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All good @mtm ! It’s just a short delay. I’m very lucky and count my blessings!
Preproduction by end of Jan, for a March production. Elizabeth has hired me for another adaptation, so while the first project gets shifted, she has me busy on a new script.
So, very happy, and continue to embrace any good fortune, and hold onto it for dear life!
Thanks @007ClassicBondFan … the film industry really is turbulent at the best of times. The last few months have certainly seen an uptick in the chaos.
It is a shame, and I was hoping once the writers settled, it’d be a quicker process with the actors.
Well, there’s another one of my predictions that got flushed down the toilet!
Sorry to bore you…
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I like these ideas for the future and I would like Charlotte King and in particular Irma Bunt to be villains in future movies or books.
Hang in there, @peter the industry will get better. It's time that America should care for the average worker, not just the CEOs with massive pensions.
On a plus note for us Bond fans, EON can truly start writing it. It sounds like Purvis and Wade are coming up with new ways for Bond to leave MI6. But seriously, EON can better plan a story or even a multi-film arc for the next Bond actor.
I agree, @MaxCasino ... The automakers have also gone on strike, and for the first time in a long time, the average American sides with the unions.
The pendulum has seemingly swung too far in one direction, and after covid, wars and inflation, it's harder and harder to keep a roof over their heads.
The "trickle down economy" got stuck somewhere at the top of the peak,didn't it??
Anyways, onwards and upwards (hopefully!!)
Ronald Reagan: more like a real Bond villain than people realize. Now his party is just like Agent of Spectre: unsatisfied with the leadership, they take out the leaders and install themselves. But enough of me rambling about politics. James Bond is escapism for all.
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They can decide the direction of the franchise. They can talk to writers. They can get a screenplay written. They can talk to directors. They can hire a director.
EON can do a lot of work on Bond 26 before the end of the SAG strike.
I don’t think MI will mean anything for a future Bond film. MI went against two films that just caught the zeitgeist and couldn’t hold its own. Even when Bond has been in a similar situation (ie. LTK going against an unprecedented number of franchises and OHMSS coming out in the same year as some heavy hitters) they’ve always turned a profit. It’s in large part due to the name recognition, the franchise’s ability to update itself, and I suspect a stronger fan base than MI (that’s not to say viewers like us, but simply loyal viewers who will go and see it). So really I don’t think any single director matters all that much in the grand scheme of things. They just need to find someone they think can help deliver the best film possible.
Nolan is the safest bet right now.
(Indiana Jones flopped too, nothing is impossible)
No Time To Die didn't flop though, I imagine that's more relevant.
It'll be a reliable, safe pair of hands such as Campbell or Mendes who won't be a diva and quit months into development.
I think unless any of us have an insight into Bond 26 we can’t possibly say one way or the other who the ‘safe bet’ is. Like I said little if any financial increase will come from the director of a Bond film. It’s what they’ll bring creatively that matters.
Indy’s another one that doesn’t mean much. The last film of the series to bring back an older version of the character isn’t well regarded anyway, even if the first three are considered classics. The series has its fans (but even that’s arguably a smaller pool than MI and certainly compared to Bond), but I don’t get the sense there was much widespread desire to see another Indiana Jones flick. A new Bond film is so unlikely to be a box office bomb. The only exceptions would come if a) the film was objectively badly made in terms of filmmaking (which is unlikely to happen) or b) the concept of the film goes so badly off the rails that it becomes unrecognisable to the casual viewer (and honestly, we’re more likely to get that with a period piece Nolan Bond film than anything else).
It will bomb if young people don't care.
Well, Bond’s audience is generally older anyway (late 20’s and beyond as a majority) but I’d argue it has a larger younger fan base than MI. My younger cousin often jokes it’s a series for older folks who still want Bond films from the 60s. Perhaps unfair, but I think a new actor and a fresh era will bring in some younger viewers.
Whilst I don't totally disagree with you on this, I do wonder then why MI:DR failed to hit the spot for many audiences. The previous films had been hits for the most part. Cruise and McQ are still very popular.
Despite the popularity of Nolan, I don't think his directing Bond 26 would be a guarantee of box office success.
That one was lucky enough to benefit from Barbie and all the memes though, which wasn’t anything Nolan did. He just makes the films he wants to make and that one was lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle.
Indy isn’t a series that reinvents itself, has several iterations throughout 60 years, and anywhere near as many films behind it. Bond will be fine.
Pretty much, yeah. Honestly, I think Barbie came out better in terms of what people thought of both films after.
Tenet, probably a better representation of Nolan doing a Bond film, didn’t come out well in terms of who enjoyed it. To be honest I think that’s a bigger mark against him than Oppenheimer’s success.
When you have 26 movies at home you don't need another one.
I think MI flopped for that reason.
I wouldn’t put it like that. I think it just got sidelined over Barbie and Oppenheimer and because its fan base is quite soft (compared to Bond’s) people just thought, ‘meh, I’ll catch it at home, there’s another part anyway.’
Not gonna lie, even I’ve not seen it yet.