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If you inherited a car or a house or a business from a parent, surely you would be allowed to do what you wanted with it 25-29 years later and not just keep the car/house/business exactly as it was 25-29 years before.
It's a ridiculous point that she needed to be shackled to the past because we fans say so.
Anyway, we should all be more concerned that we're going to get a series of films like NSNA--a film that hits the tropes but at its heart, despite a good Connery performance, does not feel like Bond.
"Kicking the bill into the open net" is a lot harder than that. For every TLD or GE, there are 3-4 adjacent Bond films that are not nearly as good.
Personally, it's the worry that Amazon are going to do the opposite of EON, and drain every possible drop of 'content' out of Bond that they can.
I am happy to be proven wrong, and I hope that I am. But I don't see it being just a Bond film every 2-3 years.
Utter and absolute bogus. I'll leave it that. Just wow.
I’d say it’s a fair point, regardless if you agree or not.
Agree to disagree? :D
Amazon really need this to work too. They don't invest billions, just to shrug their shoulders if it doesn't work and write it off as a mistake.
If Eon with its (shall we say) deliberate pace couldn't resist using Spectre the moment they got the rights, Amazon is certainly not going to sit around and not exercise their Bond rights to the max.
Amazon might even flood the zone with Bond, at least until the copyright expires.
I guarantee you that they are meeting round-the-clock now and probably have been as soon as they realized Broccoli and Wilson would sell. This is the crown jewel of MGM, not The Pink Panther or Rocky or Legally Blonde.
It's still shocking to me that this happened.
A great script + any director = great Bond film
There was nothing Campbell did in CR that was noteworthy except the pullback from Bond and Vesper in the shower...and it was Craig who had to fight for that scene to work the way it did.
I agree. It was the script that made CR what it is. I read it in advance, and the film I made inside my head was cool as well ;)
Do you even grasp what a director does? *mind = blown*. A script is a script is a script. Text on paper. To go from there to Casino Royale means blood, sweat and tears and then some. A little more respect for Campbell who also has given us the classic GoldenEye as well, I'd say.
CR captured lightning in a bottle.
If you watch the CR documentary, Barbara Broccoli talks about how finally obtaining the rights to the CR novel was the crown jewel that Eon had long sought, and for good reason.
Sigh. I am still sad about this.
I personally prefer the directorial work he did in GE. CR’s script would’ve worked in many different hands, IMO.
That may be so, but still CR as we know it looks the way it does because of Martin and Phil. The guy has talent.
IM pretty sure killing off Bond was Craigs idea and it was one of the reasons they got him back.
Which surely anyone with the power of critical thinking would agree with.
Sad that it's the end of an era and that we will no longer see the Broccoli name before the title in the credits, but I suppose it was just a matter of time before this eventually happened.
To be honest I'm a little sceptical. Having seen the Bond-esque amazon tv series Citadel in 2023 I remember finding it very glossy but also very forgettable. Can't remember anything about the plot or the characters or the action. I did like the Jack Ryan series though and I've heard good things about their Jack Reacher series eventhough I haven't seen it.
I guess I just hope Bond doesn't become another bland source of "content" for Amazon and that they create something we will at the very least remember 5 years later.
I'm not going to pretend that all the Eon films were great movies, but a legacy was created that we are still talking about now.
Content = corporal quantitative digital vomit
@ColonelAdamski my critical thinking is working just fine.
I'd like to think that someone involved in the production of the next Bond film/tv series will have at least some knowledge of the source and more than a passing awareness of the previous 25 films.
- the opening scene
- the Terminator style knife showdown between Bond and Domitrios amongst the passing members of the public
- the cut when Bond finds the dinner jacket on the bed in the hotel
- the camera pan when Solange is discovered dead
- the staging of the dinner scene with Bond and Vesper
- the staging of the torture scene
...to name a few.
@Univex I hope they make the safe choice and stay with safe choices until they don't want to make bond films anymore.
No one has that anymore