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Of course, but Fassbender's age (disregarding his looks/acting talent), is pitch-perfect for a new Bond if the role is recast in B25 (he'll be 42 in 2019 assuming B25 is released then). So pair that with getting McQueen as director, who made 3 films in his entire career, all featuring Fassbender in highly acclaimed performances, you just have to connect the dots to see what would happen.
True, @Mendes4Lyfe, but surely we are not waiting for another DN anno 2017. :-) I know I for one would love another toned down, straight forward Bond. But would such a film be commercially viable today? :-)
She just played the villain in FF8 (ironically with a Blofeld 'author of pain' twist) so I can't see EON going for her now. Also, she's the lead in Atomic Blonde which is about a female Bond style character.
You're certainly right on the first account, and likely right on the second as well. Still, putting together all those action sequences—however competently or incompetently the script comes together—is no mean feat. And more importantly, The Foreigner at a glance demonstrates Campbell has steam left yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/27/baby-driver-review-edgar-wright-ansel-elgort-kevin-spacey-jon-hamm-jamie-foxx
I think I'd personally prefer Edgar Wright to another Campbell effort, although I can't see it happening with Craig in the lead. And an Edgar Wright Bond film would be an odd follow up to the Nolan-esque Mendes era.
Having said that, those kinds of sudden change in tone and approach between films were par for the course during the Young/Hamilton/Gilbert era.
The Bond series has shifted tones more times than you could shake a stick at. Whenever a new guy takes up the tux, it usually means there's going to be significant changes. The audience is used to it by now.
If it's Craig again, I'd much rather he finish up his navel gazing family driven arc before a new man takes over with a lighter touch.
I'm guessing a large part of that was because of the hiatus, and then Cubby's death. They needed to find their footing.
I do agree about Soderbergh. He would give us a lean and mean Bond, and he would be perfect for Craig's swan song, and to kill off Blofeld. If we don't get Mendes for Bond 25--shudder--I bet we get Soderbergh.
Eon should save the remnants of the MR novel (Gala Brand, bridge sequence, cliffs of Dover) for the next Bond actor, because it's a younger Bond story.
Brilliant, just brilliant.
And that trailer for Atomic Blonde isn't half bad. It's incredible how many upbeat, comedy action vehicles are beginning to start up now. A real paradigm shift occuring. Bond better jump on this quick, although to be fair Bond is usually a few years behind. GoldenEye was kinda connected to the fall of the Berlin Wall, but that happened six years before.
It has always been a common view in Hollywood that men are fine as romantic or action leads pretty much all their lives (or at least well into their 60s) while women are seen past their prime after 35/40 (then they can be mothers and supportive wives). One just needs to look at the casting choices made and how often the women have to be considerably younger (or at the very least look considerably younger, by 15-20+ years) than the men. Personally I find it creepy and frequently unpleasant to watch. (I loved MMFR for many reasons, one big one was not having to stomach the usual movie crap regarding women)
Well said. Maud Adams in OP was one my favourite matches for Rog. They seem to have genuine chemistry. She appears older than the average 'Bond girl' and plays a character who is clearly supposed to be worldly. They need more of that.
However, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, my opinion can shift depending on the specific woman. As I noted in my prior post, I can see a decline in Theron (not physically, but facially) which makes me less inclined to want her as a main Bond girl. Bellucci was a stunner in her prime, but she too didn't look that great to me (even though her performance was very good) in SP. Having said that, her role (that of widow and secondary character) in SP was perfectly fine, and her age was not an issue because of the way the character was written. Moreover, both Bellucci and Theron are both quite age appropriate for Craig (even though Theron is too tall for him), so if he's back for B25 and they go with her, I wouldn't be upset. He doesn't look that great either tbh.
I'm not sure about the common view in Hollywood about older men with younger women, but I'm sure you can appreciate that as a man I am perhaps biased towards that view myself. As long as the woman is mature enough as a person, I don't have a problem with younger girls (or older ones for that matter, as long as they meet my lowly personal standards). It's all good.
That's an interesting question, and one that I would hope might make its way into the discussions at EON. Or, to put a slightly different spin on the question, would a modern Bond film in the mold of DN even need to be commercially viable in the same way that a big-budget Bond film like SF or SP needed to be. If they were to make another film like DN, conceivably that could be done on a relatively tight budget, which would result in a drastically reduced break-even point for the film. Success could be reached at a much lower point than what people were using as a means to measure the relative 'success' of Spectre, for instance.
Good lord that would be awful. And, honestly, I wonder how that would even work for a Bond film. Thankfully, I can't see EON stooping to that level.