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Should Carte Blanche be made into a film?
I read Jeffrey Deaver's "Carte Blanche" and found it to be a very satisfying Bond novel. It had Daniel Craig written all over it.
Does anyone else feel that it should be made into a movie?
Does anyone else feel that it should be made into a movie?
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And I guess this maybe needs to go under a different thread ... literary Bond? Gen. discussion?
Most Americans won't understand the title:
"Who the heck is Carte Blanche?"
:D
Why the idea that the average American is thick, carte blanche is an expression that ,ight be French originally but is not that unknown in the US.
So your reasoning makes you come across as a bit of a generalist that dislikes Americans.
I think the movie can easily be made with DC, throw in a bit of personal mental suffering and the 007 du jour might get a good movie out of it.
It would have been great to get a scene in Skyfall where Silva expresses his pleasure over seeing dead bodies in front of Bond and to his disgust. It would have really added to his menace.
I think he's harkening back to the reason License to Kill was renamed from License Revoked. The reason was that, supposedly, Americans wouldn't know what the word "revoked" meant.
Plus, we had a Daniel Craig Bond film that had most of the usual Bond stuff, a personal story, and hints at Bond's past in it. It was called Skyfall.
I've never read the book, so I'm just assuming Hydt is the main villain, but I love the idea of Rickman in a Bond film. "You disappoint me, Mr. Bond. Now, you should, die."
I don't think American are that stupid nowaday because they can access Wikipedia and various James Bond resource online to find out where Carte Blanche came from.
Gee, thanks for the lovely comment (eye-roll). Well, I for one only just managed to dress myself this morning. It was a bit of a hassle getting my jacket over my head, but after really burning my brain cells, focusing and pacing myself, manage it I did. :-L
There are infinitely better spots than the unreliable Wikipedia to go for if you are in an information crunch.
Well, probably NOT that thick. But then the movie version of Alan Bennett's "The Madness of George the Third" was renamed to "The Madness of King George", because Kenneth Branagh told a nice story, that when his adataption of "Henry VI" got released, people asked him, what had happend to "Henry Part 1 to Part 5."
And the phrase "Carte Blanche" is often used in American parlance... usually in reference to our CIA and their drone strikes.
It'd be very hard to imagine and watch, but it's Daniel Craig and Timothy Dalton 1989 tailored made. Bad ass.
But the whole marketing thing for EON are the surprises a new film can spring on an audience. With an established book, it nixes that. It's almost the equivalent of painting by numbers. Plus Deaver gets a load of cash they'd rather have.
Also the whole thing with Deaver is the big twist. But once the book is out there, and read, the film won't offer that surprise. Otherwise, not too enamoured with the rubbish tip plot and setting.
By the way, I don't think there is really that much original material left in the books. Daniel Craig's Bond has had several big Bond story lines - Casino Royale's origin story, the introduction of Q and particularly Money Penny - so I think they should concentrate on finishing off the Quantum story line over the next couple of films. And then there is a book and a character I would like to see resurrected for a possible 6 Daniel Craig film if he was to continue for one more film.
The return of Blofeld and Spectre should be saved for the next reboot.
I imagined a fat Alan Rickman! :) I thought the book was great, and would make for a serious new bond style film.
We already had that in Octopussy.
And about the OP, the answer is no. Not any continuation. There is actually still a lot to adapt from Fleming, bits of plot, characters, settings, etc. And, more importantly, adapting directly continuation novels is one step away, at least, from the source material.
It was not because Americans did not understand what "revoked" meant, it was just that over there, it was used in a different context, as you rightly said, as getting your driving licence taken off of you.
HELL, NOOOO!!!
I mean,what would be the point? A pseudo thriller consisting only of laughable twists featuring a metrosexual calling himself James Bond. Really bad idea!
Licence to Kill was also used as to avoid confusion (by Americans, Brits and all) with the 1981 John Gardner Bond novel "Licence Renewed".
Do you mean the next actor? A reboot may not happen in the next fifty years or so. It would be a good starting point for Craig's successor. I mean Craig had CR, the origins and Vesper as a starting point to establish his tenure, Blofeld could be a great starting point to establish the next Bond actor. But this is off topic.
Boy, this doesn't make me want to read it. I find continuations novels to be glorified fanfics.
The way this story plays out and uses the essence of DC to drive it through, it seems like a book equivalent to the originality that you'd find in Bloodstone. Carte Blanc and Bloodstone are perhaps the last two pieces in which DC's portrayal of Bond was more new and quick. Skyfall dealt with his aging and it seems like Sam Mendes just wants a classic Bond. Carte Blanc is a classic-style but it's just too standalone to either take route of the SF story setup or the CR/QoS which appears to be forgotten about.
No deals Mr. Bond had good story lines too.