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Sounds like a great place to start from!
There really is an opportunity for the Bond films to go bigger in scale and in scope. Many of the ideas you just mentioned would be right in line with Blofeld trying to inaugurate World War Three from inside his volcano lair, just updated for the 21st century, and of course in the more story- and character-driven climate of today's films you could explore some pretty timely themes in a Bond adventure based upon big business types, tech billionaires, and global domination.
I like having a nice mix of both, but I think the big missions do tend to work better in moderation, spaced out by smaller ones. Makes them feel more exciting. What I never want is another TSWLM/MR situation, where we go from one big end of the world scenario straight to another. As long as they keep things varied I’m happy.
I like how they did it with the Craig era, a nice steady crescendo.
Barbara Broccoli is also working on Daniel Craig’s MacBeth set to debut at the end of April and run through early summer (so she will be busy juggling that, as well as working on the release of a Civil Right’s era film she’s producing).
Hmm. I (sort of!) guessed that. So it could all run in conjunction with BB's other commitments. I always had a hunch that Macbeth would come first for her right now but had no idea about the other movie she is producing... As an aside, I have no doubt that Craig will be cast in an EON movie that isn't Bond in the future... Just a hunch! I've no insider knowledge - it just seems like a no brainer to me.
Will be interesting to see how Amazon and BB butt heads. I have a feeling this will happen and will make the next year or two interesting as Bond fans.
BTW, @peter happy holidays (or Merry Christmas depending on what you celebrate) to you!
(Also, every penny of it... I hear you... I hear you ;) )
The film BB is producing (I forget the title), sounds quite interesting and will be produced by BB, her ex husband and Whoopi Goldberg (from my understanding this has been developed over quite some time).
And yes, I have a feeling that BB will certainly butt heads with Amazon. As a streamer they will look to milk the Bond IP... Which is the antithesis to the way Broccoli et al approach their series...
As for Craig being a part of a non-Bond EoN film?.... I'm presently working on that.
I greatly like that idea.
I imagine that Amazon is going to go head to head in one area: getting rid of Purvis and Wade. They will want fresh writing blood.
Also @peter that sounds very interesting! Also all the best to you and family :) I would have no idea about Essex girls though we have all heard the generalisations over here. I am very much a Scouse girl so more Craig's neck of the woods... We obviously have generalisations of our own ;)!
It seems that EoN are loyal to the value they bring, and the writers seem loyal to EoN. They appear best when they develop the blue-print drafts, and they know their Fleming.
Amazon also will know that blockbuster films are usually developed by many writers, and, since they're new to the Bond/EoN way of filmmaking will, I think, be submissive to the way EoN puts the movie together... I don't think they'll be too interested in the writers.
My feeling is they will be bullish on the director and the direction and casting for the next era.
I also believe they will attempt to grow the IP. And this, if it indeed is attempted, will be the catalyst of an internal battle. Remember when it was first announced that Amazon was buying MGM, BB and MGW made a terse announcement of their own: Bond films would be made for the cinema (I'm paraphrasing), and; to date, it sounds like BB has had no substantial discussions with the Amazon team....
Lots to look forward to.
What is with all these Macbeth movies? Wasn't there one a few years ago starring Michael Fassbender? And one coming out right now with Denzel Washington playing Macbeth? And now another one with Daniel Craig?
In the meantime we can all laugh and joke while the media touts ridiculous Craig replacements for a Bond film not even greenlit yet.
Yes, exactly. Amazon has money, so there will be more Bond films. We are not likely to experience financial delays in the future, as often happened with UA and MGM since at least 1980. And that's something for which all Bond fans can be grateful.
I think the next one will be smaller scale, partly because of the success of CR as a demonstrator of how to start a new actor in the role, but also because Covid will scare studios off from making massive-budget films that require a ridiculous amount of box office just to break even.
I think you might be right re Covid. It will influence the way films are made.
Thanks heavens you are not working as a script writer for EON. Your ideas suddenly make P&W looks like genius writers.
Did you notice how the vast majority of what I wrote merely was a reference to Fleming's own original story-telling ? Ok, you need not like Fleming's work, certainly.
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I thought it was a daft idea having a black Bond set in the 1950's, regardless of any Fleming ideas that followed, as it wouldn't be accurately adapting the dated British Empire Etonian upper class white stereotype from that era, which Fleming obviously based Bond around.
Then having a black Bond in the 1950's venturing into Harlem in LALD, and it loses all the connotations that came with a white guy stepping into that unfamiliar and unwelcoming territory.
I get the argument for a black actor to play Bond in modern times (even though I personally don't agree with this - I think the actor should resemble Fleming's description as close as possible), but it makes no sense when setting it in the era that Fleming wrote the books.
Apologies if my criticism sounded harsh.
Fair enough, I've apologised to him. Merry Christmas one and all.
My suggestion is that - even in the 1950s - the Secret Service could be presumed to know when and where to send the right agent to the right situation, varying as to race, gender, sexual flexibility, nationality, languages spoken, etc. Did Fleming write a white Bond ? Yes, but he also wrote Bond as an outsider who did not necessarily belong in those upper crust schools, and got kicked out. His parents were not English, though one was from Great Britain. The way he wrote the relationship of Bond and Leiter would accommodate one doing the other a favor "off the books" and such things may well be considered encouraged, not just tolerated, for the sake of friendship and solidarity and cooperation between their agencies as well as themselves as individuals. Would it vary from Bond as written ? Only in terms of skin color. In terms of certain missions, it would make much more operational sense. There's been more than two dozen of these made, and variety could be quite fine.
I realize some folks would say, "Fine ! Write it as a new character, another agent working OHMSS." I'd be fine with that, too. I really can see an Indian agent, and a Chinese, one, too, but, really, from all over, since the British Empire was all over the globe. I would be greatly in favor of an expanded Bond universe. Some on long-form TV, some in films, present the Young Bonds and IN PERIOD, some adult Bonds in period and some - as presently done - in the present day. Present other characters. All that.