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@belleswann , on most big budget films, the final script isn’t really finished until the film is edited and locked. There is constant rewriting of scenes during production, and even little tweaks here and there in ADR. Even the way the film is edited, scenes may be chopped or rearranged in a way that wasn’t realized during the writing phase.
A screenplay is merely the blueprint.
Definitely you're right about that but from interviews with Cary and Lea and others involved there was no finished screenplay going into filming and scenes were being written the day before. I know things change a little but I remember reading the Casino Royale script and it was almost exactly what we saw on screen. I just don't get how they couldn't manage that in five years.
Reminds me of QoS. There's hope yet!
The script was being REwritten, not that there was no screenplay the day before shooting.
Didn't Cary say he was writing while shooting because all of Danny Boyles script had been scrapped and he had a third of the usual preproduction time and Lea said unlike with Spectre where there was a script and everything was planned out it was the opposite of that this time that there wasn't a set script and things were more up in the air.
Yes it was an absolute mess (and to be honest a bit of me thinks it shows in places- it doesn't really take off until Bond steals the Lector) with scenes having to be reshot against rear-projected footage of the scenes they were replacing because they'd taken the sets down! :D
And it took them 20 years to make three Godfather movies!
And 31 years to do 3 Bill & Ted movies.
54 years for 2 Mary Poppins movies (1964 and 2018)
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That's not a spoiler, is it?
It's the first thing that was discussed in every Bond forum, when pictures from the Norway shoot in March/April 2019 came up.
*Harry Potter (source material was already there, kinda like Bond 1962-1977). ;)
I think that that's a reasonable conclusion. I still wonder about this:
Yes I do tend to think that they had it a little easier when they were making Dr No-Thunderball because the source material was all there for them to garnish and polish, and I'm sure that must have helped them to knock them out one a year.
To add to that, making films was simply easier and quicker.
Plus there weren't the same expectations after you've made two of them that there are after you've made 24.
Even even then the one-a-year model wasn't sustainable and they only managed it for four in a row.
In fairness, a lot of crap films are also written this way.
That's a given.
Looks like he's just finished watching SPECTRE.
😂😂. Yeah, that's where the grey hairs come from.