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We kind of got elements of that with CR with the romance and such. I doubt they'll go in that direction again anytime soon. Plus EON isn't for remaking films.
OHMSS along with TB and YOLT form the Blofeld Trilogy in the books. The producers would have liked to do OHMSS after TB but too many conflicts arose.
I think OHMSS is fine where it ended up. I don't think Connery could have pulled it off. He was overweigth, bored and his performance in 1967 YOLT totally uninspired.
Peter Hunt was promised the directors chair for YOLT but the producers later reneged.
I doubt that Diana Rigg (my favorite Bond girl) would have been avaliable to do a Bond in 1967. The public was begging for more of the gadgets, extravagant sets, etc in 1967 and I hate to think of how 1967 would have ruined a classic Bond adventure.
After the "OVER THE TOP" stuff in YOLT, OHMSS (Like FYEO following MR) was like a breath of fresh air.
Several factors contributed to make OHMSS the classic we all love to this day
New Bond actor
Hunt being handed the reigns and his insistence on sticking to the source novel
Serious love subplot
Great Girl
Believable storyline
Classic Downbeat ending
Fascinating. I wonder where the amphibious Aston Martin would've fit into the OHMSS story. Perhaps in the early beach scenes?
Despite all the legal drama associated with McClory, I'm glad he came around when he did. Otherwise we wouldn't have either the TB or the OHMSS we have in reality and they're both in my top 5 Bond films.
Would Tracy still have died at the end in both the 1964 and 1966 screen treatments? Also, are these scripts available online to read?
Not as far as I know. I got all my information from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Making-Her-Majestys-Secret-Service/dp/0984412603/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327872809&sr=8-1.
or Brosnan
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How would she have died in the 1966 treatment since Bond kills Blofeld and Irma with the statue?
I definitely would like to buy that. I'm waiting for either the price to drop or a used copy to become available.
With all the goofy s**t in that one treatment, I wouldn't be surprised if time travel or the wrath of Genghis Khan were involved.
Your best bet is the used copy. I bought that book in early 2010 for the same price that it is today, and it hasn't ever went on sale as far as I know. The man who wrote it goes on CBn actually.
Interestingly this is what Graham Rye, editor of the 007 Magazine, apparently said in an interview round about 2002:
"If I was in control of the franchise I’d cast Pierce Brosnan in a remake of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice (based more on the themes featured in Ian Fleming’s novel), and film them back-to-back in the correct order—if it can be done with Lord of the Rings, I’m sure it can be achieved with Bond. Both On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice mean next-to-nothing to today’s cinemagoers, so I don’t see a problem with remakes being accepted by the general public who make up the majority of the paying audience. Some Bond fans may balk at the idea of meddling with Peter Hunt’s classic OHMSS like it’s the Holy Grail, but I think that would be denying the possibility of another great Bond film, rather like saying why on earth are they remaking The Thomas Crown Affair, they can’t possibly top the original McQueen/Dunaway version – well didn’t they just!"
I'd say he's right about Majesty's meaning "next to nothing" with the public but wrong about YOLT. I thought that film was/is fairly popular.
YOLT is extreamly well known to audiences. Of all the films it's the one Austin Powers choose to parody the most. That must say something about it's status as a classic.
That doesn't sound very good. I wonder if EON would've risked going for a "non-commercial" ending in the 1964-1967 Bondmania era full of UNCLE, Helm and Flint like imitators.
I don't understand why the cheapest used copy available on Amazon costs $87.04 when the new one sells for $50.00? :-S :?
Maybe he means the books in which case I'd agree. Most people know about the hollowed out volcano but few know about the Castle of Death.
The original movies are just there, you can't touch them, they are cinema history, whether good or bad. But i'd love to see Craig's interpertation of the novels. The franchise is distorted as it is, and we can't really talk of a 'Bond canon' as such, because the movies contradict eachother. So why shouldn't we be open to Bond remakes in the reboot era? Especialy with a talent like Craig as 007.
Some people are probably going to damn me for this, but so be it! This is what I believe, what's your opinion?
That's more than enough! Bond films do not need this to happen! 50 years of success should tell you this?
Sure, the Bond movies are known to take plot elements from previous entries. There's a difference between having a similar plot and actually remaking something with exactly the same characters and scenes though. I meant actually redoing the movies one-to-one. Like just taking thunderball and shoving Craig into it and calling in "the thunderball" or something.