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It’s okay @talos7 — @Mendes4Lyfe likes to make things up as he goes along.
This is a book that was just optioned today.
They have no script, no actors, no release date..
If they started writing and developing the script today, they’d hit production in a couple of years and release the film three years from now.
But, because @Mendes4Lyfe has a short memory, Villeneuve himself said that, for his “own sanity”, he wants to direct a project BEFORE D3: Messiah.
About a couple weeks after he said this, he let the world know there’s a “secret project” that he’s “not at liberty to speak about,” but “it has to see the light of day quickly”.
This new project is about five to six years away if Villeneuve does his “secret project”, then he does D3, then the non-fiction adaptation of the book.
Please read my comment right before yours.
@Colonel_Venus , he probably did. But he ignores things that don’t fit his narrative.
Now, the buzz is there— not “breaking news”, and not close to it. But the buzz has started to circulate…
IF he, or anyone, is in high level talks with EoN, is his rep going to tell World of Reel, DURING negotiations?
Just let everything play out.
Let purvis and wade come up with a great story based on diamonds are forever have Cavill as bond being back Fiennes hire a hot blonde to play the new female diamond smuggler/thief get a rock band to do the theme and call it the diamond smuggler and there ya go
Now i know many will demand i turn my bond card in so be it i am gonna get the biggest glass i have fill it with vodka drink it then take a bath and go to bed
Yeah, we know they can lie. That's why the ATJ rumor is still alive.
Wow, @Mendes4Lyfe , you're on a first name basis with these directors? That's incredible.
And, who is Quientin?
And, you should speak to a few of these directors and see if your post is accurate.
Because, it's not. Behind the scenes we have the studios green lighting less, and less. You have a lot of unemployed above, and below line talent.
You have studio heads saying no" to projects, because "no", is the one word that will salvage your job for now.
In short, when you speak to anyone from agents, to stunt people to above and below line talent, they will tell you what's happening right now, and that is fear, fear that hasn't been seen like this in, pretty much forever.
All the franchises are being overhauled, including DC and Marvel. Gareth Edwards is taking over Jurassic, with Scarlett Johansson as the new lead. They're moving away from the Speilberg model of awe-inspiring visuals, and heartwarming messages about family to a leaner meaner survival tale. It's industry wide. Alien Romolus, cutting the fat and returning to the scares and tension of the original. Naked Gun reviving the spoof genre with Liam Neeson after 30 years of those awful "Date/Scary/Epic Movie" cash grabs. After the pandemic studios tried to carry on as usual, and it took them a couple years, and lots of lost money at the boxoffice to discover that the old way is outdated, it won't work anymore, not across the board anyway. Hollywood has finally wisened up, and what we're seeing is that the old franchises or either going to pasture (like fast and furious) or being rebirthed, like Superman, Alien Romulus, Matrix, Jurassic etc.
Franchises go through rebirths about every decade.
And you’re talking about a return to grit, when a few months ago you were banging on that audiences wanted more light, whimsical fair.
You’re speaking out of both sides of your mouth and commenting on films that haven’t been released yet.
And please explain what the “old way” is and why it is “outdated”.
Your post is a lovely word salad, very low calorie, but leaves me very confused.
I love Liam Neeson as an actor. But he's no Leslie Nielsen. That dead pan delivery just cant be replicated the same way. It's one of those franchises that should be left in the past.
And since when has Dev Patel been an accomplished and admired director?
I think he's a great actor, and I'm aware of his directorial debut with Monkey Man ( a John Wick rip off as far as I can see) but I wouldn't place him in a list of upcoming directors to watch.
Hollywood is continuing with its IP obsession, and the interesting spec sales are almost dry, just hanging on, and finding life where they’ve found life over the past thirty years: more in the indie world than the Studio System… it’s about IP, IP, IP in Hollywood, and that hasn’t changed (less risk, hopefully more reward).
But who am I to argue with a guy on a first name basis with such directors as “Quietin”…??
Franchises Go through rebirths, that's why I made a point to say its industry-wide. They're happening in tandem, thats the strange part. Complete overhaul at DC, Marvel chucking out their plans for secret wars and retooling, Jurassic cutting out the World/park casts, even Fast 11 has halved its budget and is going back to street races.
"Old ways" refers to the common way of franchise films to bring in nostalgia, familiar faces, fan service, pump up spectacle, play it safe, don't paint outside the lines, make back an easy 3 to 3.5 times your budget, rinse repeat. This is the model that Flash, Aquaman, The Marvels, Ghostbuster Frozen Empire, Transformers Rise of the Beasts, Fast X, Antman Quantumania, Fantastic Beasts 3 and many others were still using and it blew up in their face. The game has changed now, it's adapt or die.
Light and whimsical and cutting out the fat aren't mutually exclusive. Raiders of the lost ark is a much much more streamlined film than Dail of Destiny, but in terms of tone they aren't too far apart. Franchises are being paired down, that's the bottom line. In the case of Alien that means a return to low-fi claustrophobic tension, in the case of Bond that might mean cutting out the scenes of Bond staring at old photos with a face burnt out, and familial connections, and returning to more streamlined adventures like TND.
Thank you @Mendes4Lyfe for enlightening me…
Someone who speaks French to give us a translated summary, please.
:)
The voice of reason @007HallY
I’m not sure where some of our members come up with their over the top thinking.
Then he can finish Dune: Messiah and his new project.
What is bothering me is if there isn't going to be another Bond film until November 2026, why would all the buzz and chatter around Denis Villeneuve be happening now, in March/April 2024?
Well, because we as fans are speculating about these things at a very early stage of Bond 26. That’s a major reason.
Anything could happen. I don’t know whether Villeneuve will be the director one way or the other.
Ofcourse, we don't know anything, I'm just running with the logic that Villeneuve IS the man Barbara and Micheal want. If that is the case, I could see them moving from the traditional November slot to April or early summer, to fit into his schedule. A bit like how they hung around for Mendes to do his stage production so he could come back for Bond 24, as it was known.
The hype is over. The movie is not going to make many waves.