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Well he wasn't solo on Nemesis, and if anything I think he made some more adjustments in terms of adaptation with Sweeney Todd, Coriolanus and Hugo. If anything, his scripts will probably be helped on with Mendes previously (if he's directing) and there's no reason to think why another writer could be brought in for a script check/re-write in the future.
on the other hand, do we know what Logan is doing? coming up with a story or the screenplay? Regarding Logan ... he has gotten better with age/time. Hopefully he won't force some gay reference into the bond 24 script.
I like this idea. It's a good way of reintroducing Blofeld and SPECTRE without ditching Quantum.
Saying that though I'm not too fussed about SPECTRE. I just want Blofeld back.
I am still confused why the producers continually re-hired Purvis and Wade for each new Bond film. The best moments in Casino Royale were due to Fleming's novel and Haggis' rewrite while the most entertaining segments of Skyfall were contributed by Logan and Mendes. I never understood what was so special about Purvis and Wade.
Overall, I'm glad that Purvis and Wade are finally gone for good and that Logan is writing both Bond 24 and Bond 25. The franchise needed new blood with fresh perspectives.
I liked The World Is Not Enough a lot. I've always felt it's underappreciated. And most of the complaints I've read about it are based on casting, not the writing.
Die Another Day has Broccoli and Wilson, and Tamahori, to blame more than P & W. It's a result of the need at the time for Bond to constantly be "bigger and better", meaning the producers were signing off on drafts of the script with the over-the-top material, possibly even requesting some of it. In a recent podcast, P & W mentioned how they wanted the car to camoflauge as that technology is being developed, but never to be "invisible." "We went for 5 or 6. Lee Tamahori wanted to go 11."
And then they take all the blame for those but none of the credit for Casino Royale or Craig's other entries. Sure, Paul Haggis did some polishing, but he's even said in interviews that his edits were minimal. Through the reboot, I think it was Dench, David Arnold, and P & W keeping some of the classic Bond feel alive while so much was drastically altered. And while Haggis no doubt did contribute some great stuff, I'm pretty sure the classic one-liners belonged to P &W and the sickening "No armor left" speach is Haggis'.
Haggis, Purvis, and Wade collaborated again on Quantum of Solace, but then the writer strike happened and Craig and Mendes had to do a lot of the "writing" themselves, making it harder to figure out who contributed what.
There were several drafts of Skyfall, with Logan polishing and refining what P & W had written, with several of their ideas from rejected drafts of previous scripts making it into the final cut. Also, listening to that podcast, P & W reveal they were very careful about having the script be consistent with the recent movies (such as Bond's Aston Martin being written as the same one he won from Dimitrios in CR) before Mendes decided to connect with the older movies instead (such as making that same car the one from Goldfinger.)
As for Logan, he deserves a lot of credit for Skyfall being so different from its predecessors. But Bond scripts have always been group efforts. If not P & W, I hope they bring new screenwriters in to back Logan up with the script, bringing real fresh blood to the project.
Interesting. Can you get me a link or something to the source that showed who contributed what to the QoS script?
The whole Vesper's child thing just goes to show not every bad idea is Purvis and Wade's fault.
As it stands our finished Quantum Of Solace uses script number three. No wonder it didn't work out all that well!
Oh, that is completely new information! I wonder how that film would have turned out.
http://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/what-really-happened-with-the-script-of-quantum-of-solace/
There's also a P & W "appreciation" on the same site:
http://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/purvis-wade-an-appreciation/
OMG, Quantum already started infiltrating this forum board! :-t :-??
Ermmmm, sell Mendes and buy Forster... But I also would like to know, what P & W's original script looked like. And how much was contrbuted by the mysterious Joshua Zetumer...
Sorry. Typo. I guess the last few movies started blurring together during my rant.
Conspiracy Alert!
Mendes purposefully wrote QoS poorly so Skyfall would seem excellent by comparison.
Seems legit.
:O
In terms of storylines and plots, you can't tell me they weren't creative, intriguing and smart. The only true blemish they had was Quantum of Solace, but that was due in large part to the writer's strike. And as others have said, they shouldn't receive the blame for DAD when it was the producers and director who wanted to reinvent Bond, so to speak. Despite that, they still gave us a great story with DAD. They also delivered us one of the greatest Bond films of all time: Casino Royale.
And for everyone giving all the Skyfall credit to John Logan, remember it was Peter Morgan's story initially.
I hope it doesn't come to this, but you guys may soon realize how great of a pair of 007 writers they actually were.
He said that Sam Mendes already had a written an idea for Bond 24.
To be honest I can't stand Evans he's a multi millionaire doing a job another less privileged person could be doing, he constantly talks about being rich and goes on about his bloody children, also when he's asking us to donate to charity I just want to scream.
Although I am glad that Purvis and Wade are gone, I am a bit uncertain about John Logan. Logan's work seems to greatly depend upon the director with whom he collaborates.
http://collider.com/barbarella-neal-purvis-robert-wade/#more-227933
Contracts
And they were cheap.
That must have been it :)
The same applies as well to David Arnold, bargain basement that got his value due to the EON connection mostly.
And they seem to no longer shoot on location mostly, something I always enjoyed in the 007 movies. Also a cheap solutionj.
It makes wonder where the expense is that that the movies apparently seem to cost?