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I am concerned it will never come out
And @MeetBond how do you they were winging it this time?
I just have fears with Covid
Covid?
EON's production method isn't unique by any standard, that's simply how most non-SciFi/Superhero action movies are made and this was just as true back in Cubby's day.
In fact, EON actually does a great deal more pre-production than its contemporaries. The last two Mission Impossible films, for example, didn't even have an ending written until after they began shooting.
La La Land is where people believe a director should resign for a film he finished five months ago only because the world has been suddenly hit by the single biggest crisis since WW2 and where Universal paid instead of MGM.
Also the original intention for M:I 3 was for it to come out in 2004.
That's true but people don't have the same affection for MI. Also, I think it has only seriously rivalled Bond since Ghost Protocol, and they have shot the next two back to back. It is likely to have the edge on Bond for the foreseeable future. This is especially so since the reception to Fallout, which is a genuinely excellent blockbuster the kind of which Bond has been struggling to achieve for a while now.
I am always going to prefer Bond because of the character, but right now it is a little like the 80s, when the Indiana Jones films eclipsed Bond as the premier action franchise.
Yet recent Bonds have done better at the Box Office.
Bond has a greater appeal with audiences in general, but I do think spy-action fans generally prefer the M:I films to a degree.
$ 100m? Fallout earned something 800 million and SF 1.1 billion.
Yes but I am talking about reputation as well. Th Bourne films for example didn't touch the Bond films in terms of box office, but which have the better reputation in recent years?
My point moving forward is that because the films are being made regularly enough that young people are not becoming fans of Bond in anywhere near the numbers they used to. Young people are far more likely to attach themselves to MI or F&F because they are actually making films. EON have dallied far too long, regardless of cover, to the point that they have been eclipsed. They still have the name of Bond, which can get them out of this hole, but that's all right now.
Or another way of looking at is since 1996 there have been 6 M:I films and 7 Bond films. Not much in it. Also since Spectre came out there have been 5 Star Wars films, I'm not even going to bother working out how many Marvel films have come out in that time!
Well he is the producer ....
Or another way of looking at it is that since 1995 there have been 6 M:I films and 8 Bond films.
You're right, there's not much in it. Yet it's always made sound like there is.
As for Star Wars and Marvel....well, the Disney method of production is quite something alright, but I don't see them sustaining it for sixty years.
What?! You don't want a Young Bond film? A Q spinoff film? A TV series about M? An animation series focused on Moneypenny?
Shocking, right?
Positively shocking. ;-)
Nope.
But at least they had the basis of a decent script to work with. Hell, it doesn't get any better than following arguably Fleming's strongest novel as close as possible.
When you have that to work from, editing shouldn't prove too much of a problem.
It wasn't that simple. Because of the unusual structure of the book, they had to do a lot of re-sequencing and make up some stuff in order to have everything fit in better for a cohesive film. For example, Red Grant stalking Bond was actually something they wrote into the movie while they were in the middle of shooting it!
I think it would be interesting to see the original edit of the film and how that plays out. For example, there wouldn't have been a pre-title sequence, as the scene with Grant stalking Bond at SPECTRE island was supposed to happen later in the film.
The re-editing and reshoots not only saved FRWL but further defined the formula!
Interesting. I didn't actually know much of the background to filming FRWL. Shows what a dab hand Hunt could be in the edit room on a good day (get him on a bad day and you get badly speeded up fights, weird voice dubbing, flipped shots (TB helicopter scene), etc. :)