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You should run EON PR department. Just the man they're looking for.
Have you seen Black Panther? It's a remake of Skyfall.
Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible films rip off one Bond stunt after another.
Indeed, and all Westerns rip off the first Western because they feature horses.
Good news for you: They won’t make another Bond film until Sam Mendes agrees to come back for another film. It could take years, but whatevs.
That is for sure!
https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/jeffrey-wright-interview
Edit: sorry, its not new, just republished, my bad.
This has come up before, and I think there is a separate thread for would-be/could-be directors, but my feeling is: No way. He's not only long in the tooth, but his work on CR has not aged well, imho. The script and DC's performance made that film. Much of it looks amateurish--in the production design and camerawork. The shot of Bond and Vesper in the shower is one of the few highlights.
Will Bond be going rogue hunting down Safin or will be there to assist Nomi?
True spoilers below.
Cheers mate, it's been months since I've watched the trailer, I couldn't remember
I hope it resembles something like a 'Lethal Weapon' foe to friendship. They say that they're trying to go for a buddy cop spin, and I also suspect that Nomi will be the first non sexual female buddy of Bond's - she might even fill in a sort of Felix role.
What I don't want though is Nomi becoming a 'statement' character and falling into the recent trend of flat Mary Sues that can do nothing wrong because of a misguided sense of empowerment. That would do nothing but make her an obnoxious, unlikable character and I don't wish that on Lynch because she knows how to act and can definitely bring a convincing and well rounded character, given a good script that respects writing.
...also who cares about that if we enjoy it right? :D
I also think it's a shame, for example, that Nomi's character is gonna have to work ten times harder than say Paloma who for a lot of fans just needs to be hot.
Given Phoebe Waller Bridge was brought onboard to re-write the female characters, you would hope that she cleverer that just reverting to type.
Yes that will be interesting. I guess you could say that Eve and Camille were both in that role to some extent, but he absolutely tried it on with Eve, and even Camille got a little kiss; but given the age gap (which they will actually be playing up I would imagine) I think it's likely there's no sexual dimension to Bond and Nomi's relationship.
We'll see of course!
Indeed.
I'm very worried about PWB.
Her writing is decent - it captures you, but her jokes and humor fall flat to me. At their worst, they are basically the female version of frat boy toilet humor. Especially if you watch Fleabag - the drama and her breakdown in the last few episodes is written fantastically but everything before is just dull sexual humor and laughing at cringe/awkwardness. Killing Eve is better by a small margin and the dynamic between the two leads has potential, but again the comedy is just boring to me - just 'look at this gender-based thing I experience wow! Isn't it funny?!'
Sorry to fans of her, but I see her humor as a higher class female version of Adam Sandler humor; mostly based around sex, bodily functions and social failure.
I think in general, people have become very in tune to that kind of lazy writing, and when something even shows hints of that being a possibility we immediately recoil away from it and mark it with a big red flag. I agree that, especially given that Nomi is nowhere near as conventionally attractive as Paloma her character will have to be incredible to be able to sway some people's minds.
Lazy, shallow writing mocked up as apparent empowerment has honestly done so much harm to women and minority portrayals in media, especially with that ugly trend of replacing well-known characters with what are basically Mary Sues found on fanfiction websites written by power tripping idiots. I really hate that instead of being interested and excited for a female/minority agent as it used to be in the early 2000s, we are now jaded and wary thanks to all these aforementioned screwups.
That said, I just don’t find her the least bit attractive; before someone brings up race, I have seen endless Black/African American women who are incredibly beautiful and many who are strong actors,
Naomie Harris being one.
Why are some fans always pointing to an imagined double standard?
One character is supposedly to take the 007 mantle from Bond, whilst the other isn't. That's all there is to it.
And I think this is why a more overtly attractive woman was not cast. If they had wanted to do so, a Black actress whose beauty equaled or even surpassed Paloma could have been cast.
Bonds out, a new agent in. Happens to be a black, female agent. She could've been a ginger Scotsman, but she isn't because it's a clever and new way to introduce a new Bond badass girl, and changes nothing about James Bond, apart from a codename that on its own changes nothing about who James Bond is and how important he is to the franchise...
...because again James Bond will be 007 again in Bond 26, so just enjoy the mix-up for one movie.
Also, it's impossible to be attracted to every Bond girl there's been.
Three competent MI6/CIA agents, two of which are in formal attire, carrying out an action-filled mission during a possible SPECTRE meeting at an extravagant party in Cuba? Um... yes please.