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How I miss Italy...
Gravina di Puglia looks beautiful. Maybe they'll mesh the two, Matera and Puglia? As films often do. As you said, they do align rather nicely.
Two months reportedly for shooting in Italy - I think it's an indication that Italy part will be big in movie (and not only pre-credit scene). Maybe even not pre-credit at all. And two months - its the longest stretch of filming for B25. Seems like Italy will be the key.
https://corriere.it/spettacoli/19_luglio_02/james-bond-sassi-gravine-25esimo-episodio-matera-puglia-dcecd76c-9cdd-11e9-b87c-e5d25052c984.shtml
That's precisely it, reboots are indeed a thing - CR came at the very beginning of the 'reboot' trends, between then and now we've had two more Spider-Men, one more Batman (and another incoming in 2021), we've got a standalone Joker coming in October - thanks for all these comic book films the audience is absolutely fine with adapting to different continuity like this, especially if it's a different actor. No one seeing the advertising for Joker is thinking that Joaquin Phoenix is playing a younger Heath Ledger or Jared Leto. It's all about how the film is distinct enough from the character's previous portrayal and how it's sold.
If anything, having a different actor carrying on the same story arc or vice versa would be seen as odd - which is why people here are even suggesting Fiennes/Harris/Whishaw shouldn't be sticking around with the new actor.
Paul King is a fantastic idea!!
@RC7 do you know anything about how heavily Italy is to be featured?
Those pictures are stunning! Will be amazing to see on the big screen I'm sure!
Bond 26 for me needs to be a total clean slate for the entire cast of characters.
I didn't know Uwe Boll was a Bond fan.
Bond 26 will be a crossover with Boll's Rampage series.
That would be awesome! But maybe Boll would simply adapt Nightfire or Bloodstone. ;-)
He’ll sneak actual game footage into it too!
Yeah, he just might. ;-)
One thing I can't help noticing is how certain press agencies are extremely happy to cover, at great length, some of the setbacks B25 has been suffering in recent times. There's this Belgian newspaper, for example, that almost on a daily basis drops articles mentioning the "plagued", "troubled", "doomed", ... production of the next Bond film. Many of these "articles" pretend that this is it for Bond, that Bond has no future, that Bond is no longer relevant, ... I understand that there's "no news like bad news", but some readers actually believe that crap. Boyle, Grace Jones, accidents on set, ... oh yes, this newspaper will make a fine point of those things. And when nothing "bad" has happened for a while, it digs up crap about how we should just stop making Bond films because no-one is interested anymore. Whoever is in charge of that section must have severe anger issues to cool with Bond because this is beginning to look like a personal vendetta rather than "objective" reporting. All fine by me so long as not too many jokers reading that crap actually believe it.
For the record, this is the same newspaper that "knew" in 1993 that Bruce Willis was cast as Bond, the same newspaper that "knew" for sure that Sharon Stone was going to be the first female Bond in the '90, the same newspaper that always "knows" for sure that the next Bond film will be called "Warhead 2000"...
Absolutely but so often they don't do this. So many beautiful locations have been largely ignored in the modern Bond films - in and out...unlike like the good old days.
I think this is definitely goin to happen. Also, they are super close with each other, just 30 minutes by car.
Since @Pavlo mentioned it, I think that there is still a possibility for Italy to feature more than just the PTS. Big action sequences takes a lot for being filmed, but there's something that tells me Bond will somehow come back to that place during the course of the movie, especially if Madeleine indeed dies there. Reports mentioned some dialogue scenes in Matera between Bond and the new MI6 agent (Lynch, supposedly) inside the church of Santa Maria De Idris, which is something I don't see happening in the PTS. Bond definitely meets Nomi for the first time in Jamaica. This movie is quite a rebus.
Other than that... I love the details that went into M's office. Like the "old style phone" and the pencil holders. :-)
LOVE the photos of Italy. I'm very happy with the locations and if they are shooting for 2 months that's good news for me.
That's the state of the media, particularly in entertainment. Once they see a chink in the armor, they attack. I'm not sure why this is. Here in the U.S., it's Tom Cruise. If one of his films flops (as with The Mummy), they take great delight in announcing this to the world. When he broke his ankle, it was reported as a selfish act on his part, bringing down production.
Cary and Eva followed each other on instagram and Eva liked all of his Bond 25 posts. I find that super odd. She has never liked any of the past Bond posts after CR.
I would assume she is definitely in the film. Here is my crazy theory.
In SP, Bond found a tape that said "VESPER", he watches it.
SPECTRE, talks about a cloning project. Thats how we got a young madeline scene.
CR was what 13-14 years ago in the timeline? Maybe they found a way to clone Vesper's dead body, technically its not the Vesper that Bond knew.
Madeline is dead, what better way to toy with Bond then have Vesper back in a surprise cameo/twist?
Wouldn't hate it TBH. Bond has to kill Vesper.. I could see this happening based on the rumors. They have to connect Spectre with this film.