scriptwriter and indeed seemingly have done. The description of Bond in Blades as this un-English, almost out of place figure could be adapted visually with Bond in an environment where maybe he’s being viewed by people with suspicion and he himself is out of his comfort zone. Of course QOS took the concept of Bond brazenly saying he’d kill himself during the hotel climax of that film, in a way that was much more cinematic and emotionally resonate.