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It's never really touched on in Octopussy, and therefore could still a great basis for a vilain. It's easy to imagine such antagonist in Bond 26 or 27, whose plan could be to manipulate Western secret services in order to create an international crisis to allow him to then return to Afghanistan and take power for himself.
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And also given the general decline in pop culture masculinity, the advent of the feminist Me Too movement, the racial justice movement, the Gamergate movement, the "Destroy Statues of Old White Men" movement, and the upheaval of just about every traditional British-Western ideal...
I'd say Bond 26 is going to be very different from anything we've seen yet.
- I am 99% certain we will not get a white, straight non-transgender male actor in the role.
- I am 99% certain the trend of feminism being a central component of Bond girls (now just called "strong women in Bond films") first initiated in 1995 will continue, even accelerate.
- I am 99% certain there will be some direct mention of the social issues going on in real life right now, in a way that makes traditional Bond movies and Bond fans look bad.
Virtually every other popular traditional movie franchise has been subject to this "Woke" narrative injection, and the 007 franchise hasn't had a new movie be produced since all this social upheaval occurred. Portraying a straight white male hero (who isn't completely limp-wristed) just isn't going to happen in the 2020s.
So Bond fans.... buckle up.
I'm really hoping it's not a Bond learning his trade origin story with the next actor. We just had an entire era of that with Craig. However, it's the trend these days, so I wouldn't be surprised.
At this point, I'd be open to the idea of returning Bond back to the cold war with a period piece.
I don't think Eon is ever going to do that as their main cinematic offering, but I have been wrong plenty of times before.
And I am at the point as well, where I just want a "Bond in his prime on a stand-alone mission"-film. I would personally also love it, if they went back to the old muddled non-continuity where they pull out stuff from previous films when they want to and totally ignore it at other times. But as everyone is saying: I don't now if audiences weaned on the Marvel Continuity Universe will accept that.
I guess it has been 15 years since they did that though so maybe not too soon; it’s beyond me how they can make it feel fresh and different though I must admit. I think it’s likely we’ll get something like that; maybe the tone will even be steered by the actor choice- his strengths etc.
CR was the perfect opportunity to tell an origin story, being the first novel and all. Eon did this to perfection in my eyes. I suppose if they wanted to go much younger they could adapt the Young Bond novels and use that an another route to tell Bond's beginnings. I would actually love that if it were set during WW2 like those books.
I suppose it would have to be done right, really. Seeing Young Bond on a WWII mission could be exciting. One of the elements I liked best about the Fleming biopics (like SPYMAKER) was the uniforms and WWII espionage feel. Of course those films were television movies and Bond would have much more of a budget to focus on the period details.
At the same time I realize it could be well done, as the Young Bond books have a good reputation.
So I'd receive it as I would Black Bond or other possibilities: a film experiment that exists on its own. To definitely watch and give it a chance.
In all honesty I'd much rather have the next iteration of Bond focus on straightforward missions with little personal angst. Bond in his prime. I prefer tradition to experimentation. However, since the trend these days are re-boots and origin stories I have my doubts that will ever happen again.
Easy fix: time-traveling Bond.
The next Bond can have an invisible Delorean.
By the time we actually get B26, DAD will have had it's resurgence.
We are operating under the assumption that all Bond films take place between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall… right?
I like to think of Craig’s run as providing the bookends to the character.
I always think of Craig’s era as totally separate, and the other ones all in a very loose continuity. After all, Dalton being referenced to having had Tracy in ‘89, looking around the same age as Lazenby in ‘69, doesn’t add up. Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan all have the same “history” but are different I suppose.
there is plenty of unused fleming
Really, there's really a lot. And most of it isn't dated at all. How is a giant squid dated? Or swimming amongst barracudas? Or partaking in a game with M? Or being brainwashed and assigned a deadly mission to prove yourself? Not to mention the characters, names and all, still left on the page. I say there's plenty.
And coming back to Fleming doesn't necessarily mean using the original product per se. Think of the scenes we've seen of Bond on his yacht, spear fishing. That is pure Fleming right there. It's all about the spirit of it. And EON knows it well, fortunately.
Exactly and while I am in the minority I love the smaller plots of the craig films even Skyfall and Spectre (which i am not fans of) have these sort of smaller intimate plots and with the right screen writer you can develop fleming into modern day thrilled.
I remember saying this years ago even in the smaller stories Fleming adds a line or two that could be developed into films on their own.. Case in point in the hildebrand rarity Bond is at the Seychelles Islands invsting the security of a potential military base... if I was witing the next bond film that would be my starting point. well why is Bond there? Is there issues on the island? Threats? etc and build it into a good 2 hour film