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That would be great!! The fleming tie plus the fact they have already considered it is a good sign. I dont think its enough of a story to carry a whole film but could definitely suit a PTS
I agree. Good thinking. Use them while they're young and healthy.
There was a Top Gear stunt ages ago where Clarkson drives a red Jaguar down a ski slope, i always thought it would be very Bondian and exciting for him to end up in a car on the slopes in the movies. Just put him in an Aston and send him over the edge with some bad guys on skis to take out or something.
The stakes are high between two men.
One loses to the other.
The winner congratulates the loser and asks him name.
The loser replies: Blofeld. Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
The winner introduces himself: Bond. James Bond. Perhaps we'll meet again, Mr. Blofeld. Blofeld: Count on it, Mr. Bond.
Then we don't see Blofeld again until later in the series.
Yes, and what I've noticed that the lover's entrance all happened in the earlier years like 60's and 70's (Connery, Lazenby and Moore), their introduction were all in the earlier years.
It's all changed in the 80's, it's the era where the action really reached high in terms of demands and popularity.
I think when it comes to that lover's entrance, people may have think of it as a back to the old times, because mostly today since the 80's where all action oriented.
So, it's evident that in too of how Bond really got in to the demands of evolution 😅.
It's evident of how the series evolved through times.
That would be lovely. I've always sort of imagined that it must be too expensive to stage though, as it would have surely happened by now! Either you'd have to shoot as much as you can of it on the weekend it actually happens (which is a tough ask) and/or you've got to recreate it, which means getting F1 teams/cars, loads of extras, even shutting the roads in Monaco's case. Nothing that's impossible for Bond I guess, but not cheap!
I too love that idea.
I'd also argue that it's better to have more creative control over the set design/location being depicted. As much as Spectre's PTS has its flaws the decision to create the 'Day of The Dead' parade gives that sequence something much more interesting/otherworldly (from what I understand the holiday itself is a real thing, but before the film no actual parade of this sort with the costumes featured existed in Mexico City).
Funnily enough Brad Pitt is shooting an F1 movie, and will actually be driving an F1 car on the track at the British Grand Prix this year! Everyone wants to be Cruise now :D
Those are just single examples that have been done so many times. I do agree, the new PTS needs to be a barn burner. How to do what's been done over and over and make it so fresh that audiences are cheering the new Bond before the titles roll?
Yeah, @CrabKey I think the rather distinctive thing about James Bond is, unlike other fictional, literary and cinematic characters, people can't get enough of seeing him do the same thing, albeit with a modern take on it. When fans go to see a James Bond film, they expect to see action scenes of the ilk mentioned above and something about that gets the blood pumping. People simply can't get enough of James Bond, even if he does the same thing over and over again. So I think we're in luck as James Bond fans :)
I agree. And in a sense, CR opened with a "training" mission or test too. I like that. Then again, NSNA started with the training as well. 😄
Viv Michel minding a motel, gets roughed up by a couple of nasty gangsters, and there is suddenly a knock outside as they are about to kill her. And here enters the new James Bond.
To me this would be perfect. A down-to-earth, dark, gritty opening along the lines of FRWL and CR, but properly adapting unused source material from Fleming, and the way Bond enters this scene in the book is a real upbeat applause moment too.
FRWL is a training sequence opening too. Just not for Bond.
Yes, it would have been great! Imagine Viv Michel opening the door, it's stormy, then there's this man hidden his face under a raincoat hood, then when he looked up, it's the new Bond actor.
You are right, @LucknFate. Indeed. And I guess so was the PTS from TMWTGG. I like those two, by the way. There's something menacing about a villain training himself for a confrontation with Bond, directly or indirectly.
Agreed, 100% - this is my dream PTS for Bond 26. Bring it on!
"Miss Moneypenny, send in Robo-Oh-Seven."
The door opens. In steps CraigBond, who's now part cyborg.
"Good to have you back, Bond. How do your new parts feel?"
"You might say I'm quite..." turns to the camera and winks, "screwed up."
OK, bad joking aside, I actually think they should just go the TLD/GE route and introduce the actor without reintroducing the character. In other words, just pretend like the previous era didn't happen and go back to a floating continuity where time doesn't have much meaning either way.