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We should get either the Bond girls video blog (which should have been released last month but it didn't for obvious reasons) or the stunts video blog on August 15th
Bond 25 distributed by Warner and directed by Chris Nolan? I wouldn't be surprised.
I wouldn't be surprised either, and that would be the end of Craig as Bond, as Nolan will insist on his own Bond. Babs may gush over Craig, but she and Wilson will drop him in a nano second if the Warner agreement includes a Nolan trilogy for Bond 25-27. Somebody said if you want loyalty in the film business, get a dog.
Who do you think Nolan would want for Bond?
Then on the other hand Nolan has name recognition in this and similar genres something Mendes didn't have going into Bond.
Well it's too early to determine somewhat as we havn't seen SP yet. The only thing that could tonally make things emotionally dark is the touching on Bond's past as a child but if post SP the movies could keep the tone of CR and take that little extra step of Bond being characteristically supercool (i.e. his emotional disposition) then we are definitely on to a good thing.
UNCLE is getting a lot of praise and one of the highlights is Cavill's ubercool characterisation so much so that people wanting him to be the next Bond is going to increase exponentially. I think one of the cons of the Craig era which is magnified so much more because of the UNCLE movie is, that Craig's Bond is super interesting but isn't being tge ubercool playboy type which so many I'm sure would love to see.
Naturally, given that Craig's Bond at least from CR to SF and will no doubt continue in SP has been on a character arc and on a trajectory where certain berievements excuse the ubercool/playboy traits it would be nice for Craig to get a movie where he gets to display such qualities without compromising the integrity and tonal levels of a movie like CR.
If they want Nolan and he makes it a condition that he can choose his own Bond, Craig will be dropped just as quickly as Brosnan.
(And since I'm hoping for more Craig, I'm also hoping they won't decide to go with Nolan.)
Anyway, I think EoN are waiting for UNCLE to be released and then after about a week or 2, they're going to really get the ball rolling SP marketing campaign.
Dont rule Nolan out just yet, he has a good chance of doing B25 IMO.
There are billion reasons why I disagree with you. Very much an argument if I'm putting up 300 millions dollars as a studio btw ..
They want an artistic director they won't have to pay a mint anyway... Nolan unless he gives some to the Eon way probably won't do a Bond..
Same as anywhere else?
DAD made less at the box office than any of the three Craig Bonds.
Yes, but that wasn't my point. I said Brosnan was the most bankable BEFORE Craig came along. They couldn't have known that the next Bond would be even more bankable.
They already had an actor whose movies made good money and whose last movie had made more than any Bond movie since the Connery years. And yet they let him go and went in a completely new direction, not knowing whether the new guy would be equally (or more) bankable.
So bankability won't save Craig if they decide to go into a new direction with a new director who has his own ideas about who Bond needs to be.
Yea but I'm sure the casting of Bond is the producers' decision. I mean I know it is ..they own Bond or at least the part not owned by a chronically near death studio...
I'm not saying the director doesn't have a significant say. I think Young, Hunt, Glen, and Campbell all had a say ..Campbell two times even.
I see your points, but I don't think anyone here can say what EON wants with any authority. Well, they want to make successful Bond movies, and they're doing it right now, so why mess with what's working?
Its obvious reading between the lines that EON value Craig as an actor and a person more than they did Brosnan. And some people in here seem to be vastly overrating the appeal of getting Christopher Nolan. Skyfall made more at the box office than any of his Batman movies, so why would they throw out their biggest Bond since Connery just to court a director? Guaranteed that 90% of people showing up to a Bond movie don't know or care who's behind the camera. But all of them know, want to see, and like, who's in front of it.
I can maybe see B26 if back on a 2 year schedule ...maybe.
Craig will be back for Bond 25.