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You have no soul.
I love not having to drag discs all over the place. ;-)
Do you also like not having to drag a soul all over the place?
Getting rid of DVDs is a good idea...if you replace them with Blu-rays. Much better visual quality and less risk of file corruption or loss through server failure.
How much do you charge yourself?
As far as I am concerned, the release/leak of the Boyle/Hodge Bond script will be the most exciting event in the history of James Bond since the casting of Craig in 2005.
I do not want it quite that bad but am very interested in what Boyles idea was. I imagine something edgy and raw without the typical Bond production polish which was probably why there were creative differences. EON should leak it to the McClory estate and let them make the movie, create the needed distance from the Bond brand but still get the film out there. Maybe even craig could hang up his holster with EON and move on to that version of Bond.
Given the amount of bad blood there's been between McClory and Eon going back 60 years now I can't see them leaking a film script they might very well cannibalise and use parts of in a future Bond film. That's not to mention the fact that the McClory estate now have no claim to the James Bond character, Blofeld, SPECTRE or the Thunderball novel as a result of the deal Eon did to buy back that novel and its associated film rights some time ago. It was only through this deal that they were able to attain the rights to use Blofeld and SPECTRE in the last film Spectre (2015). I also can't see Daniel Craig moving over to another production team against the wishes of Eon and Barbara Broccoli. He'd see that as being disloyal to them and he's been paid very handsomely as an official Bond so there's no incentive there for him to jeopardise that which he's built up over the last 15 years. So it's a non-starter on every level and not something I'm sure I'd want to see even if it was legally allowed which of course it isn't.
I apologize if it wasnt clear. The plan I outlined was meant to be tongue in cheek. I know that it is not the right way to proceed at all.
Ah, I see. I didn't get the subtlety of your post I'm afraid but I just thought it sounded such a bad idea that I couldn't let it pass!
It needs to be a musical! Starring Hugh Jackman! With a special duet of Dame Shirley Bassey and Lulu!
Jerry Springer/ James Bond: The Opera with Kevin McClory as the Devil himself. 😈 >:)
https://variety.com/2021/film/entertainment-industry/amazon-mgm-jeff-bezos-jeff-blackburn-1234986130/
For example, the new Wheel of Time series, set to release its first season later in the year is estimated to have around a $10 million budget in its first season, and a second season has already been greenlit by the studio. Also, the new Lord of the Rings series that Amazon is making? The budget for the first season is $465 million, the most expensive season of television ever produced...
...so as well as being certain that EON will still have the same amount of control they have now, it's nice to know that the future of James Bond is (seemingly for now) very bright and very expensive, which I know doesn't even speak to the quality of the films, but it (to me) does speak to the talent they'll be still able to get, and the bars they'll still be able to raise.
I think it’s a valid concern to be fair. Since the Craig era began EON’s strategy for the brand’s survival seems to be turning it into a classy, awards season sort of blockbuster. They’ve gradually been heading that way since the Brosnan era ended (the new game for example is the first in almost a decade, and it’s being made by a team with a brilliant track record and proven experience in the genre, rather than the shoot em up developers they had before). I’m sure plenty of execs would’ve happily abandoned that for the misguided idea of a Bond “universe” or something.
So, I get where he’s coming from, but I do agree he’s worrying over nothing. EON still have full control, the films are still going to release at the cinema, and Amazon have a pretty decent track record with films. I don’t think anything’s going to change at all really.
The only big studio I’d be really worried about getting Bond is Disney, because of how homogenised their films are and their production line, milk it dry approach. So, I’m pretty happy with the Amazon deal. MGM’s financial trouble had me really worried I’d see Bond get the Marvel treatment in my lifetime. Glad we seem to be avoiding that.
Although I must admit I probably could have taken a little more milking of Indiana Jones than one film after nine years! :D
I can imagine a scenario in the future where Amazon has given the team free reign until a Bond film under-performs. Then the charts and figures are brought out, showing which Bond films and parts of Bond films were watched more than others. Directives are then gently but firmly given.
Also, Amazon will almost certainly feel it should have a say in the casting of the new Bond (just as Sony did with Brosnan). EON has never had complete creative control over the films--the leaked Sony documents prove that. If a studio controls much your funding, it has ways of controlling you.
I'm not saying all this to raise alarm. It's quite possible Amazon that prove hands-off, given its history. It's also possible that when it does interfere, it will significantly interfere, as its history also shows.
Yes, a guiding hand occasionally on getting releases out a little faster wouldn't do any harm I don't think. As long as Eon remain in creative and quality control it should be alright.
I get your point, but I think the difference there is that The Grand Tour is TV and it was developed specifically to stream on Amazon prime. That's a different beast. But you might be right about Amazon wanting/having a say on the next Bond. Maybe I am naive, but as long as EON is making Amazon $, and they will, Amazon will stay out of things.
Yes, agreed. That's just how big business works and they don't come much bigger than a company like Amazon. Of course as we know money talks and I'm sure that strings of some nature come attached to a huge (Amazonian even) outlay of money such as a modern Bond film budget would require. Cold hard cash of that amount isn't handed over unconditionally.
It's interesting that Logan makes a point of patting himself on the back for that scene, when Paul Haggis and Martin Campbell had already used a subtly gay villain (Le Chiffre) in CR. The torture scene in that film is far more daring than anything in SKYFALL.
Plus, after having written that intro as a kind of seduction scene, Logan then did... absolutely nothing with Silva's sexuality for the remainder of the script. The character becomes an asexual Joker/Hannibal Lecter hybrid.
Gay villains weren't exactly a new concept for the series before CR, either.
Yes that was a really nice moment.
Agreed. I thought it was a bit of a shame that went nowhere. Not that a character's sexuality has to go anywhere I guess, but we weren't even sure if Silva was just pretending in an attempt to unsettle Bond (which would be a bit weird: he's a hired killer, not likely to get upset because a guy comes onto him, but hey).