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Okay I don't think this will happen, but then I never thought Craig would come back for NTTD.
What if EON decided to remake the films? Lets face it the series has been uneven. Some of the adventures were and are classics. But some, well maybe a second attempt would polish them up a bit. Would EON ever consider doing remakes of the original films? If so what do you think would be the public reception to such a thing? How would the passionate fans react to remakes.
For some context, lets say they remake the films that are based on Fleming novels. So we are talking remaking films DN thru to TLD.
I don't think that would result in a string of consistently successful films, there'd be quick audience burn out with it, and I can imagine it annoying a lot of fans.
I don't want to see another GF again, let alone I want to see another remake of OHMSS (we have many of this).
I agree with @talos7 it would be too lazy.
For the '70s films, how would you remake LALD? Unlikely.
The others from the '70s are such deviations from the novels that they could adapt the novels more readily with new titles and character names.
Not to mention MR, that has been used for, well, MR, AVTAK, GE and DAD. And that's at the top of my head.
They've already done DAD, I guess you could do that story again.
I think it’s a fine line. A Bond villain altering his appearance using a high tech mixture of surgery and stem cell therapy only available to the mega rich? That’s a cool spin on the MR novel and even the DAF film in my opinion.
The fact that it’s a Korean General turning into a Richard Branson-esque billionaire doesn’t quite do that idea justice in my opinion, and I’m not sure if they’d do it like that today, agreed. But again, fine line between brilliance and stupidity.
Yeah considering there's that super rich guy who's taking transfusions of his son's blood and doing all sorts of other experimental procedures to try and stay young, it doesn't seem so wild.
I’d actually never seen or looked that up till now. You’re right, it’s very weird and has a whiff of DAD about it. If only DAD had gone a slightly different story route with the gene therapy stuff. Maybe people would find it as relevant today as they do Carver in TND (the Bond franchise has a wonderful ability to point out the maniacal absurdities of the mega rich/powerful).
I think, although DAD does use some elements of the MR novel, a more faithful adaptation and update, like CR, could be great. From what I heard from pre-production crew on Danny Boyle's Bond, which was, as we know, cancelled, it used elements of the MR novel re: a huge bomb to be dropped on central London, in fact a huge full scale missile was built by the Art Department for the film, and then completely abandoned when Boyle and Eon went separate ways. The villain was, apparently a Russian oligarch with powerful UK connections, which sounds like a potential reworking of Hugo Drax. And Bond saves the day and, as a result, he is knighted at the end of the film. But Craig wanted his Bond to perish, and Boyle didn't agree with that. Perhaps one day the Boyle script will pop up somewhere.
I always presumed Bond's death was agreed upon when they hired Boyle and would have been worked into any version of NTTD (I think he himself said that his script featured Bond dying at the end too, so I always presumed he at least went along with it). The idea of Bond being knighted sounds a bit odd as it's something Fleming explicitly said Bond would never do in TMWTGG. Sounds almost like a Dark Knight Rises type ending where it's too good to be true/it's ambiguous whether Bond has died or not (which is actually kind of interesting!) That's really interesting though about the villain being an oligarch and the MR connection (another mandatory element of the film I always presumed EON wanted was a megalomanic villain planning to cause major destruction, as it's not something the Craig era had quite done before and it's there in the NTTD we got). I know some of the concept art for Boyle's planned film are around online and it looks cool.
I'd say DAD is really quite faithful to MR, I feel that any other attempt to adapt MR would feel like DAD again.
I've always wondered whether there's actually a definitive Boyle Bond 25 script that can even be released, or if it was by the point Boyle and Hodge walked more a collection of drafts that were still being put together. I know they were still very much in the process of trying to make it work. It might be a reason there seems to be so many little bits and pieces about its plot mentioned/floating around as conceivably in one version they perhaps played around with a Dark Knight Rises ambiguous death/ending. Or perhaps it was a fake ending in case a version of the script was at risk of leaking... I don't know one way or the other but that'd be my guess...
I think it would be matter of tone rather than content because DAD is, in the second half, almost full on fantasy, where as the MR novel is much more grounded as I believe Boyle's Bond film would have been.
That's Peter Thiel. He's also gay and the primary financial backer of the soon-to-be VP of the US. Starting to feel like a Bond plot...specifically For Special Services.
Bryan Johnson was the one I looked up (who, for a man on an anti-aging quest, looks absolutely awful in current pictures). There are more of them! Mega rich people are a strange lot...
Okay lets pose another one...what if EON did an older Bond for the next series of films?
Bond has always been cast with an actor the age of early 30's or early 40's. In fact the series has never really embraced age or played with what an older Bond might look and act like. What if EON leans into this and casts an actor in his mid or late 40's in the role of Bond. Would the movie going public embrace the character as an older actor? Or do you think we should stay in the sweet spot of early 30's for the Bond actor?
Depends on the actor, but no reason the public wouldn’t embrace a Bond of that age. There might be a question of longevity in the role though, but generally speaking I don’t think it’d be a problem.
Yeah, I think if the days of "James Bond Will Return In ThunderBall" for example, comes back, then giving an older guy the role shouldn't be a problem, since the films would be released faster. But how excited would Bond fans be, if the next Bond film is announced at the end of Bond 26? Truly excited...I believe.
Yeah, I think that's the issue with an older Bond: shorter tenure. Moore was cast in very specific circumstances, when they had to go for someone more famous. And like Brosnan, he looked younger than his age.