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Who is clamouring for those things you're talking about? Two people saying that they think Evans would be good is hardly 'clamouring'. I find it odd you can be so certain about something whilst admitting you have no idea if they make any difference or not. A lack of knowledge of one would usually preclude certainty on the other.
You're not 'breaking any bad news': you're just stating what you think will happen.
That sounds interesting mate, I'll have to seek out more of his films
I wonder if the next Bond will start out as a seasoned 00 agent or whether we'll pick up early on his career?
I hope it's similar to TLD and Goldeneye, in that he's James Bond 007 and we pick up from there.
I doubt they can better Casino's brilliant origin story for Bond and I doubt they'd want unnecessary comparison's made
It just feels right (to me anyway). Fresh blood but no origin, and if extremely successful, could influence EON.
If there flashbacks to him as a kid or a teen... I dunno, if there was a good story reason for it I might not object.
Could you do a whole movie like MGW's early plans for Bond 15, with Bond being in the Navy etc. and only becoming 007 at the end? I guess it could be possible, I don't know really.
Nevertheless, I definitely agree with @Denbigh , a Year Two Bond story à la The Batman is the road to take.
One is not necessarily contradictory with the other, a reboot can be something else than an origin story. In my opinion, there is little doubt that the next installment will be a reboot, whether soft or hard; the Craig era too many consequences for Bond's personal life, to not refer them will at least be making Bond 26 a soft-reboot. Now, a soft-reboot could see Bond as the fully formed secret agent, but, as Denbigh, I would like to see something similar to Matt Reeves's vision of Batman: an effective young man far from being an amateur, but who still has to learn to become a veteran.
Oh yeah, I thought the B15 story had a lot of problems, but I was more trying to think whether it was possible to do another, different ‘Bond Begins’. I think it probably is possible to go earlier than CR did. The only slight problem is avoiding all of those ‘he really is Bond now!’ moments.
I would hope we avoid all that “he really is Bond now” stuff going forward as well. Even in CR he was Bond from the beginning, he was just inexperienced with a lot of hubris and arrogance but over the course of each film he’s become a little older and a little wiser, but at no point did he really come across as “not Bond yet”.
If it's highly acclaimed, a 'la CR and SF then I'd expect Barbara and Michael to, more or less, continue the Craig era formula with somebody else.
Meaning: breaking tradition here and there, an openness to less than happy endings, and more emotionally driven story arcs.
However, if NTTD turns out to be Craig's or even the series' nadir (subjectively speaking), I fully expect an extended delay, and a hard reboot.
Regardless, I tend to think Barbara and Michael will find another way to go back to Fleming, and make it fresh and new.
I don’t think MGW will be around much longer. I think Greg will start producing more full time after NTTD. Not to be a downer.
Yeah I'd be more than happy if they did something like this, a younger Bond 007 but not a rookie. It leaves more possibilities for him growing as a character
I think you may have a point there.
It'll be a reboot no matter what, and wouldn't really expect the series to be any more 'Fleming' feeling than the Craig years have been. Personally I think Bond moved beyond Fleming years ago.
Not in this case. Like I said, if I'm wrong I'll eat my hat.
Well it has and it hasn't. Craig's debut was the closest tie-in to a Fleming novel since OHMSS, and for the rest of his tenure the producers have been trying to tap into a Fleming vibe, or `Fleming reimagined' ever since, without directly adapting any previously unused scenes from the books.
Skyfall is a prime example of this.
In every case: it's just logic. A person not knowing how something works means they can't be certain about it.
I don't think they definitely will go for a gay or non-white actor: it won't really show that there's a choice which has been made dismissing either of those things. There are fewer of them about to pick from, anyway. As a bet, it's an odds-on one purely because of the numbers involved.
They obviously won't go for a woman. Not least because they have literally said they won't.
Yes that's true; a vibe of Fleming is good (scorpion drinking game, NTTD's Jamaican spearfishing etc.) but going 'back' to the books doesn't excite me hugely. Skyfall was a dash of that Fleming vibe and a return to the feeling of Bond films of old.
As I said, I wouldn't really expect the series to be any more 'Fleming' feeling than the Craig years have been.
If they can't update the stories in a way that makes sense, I'd rather they went their own way with things. The Fleming "reimagined" doesn't really do it for me. With that in mind, a film like GoldenEye would be a great template to use, I feel.
There we go. We are both on the same page, whether we like it or not.
:P
I think The Horowitz novels would be a good idea. They both feel like Flemings work, and I think both novels could make decent adaptations to screen, whether just scenes or characters are used, or the entire novels themselves.
No, we know for certain that planes work: it is true that they can fly. You said you have no idea whether the thing you said is true or not, but then said you're certain you're right. If you can't see the lack of consistent logic there I can't help you. And that's an end to it.
I wouldn't eat my hat if it were an openly gay actor: I just happen to think it's more likely that it won't be because there are fewer leading men of that type who are openly gay.
They're a lot of fun to read, but there's nothing in there which is such a strong idea that Eon can't write a story on a similar level.
The most eye-catching bit from most is the Murder On Wheels stuff, and that only really works in period and is regardless still one of Fleming's more silly and unsatisfying ideas.
Yes, using Fleming as a springboard is the best idea for a new Bond. I think of TLD...there wasn't a ton of Fleming, but there was enough.
That being said, there's not a lot of usable Fleming left. It's now so dated and picked over. I can't see Eon dropping in, say, a giant squid, just to tick the boxes skipped over in 1962.
Perhaps pieces of MR, TMWTGG, and THR.
I wouldn't mind a one-off with Pierce after NTTD.
The first chapters of TMWTGG could be a great PTS and the ideal way to introduce a new Bond. Of all the unused Fleming elements, it is probably the most cinematographic and the one that could serve as inspiration for the Bond 26 team.
I wouldn't mind seeing FAAD serving as inspiration if Eon chooses to go back to Bond's beginning. In a way, I think Horowitz succeeded better than MGW and Maibaum in the exercise of telling Bond's first mission and the outline of his plot (Bond investigates the murder of the previous 007, meets a femme fatale) is different enough from Casino Royale to be used on the big screen, although heavily revised (new bad guys, new location). I would be less thrilled to see Trigger Mortis though (even if I love the title).
I'm a lost cause... :(
That was my favourite bit in the whole novel, and I really liked the idea. But adapted to modern day, yes I agree. I'm not sure how it would work.
The issue for me is that the Russians don't have a good motive for their actions: they just want a propaganda victory. Which isn't really a very interesting motive.
For me, the brainwashing stuff is slightly naff Man From UNCLE stuff. It might have worked in a 60s Connery film (where we saw things like perfect doubles of people being created through plastic surgery) but I'm not sure it'll fly today without feeling silly or spoofy.
A part of me does wonder if, maybe, the ending of NTTD might feature Bond and Nomi encountering a terrifying CGI giant squid oozing out from under the surface of the water in Safin's base, crushing their little plane-boat thing! :) I can just about imagine them making it realistic, and I would laugh my head off in the cinema if it happened :D
If Bond is still chasing Blofeld in his 70s then maybe he's not the agent we thought he was!