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Because Amazon needs a showrunner.
Was Alan Ritchson a big name before Reacher? I don't really know anything about him.
I mean, in practice I can also see them defaulting to a more moderately known actor. Bond's a far bigger commitment than Reacher or Ryan, and perhaps hiring a Henry Cavill who's in demand and engaged in various different projects/franchises won't necessarily be the smartest choice. Much like EON too, I think a lot of it could depend on where they want to go story-wise. They might want to consciously go younger. Maybe anyway...
We can't possibly know this.
A change of scenario like the one that happened yesterday takes months, sometimes even years to happen. They surely started way back to develop a new movie, and I'm sure not only that.
Well, not as big as Krasinski or Pratt, but still well known as a Blue Mountain State Actor
on the younger actor angle, we also talked about this with the EON timing in mind. Possibly we are now talking about a movie every other year, so a 40something could be ok for a 5 movies run.
This is based on nothing but my own thoughts, but if they wanted Nolan they'd have to base their entire medium term strategy around getting him and I don't see them doing that. If he were available starting in 2025, ok, but he's slightly busy at the moment.
Of course, studios have done more stupid things, but announcing tomorrow (or in May or whenever) that you are going to let the series rest until Nolan is available is disastrous, as would be just getting some Bond film out the door and then letting Nolan do whatever he wants to do with the follow-up. That's exactly the whiplashing back and forth I hope they want to avoid. But I also don't think you get Nolan if you say "we'll have Edgar Wright do one film with Richard Madden. You'll have to follow the template Edgar establishes and keep the actor."
If they want Cavill there will be no "other projects."
They have plenty of money to clear his schedule.
Ah so more moderately known on American tv? None of his previous shows/films mean anything to me before Reacher, haha. I didn't think he was a big star. He's well cast as Reacher to be fair (I don't like the character at all though, but he suits it).
Anyway, like I said, I don't think the role will be any less of a commitment, and often it was the studios who shot down big name stars for Bond. We'll see.
Depends on contractual obligations and what exactly he's doing/with who (I don't know personally).
I'm not sure if even with an algorithm, public based way of getting the next Bond he'd be the most popular. I noticed after his screen-test was released some people were a bit more on the fence about him as Bond (whether fair or not). But anything's possible. I do think he comes with risks as a potential Bond though.
I don't think it will happen but I don't rule it out either.
No, nothing can be ruled out until... well, it's ruled out.
But I'm just not sure he's the most likely pick either. I don't think it'd be worth it from most perspectives.
Personally, I hope they go much more fresh faced and not just chuck a big name in there. If it's to be believed that they've been planning this creative shift for a while now it might be the case that the stuff EON have been saying publicly still holds up (ie. that they'd ideally like an actor in his 30s, with the gravitas needed, not necessarily a big name etc).
I'd personally like Madden to take the role with a 10 or 15 years tenure
God that'd be upsetting, having seen clips of Citadel.
An American Bond as well I can't see going down well with anyone.
Sorry my mistake why haven’t they done one before then
If Amazon was smart, they would try and retain some of the Bond people to work on the next film. Chris Corbold for special effects and Daniel Kleinman for the titles are the two people from the Bond family I would definitely bring back and try to keep on for the next film and another films after that as long as they’re able to do so
Yes I think so too. We may find an actor has already been cast and a script has been written already, but everyone has had to keep quiet while these legal wranglings were taking place. It also explains why from Barbara's perspective nothing was happening from her side in the development of the next Bond. It's all been on Amazon.
What would be a bigger surprise is if someone like Nolan has already been hired too, but again the lid has been kept firmly shut for months.
I also think Amazon will play it extremely safe in terms of their first Bond film. There won't be too many risks or edgy decisions. The actor will be in the mould of traditional cinematic Bond - tall, white, dark hair, etc. The script will incorporate unused bits of Fleming, Arnold will probably return, and the song will be a safe painting-by-numbers single, maybe even bringing someone like Adele back, like Bassey did with her numerous returns to the franchise.
Now the cats out of the bag, I'm guessing it will be Bond news galore over the next few months.
That's what I thought as well. Get Arnold, Corbould, Gassner and Kleinmann to make sure the scaffolding at least looks the same. I doubt they'd keep the McWilliams' for casting and I don't think Purvis and Wade will be back, but maybe Logan, Haggis or Butterworth.
That's one of the big questions: Will they try to make the transition as seamless as possible and go for as many classic elements as possible, or will they get rid of a lot of stuff to put their stamp on it? Most of us probably thought the DB5 was finally done for at least a few films, but the new overlords may feel like they have to bring it back to keep the connection to the previous films.
Music to my ears. =D>
It'd be lovely to get him as the director. And I agree, the safest bet for any sense of continuity is to get Arnold back. Although I can't really see that happening.
to quote 007 himself "you must give me the name of oculist"
Because they didn't like it.
Do you think they did all they did only to please the audience? If that was the case we would be at Bond 55 and no Craig would have happened.