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Me neither, actually. I love London.
I disagree. There was enough London in Skyfall for three films. They need to minimize the time they spend there in Bond 24 and spend it in other more exotic places...
Agreed. They need to use it as Fleming would've done, a drab, uninspiring location that signals the tedium of office work, or suppressing that tedium by getting pissed in Blades and such. The escapism of the novels was borne from Fleming's portrayal of London as relatively mundane, countered by a Bond who yearned for adventure. It's relatively simple and I think/hope B24 will follow this path.
True. In the novels, London is pictured as grey and dreary.
Me too... two cities I love for the same reasons London and Austin. Great music pubs and food.
It's very exciting. :))
I live in London and it has its pros and cons. It's incredible, but also unremittingly shite in equal measure. In the context of Bond it's his home and thus the launch pad for any ensuing adventure, which is why I believe it should be used sparingly. It should function in the way Privet Drive does in Harry Potter. The familiar, the mundane, the ordinary. The calm before the storm.
" It's incredible, but also unremittingly shite in equal measure "
No, Christoph Waltz did not turn down a role in The Hateful Eight.
News stories.
A reminder : from Roger Deakins himself : they chose to use digital on Skyfall because of the low light scenes they planned to do. Just the change back to film again with Bond 24 could mean more about the movie than the dreaded "film vs digital" debate.
You've clearly not been keeping up to date on The Hateful Eight, there has been far more cast announcements about that than Bond 24, pretty much all the principal cast were announced some months back and QT starts shooting soon in 70mm.
Waltz was announced as not appearing sometime back, maybe his involvement in Bond 24 has been in the background a lot longer than all of us would know.
Also this video at 23.40 may be of interest, a number of prominent Hollywood scoopers from blogs like The Wrap (who were first to report on Chiwetel Ejiofer's possible involvement) and Latino Review (who first broke the Dave Bautista story) talking about the Waltz casting. They seem to hint that the big story going around is that talks with Ejiofer broke down and that villain role in Bond 24 is Blofeld
No not yet. I should change that. @JamesBondde is right. I mean, the hotels are used by EON Productions. That is more or less confirmed. But it is not confirmed that they will use one of these hotels for actual shooting purposes.
Though one might say that the beautiful Grand Hotel Lienz is a bit too beautiful to solely use it for cast/crew, and not for actual shooting.
They should make use of his beautiful, modern London skyline in Bond 24
Or maybe make use of London's new Shard building (as some sort of office tower, perhaps?)
So far we know it's used for cast/crew stay.
I'm pretty certain about that ;-). And I tell you this. I have become a great admirer of Michael and Barbara. Love Barbara's commentary on "Skyfall". And I really think that the Bond producers have found their mojo. During the Brosnan-era....I could not help but feel that Barbara and Michael were still under the influence of the more risk-less, formularic approach of their (step)father "Cubby". With Craig the Bond producers really own the franchise. Off course with help of brilliant reviews and big (cast & crew) names.
Also, I've been checking some reactions. On several discussion threads of Tarantino's new movie "The Hateful Eight" Waltz is mentioned. And all of Tarantino's fans are extatic about the news. Not only that, just read all comments about articles that feature the Waltz news. Only wunderful reactions. And because of that Bond has been going viral on the internet quite a bit in the past few days.
Like "Skyfall", now people (people who are generally not a Bond fan) simply want to see "Bond 24" because of this big name actor. Not to mention Tarantino fans. And in this case the big name is Christoph Waltz. And this makes me think that another 1 Billion Dollar Bond film could be in the making......
By the way, funny how those movie geeks in the above YouTube video talk about EON Productions. "Everything or nothing....sjee....kewll!". As if it's a Marvel-brand :-P.
Also, anyone else notice that Baz did not mention Dave Bautista in the article. Or perhaps he has very little lines to go through :P
I want to stay at the Grand Hotel Lienz. It is sumptuous.
I hope the blofeld rumors are true! Chris Waltz will kill it! It makes sense considering all the comic book movie characters being brought to life in a realistic way. EON will do the same to Blofeld! If I was a betting man ...
Right now we are far from sure Blofeld will be in at all (and this is from someone who wants to see him return). My hypothesis: either Waltz plays a completely different character and Blofeld is not even mentioned or hinted at in Bond 24, or he does indeed play Blofeld, but it is only revealed at the very end of the movie, à la Moneypenny in SF.
Goldeneye->Monaco casino
Tomorrow Never Dies->Hamburg Hotel Atlantic
The World is Not Enough->Zukovsky's casino
Die Another Day->Graves' ice hotel
Casino Royale->Casino (within a hotel, but still)
Quantum of Solace->Haitian hotel and Bolivian eco hotel
Skyfall->Macau floating dragon casino
Bond 24->Hotel for sure, but Grand hotel Lienz?