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So, don't put the nail in the coffin of 14 yet.
Right. It's REAL easy making an 007 movie. Snerk.
I have read too much nonsense in so called movie mags to believe, they know anything more then the rest of us at this point, UNLESS its been confirmed. THEN they will get the informaton maybe earlier, but that's about it. I think, Empire wrote about 2016 months ago and they just picked it up.
I believe, they will try absolutely everything to get this out as early as possible. Of course, we have seen, this is not always enough, but in this case we are not facing bankruptsy, so the problem should be solvable.
So - unless we don't hear anything until the end of July, I keep the 14 option open.
I've experienced first hand "big secrets" being leaked to me incredibly easily (like seeing the earliest Iron Man FX tests months before anyone talking about Marvel Phase 1 projects). Just because I was in the office for some unrelated stuff. But it was clear to everyone that talking about it would put you on a black list forever. Movie business is a business where many, if not all, people accept incredible unfair conditions to keep working on it, and to avoid having to work instead for the military business for instance. Agents of the actors are more paid than the stunt team actually taking care of the actor's life, you know :)
"Gossip mags" are full of invention yes, but the parts of movie mags that actually deals with movie business is not so full of nonsense as one thinks (in France at least and I can imagine it's the same everywhere - web sites are another matter...). Projects come and go very fast though now (with the credit crunch, many projects are killed at the last minute).
Yearly speaking, Sony's stock is at an all time low, they had to sell their HQ in USA, etc. Monthly speaking Sony, they're at an all year best, but because rumors has it that hedge funds will force Sony to separate/sell/stop/whatever the movie business from the rest to focus on the core business. All this cannot have no impact on the schedule of the movies with labs full of Vaio computers, bus in the street with Vista adds, BluRay demos by the hero, etc, if you see what I mean :)
And he actually seems genuinely happy and excited to be a part of the series. That's so good to see.
This is good news. Have not read the book but have only heard terrible things about it! Glad Joe Wright won't be wasting his talent on that.
Still looking forward to hearing his name announced as the Bond 24 director and a Nov 2014 release!
I don't see it threatening 24 though. Its just making waves about Bond leaving the UK.
Bond threat as UK studio bid snubbed
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400018/Bond-threat-as-UK-studio-bid-snubbed
Definitely. It's a key part of Pinewood's PR campaign - aimed at demonstrating the expansion plan is vital to the continued success of the British film industry. Their reasoning is very solid but fairly opaque to the general public. So it's easier to say that "Bond might leave the UK" as this will prompt an emotional response.
I can imagine quite a few stories that are just rumours have spread on world wide web as fact.
Exactly. And not only those. I have found it in more serious papers as well. Lazy journalism is more common then the opposite. I am quite sure, at this point, nobody knows exactly and EON will lie through their teeth until D-Day.
I also think that 200+ persons will be aware directly or indirectly of the date of Bond 24 well before the "D-Day". If you want to have Ben Wishaw on your next project to convince producers to back you, you'd better be sure about when he'll really be available, etc...
The current battle between Sony and his biggest stockholder (about the fate of the movie department in particular) cannot not have any impact IMO, no one knows the result yet, and no one will stay still just waiting for this to be resolved. It involve funds that are bigger than the whole box office of the whole EON films for 50 years... Announcing an Angry Birds movie for 2016 should not be enough to calm down all this !
Yes, Whishaw seems like a genuinely nice guy who is very keen on what's he doing. I would certainly like if he carried on with playing Q for many more years!
All very fair points @SirHenry. Although, to look at it another way, Cubby produced Bond films for 27 years. MGW has now been producing the films for 28 years. And he exec'd for 5 years prior to that and, of course, wrote for 8 years too. Also worth pointing out that whilst Cubby was 80 when LTK debuted, he had to miss most of the shoot because the heat + altitude + his age was a bit too much for him.
Not trying to turn this into Cubby v MGW. As I said earlier, I think the primary reason behind the longer gaps is that they just need more development time now.
Explicit about what ? The hedge fund has stated a few days ago it would start putting pressure on separating Sony Entertainment from the rest, so that it becomes a company that should earn money by itself etc, and now the news is all over the place, and no one knows what will happen (since the stock has climbed, it's a good news according to many investors, that's all that can be said now).
http://wap.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2013/05/14/hedge-fund-manager-daniel-loeb-targets-sony-for-a-breakup/
You are such a number person, but not everybody is. You can't expect everybody being able to "read" stock markets and the likes. So, what does that mean for Bond? Do they have to settle whatever before they can start shooting or what?
In other news, it was announced yesterday in Cannes that Wilson and Broccoli are financing and exec'ing The Silent Storm, a drama to be released next year. This makes me suspect that 2014 is looking increasingly unlikely for Bond 24 (and, as you know, I wasn't holding out a great deal of hope for it anyway.)
Big Bond 24 development today guys.
Christopher Nolan has been approuched to direct Bond 24. Personally i think he's a great choice albeit a bit obvious. Mendes was an offbeat choice and really payed off dividents and I thought the prods would have continued in that vein, especailly when considering the appointment of Marc Forster prior.
The fact Nolan has met with the producers is encouraging but it may just be a courtesy on his behalf. But Nolan is a huge Bond fan and has often paid homage to them in is films.
Morgan Freeman's character in the Batman films is clearly a homage to Q
Nolan's big trademark openings are clearly tributes to the classic Bond pre-titles.
The Joker's knife in shoe is reminiesnt of Rosa Klebb's similar device.
Nolan has openly admitted that the ending of Inception was inspired by OHMSS.
Nolan would own Bond, I was just hoping for someone a little more exciting and odd. Another Sam Mendes really.
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/5951/confirmed-sam-mendes-will-not-direct-bond-24/p30#Item_895
I can agree or see your reasoning behind some of your comments on Nolan's Bond influences, but Mr. Freeman's character Lucius Fox first appeared in the late seventies, so he isn't Nolan's nod to Q to be fair.
Another distributor (and that includes Sony Entertainment as a separate company if that happens) wouldn't be able to do so much movie placements, and would on the contrary ask for its share of the "benefit" instead of "giving" some this way in exchange for ads, etc.
And having 6.5% of the stock is huge, he would be #1 or #2 according to last year's info, the last one publicly available :
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/stock/information.html
it means when he says his plan would make stockholders 30% richer, he's putting his mouth where "his" money is, it's not some consultant paid to give external advice... - or some CEO getting very well paid whatever the results. Stockholders usually like that :) But here many observers wonder what will be the result of Japanese' patriotic feelings vs Money talking, as it's the first time it happens it seems.
No one can ! (or he would be the richest person in the world in the nick of time). But everyone having to secure a budget doesn't like uncertainty, so it's hard to imagine it has no impact on the schedule.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/james-bond-can-t-fix-sony-as-japan-electronics-scrape-lows-tech.html