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My brother's mate works with Kleinman so i'm kind of biased for him to continue!
But you're right, i think some new blood is needed across the board for this new era.
I do think Kleinman can do something fresh and new, like he did with CR! I remember being a bit disappointed with Binder when he didn't come up with fresh ideas for Daltons debut ( though I still like parts of it!)
Yep, Binder was way past his best by the time Dalton came along. Daylights should have had someone new. I remember how impressive and fresh the GE titles seemed at the time.
Totally agree, Binder's last two are a bit sad really, with a gun firing into a puddle and laying two gambling chips onto a casino table so it says '007'. Oh dear.
If Kleinman does decide he's done, then NTTD was far from a bad way to end it, full of lovely stuff- I loved the guns DNA helix: it was nicely funny! I think CR and Skyfall are possibly his best, although obviously GoldenEye was great and still looks fantastic today.
Yeh, you're probably right mate, though I still love all his work! GE titles were the only good thing abut that film! And I really loved what MK12 did on QOS. There are some great titles designers out there. I particularly liked the ones for Finchers 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
LOL. I never thought it that way, but you're right.
The one thing I *still* miss about Binder is his insistence that the title appear at the same time the song mentions the title. (He did this for FYEO, if I recall correctly.)
The songs these days take forever getting to the title!
I think there were calls for Binder to be replaced by other production members , but I think it was Cubby who insisted he stay on! Maybe not one of Cubbys best decisions!!
It's hard to say where more time on the script would have ended up; I guess with a more fleshed-out script, but I don't think the script is actually all that bad. It's full of themes and has something to say; I guess maybe the problem is it doesn't really feel like it moves Bond's story on that much and feels like more of a coda to CR than a full sequel. I guess that's something would could have been addressed a bit more perhaps.
2008 QOS
2010 POAL
2012 RS
2014 THR
2016 SF
2018 SP
2020 NTTD
Yes, Haggis's time was spent mainly on the Sleep of the Dead script. EON accepted the script and then rang him the next day and said that they weren't going ahead with it. Marc Forster said he thought BB and MGW had second thoughts because they didn't like the ending where Bond left Vesper's daughter in a Romanian orphanage and walked away as if it was job done.
Haggis said that the rejection left him barely three months to write a new script. What Haggis delivered to EON literally an hour or two before the start of the writers' strike was a first draft - or, at least, the first draft that'd been presented to EON. Compare that to the months that were spent on SP and the multiple drafts that it went through. I saw some comment once which claimed that parts of Haggis's QOS script were little more than an outline. That might be true, as the guy who played Slate said that the script for the hotel fight between him and Bond read simply 'A fight ensues' and that what we see on screen was worked out on the set.
So, if the writer's strike hadn't happened, there'd've been several more drafts of the script and not much winging it. Would it have improved the film? Maybe. Would I take the risk of that and swap the QOS we did get? No. I love QOS. I may have said that once or twice before...
As much as I wanted this to be true, I think it's an overtly optimistic hypothesis. Maybe, maybe, maybe we would have had one more film between QOS and SF.
But hey, there's certainly some space between QOS and SF to write graphic novels depicting Bond's adventures, say POAL, RS and THR.
Then the writers' strike and other developments affected schedules for QOS and all the following films really.
Course this meant we had 3 films in the next 13 years. Wow I certainly don't wish Amazon to rush things but I would love to see a more regular cadence return to the films going forward.
I actually consider the Bloodstone and Goldeneye Reloaded video games as adventures in the QOS and SF gap. I know that 007 Legends tried to fill it out as well. Thankfully, most people don't take that game as canon. But yes, @Ludovico I would love some books or graphic novels during that gap, there is some great storytelling potential.
As for QOS and the writer's strike, I think that EON kept getting cold feet at a lot of the story ideas, throwing them out, needlessly. Within that short production time, they should have known better. The writer's strike just came around at the worst time for EON and QOS.
Besides, had Blofeld killed Bond's wife he would definitely mention that during his "author of all your pain" speech.
Bloodstone, I could see that fit into the series; we're never told the identity of the big bad-could easily be Blofeld.
I forgot it ends like that, yes that fits rather neatly.