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According to my E-mails, I have accounts with banks I've never heard of, and am expecting a million-euro donation from a billionaire.
According to my emails I've been on the Dark Web but I'm sure that can't be true, can it? :-S
I'll let you know once that huge shipment of illicit drugs you sent me arrives!
You can wire me the monies once they arrive. ;)
Yes, maybe they could expand it in the upcoming 3rd movie.
There was actually going to be a scene in Incredibles 2 where they explored more about Gazerbeam's character.
I thought that Elvis had left the building though?
This was perfect.
It's already happened, or are you in denial about "Never Say Never Again"?
Yes, it happened, but only once (twice if you count CR '67). What i ment was what will happen when there are more people doing the same thing?
Bond the character will belong to whoever makes the best movie (or at least the most popular one)
Those who have been hoping for a Bond set in the time period in which the books were set will probably be more likely to get their wish
It seems to me there are more secret agent / assassin movies around in the new millenium than at any time since the 1960s, although most of them miss the mark
I guess Sherlock Holmes might provide an example of what might happen, although Sherlock never had an equivalent of EON looking after his interests. We already live in a World where Robert Downey Jr (2009 - ????), Benedict Cumberbatch (2010-2017) and Jonny Lee Miller (2012-2019) have co-existed.
2023 - "Sherlock Holmes has finally fully entered the Public Domain. The copyright on the last 10 books, which had previously been held by Sir Arthur Conan Doyles estate, slipped in January 2023, meaning these books can now be reproduced and addapted without authorisation from the Estate of the original creator."
When you look at how STAR WARS is treated, it makes me happy that any other attempt to get a Bond series off the ground will most likely fall into the same pitfalls in very short order. Its just too hard for anyone else to resist oversaturating the market with mediocre product, and like STAR WARS Bond films are much hard thing to get right than they appear on the surface.
My main concern for the future is that EON will maintain their same mantra and successfully pass the torch on with it still in tact. Some comments from Gregg have worried me in recent years about wanting to experiment with a female Bond etc. But on the whole I believe that if the Bond series we know and love is to crumble away it will be for internal reasons not outward ones, but we'll have to wait and see! ;)
Their thoughts on social services and daily habits, plus respect for longer vacations being healthy are probably good to consider. But, for me, I don't think I ever deeply bought into the "American myths" they feel were brainwashed into us.
We are products of our immediate home environment, as well as the neighborhoods we live in, and culturally America is vast and varied. My experiences seem to have made some different impressions on me.
I think they have some points to reflect upon, but I could not relate to a lot of what they were saying. Thanks for sharing, though. :)
Thing is, we actually know what Bond (or at least Fleming's books) in the public domain would look like. They're already there in Canada and Japan and have been since 2015. So far we've actually had an all female Japanese musical stage adaptation of CR. I'm not aware of anything else. I'm not sure if I can see a NSNA popping up (it's really not worth any company making their own Bond movies and trying to compete with EON).
That said, I'm fine with all female musical or artsy stage adaptations of Fleming. Not my thing necessarily though.
Hi @4EverBonded, good to see you're back! I did have trouble accepting these were American truisms. At the same time there's a fox news host who suddenly has an 'imperialistic thirst', finding it 'offensive' that Canadians actually don't want to be American even though, according to him, everybody else in the world does want to be American. And this in a day and age that one dictator already started an imperialistic war, and another one (Xi) has stated he will 'unite' China and Taiwan. You can't say this is innocent entertainment anymore.