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Best and worst case scenario for the Amazon Bond

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  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 6,085
    My two centimes :

    Best case scenario : We get to see a Bond movie in theaters sooner or later. I'd rather sooner.

    Worst case scenario : Bond is kept on the sreaming platform, which everyone doesn't have, and the future movies stay there, not getting a theater release, and no DVD either. And that would be a shme, because Bond movies are meant to be enjoyed in the theaters.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,170
    mtm wrote: »
    The late great James Bond.
    Dead. Long live.

  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
    edited March 9 Posts: 659
    Venutius wrote: »
    Makes sense on one level and that'd be the best outcome, so I hope you're right, Seve. Fingers crossed. I'm pessimistic about this whole thing, though, and I do wonder why Amazon would pay $1 billion dollars to get rid of EON and gain full creative control, only to then carry on just doing the same thing that EON were doing anyway. There must be a reason that Amazon wanted creative control so badly - but to then do nothing with it once they've got it? I dunno, mate, I can't help fearing whatever it is they've got in mind. Hope I'm wrong!

    They paid up because that was the only way they were getting a Bond film anytime soon.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 1,689
    Venutius wrote: »
    Makes sense on one level and that'd be the best outcome, so I hope you're right, Seve. Fingers crossed. I'm pessimistic about this whole thing, though, and I do wonder why Amazon would pay $1 billion dollars to get rid of EON and gain full creative control, only to then carry on just doing the same thing that EON were doing anyway. There must be a reason that Amazon wanted creative control so badly - but to then do nothing with it once they've got it? I dunno, mate, I can't help fearing whatever it is they've got in mind. Hope I'm wrong!

    Well, What could Nolan have done to not want to give him the final cut? EON wanted control even with Nolan.

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,515
    mtm wrote: »
    The late great James Bond.

    Ah, may he rest in peace. 🌹
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 6,562
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    Venutius wrote: »
    Makes sense on one level and that'd be the best outcome, so I hope you're right, Seve. Fingers crossed. I'm pessimistic about this whole thing, though, and I do wonder why Amazon would pay $1 billion dollars to get rid of EON and gain full creative control, only to then carry on just doing the same thing that EON were doing anyway. There must be a reason that Amazon wanted creative control so badly - but to then do nothing with it once they've got it? I dunno, mate, I can't help fearing whatever it is they've got in mind. Hope I'm wrong!

    Well, What could Nolan have done to not want to give him the final cut? EON wanted control even with Nolan.

    Nolan would have had to fire his wife as producer (that's her role on all of his films) to make way for Barbara and Michael.

    It was never going to happen.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited March 11 Posts: 3,240
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    Well, What could Nolan have done to not want to give him the final cut? EON wanted control even with Nolan.
    That's because Nolan said that he'd only direct a Bond film if he was in charge of 'writer, casting, everything...full package.' That's way more than final cut. That's 'you give me the money and I do whatever I want.' Given that BB and MGW sat on the SF set, watching Mendes work and passing him notes between takes, what was the likelihood of them ever relinquishing oversight of every aspect of a film to Nolan? Or anybody, tbf.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 17,321
    Yeah I think they'd be crazy to do that to be honest, that was kind of the point of their Bond films- they were a curated series in order to keep the brand at the top.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 1,689
    Venutius wrote: »
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    Well, What could Nolan have done to not want to give him the final cut? EON wanted control even with Nolan.
    That's because Nolan said that he'd only direct a Bond film if he was in charge of 'writer, casting, everything...full package.' That's way more than final cut. That's 'you give me the money and I do whatever I want.' Given that BB and MGW sat on the SF set, watching Mendes work and passing him notes between takes, what was the likelihood of them ever relinquishing oversight of every aspect of a film to Nolan? Or anybody, tbf.

    That's the point. That's why Amazon wants them far away.
  • StamperStamper
    Posts: 413
    The harder they fall...
    On a note re NTTD ending, I think they can go by using Fleming own's solution.
    Remember, in YOLT, "Bond –in searing pain– heads for the wooden box that controls the volcanic eruptions which he cranks before fleeing the castle which is set to explode, but in the escape, Bond is sent crashing downward into the sea where he is rescued."
    (NTTD being largely inspired by YOLT).
    That's point one. They will show Bond being blasted away and found floating in the sea. Next in the novel, is the Bourne Identity plot, which I think Amazon will take (so stupid they are). Bond is found to be suffering from severe amnesia. Bond recovers from his wounds, finds a crumpled bit of newspaper with the word “Vladivostok” written on it, and this word jogs his memory. Then Bond sails off for Russia in search of his past.
    I'm betting they will also use the never used idea in OHMSS of Bond face being wounded and him having plastic surgery, to justify the new actor.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,995
    Stamper wrote: »
    The harder they fall...
    On a note re NTTD ending, I think they can go by using Fleming own's solution.
    Remember, in YOLT, "Bond –in searing pain– heads for the wooden box that controls the volcanic eruptions which he cranks before fleeing the castle which is set to explode, but in the escape, Bond is sent crashing downward into the sea where he is rescued."
    (NTTD being largely inspired by YOLT).
    That's point one. They will show Bond being blasted away and found floating in the sea. Next in the novel, is the Bourne Identity plot, which I think Amazon will take (so stupid they are). Bond is found to be suffering from severe amnesia. Bond recovers from his wounds, finds a crumpled bit of newspaper with the word “Vladivostok” written on it, and this word jogs his memory. Then Bond sails off for Russia in search of his past.
    I'm betting they will also use the never used idea in OHMSS of Bond face being wounded and him having plastic surgery, to justify the new actor.

    No, they will keep it simple for the new wave of audiences that don't read anymore. Get ready for a cinematic Moonraker remake....
  • DaltonforyouDaltonforyou The Daltonator
    Posts: 659
    I'm still holding out some hope that the regulators will nix this deal.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,995
    Daltonforyou wrote: »
    I'm still holding out some hope that the regulators will nix this deal.

    What, deal Bezos a bad hand?
  • CrabKeyCrabKey
    Posts: 2,151
    So, Bond will have the face of a young man but the body of an old man. I'm thinking, no.
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