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"If he says he's up for it, he's up for it."
Exactly, thank you. It’s not like he’s an actor playing 30-50 year old Bond on the screen. He’s remained active and has said before he might come back if it’s with a clean slate if I’m not mistaken.
Campbell maybe directing screentests?
Foster would be terrible. Mendes maybe but going from the amazing Skyfall to mediocre Spectre I have my doubts about him.
I’m not “pushing an ideology”. Chill out.
Clint Eastwood is still directing movies into his mid 90s. Age is only a number.
Mendes is busy with four Beatles movies to shoot.
The bigger question at the minute is who is going to be the “showrunner” for all of this?
I thought Mendes said Barbara & Michael rushed him when he was directing SP.
I blame Mendes and don't want him involved further.
It made dramatic sense, as a one-off, to kill off and replace one M. Shades of The Prisoner there.
But then Mendes had to keep raising the stakes, theatrically. Once we got to Blofeld's origin story in SP, I was like, "Meh."
And that led us to everything in NTTD. I thought it was brave that they killed off Blofeld, Leiter, and Bond but where do you go from there?
Back to basics, I hope.
That could be a reason why Spectre wasn’t that good. Maybe give Mendes more time to write a proper script.
Thankfully he'll be busy the next few years with the Beatles nonsense, so hopefully that further guarantees he won't be back again.
I have absolutely no idea why they even thought to hire him. Idiot decision IMO.
Campbell is the greatest living Bond director, perhaps the greatest of all. If anyone can lend the new Amazon regime legitimacy it's him.
And even at 81, he hasn't ruled himself out.
You know you're a serious Bond geek when you've analysed every frame, every camera angle, everything! 😉
However, there IS a fine line...
I dont buy this idea that they didn't have enough time to write it. They did.
They just wasted in. Much like running a marathon, they did all the running in the last two miles. And the time turned out poor, to use the tortured metaphor.
Mendes had great DOP's more like.
He certainly did, but as I already explained, a director doesn't just do the visuals.
Maybe just express your own opinions instead of trying to belittle everyone else's for a change. Folks might even like you, you never know.
May I suggest the two of you get a room to hash things out ;) Me and @MakeshiftPython will sub in respectively.
For example, the whole foster brother angle was Michael G. Wilson’s idea. This is where Barbara should have told him “maybe not”.
I think “Spectre” feels like an instance in which they should have fully committed to the bit. What I mean to say is that the “brothers” angle could have worked if there was more resonance for that relationship in the film’s plot. Why is Madeline Mr. White’s daughter and not Blofeld’s? What if the film was told from Blofeld’s or Madeline’s perspective (like the novel “The Spy Who Loved Me”)? The “brothers” angle is treated as plot A but “Spectre” spends so much time getting us to understand the Nine Eyes subplot that it wastes precious time not fully exploiting or justifying the relationship between the protagonist and antagonist.
I know that most fans think giving Bond and Blofeld a shared backstory/history is the film’s problem, but I really think it could have worked had everyone involved thought a little differently about how Bond film’s are structured. The greatest familial twist in cinema history could have easily been a dud had not “The Empire Strikes Back” been so damned compelling and different from “A New Hope.” Most ideas in fiction can absolutely work if writers/creators are given the freedom to stretch and explore, and if the author is good enough to pull it off.