SPECTRE Production Timeline

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  • Posts: 11,119
    RogueAgent wrote:
    Out of curiosity I typed into Google Sam Mendes/King Lear project earlier? It runs from Jan 2014 to March 2014. So with that in mind? Do you think we may get an OFFICIAL press conference regarding Bond 24 title and cast appearances in maybe late April 2014? Any thoughts? Cannot recall when Skyfall's took place before they started actual production of the film?

    The director's role on a play is weird and totally different from their role on films. In a play the director is heavily involved during the build-up ie casting, staging, costumes, rehearsals etc. When the actual play opens the directors job is essentially done. some directors leave the production at that point, others will occasionally drop in and out and see how it's going, whilst others will stay every night.

    Mendes has said in the past that he often leaves his productions after they have opened. Film is after all a director's medium, stage is for the actors.

    It's likely that now Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has opened, most of Mendes's energy is being focussed on King Lear. He'll likely be full-time on Bond from Jan 2014. I also wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't have actors in his sight already and he's just waiting till the script is in better shape before showing it to anyone.

    Agreed here. It could very well be spring 2014 that we will have another exciting globally broadcasted press conference ;-). On the other hand......like with 'Skyfall', a november 2014 press conference seems more likely to me.

    I can't hardly wait!!
  • edited August 2013 Posts: 9,847
    more then likely I do hope it will be less of a homespun adventure and a much more colorful adventure.

  • Posts: 3,276
    There's also the little matter of:

    ID4 2
    Jurassic Park 4
    Terminator 5

    Plus Rambo 5, Rocky 7 and Die Hardest

  • edited August 2013 Posts: 6,601
    Interesting interview - the first acctually about the new play. Here is the Bond part. I wouldn't absolutely take it for granted, that he starts into Bond so early, but its what it says

    Craig finishes a bag of chips and, having exhausted Pinter, is happy to chat about Bond. At the end of Betrayal’s fourteen-week run, he’ll be starting the next 007 film, once more with director Sam Mendes. Skyfall was an intense collaboration. The idea was always that Judi Dench’s M would die—a downer lifted by a late “humor pass” on the script. During filming they added more jokes. The shot where Bond leaps atop a speeding train in pursuit of a killer and straightens his cuffs: That came to Craig practically in mid-flight. “He’s really fucking hurt himself jumping on top of a train,” he says, “and he just wants to straighten himself up. That’s what it’s about: poise. To be more concerned about the way you look at the moment of crisis. The weirder the place it comes from the better it is.”
    He had them reset the train (it took an hour) and do another take. Presto: an iconic image.
    Craig’s Bond suffered mightily in three films but was, in effect, born again at the end of Skyfall—ready to take on the trappings and suits of 007 with less chafing. “Hopefully we’ll reclaim some of the old irony,” he says, “and make sure it doesn’t become pastiche. I can’t do shtick, I’m not very good at it. Unless it kind of suddenly makes sense. Does that make sense? I sometimes wish I hammed it up more, but I just can’t do it very well, so I don’t do it.”
    One imagine—hopes—that playing Pinter with Weisz will require many such leaps onto moving trains over abysses. Only the trains will be wayward emotions, the abysses those pauses, the cuffs left unstraightened.

    http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/rachel-weisz-and-daniel-craig-on-betrayal.html
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    In January we'll hear more I presume about what the planned timetable is for the next one. That's good to know, to have something to hope for. Thanks GL.

    Interesting to learn they added more humour, I wonder if this affects how they tackle Bond for now on?
  • Posts: 2,483
    It would be nice to read one DC interview in which he doesn't drop an F-bomb. Crass, tacky and vulgar, but oh so hip.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited August 2013 Posts: 13,355
    I'm sure there are plenty out there @Perilagu_Khan.
  • Posts: 6,601
    Oh, he loves the F-bomb, is never shy of using it, BUT certainly NOT because it seems hip. THAT might be the reason for him to drop it ;)

    Sure, there are many out there without it, but the truth is, if he can use it, he will. I understand the Brits are especially keen on that word as well as on tattoos. I don't mind, even more so, as I know, he has class, where it counts.
  • Posts: 12,526
    Germanlady wrote:
    Interesting interview - the first acctually about the new play. Here is the Bond part. I wouldn't absolutely take it for granted, that he starts into Bond so early, but its what it says

    Craig finishes a bag of chips and, having exhausted Pinter, is happy to chat about Bond. At the end of Betrayal’s fourteen-week run, he’ll be starting the next 007 film, once more with director Sam Mendes. Skyfall was an intense collaboration. The idea was always that Judi Dench’s M would die—a downer lifted by a late “humor pass” on the script. During filming they added more jokes. The shot where Bond leaps atop a speeding train in pursuit of a killer and straightens his cuffs: That came to Craig practically in mid-flight. “He’s really fucking hurt himself jumping on top of a train,” he says, “and he just wants to straighten himself up. That’s what it’s about: poise. To be more concerned about the way you look at the moment of crisis. The weirder the place it comes from the better it is.”
    He had them reset the train (it took an hour) and do another take. Presto: an iconic image.
    Craig’s Bond suffered mightily in three films but was, in effect, born again at the end of Skyfall—ready to take on the trappings and suits of 007 with less chafing. “Hopefully we’ll reclaim some of the old irony,” he says, “and make sure it doesn’t become pastiche. I can’t do shtick, I’m not very good at it. Unless it kind of suddenly makes sense. Does that make sense? I sometimes wish I hammed it up more, but I just can’t do it very well, so I don’t do it.”
    One imagine—hopes—that playing Pinter with Weisz will require many such leaps onto moving trains over abysses. Only the trains will be wayward emotions, the abysses those pauses, the cuffs left unstraightened.

    http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/rachel-weisz-and-daniel-craig-on-betrayal.html

    That was my suspicion as I guess once the play has finished? I am guessing he will go into his strict working out programmes to get into shape for Bond 24?
  • Posts: 6,601
    Still - I can't believe, he is wasting a whole year with just preps. Even for Bond, that's a lot. Here's hoping, something else will come along.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Filming may start earlier than we think.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Samuel001 wrote:
    Filming may start earlier than we think.

    One can only hope. The earlier, the better. If not, earlier information would always be nice: title, return of Deakins, cast, synopsis, return of Deakins, locations, return of Deakins.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited August 2013 Posts: 13,355
    Earlier filming, means earlier all of that too. Maybe the first thing up, locations, will come very soon indeed, as in Jan/Feb? That month may also have a cast member slip which month filming begins. Who knows, we can only hope, as you say.
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    I assume he is working with Sam on the script/plot ...
  • Posts: 6,601
    The release time is set, so even if they started today, the film won't come out earlier. So - even working on the script, there is time for another film and there are gyms everywhere, too...
  • Posts: 2,483
    I see no reason they couldn't move the release date forward if the film is in the can well ahead of schedule.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited August 2013 Posts: 13,355
    Germanlady wrote:
    The release time is set, so even if they started today, the film won't come out earlier. So - even working on the script, there is time for another film and there are gyms everywhere, too...

    Pre-production of Skyfall resumed in January 2011 so getting Bond 24 going at the same time in 2014 matches that time frame. Craig did not do any films during that period last time, so it appears likely to me that he will so the same again.
    I see no reason they couldn't move the release date forward if the film is in the can well ahead of schedule.

    I'd prefer if they used that time to focus on the one after and get that out within two years instead of three.
  • Posts: 6,601
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Germanlady wrote:
    The release time is set, so even if they started today, the film won't come out earlier. So - even working on the script, there is time for another film and there are gyms everywhere, too...

    Pre-production of Skyfall resumed in January 2011 so getting Bond 24 going at the same time in 2014 matches that time frame. Craig did not do any films during that period last time, so it appears likely to me that he will so the same again.
    .

    This is not correct, Sam. Dragon Tattoo started in September 2010 and went well into mid 2011. He has his Bond haircut while promoting the film at the end of the year. See - there IS time for something else.
  • I see no reason they couldn't move the release date forward if the film is in the can well ahead of schedule.

    The UK and US release dates are set. They won't be changed unless the film runs into problems in which case the dates will be put back not forward.

  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Germanlady wrote:
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Germanlady wrote:
    The release time is set, so even if they started today, the film won't come out earlier. So - even working on the script, there is time for another film and there are gyms everywhere, too...

    Pre-production of Skyfall resumed in January 2011 so getting Bond 24 going at the same time in 2014 matches that time frame. Craig did not do any films during that period last time, so it appears likely to me that he will so the same again.
    .

    This is not correct, Sam. Dragon Tattoo started in September 2010 and went well into mid 2011. He has his Bond haircut while promoting the film at the end of the year. See - there IS time for something else.

    So he did! I forgot about that. So he's got about five months to fit something in, if he wants to. It will be interesting to see if he does.
  • Posts: 12,526
    Think the first sort of rumours or official scouting locations will most possibly be India and South Africa seeing as they went there for the last one? Plus it is the same Director and writer so if it is going to be that country or doubling for another?
  • Same article from before, but this one comes with a pretty cool photo slideshow of Bond through the years: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a509752/daniel-craig-on-bond-24-hopefully-well-reclaim-the-old-irony.html
  • Posts: 2,483
    I see no reason they couldn't move the release date forward if the film is in the can well ahead of schedule.

    The UK and US release dates are set. They won't be changed unless the film runs into problems in which case the dates will be put back not forward.

    Set in what way? Contractually?

  • Do we know for sure Mendes is back (no internet at home for more than 2 months and here you are, completely lost) ?
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    MiniBond wrote:
    Do we know for sure Mendes is back (no internet at home for more than 2 months and here you are, completely lost) ?

    Yes, we do.
  • edited August 2013 Posts: 2,599
    Daniel Craig's comment regarding Bond adjusting his cuffs:

    "That’s what it’s about: to be more concerned about the way you look at the moment of crisis."

    That's what The Moore films are about.

    I guess heading back down this territory was inevitable. I think Craig is genuinely scared that he's going to wind up being criticised as the humourless Bond. Connery would straighten his tie after a fight or some dangerous situation he was in but ONLY after. Not during. The films will never be full on Fleming but they don't have to go camp either. Go back to Moore by all means when a new actor is cast in the role. It sounds like the Craig films will start becoming too inconsistent in tone like in the horrible Brosnan films.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Bounine wrote:
    Daniel Craig's comment regarding Bond adjusting his cuffs:

    "That’s what it’s about: to be more concerned about the way you look at the moment of crisis."

    That's what The Moore films are about.

    I guess heading back down this territory was inevitable. I think Craig is genuinely scared that he's going to wind up being criticised as the humourless Bond. Connery would straighten his tie after a fight or some dangerous situation he was in but ONLY after. Not during. The films will never be full on Fleming but they don't have to go camp either. Go back to Moore by all means when a new actor is cast in the role. It sounds like the Craig films will start becoming too inconsistent in tone like in the horrible Brosnan films.

    All he did was straighten his cuffs, mate; no need to overreact here. That action isn't even close to being campy. Bond jumped the gap, causing his suit to become somewhat ruffled as he landed into the train car. Naturally, he would straighten his suit out and become once again more presentable.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I really don't understand this bitter reaction from Craig's cuff adjustment in the PTS. I thought he looked incredibly suave and it would only make sense to adjust yourself and become comfortable again before pushing on. He's on a train, where is Patrice going to go?
  • edited August 2013 Posts: 2,599
    Bounine wrote:
    Daniel Craig's comment regarding Bond adjusting his cuffs:

    "That’s what it’s about: to be more concerned about the way you look at the moment of crisis."

    That's what The Moore films are about.

    I guess heading back down this territory was inevitable. I think Craig is genuinely scared that he's going to wind up being criticised as the humourless Bond. Connery would straighten his tie after a fight or some dangerous situation he was in but ONLY after. Not during. The films will never be full on Fleming but they don't have to go camp either. Go back to Moore by all means when a new actor is cast in the role. It sounds like the Craig films will start becoming too inconsistent in tone like in the horrible Brosnan films.

    All he did was straighten his cuffs, mate; no need to overreact here. That action isn't even close to being campy. Bond jumped the gap, causing his suit to become somewhat ruffled as he landed into the train car. Naturally, he would straighten his suit out and become once again more presentable.

    To me it seems pretty unnatural. Who would do that considering the situation they are in? To me it only seems like a vain pansy who is obsessed with his appearance would do such a thing under these circumstances. If another man was in this situation, having just jumped into a moving train that has just had the backed ripped off, wind whipping all around him, chasing a bad guy, the idea of him actually adjusting his cuff when such danger is present, seems like the last thing that would be on his mind. Honestly, to me, the situation seems ludicrous and the sort of thing you'd see in a slapstick comedy like Austin Powers. I liked the more Flemingsque tone in CR and QOS but they seem to be moving away from this now unfortunately. I was hoping it might last just for the Craig era. Oh well...

    In terms of the comedy, while Craig is a great Bond, he hasn't a great talent for the one liners. He's much better sticking to the natural humour like when he was having conversations with Vesper in the film version of Casino Royale for example. For me, the lighter tone of Goldfinger was a bit of a come down after the excellent FRWL, helped in part by the gadget laden car. Not that I watched them in order when I was first introduced to Bond in the 80's, but you know what I mean... :) I enjoy Goldfinger but it lacks the wonderful, darker tone of it's predecessor.

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