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Yeah, my point kind of bites it's own tail because it certainly seems like it wasn't Fukunaga who pulled Craig, Broccoli and Wilson towards the heavy connections to SP and that ending kicking and screaming... And I had kind of forgotten that most of his work was in TV before. You are absolutely right that pre-NTTD he was in the second camp rather than the first.
And I certainly wouldn't mind him returning.
Not every director would have been willing to step into a project at the eleventh hour with existing sets, a more-or-less set script, and a story which leaned heavily upon a preceding film that was panned.
Barbara has already said it is his if he wants it.
Which makes me think he does want it.
Five years of rest should take care of that.
Did she really? I've not heard that, that's not exactly playing her cards close to her chest.
Personally I'd hope he doesn't come back: it's a good film but it was lacking in the Bond feel or moments which stuff like CR and SF never forgot to include.
I'd prefer a clean slate too, mainly with the writers. I'd have no issues with Fukunaga coming back, as long as no one associated with the script for NTTD came back.
Fukunaga has both a screenplay and a story credit for NTTD, so that would rule him out and I would assume he would want as much if not more writing input if he were to return. As has been mentioned before, his first meeting with Barbara Broccoli were reportedly about a reboot after SP. That sounds like a story pitch first and foremost and he probably still has that in a drawer.
However, we also know he came in late for this film and eventhough there is a "story by" next to his name, we know that a lot of the big decisions - especially the one that is most divisive - were already made and he was apparently mostly tasked with connecting the dots that were set in stone.
Yep, I'll take one of these too.
If Harrison Ford and other actors are reprising their roles decades later, I feel no other James Bond should come back more than Timothy Dalton. He’s earned it.
As long as he doesn't do any more wheelies in big rigs LOL
I agree. Much as I love Dalton, I feel as if doing a move like this would be nothing more than pandering to Nostaligia, plus it would seem like EON cashing in on this trend of bringing back older actors to play their iconic characters, i.e. Michael Keaton back as Batman, and Tobey McGuire and Andrew Garfield returning for Spider-Man.
#Mesofourny.
It is going to happen sooner or later. Unless you have some kind of deal.
LMFAO
Somedays I'm genuinely shocked that I'm still here.
I think they could easily come up with a new story involving commercial space travel, the billionaire space race would make it feel quite timely and relevant. Maybe a super rich baddy who’s been investing in their own shuttles could storm the ISS and start installing some sort of doomsday weapon on there, or using it for some kind of evil scheme, not clever enough to think of one. Bond could be sent up to try and rescue the hostages and avoid a full on military response. They could even go to the ISS for real, if they had the budget. Only issue I can think of is that it might end up feeling a bit derivative of that Tom Cruise film that’s coming out, depending on what that’s like.
I am all for it. Great thinking as always. I also wouldn t mind if Q invented a time machine.
Maybe the Russians secretly attached something to the ISS to sabotage it in some way, and Bond has to hitch a ride up there, find, and disarm it; maybe there is some hand-to-hand space combat where a guy gets strangled with some sort of space tube... I could see it. Stabbed, maybe? With a... space knife?
It would be a cool way to modernize the underwater combat a la FYEO or TB.
Yeah that’s the issue. Maybe it’s the sort of thing that’d better suit a PTS or a finale like MR, rather than a whole film. I do think you could get a good 90 minute thriller out of the idea (like Gravity a few years back). But I guess there’s the issue of would it really feel like a Bond film. Not much room for all the usual trappings.
They could do a Life On Mars sort of thing. Modern Bond time travels back and meets a digitally resurrected Connery Bond (scary to think that might actually happen one day). Connery Bond could play the Gene Hunt role. Politically incorrect geezer who thinks the modern Bond is a sissy because he doesn’t smoke or slap the women he shags.