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The Living Daylights
Yep, they got almost everything right.
If a poker game worked....
I suppose NTTD was kind of a return to those things, so it wouldn't necessarily be as big a shift in theory.
It's tricky to tell what they'll do, and to a large extent this depends on who the director is, who's writing, and even who the next Bond is. I suspect certain fans looking for an 'ordinary Bond adventure' without any trace of what they disliked from the Craig era might be a bit disappointed, or at least it won't be the film they claim to want (worth saying no Bond fan truly gets the film they envision anyway). But needless to say they'll want a Bond film that gives us the thrills the series is known for.
It's not conclusive evidence or anything and it's not the only thing they do: indeed Heyman and Pascal are currently making a more adult drama movie together, but I could imagine them making a bit more of a family, mass appeal Bond film than we've had for a while.
And I don't mean turning him into Paddington, I just a mean something more in the Octopussy, GoldenEye, maybe Daylights zone: something which has that edge of danger and drama of the Craigs but maybe just a little bit more for 9 year olds to get excited by.
I think that’s probably true. Does Hollywood call that a 4 quadrant audience? It makes sense if they want to shift toys and games, as well as make money off product placement.
I’d say they’ll be trying to recreate what made Skyfall such a hit, only I think Eon tried that with the last two films and it didn’t quite work.
I had the same thought, but turned it a slightly different way: They seem to know what is essential to a character-lead franchise and allow the creatives to capitalize on that. Yes, the Holland Spider-Man films skew younger, but IMHO that's because they went with the essential concept of Spider-Man/Peter Parker being a kid from Queens who has to balance school and crime fighting. That's not something new a screenwriter came up with to hit a certain audience. That's a very classiv version of the character.
Similar to Harry Potter. Films that do triple duty as being for children that grow with the characters, for older fans, who grew with the characters during the book run and as a super-mass market franchise.
So while this may be cherry picking or reading their careers in as positive a light as I want, I think they are a very good choice to sh pherd a specific view on Bond that makes sense both as it's own new film and in the context of the character. Given my view of what works in Hollywood at the moment and what their goal is, I assume this is going to be a film that is serious at it's core, but has a lot of bangs and whistles around that. And that sounds very Bondian to me.
Yeah. A mix of something original and the familiar would do it.
Yes, and I'd say in the best way possible that sums up every Bond film!
Needless to say I think we'll get some surprises.
Yeah. I think so too.
"Likable" is a very subjective words when it comes to Bond films. Some consider the campiness of Moore and Brosnan's Bonds likable, while others find the gritiness of Dalton and Craig's as such.
Yeah. That's true. It's quite subjective. But I suppose he means a James Bond that strikes a chord with almost everyone.
Will David Heyman and Amy Pascal switch who's truly in charge of Bond films, akin to Cubby and Harry, or Michael or Barbara?
Also, I would say use PB's films as guides as they have a bit of everything, in terms of tone.
I think with Bond the audience have to be able to acknowledge he can be bit of a b*stard at times. But they still have to be drawn to him, and the character has to have a sense of humanity.
Agreed. OHMSS and CR only come along every forty years or so.
Bingo!
I’m not sure we can read anything meaningful into “fresh, exotic new chapter”, but it’s good to know they’re getting down to work.
Edit: Meaning more Cuba-NTTD, less Safin's Island-NTTD.
Edit2: Well, scratch all of this then. They didn't say exotic.
I love Ana De Armas, she nailed it.
"Let James be James" 🥂
Amazon has said that the word "Exotic" was misquoted. So much for careful wording.
Also worth saying I presume this is a quote from their presentation at CinemaCon? It’s probably slightly more off the cuff and less of a preplanned statement than we’d see it as in that sense.
True. We're all very hungry, us famished Bond fans, aren't we? ;) When the truth is, it was all very pro forma, as it should at this point, nothing else.