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Put the brothers from 'Legend' up against Bond, and you'll have yourself something unique to the Bond series: a hammer fight.
Would be quite something, eh? Craig vs two Hardy's + hammers.
Well my dream casting back a few years back would have been Michael Madsen and the late James Gandolfini as the Spang Brothers. :)
Ray Winstone as a Bond villain? Dear oh dear.
'Do you expect me to talk Ray?'
'No you slaaaag Bond. I expect you to fackin' die you c**t!'
Although it would be worth having him appear as Hannes Oberhauser just so he can say to Franz and Bond 'I'm the f**king daddy!'
I think as a general rule of thumb when casting Bond villains a good starting point is they shouldnt really be a West Ham fan.
Ha ha, I initially thought he was taking the piss.
I don´t see how the Spangs are more cartoonish than most of Fleming´s other villains. And the gangster collection did with little changes appear in the cinematic GF, so why can´t they be updated and used?
I always liked how Bond hardly catches a glimpse of the Spangs, which many people unfortunately seem to interpret as under-exposure.
I think they are under-exposed, which is why, despite having lots of potential, they're not considered first-tier villains. Jack Spang is pretty much a non-entity. Seraffimo has some good villainous scenes--his brutal treatment of the salon girl, his Western fetishism, his interrogation of Bond--but he needed one or two more to really come alive.
That's actually a pretty terrific idea that I would be very ok with seeing
Thank you. They could film part of the movie in New York as incentive to bring Dan back into the role so he would be closer to home. :D
Ah, yes. Thanks for clearing that up.
Also, I looked through the Sony leaks and found that Africa figured in Logan's draft and Bond was going to meet Blofeld for the first time in a diamond mine.However, MGM execs felt it was too similar to Silva's island from Skyfall. For all intents and purposes, they had cast Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Once they re-tooled the script, some executives were even pushing to turn Blofeld into a woman and to cast Meryl Streep(!)....I'd love to see her as a Bond villain.
I was listening to the new Smershpod today which dealt with Spectre, and one of the contributors is a writer who suggests that a big issue with the film is that C and the Nine Eyes gets explained to Bond at length at the beginning, but after that he doesn't really intersect with that plot again, and certainly never meets C again, so it's a lot of time wasted. His suggestion is that C and Spectre's surveillance network should have framed Bond for some massive crime or something in the first act, tying their stories together more.
I'm not 100% sure about that suggestion, but I guess it would make Blofeld more 'the author of all his pain' in that movie. I think it would be interesting to try and rewrite Spectre: there's something in there.
And it needs to be noted that in the Some Kind of Hero book that the foster brother element was not P&W’s idea but rather it was Michael G. Wilson’s. So, credit where credit is due.
I have read the October 2014 'shooting script' and when compared to the final product, some of the changes made were for the better, some worse, but ultimately the core idea was so poor and underdeveloped, only a complete head to toe rewrite of the whole story and structure could really improve it, and they just didn't have the time to do that.
I cant work out how it took Broccoli, Wilson and Mendes until Summer 2014 to realise their script was so poor. I mean what were they doing between Jan 2013 and then? P&W's involvement was first announced June 2014, and they essentially had a very short window to make any major changes as the film was racing into pre-production, building sets, booking shooting locations, cast and crew, ahead of a December production start date.
I just smacks of Broccoli, Wilson and co being asleep at the wheel.
I'd love a clever script editor who knows about structure and storytelling to do a little dissection of it and maybe even try to fix it, I love that stuff. There's a script editor called Andrew Ellard who does that on Twitter occasionally, quite often with Doctor Who, and I find it very interesting to read.