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Sound like the Kyle Reese monologue to Sarah Connor lol 👍
CR-MR-YOLT-TB-YOLT/OHMSS
Say the next actor does three movies, maybe four.
Perhaps Eon with the next actor could plan ahead to adapt (what's left of, what's still usable of) Fleming in a certain order, combine stories a la FYEO, have some characters carry over, and give the series the feel of a preplanned arc.
Say:
MR-LALD/DAF-TMWTGG
At the very least I can see them going back to Fleming and trying to get an idea of where Bond was at as a character during certain points in the novels (ie. He’s much more straight laced in CR and has a little crisis of faith in the Service and becomes more world weary by the end - which could be interesting to see played out, although it’s basically what we got in CR ‘06. You also have MR/DAF where he gains a sense of humour, but becomes much more introspective and even a bit reckless in how he operates as an agent, which is more the sort of characterisation I can see them going for. Maybe even evoke FRWL where he’s bored due to not being on duty for a while and having recently broken up with Tiffany Case).
I think other than that they’ll use Fleming but not adapt it strictly (and it’s just as well - I don’t think any ‘unused’ book can be faithfully adapted now and so many ideas have been used anyway. I don’t see the point in using ‘what’s left of it’ anyway as if it’s some sort of finite tap and not the source material of a great character that can be revisited and reshaped into something unique every time).
Nope…
It's been 3 years and 2 months, but EON is still waiting to give us any actual news unfortunately.
Without wading into a political discussion, I've been thinking the same thing. And if truth be known, this is something that I've wondered about for the last 15 years or so.
So what?
I heard he's also doubling up his time as a security guard at Harrods.
Anyway, I doubt there’s anything political about Bond holding them back to be honest.
Well, either Purvis or Wade said writing Bond was tough because how much the Bond-Villain has become a reality with Trump and Putin alone. I don't know what to say to that. Other than that it proves that it may be time to move on from them. Bond can be (and often is) always a response to real-life threats. It depends how much EON wants to use satire to prove it.
The once-and-future leader of the US does have a whiff of Drax and especially Krest about him, and Putin is clearly Orlov. P&W were not wrong.
CR was such a hard and bold course correction away from DAD and the rapidly diminishing returns of the Brosnan era. There were real stakes for Bond for the first time in a long time. And even for those who didn't love SP and NTTD, there were very real stakes there too.
I don't see Eon veering too much from this direction with Bond #7. Just a younger version of it.
There has to be some update. Skyfall premiered 12 years ago.
I don't think he was talking about an update. It was more about Bond 26's direction.
It’s not the party politics situation, and certainly not US politics at all, it’s just the stories about special forces essentially… well, allegedly ‘taking no prisoners’ due to the legal and political ramifications. And that having been put in that position, the powers-that-be are then less than supportive of the serving forces after the event.
For Bond to stay “realistic” and be a double O, licensed to kill, might not fly so well. (Though it’s arguably something they have danced around the edges of for a while. I don’t think we want a Bond courtroom drama, no matter how much people liked Skyfall and it’s middle scenes.)
It would be a bit like putting out a Police Academy film in the middle of the ‘Defund The Police’ fracas a few years back.
I mean that too. The Craig's formula is dry at this point.
The thing about NTTD is that it has such a spectrum of tone/ideas (ranging from dark/fatalistic to fantastical to moments of humour you’d expect in the Brosnan/Moore eras) that short of something radical one way or the other there’ll be some resemblance to it in Bond 26.
But ultimately yes, I don’t think Bond 26 will be a hard course correction film like CR or DAF. Those are quite unique Bond films anyway, and usually new eras carry something over from the previous ones. And ultimately EON tend to revisit broad ideas so I’m sure there’ll be something recognisable from the Craig/Brosnan eras in there (and honestly, it’s really only fans that’ll complain about this if they do have issue with it).
Ok. Yeah, we're all waiting to see. But there's still a possibility that traits of Craig's Bond would be in Bond 26. I don't think Bond 7 would be radically different...even if he would bring his own take.