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There is a new sheriff in town:
"Barbara, where is my Bond movie?"
Yeah, I don't think so.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68596039.amp
“Sadism for the whole family” might be on the way out. I think Bond will probably end up biting the bullet and going 15/R rated one day.
It's more likely to be watered down further, i.e. not smoking anymore. No way they "bite the bullet" when profit is involved.
No more than any other owner of MGM.
There was the awful phone hacking scandal. Journalists hacking phones.
So that's how low UK journalists can go to get a story. I'm not sure any journalists went to prison over the scandal.
Short term maybe, long term I disagree. There’s only so much watering down you can do before the character’s so unrecogniseable that you lose the point of his appeal. And if kids aren’t being allowed to watch like they used to anyway, there might come a point where it wouldn’t make much difference to their profits. Some R rated films have been making big money lately.
I think it's clear that EON has never been easy to control, or bully. They've had to take some losses (studio interference to get Connery back for DAF, probably some kind of pressure to dump Dalton to bring on Brosnan), but especially from the Brosnan years and onwards, we don't hear too many stories about one pushing EON into a corner.
I think it's clear to smart people (and I'm assuming Bezos and company are smart people): EON isn't about to tell them how to run Amazon, and Amazon isn't going to tell them how to produce a Bond film (pretty sure they've gone over their budgets, and their profits, and the critical receptions, and figured: these guys know how to produce their IP)...
I should find the article but there was an interview with a former MGM executive right after Amazon bought MGM and this was basically his conclusion as well — even if they had legal ability (which they don't), why *would* anyone mess with how EON does things? It works!
Yes, exactly! Despite some people thinking that Barbara Broccoli is nothing but a school girl with a crush, these people actually know how to produce great popcorn films that exude style and class, that make millions at the box office (which is saying something, considering how many film series have come and gone over the decades, but James Bond keeps ticking after sixty-plus years)….
There's nothing which illustrates how lacking creativity the Craig films were better than the repeated use of the same version of the bond theme in each film.
Driver: "No, hey, this is an Uber."
JB: "A fine choice. Follow that taxi cab!"
Like how they used the John Barry rendition in DN, FRWL, YOLT, and OHMSS?
Even worse: the Little Nellie fight really could have used other music than the original version of the Bond Theme. Barry hated that move.
Btw, could you imagine if Venice was one of the locations of Bond 26? People would start to suspect that Italy was blackmailing EON somehow.
Lets look at modern action movie trends there seem to be three obvious ones with only two that work for bond
1. Sci- fi elements: we have multiverse in movies like Spider man no way home time travel in the flash and AI in Mission impossible dead reckoning part 1… this wont work with Bond as even with Moonraker “we are not science fiction we are in fact Science Fact” Cubby broccoli
Now with that out of the way
2. An older actor fans are nostalgic for.. with jo way home and the flash it shows fans are nostalgic for the 80’s 90’s and early 2000’s so how could Eon capitalize on this bringing Dalton or Brosnan back for one last adventure… while it would work you still have the issue of Bond 27 then being stuck in what we do limbo… the other issue is do we want a bond coming back for one final mission two films in a row…I dont but maybe you do
3. A Year 2 story dealing with father figures: here is where i feel the neon light is pointing in Spiderman: homecoming and The Batman we didnt get a new origin story. In both films we get a hero who is already defined dealing with father figures (the vulture and iron man in home coming and Carmin Falcone and in some ways the batman himself in the batman)
So what is this Year two story that is so obvious
Take the unused elements of Goldeneye (bond going after an old mentor) and diamonds are forever as a sort of Year 2 Bond storyline…
Perhaps Bond’s mentor could even be Jack Spang… is this going against Fleming yeah but i think apart from a few fleming pureist it wont be as upsetting as Brofeld…
We dont need Bond getting his 00 again or meeting M or Q again we need a 007 who is established and was 007 for a year at least
My two cents on how to capitalize on curreng trends
As much as I don't want to see the regularly destroyed DB5 again, I'll take it any day over a BMW or some other product placement car. A Bentley and Aston have always been Bond cars. Let's keep it that way. As for music, Bond is Barry. It's fine to use modern interpretations and variations of his work. Keep some of the Bond DNA.
What I'd like to see more of in Bond films is suspense. There's plenty of action, but not much in the way of suspense. Having watched North by Northwest again this weekend, I am reminded of what fun a suspense film can be.
I hope not, Dalton’s V8 is my favourite Bond car but I’m bored of the nostalgic callbacks. I like how the first four each had their own signature car, that was unique to them. I’d like to see that again.
I love the DB10 but I don’t think that or the DBS were given the same prominence and sense of importance as the DB5, that was Craig’s signature car imo. Which annoyed me because it’s so iconically Connery’s. And I’m not sure I’d say Brosnan had a signature car at all, he drove so many that none of them really felt like the one imo.
I know the product placement deals mean we’ll always have to have the new models featured, and I do think giving him a classic car as his own while he crashes his way through the MI6 issued new ones was a good solution. But I’d like that role, the DB5 slot, to be filled by a classic we haven’t seen Bond drive before in the next era.