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'71 convinced me he'd be a decent shout. I also think he did a great job with Dead Set and there was some nice work in Top Boy. I think he can work on a bigger canvas and would revel in it. I'd rather someone like him than a big name who wants to make it 'their' film.
By stripped back, I mean a sort of back to basics approach. Think TMWTGG novel.
in a perfect world
Chris Mcquarrie and Drew Pearce with a story by Ian Fleming and Michael G Wilson
A realistic world
Script by
Chris Mcquarrie and Jez Butterworth
What we will get
Jez Butterworth, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.
Underwhelmed. With so many lush locations why not any focus on those?
With a name like that, he must be worth the butter.
Butterworth hasn't 'written the story'.
Plus you Sony/Eon bashers they messed up sure but they didn't go into production until they had an agreed upon script.
Its still a long way from script to screen and much to director interpretation. QoS may have looked a lot different on paper ...imagine if Mendes would have filmed that? I'm not knocking Foster btw. Misfire yes but he did attempt to elevate Bond artistically and a lot of thought and vision went into that.
We are so stressed here ...I can't wait til October so some of the tension can subside.
You're right, we should show a little more respect to Butterworth. I'm sure he contributed in a positive way to Spectre.
EON (BB + MGW) can redeem themselves if Spectre is an artistic success. They have lost of lot of trust from many fans. Personally I'm cross with them (well, BB) for wanting Mendes again at all cost. It has cost us fans one year and that year could have meant that Craig could have done 6 movies. 2014, 2016, 2018.
And I am 100% certain that would have been possible. Other studios can do it with much bigger movies, so why can't EON. There is simply no excuse.
The reality seems to be that Bond 25 will hit the theaters at the end of 2018. I don't believe in a 2017 release. And even if they manage to do it by 2017 it will be Craig's last movie.
I'm cross with them, did I mention that? Spectre better be another Casino Royale, OHMSS or FRWL!!!
I'll be intrigued to finally read the old scripts once the film is released. It's not that I don't trust users on here, but I do wonder how many are versed in script reading and can spot a genuinely decent script from a seemingly decent one. Also, everyone has different criteria in mind regard their expectations from a Bond, so for people saying it's 'really good', it may well be in their mind. Whether it's actually great, I'll have to wait and see if it is for me. I hope it is, naturally.
You should check out Bill Koenig's Spy Blog. He collects draft screenplays from every Bond film. And the latest ones he analized were drafts from TMWTGG, TWINE, TB and YOLT:
"TB":
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/our-thunderball-script-posts-in-one-article/
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/1961-eons-first-try-at-a-thunderball-script/
"TWINE":
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/1998-the-purvis-wade-era-begins/
"TMWTGG":
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/1974-maibaums-1st-try-at-scripting-a-moore-007-film/
"YOLT":
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/1966-roald-dahl-finds-twice-is-the-only-way-to-live/
The leaks do not contain the Logan-Mendes script/treatment (but we have some old notes on them, and well, not as much as some think), we only have several versions of the script after it, when they started to keep this and that, and throw this and that. And sometimes we were left with half of this and that !
As people here know I'm more a Bond fan than a SF fan, most won't really care of my negative opinion of the SP scripts, but I think I was not the only one to have written in the leaks thread there were not so great.. In particular in the earliest one we got, there was a weird plothole about the villain's behaviour of SF proportion IMO - no spoiler, I'm talking about something that has completely disappeared from further scripts. Or at least, half disappeared :)
Thanks for posting this.
The future doesn't look bright for MGM it seems. Why Sony didn't make a deal for a longer period of time escapes me. Now everything is up in the air and that's not good.
Who knows if Spectre will not be the last James Bond movie for another 4-6 years.
In any case, once people have taken their seat at the movie theatre to watch Spectre they should cherish every second of it.
@Creasy47 if, pray tell, that happens, we could have a very long gap, because for a start Craig would quit after waiting 2/3/4 years without production getting greenlight, and then we would still be atleast 3 years away from the film, with no clear candidates as Bond 7, it will be a long search. So I really hope Bond 25 is unaffected by this and Craig comes back in 2017/2018.
Tom Cruise is probably the most capable, best and talented producer/actor of our times.
I wish he would run EON.
It just shows that the best times of BB + MGW are long gone.
I don't mean the quality of the movies, but the whole production process from start to finish.
Come on guys. We knew that a long time. MGM has become a B-Listed movie company ever since they made bad choices. Hence why they always need to team up with a big co-producer and distributor.
It's very simple really, EON Productions becomes more powerful this way. They have more negotiation power. So whatever movie company will follow up Sony as distributor/financer, Universal Pictures (already distributing the Bond films in some European countries) or Warner Brothers (owns the rights to Ian Fleming's U.N.C.L.E. and has already good relationships with MGM), MGM will always agree. They can't be tough negotiators now. Bond needs to go on to bring in cash. And MGM knows that.
So I'm not worried about this :-). Bond 25 will premiere in either 2017 or 2018. Period.
Secondly, did ANYONE actually SEE the pictures I posted about Villa di Fiorano? It's a stunning villa! Wonderful bit of location shooting.
I admire your optimism.
History has taught us otherwise when it comes to EON/MGM.
So not to worry at all about this is kind of starry-eyed.
I'm in complete agreement with you, @Gustav. Also, those images are stunning and only reinforces the lengthy post I made earlier about sparing no expense for SP and US actually seeing it. As it is, SP in my eyes is tracking to be at the very least as good as CR from an aesthetics and atmospheric point of view.