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She was responsible for Paloma, which is as close to a consensus positively-received sequence as anything in NTTD.
But can she save the whole frenchise?
Best scenario: contrary to all natural forces Amazon decides to find the best actor, best crew, and builds a family that produces a film every two-to three years, in which the character is balanced and understood.
Worst scenario: Bond is beeing 'Americanized', in which he's turned into a super-hero with straight foreward no ambiguity storylines that are predictable as can be. Then there are series, spin-offs, etc.
t.b.h. considering the fact that the Russian have now taken over America and Americans have taken over Bond, I can only expect very bad things, and hope for the not-so-bad things.
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Considering he spent so many years battling Russia it is an odd position to arrive in.
I for one love Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Just sayin'.
I like her too and I'm not at all threatened by her alleged feminism. I see her as a talented artist, not as someone who's only out there to push a political agenda.
She was really the best (or maybe I should say most interesting) thing about the last Indy film for me. Unfortunately.
She's one of those rare actors that connects to & plays off of other actors with ease.
Worst case scenario: Bond movies that are uncanny like NSNA and are no different from the bland, soulless digital slop that Amazon typically makes
Best case scenario: they get Cavill to be Bond.
Worst case scenario: suddenly NSNA seems like an EON production.
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AND go on a mission!
I think it is likely that the next Bond film will feel like NSNA unless they actively recruit some Sony/Eon DNA...I don't know if that's Campbell or Waller-Bridge or even Amy Pascal, who oversaw I think four of the five Craig films.
Amazon should look for *someone* from the past to kick off the new movie era right.
Not necessarily. Of course they want that dreaded word, "content," but they need someone to oversee said content and that is primarily what I am referring to.
Again, I think this is all a massive overreaction. I could be wrong but Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, DC, Marvel... its all properties built on the foundation of multiple strong, leading characters that could fill out all of this content with vast universes of things and characters to choose from with unlimited possibilities of franchises within a franchise.
A franchise like Bond only has one focal point and I cannot see the vast general audience caring much outside of maybe a Moneypenny, Leiter or random Double O spin-off that maybe ties into the new movies. So fears that it'll be oversaturated are a little knee-jerky to me. Theres only so much they can really do with the Bond IP. Fears about the quality of said projects are what should really be focused on but again, just comes down to who they put in what positions.
It's a good point actually, you'd think they might want someone there to reassure the audience that they're still watching proper Bond, behind the camera or in front. A bit like Force Awakens did have Harrison Ford etc.
It's tricky though as there's not many they can bring back. Might we see Fiennes' M return?
They bloody well should. They should double down on all the Bond tropes that make Bond Bond. Back to the roots of Bond, part nostalgia, but also what made Bond great. The (anti) hero the world needs right now, including all the bells, whistles and gadgets.
It's part of what makes the brand recognizable. You'd think they would. Though they may pull a Craig era decision to differentiate them.
Yeah I think a facelift is likely (I still really like the NTTD gunbarrel) but I'd bet everything is in its traditional place to reassure the audience.
She contributed some great ideas to NTTD and I suspect brought a lot of life to it. I think she's said some interesting stuff about Bond in interviews which seems she gets what's needed for a modern Bond film at least. I'd be fine with her contributing to the script. Maybe not being the lead writer, but I think having someone like that onboard to bridge these two eras would be reassuring in the short term.
The best case scenario would be that Amazon does literally nothing with the IP at all. No films, tv shows or streaming series. Ideally no further sales of merchandise either. The IP is then given back to the Broccolis and they start over.
The worst case scenario is pretty much any other scenario.
I think people in general – not just us fans – fail to consider that franchises can be allowed to die. There can be a beginning and an end. It would of course be sad to never get more Bond in our lives, but the Broccolis had a (blood) right to make that decision. All they had to do was hold onto the creative control and keep delaying with MGM/Amazon. Over time the copyright to various materials would expire and others would inevitably create 'Bond' content, although no one would ever consider it legitimate. Mainly since these things would be made despite the family and not because of them. With their $1B deal it's now a direct consequence of a decision on their part, so the line of legitimacy is blurred.
As a side note I'm really surprised there's no discourse about the Bond 26 placeholder name. That number represented the number of EON films which no longer applies. Bond 1 might also be misleading, since there will soon be (multiple) tv series and potentially different simultaneous universes. I'm guessing there'll no longer be working titles too. Amazon will simply give us the name of the content and we'll refer to it as that.
I'm sure they will. This represents the low-hanging fruit to reassure the audience.
What is interesting is and brought up in a recent MI6 article is: will Amazon adapt any of the continuation novels? They have a bunch of basically adaptable stories out there that Eon never wanted to touch.
Also, will we get a miniseries adaptation of The Authorized Biography of 007? Could be an opportunity for Brosnan (Brosnan and Scorupco, directed by Campbell?) or even Dalton (Dalton and d'Abo?), as an example.
Maybe we could get a TV movie closely adapting the short story Quantum of Solace?
Trying to think of positives, any positives!
Also, Dalton's statement was pure class, especially this:
"Can you remember the first time you saw a Bond movie? You were a kid, right? Me too! And that's what got us going. Anyway, good luck to them, I say. I do wish them all the very, very best."
Dalton deserved more Bond movies! Obviously.
I don't entirely see the point to be honest: they're fun reads but I'm not sure any of them have really provided any massively eye-catching or unique ideas. Maybe scenes here and there, but generally I'd say the films have always come up with the more impressive and original plots. If something like TWINE had been a novel first it'd probably be incredibly well-regarded as one of the very best as it's absolutely packed with ideas.
Something like A Mind To Kill is a bit more unique, but it lives within the literary canon so much that it's not easily adaptable to the screen version.
That is quite a fun idea, I must admit, although I can't picture how it would work. Probably quite expensive.
CGI kangaroos are expensive! Seriously, though, I think this could work with Brosnan and Scorupco (instead of Honey), with Campbell directing. It would be a lot of flashbacks, for which honestly they should just use clips from the actual movies instead of trying to recreate them with a young Bond actor.
I'm not even the biggest GE fan and I am quickly warming to this idea.
I always thought that book was an unsung part of the canon. It is very meta, though, and that might be confusing. But the right time for it is now, between NTTD and Bond 26 while Bond is dead.
ETA: I am struggling to come up with a positive spin on the Amazon acquisition, but maybe it's this:
We likely won't have to wait 4-5 years between films anymore. That has admittedly been tough.
I hope they find a writer, producer, and director who really care about the IP, who don't just give us paint-by-numbers, checklist Bond, which is basically what we got from 1973-1985, and again from 1995-2002. We've had 11 films of that, and I appreciate the other 14 films more.
I would rather get something from Amazon that hews to the Connery, Lazenby, Dalton, or Craig eras.