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I would still love Fleming Character and titles.
If I am comparing it to Previous film or era
Casino Royale For Your Eyes Only The living Daylights and Thunderball I think have a good balance and that is where I would want to go not too dark and realistic (like in my opinion LTK OHMSS and Quantum Of Solace though I love those three films) and not too light hearted and comedic (Moonraker Die Another Day etc)
I feel Spectre should be wrapped up in Craig's tenure (so if he is back for one more film then in Bond 25 in two well you get the idea)
Saw Road to Perdition years ago so cannot remember. I remember being underwhelmed by it, whereas Run All Night exceeded my low expectations.
No.
If they actually filmed the novels as written I'm all for it. Just imagine Craig's ruthless Bond attempting to murder Ralph Fienes a la TMWTGG. Wow, just how brutally awesome would that be?
Think about it -- Mallory shows up and MI6 gets blown up, M. is killed, Nine Eyes is developed and takes over MI6 wihtout much of a fight from Mallory, and he was the one to tie up the loose end of C.
Bond 25 - Blofeld conveniently escapes and that's the final straw for Bond. Something fishy is up.
Couldn't you easily see Bond still not trusting this man? So Bond 25 is Bond suspicious of Mallory, getting perhaps Q. and Moneypenny on his side, and then it goes way too far and Bond gets way too involved/obsessed with the matter, going after Mallory while hunting down Blofeld. Bond sets up his own base of operations in the meeting place from SPECTRE, call the film The Hildebrand Rarity.
I'm very surprised at how well that works.
Despite other's views to the contrary, if Craig is doing one more, I want that dark Bond that he gave us so convincingly in CR/QoS back. That, in my view, will be the sendoff that he deserves.
Yea, and again; I'm not saying Fiennes is actually a traitor, it's just Bond and the audience will be convinced and they can somehow have Mallory prove his worth. Hopefully the complete opposite of the C. storyline in SPECTRE, where you knew the whole time he was bad.
Weird to think that since Moore left the franchise in 1985 (31 years ago), only 1 film was a straight-forward mission with no personal angle for Bond or mi6 (TLD).
I'm currently in the process of trying to get some of the Hitchcock films that I don't own yet on blu (Dial M For Murder, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope etc.). I'd love to see more Hitchcock style tension in a Bond film. As a master, he knew how to weave this in beautifully. How to let it build and then defuse it. He didn't have all these fancy special effects to fall back on in his day, and yet his films grip us like very few can, even now. Spielberg is another who knows how to do this well.
I suspect the streak will continue further into the future. We'll surely get a personal angle in Bond 25 if Craig returns. I'd expect it to continue on past that point as well, as I'd imagine that EON probably thinks at this point that it gives them the kind of depth to the films that allows them to chase Oscars and other such awards.
Eventually, and probably in the not too distant future, we're going to reach a point where this is what the Bond franchise becomes, a franchise that focuses on the personal issues of its protagonists and, sometimes, villains. Once we reach a point where half of the franchise is predicated on this, I wonder if that becomes the true core of the franchise.
It be nice to see Bond sent on a mission by M and complete it rather than disappearing off the radar again either at the beginning or during the mission.
I guess there are too many different ways it can go... depends on the actor and director to even who writes the scripts for the next however many Bond films to come. Anything can happen and challenge us fans... All we can do is wait and see.
Really, it depends how quickly they get the next film out. As so far they 'hope' to do one ever two years they said after Skyfall but that hasn't happened. If it is going to be every 3 years rather than 2 that will really decide when Bond 25 hits the screens and if it stars DC or someone new.... which could me a whole new direction.....
Seconded. Internal mistrust is played out and done to death. It's not impossible to come up with a competent MI6 who function as a unit, all trying to achieve the same objective.
And the theme of knowing who to trust was brought in Die another day already
Eon should realize what they did right with CR (hint: use the novel) and do it again with Bond actor #7.
I'd love that. I think it's fairly easily doable too, I don't get why (aside from wanting to ape Star Wars) they wrote the story off as outdated in the 70s. Drax's Nazi background could have easily been updated to some other more relevant threat, and they could still do the same today. Change the names they've already used, tweak the story to fit in a modern setting, amp up the action a bit and it'd work great as a new film.
I've posted on here about this before and an idea I had was to go Homeland with it. New Drax but not called Drax is actually British, he was a soldier who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan, but was captured (could have a Bondless PTS showing his rescue) and secretly brainwashed. I think as long as you keep the whole enemy within angle, it doesn't matter what his specific background is. In the outline I wrote, it wasn't a missile he was developing but a drone fleet which he was going to turn on the UK in a massive nationwide terrorist attack. Although to be fair a nuclear weapon would still be relevant today.
Regarding Bond - I think it will very much depend on the actor that they cast. The actor's sensibilities, capabilities and limitations inevitably influence the direction and approach. We've had one overwhelming trajectory for the past 12 long years, and I believe they will have to shake it up soon in order to give the audience something fresh. As long as they don't attempt Craig 2.0 without Craig, everything should be fine. That's what the film makers tried with Batman post-Nolan, and at least in my opinion the results have been somewhat disastrous. Affleck and Snyder are no Bale and Nolan. Not even close.
Apart from the tonal shift, I don't really care what they do, as long as they make good films and lay off the pressure to inject more PC.
I am all for it.