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Who will become the Bond heir after Broccoli and Wilson leave?

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  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    mcdonbb wrote: »
    BondJasonBond006 wrote: »
    I mean c'mon people. BB is 56 years old. She'll be around and in charge for another 20 years. I'll be 60 then.

    And I'll be umm older :(

    Btw I'm traveling to your Switzerland next March even though my French sucks and I can't speak German.

    Ever heard French with a Texas twang? Doesn't work.

    Good news then for you. Almost all Swiss are fluent in English :)
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    bondjames wrote: »
    mcdonbb wrote: »
    BondJasonBond006 wrote: »
    I mean c'mon people. BB is 56 years old. She'll be around and in charge for another 20 years. I'll be 60 then.

    And I'll be umm older :(

    Btw I'm traveling to your Switzerland next March even though my French sucks and I can't speak German.

    Ever heard French with a Texas twang? Doesn't work.
    Great country. They all speak English too though, n'est–ce pas @BondJasonBond006. At least where I've been.

    ha ha you beat me with your answer. Just told The Texan the same :))

    Yes, Swiss usually are fluent in English.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
    edited April 2016 Posts: 4,116
    Yes yes but do they speak Texan :P

    I figured or knew they were fluent in English.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    mcdonbb wrote: »
    Yes yes but do they speak Texan :P

    I figured or knew they were fluent in English.

    I have seen at least 25 seasons of Dallas in English if I count all rewatches.
    I think I'm bilingual Texan/German :))
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
    edited April 2016 Posts: 4,116
    Lol @BondJasonBond006 impressive
  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
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    Babs is 56? DAMN..... She looks good for 56, i figured she was mid 40s..
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    HASEROT wrote: »
    Babs is 56? DAMN..... She looks good for 56, i figured she was mid 40s..
    Definitely. The gruelling challenges of making Bond certainly hasn't affected her appearance.
  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
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    not at all.

    so now my plan is to woo her, marry her.... then inherit her portion of Bond once the inevitable happens..

    THEN I CONTROL BOND!!!!... AHAHHAHAHAHAHA...

    Thats when i wake up, and go right back to working my 2 minimum wage jobs.......

    lol.
  • cooperman2cooperman2 Uk
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    People seem to automatically think that the series will carry on with the next generation of family. Maybe the family won't want to carry it on and could decide to sell Bond to the highest bidder. Or BB could lose interest in producing Bond and just call time on the series. Cubby had a passion for Bond until his dying day but I just don't see that same passion in Babs.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    George Lucas sold his creation.

    What does make people think BB will not do the same at one point?

    Personally I don't believe it will happen in the next 10 years but at one point James Bond will be owned by a company like Warner or Disney.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    cooperman2 wrote: »
    People seem to automatically think that the series will carry on with the next generation of family. Maybe the family won't want to carry it on and could decide to sell Bond to the highest bidder. Or BB could lose interest in producing Bond and just call time on the series. Cubby had a passion for Bond until his dying day but I just don't see that same passion in Babs.

    I respectfully disagree. She is very passionate about Bond. I am just concerned about her views of Bond.

    Besides both Greg and David Wilson are already involved so it's pretty obvious.
  • fanbond123fanbond123
    edited April 2016 Posts: 1,661
    I reckon a studio like Warner Bros will make EON/Danjaq an offer they can't refuse. At some point the owners of EON (the future relatives of Broccoli/Wilson) will say "this studio is offering us an insane amount of money for our 50 percent share in Bond. We'd be crazy to turn it down."

    And MGM isn't much of a studio these days. Hardly makes many films. I can see MGM's share in Bond being sold to another studio.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Very true. It was Cubby's life and he put in a lot of hard work.

    If you're born into a cosetted life where you don't need to work as the Wilson boys have been do you really want to bother? And who knows if they have the slightest interest in film making? They might want to be a surfing instructor or start an aromatherapy business.

    We all have our gripes with EONfeom time to time but let's not forget that they are the buffer which stops studio cretins foisting Black Bond, Gay Bond, Female Bond, Bond and son etc upon us.

    When EON do sell the family jewels (and it will happen one day) we are in trouble.

    I can't really see MGW taking much of an active role beyond 2020 (which is Bond 26) and Babs is constantly taking her eye off the ball with other projects.

    And I have very little faith that the Wilson boys have any great understanding of Fleming which was always Cubby's first rule when in doubt.

    One more from Craig if we're lucky and then after the next Bond ends his tenure around 2030 when Babs will be 70 and MGW approaching 90 I imagine things could start to take a turn for the worse.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    fanbond123 wrote: »
    I reckon a studio like Warner Bros will make EON/Danjaq an offer they can't refuse. At some point the owners of EON (the future relatives of Broccoli/Wilson) will say "this studio is offering us an insane amount of money for our 50 percent share in Bond. We'd be crazy to turn it down."

    And MGM isn't much of a studio these days. Hardly makes many films. I can see MGM's share in Bond being sold to another studio.

    I don't see MGM wanting to sell their half. Bond is the only thing they make money for them. Well not the only but you get the point.

    Troubles me that MGM is not viable still. I don't want Bond going down with them.
  • bondsumbondsum
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    Though I agree 100% with the @Wiz's comments about Eon standing up against the stupid studio heads and preventing them from foisting their own political agendas onto the Bond franchise, I have to point out that BB was also born into a cosseted lifestyle being the daughter of Cubby. From what I gather, Greg is doing pretty much the same thing as a young Barbara did by getting involved in production and learning the skills necessary with a view to picking up the reins at a much later stage. It might be nepotism, but then so was Barbara's appointment and rise to head of Eon, and yet she has been equally as passionate about James Bond as her father once was. But let's be honest here, Barbara hasn't exactly followed the Fleming template herself, especially if we look at the alterations made to Bond's background history used in SF and SP. And he's still not Commander Bond after 4 movies, right?

    Personally, I would rather that Eon remain a family business than it being sold off to someone like the House of Mouse. Yep, I wasn't impressed with the Force Awakens either. So long as Greg learns the ropes, and I don't see why he wouldn't, then I'm sure he'll be just as successful in his role as sole producer in the future, as Barbara is now.
  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    bondsum wrote: »
    Though I agree 100% with the @Wiz's comments about Eon standing up against the stupid studio heads and preventing them from foisting their own political agendas onto the Bond franchise, I have to point out that BB was also born into a cosseted lifestyle being the daughter of Cubby. From what I gather, Greg is doing pretty much the same thing as a young Barbara did by getting involved in production and learning the skills necessary with a view to picking up the reins at a much later stage. It might be nepotism, but then so was Barbara's appointment and rise to head of Eon, and yet she has been equally as passionate about James Bond as her father once was. But let's be honest here, Barbara hasn't exactly followed the Fleming template herself, especially if we look at the alterations made to Bond's background history used in SF and SP. And he's still not Commander Bond after 4 movies, right?

    Personally, I would rather that Eon remain a family business than it being sold off to someone like the House of Mouse. Yep, I wasn't impressed with the Force Awakens either. So long as Greg learns the ropes, and I don't see why he wouldn't, then I'm sure he'll be just as successful in his role as sole producer in the future, as Barbara is now.

    He is Commander Bond - it's in M's obituary in Skyfall
  • bondsumbondsum
    edited April 2016 Posts: 3,333
    Is it, @tanaka? Wow, I must have blinked and missed that. So there's no other mention of DC's Bond being a Commander in any of his other movies, then? Also, there's no mention of DC's Bond having been in the Royal Navy, apart from some snappy line from Vespa about SAS types when referring to his history, and I think that was pretty much about it.

    PS. Did it also have "astronaut" on his obituary, too?
  • tanaka123tanaka123
    edited April 2016 Posts: 4,325
    bondsum wrote: »
    Is it, @tanaka? Wow, I must have blinked and missed that. So there's no other mention of DC's Bond being a Commander in any of his other movies, then? Also, there's no mention of DC's Bond having been in the Royal Navy, apart from some snappy line from Vespa about SAS types when referring to his history, and I think that was pretty much about it.

    PS. Did it also have "astronaut" on his obituary, too?

    Yes, his obituary reads Commander James Bond CMG RN in Skyfall.

    There's a screenshot of it on this webpage @bondsum

    http://www.toddalcott.com/james-bond-skyfall-part-2.html
  • bondsumbondsum
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    Well, apart from a glimpsed obituary, there's no actual reference to DC's Bond being a Commander in any way, shape or form, nor with him being seen wearing a Navy uniform. What I mean is, no one refers to him as Commander Bond. In fact, the obituary is probably what's called an Easter Egg for the keen-eyed, put in there by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade. It has no relevance within the actual movie, and P&W are never required to explain this moniker.
  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    bondsum wrote: »
    Well, apart from a glimpsed obituary, there's no actual reference to DC's Bond being a Commander in any way, shape or form, nor with him being seen wearing a Navy uniform. What I mean is, no one refers to him as Commander Bond. In fact, the obituary is probably what's called an Easter Egg for the keen-eyed, put in there by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade. It has no relevance within the actual movie, and P&W are never required to explain this moniker.

    How many times is Bond called Commander throughout the whole series @bondsum?
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    I think the reason Bond is no longer referred to as Commander Bond is that he resigned to join the SIS.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited April 2016 Posts: 11,189
    The last time I think anyone spoke about him being a Commander was during the Brosnan era in GE (the casino scene with Xenia) and TND (Carver refers to him as "the late Commander Bond").

    Otherwise, off the top of my head, there's TSWLM with Anya describing him as "Commander James Bond" in the club and M saying "God help you Commander" after Dalton escapes the Hemmingway House in LTK.
  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    YOLT too, in the newspaper reporting Bond's death
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    And, of course, him being in full naval garb before the HALO jump in TND.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    Yep, that's another one.
  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    So at the moment that's just 6 Bond films that make reference to Bond's naval rank.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    'If we compare it with the microchip that Commander Bond recovered in Siberia...' Q in AVTAK.
  • bondsumbondsum
    edited April 2016 Posts: 3,333
    I have no actual idea of the exact number, without watching the entire series from beginning to end, but it's quite frequent. Though if we were to include stationary headed pages on M's desk, that number might be greatly higher. The times he's seen in a Royal Navy uniform, I can think of YOLT (Connery), TSWLM (Moore) and TND (Brosnan).

    Though, I now think we've wandered off topic, when my initial point was BB had taken certain liberties with Fleming's template.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    It's such a shame we have never seen Craig in uniform :(
  • tanaka123tanaka123
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    7 Bond films - less than half
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