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She's always been candid in interviews but wow this is pretty open.
Unless the check has enough 0s on it. Then they will change their minds
It's not a great sign, although she's not wrong in what she said and it reflects the general feeling across the board about this. I can imagine some other collaborators not wanting to return without EON.
It's a shame. EON built up a good line up of talent over the decades and it showed in their films. It might well be a very fresh start then.
This is what I'm talking about. This is the kind of introductory film, to me, not for one individual actor or for some overarching story, but for the entirety of what's to come with the cinematic Bond as a whole, that I think sets it on the right foot. Thank you for actually engaging with the idea and not foaming at the mouth at the mere suggestion of it.
EDIT: And to go back to the supplement of my initial idea: why NOT have Bond films that are different? I'm not saying don't have a TSWLM, a Thunderball, a GoldenEye...but let's say the next Bond film explores his time in the SAS leading up to his two kills. Let's say the film after that is Live and Let Die. Let's say we finally DO get the proper Moonraker adaptation 99% of us seem to want. Let's say we get a Bond film where espionage is a bigger focus than action.
Let's try stuff. What the hell do we have to lose? Maybe they take a big swing at something different and miss. Okay, fair enough, let's follow that up with something a bit more traditional as a palate cleanse, dust ourselves off, and carry forward. We've gotten 25 Bond films and I think it's fair to say at least half of them follow "the formula". I love those films and I can watch them any time. If whatever comes next is just gonna be "safe" and "established" each time out, I think that might actually be the most dull, uninspiring version of what could come next for Bond.
Now an MI6 secret agent would never have: (1) been an employee on MI6’s payroll who took holidays and submitted expense claims etc; (2) reported directly to the Head of MI6, had annual appraisals and been on extremely familiar terms with many other MI6 employees such as Q or Moneypenny; (3) been a frequent visitor to MI6 HQ and other MI6 buildings; and (4) even used his own name when he met ministers et al in Whitehall.
Given Ian Fleming's background in British naval intelligence in World War 11, that contradictory classification of 007 was about as absurd as calling a Brain Surgeon a Hair Dresser or a Navy Seal a Coastguard as noted in the latest intriguing news article in TheBurlingtonFiles (advert free) website.
To quote from the article ... "As for 007 being “secret”, ... since everybody knew ... his favourite drink was shaken not stirred, I’m surprised he wasn’t poisoned more often … especially as he insisted on letting everyone know his name was “Bond, James Bond”! Perhaps Bond’s true skill lay in being so conspicuously ostentatious that no one believed he could genuinely be a spy!
I swear this guy’s a bot or something. Same post every time and we all get wound up 😂
It's just not the same thing: it's not like a road where one direction has the same width of road space as the other.
I mean, you know I'm talking about an actual film which he made, right?
Yeah, I genuinely don't mind it. I don't know if seeing his very beginnings in the military or what-have-you is essential or anything, after all, if you do an origins of Bruce Wayne film, you want to see him dress up like a big bat at some point. But I don't think it's weird to have a first film where some of the characters you'll be watching meet up: it's not like the first Ghostbusters didn't show them buying the car and the firehouse and hiring Winston etc. - just because we know where it's going doesn't change that characters can be shown meeting for the first time. We saw Spider Man meet Iron Man, you know: it's fine to do that.
I would like there to be a thread running through these films and for one to carry from the last, pretty much all sequels and series do that, it's not weird.
I think you're right in a way: the new film has to do something new in order to make people want to come back for another, and that's potentially a tricky thing with something as old as Bond. Has there been a long enough gap that a totally trad GoldenEye-style film is enough to do that on its own, or does it need a Craig-style reinvigoration to get people excited about Bond again? I have absolutely no idea! :D
They’ll have to do something different in some way. I’m fine with the next era immediately using some of the more ‘traditional elements’ of the formula compared to the early Craig films, but this has to feel fresh, even amongst the familiar.
Back to the subject: I like the idea of making many different types of Bond movies, even with different actors. If one creative team hits gold, then they could continue on for a while....
Yes it's a good point. Even if it's relatively trad they still have to reboot the whole thing and 'bring it into the 20s' like they used to say.
It's going to be different. The question is how different do you want the movie to be?
Yes. I don't see why Amazon MGM Studios would want to hire NTTD crew. It would feel too similar to Eon. As you say, make a fresh start. However I think it would be a terrible shame if Bond 26 were completely filmed outside the UK. Hopefully a British studio will be used but anything is possible. No guarantees.
No guarantees for sure. That said, Amazon acquired Bray Studios last year, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if Amazon decides to make it Bond’s new production home.
It’d be a shame if it left Pinewood, but at least by moving to Bray it’d still be based in the UK.
Seems very possible, yeah. Bond has left Pinewood before so not the end of the world, and I'm sure many of the same crew would be working there.
You could work in Kincaid and maybe May.
Kind of like a cross between Bond and Gossip Girl?
I do think it's more likely we'll see Bond at various points of his life than a Moneypenny or whoever spinoff.
The Young Bonds do have Bond girls by the way, but there's just a light bit of romantic tension between the pair as they're more allies than anything else.
You mean a documentary about Elon Musk?
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