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Is it possible to save the full article as a PDF and upload somewhere?
Some very interesting considerations
Bond-free. Focusing instead on Madeleine’s backstory, the opening is a terrifying episode from her childhood in which Safin, wearing a Japanese Noh mask, kills her mother, pursues Madeleine through the home and hunts her down on a frozen lake. “Some clown chasing a child around the house,” Fukunaga says with a laugh. “Yeah, it’s like I brought back It in the first five minutes of Bond.”
- Several hot rumored plot points have made their rounds online during Covid-19: Bond is a father! (“I’ve heard those rumors. I can’t confirm or deny anything.”) Bond saves the world from a biological weapon and global pandemic! (“I can’t comment on that either.”)
- This story has been updated to reflect more accurate information about No Time To Die after its release date was pushed until 2021.
"What I think he's achieved - which is wonderful and a dream of mine - is to make it into a thriller," Craig says.
https://docdro.id/NeixltB
Are you drunk?
and "The kid is Safin". What kid??
I know, I always take these interviews with a large pinch of salt. The director of QoS also made similar encouraging noises before the films release, as did the director of DAD, and every other Bond film before that too.
I'd have been more impressed to have read the director stating he wanted to return to the books, and that was the main effort made during the production, like John Glen did before TLD or LTK.
With all talk of another psychological thriller, focusing again on Bond being an orphan, etc. didn't exactly make me leap for joy reading that interview. If anything it left me a bit cold, as it was a reminder of all that was wrong with the Craig era (and particularly under Mendes).
Still, I'll reserve judgement until I see the film.
The brief scene they show takes place in the same room where Bond is kneeling before Safin. But his face in the music video is of clear frustration before he turns around to find Madeline behind him.
So either Safin kills himself, or he somehow escapes that room before Bond shoots the guards.
This was my #1 concern about delaying to spring.
This is exactly what I suggested. It’s written all over Bond’s face - says it all really (that and there might also be a ticking cloak to get out of there. Plus Safin does say “my skills will survive long after I’m gone” like it’s a foregone clonclusion that he’s decided on.
First thing I noticed when I scrubbed through the music video. For 1 frame you can see him scowling down at something before turning behind when he hears Madeleine.
Someone already has!
"Well then," to quote M, "we're all buggered."
To put it another way, this is how I would game it out if I'm EON. We delay to April. By then, there are two possibilities. Things have recovered enough for us to go for a traditional wide release and count on solid box office. In which case . . . hooray! Or #2, by April nothing has got better, theatres have shuttered and the movie business needs to rebuild itself from the ground up.
If the latter, "we're all buggered anyway." It will be a complete rethink, we'll get together with other studio heads and maybe talk about buying some cinemas, or bargain collectively with the streaming services to come up with some innovative way to doing online releases, or something, but . . . it's all bets off by then.
It's a risky gambit, but the upside is high.
Exactly. But, then again, we have those pictures of Safin aiming a hand gun, and there’s also the one of him pointing it at someone in his garden with his hair looking a little disheveled. So I’m hoping there is a real tense final confrontation between him & Bond, and he doesn’t just off himself.
Could there be clones of Safin in the plot? Or is just some deadly virus thing?
Let's say Bond kills Safin in that chamber, only to be confronted with the real Safin in the garden or elsewhere
Ehh, I hope that’s not the case. Sounds too outlandish for a Craig-Bond film.
Yeah I'm just spitballing. Just a wild thought...
I’m still trying to process certain things regarding Safin. The scarring on his face for example, how old he was when he first attacks Madeline, etc. So much is still unknown despite everything we’ve learned.
Do we know how old Madeline is meant to be when she’s being chased across the lake in Norway?
Good job.
She's 13
Safin's scars might be side effects from taking the life longing drugs he's working on or something similar