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A bit like how Hugo Drax had exclusive access to columbite in the book. I don't know. Maybe the Moonraker novel has already made its way into Greene's plan in QoS. But I guess a new vision can be added to it.
It really depends on what you mean by a comedic Bond film I suppose. I’d say Bond movies all have a mixture of the dark and the light, and Bond is essentially escapism at the end of the day.
It’s also worth saying that jumping on a trend isn’t always the same as trying to create the best film possible for new audiences.
But "create the best film for new audiences" and appealing to Gen Z are just two different formulations with the same underlying meaning.
I don't think comedic bond has to mean self-parody though. Is the underwater car emerging from the water self-parody?
In any case, it is still an option.
I love that she's been diving for sandwiches.
Hehe! Yeah somehow it does feel wrong for Bond movies to go too 'spy', doesn't it. What I do like is that after the Craig movies it feels like they can now address him as a somewhat more realistic character and go to different places with him: he doesn't have to be the untouchable be-suited quip machine at all times. If they did do a triple agent storyline with him, or showed him joining SIS or the like, it wouldn't feel beyond the pale anymore.
He should still exist in a world of millionaires, where you get a balcony suite overlooking the most beautiful towns in Italy, and everyone has a house on a lake in Norway or a incredible beachfront house in Jamaica: I think that's a key part of how you stay Bond. But the character himself can be put through the wringer a bit more.
Again, it depends on what you mean.
I don’t think younger audiences would respond very well to something they see as insincerely trying to appeal to them. It would generally have to stick out and be a bit egregious in a Bond film to the point it’d be a bit weird (I dunno, could be a bit of modern slang a character like Bond wouldn’t use or something along those lines). What we call pandering I guess.
If you mean a ‘comedic’ Bond film in the sense it’s more along the lines of something like MR (ie. Bit of an illogical plot, self referential humour, but big on spectacle) it depends as well. I don’t think a subsequent Bond film will ever be exactly like any of the others that came before it. Every Bond is unique in its own way. Roger Moore era esque humour was there in both SP and NTTD but those are quite dark films in their own way. I think for a new actor’s first outing they’ll want to play it a bit more straight with a slightly more hardboiled story, albeit with a good bit of Bondian humour (witty lines, a few visual gags etc. I can’t see the next film going into ‘Bond riding in a gondola to classical music’ levels of outrageousness or Tarzan yells or whatever).
It just comes down to what story they want to tell and how best to tell it.
I quite like the different setup of Icebreaker, with the four countries' spies in an uneasy and shifting alliance. But it might be a little too real-world, not to mention if they draw in the neo-Nazis. And I also think Finland is an underused location.
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/9/17/rumor-damien-chazelle-met-with-james-bond-producers
He also seems to work with actors very well, so could be good at initiating the next actors era.
I enjoy how everyone knows you mean Nolan, Christopher Nolan.
Give me Denis Villeneuve, if he could turn a very difficult book (Dune) into a great film, and sure he knows how to understand a book/literary character like Paul Atreides, then sure it would work for Bond, balancing the literary world that Fleming created and the bombastic (opposite) world that EON created, he knows how to bring out the complexities in a character.
I could see him being a Martin Campbell type of Bond director.
You really did? Then how lucky are you to mee those people! :)
I don't think Chazelle does it, but of the "prestige" names (Nolan, Villeneuve, etc) his always seemed the most realistic to me for a couple reasons:
Though, I could be biased as he is probably my favorite "young" American director working today so the prospects of him doing Bond make my ears perk up even if Ruimy is (as always) making things up.
Thanks. I know it sounds far fetched but sometime life is strange.
Because it is the second unit that does the action. And these directors are better than Michael Apted.