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Yeah, interestingly a friend of a friend thought Skyfall was messing with Bond lore by having his parents' graves because of the code theory - despite the fact that Bond's parents are in Fleming's novels!
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Congratulations on your 'Shittest Idea of The Year Award' following on from the inaugural winners last year - P&W for Blofeld as Bond's stepbrother.
But, I always appreciate your input, Wiz.
That said, in 25-30 years time, the perspective of the Bond fans will not be the same as it is now. My 'Shittiest Idea', which I understand why it got the rise out of everyone in a majorly negative manner, will seem to be something very regular to suggest in the future. It happened with Sherlock Holmes. Many interpretations. It happened with Monte Cristo. It happened with Zorro. It happened with many characters. Even Bulldog Drummond (who had an American nephew in the first film with Richard Johnson, yet nothing of that sort was present in the books). But, that will be the future.
No as well.
Okay this idea may suck but it's not as sucky as Bond as a woman! ;))
I actually wrote a letter to them in 2000 (I was 13) that I wanted them to do Casino Royale and reboot. Bond's son? Just no.
The FRWL novel left it more ambiguous indeed. Combining that with the YOLT novel ending and TMWTGG novel beginning, that would be very intriguing.
This could work with one actor stopping and another one picking up. Since DC is always looking for that angle with unique character development, he might find it appealing.
Based on the novels I mentioned it could be something along the line of this:
This would be a rather unusual and non-formulaic Bond movie, yet very interesting and spy-fi to the bone.
Anyway, no, he shouldn't die in a film.
What do you mean, you wouldn't mind if it was true? Your comment suggests there is some debate. There isn't a debate.
Well said Sir.
This is all getting out of hand. Someone's already suggested a female Bond so in a minute someone else will suggest a gay Bond and then we'll round to a black Bond and the interminable Idris Elba will hove into view like some sort of sop to PC liberalism iceberg (if you can imagine such a thing).
Son of Bond is a shit idea who should be aborted while he's still in the womb.
Apart from anything I keep seeing people say 'it would shake things up' or 'it would stop the series getting stale' without actually asking how and why this would be the case.
Would we have son of Bond getting into a DB5 and winking to Q 'My Dad always said that the clutch was a bit sticky' Ho ho.
Or mugging to camera as he said 'Shaken not stirred. As my old man used to say.' Chortle.
If he is constantly referencing his Dad it would be an embarrassment if he doesn't what's the point of the whole f**king exercise?
Utter bollocks which as @ClarkDevlin says will no doubt come to pass one day when some f**kwitted studio exec gets his hands on the rights but hopefully I'll be dead by then.
Well said again Sir. Glad to know I'm not the only one who doesnt need sectioning on here.
This, 10,000% this.
Or Zac Snyder. If anyone can put Bond to death it's him.
The Craig era has changed things and any notion of every Bond actor existing in the same continuity has pretty much gone out the window (you could actually go further and argue this actually happened as far back as OHMSS). I think from now on we'll get more different/experimental interpretations of the character, each in their own universe (sort of like Batman going from the 80s ones to the Nolan trilogy to the new one). Like they did with the Craig era, I think there's a good chance that EON will probably try the overarching story thing in the future. Rather than just having stand alone films, at some point down the line another Bond actor will have a clear beginning middle and end to his tenure. I can see Bond's death being a great end to an era. Whether they do a big dramatic sacrificing himself to save the world or a more simple dying in battle death (I'm reminded of Walter White's death in Breaking Bad, he knows this is the end, his last stand, but he's killed by a single stray bullet that doesn't actually finish him off until he's finished taking care of things; this sort of thing could work for Bond) I think it could be a great ending.
I vaguely remember an interview with Brosnan where he suggested Bond dying saving the world. Shame he couldn't have got a great final film that used this plot device. How great would that have been. Brosnan goes out on a high note, the old Bond dies in a blaze of glory making way for the origin story of CR.
That is exactly what I was going for.
He could create a Bond League. He has all the characters - Female Bond, Black Bond, Son of Bond etc. Each could have it's own spin off. If Bond died, just a drop or two of Blofeld's blood and he's back - if somewhat large and angry.
No.
My comment doesn't suggest that there's a debate in the slightest. Read what I said:
I don't know how it's possible to get "there's some debate" from someone saying that something is "painfully obvious".
All I'm saying is that even if this wasn't the case and if the codename theory was true, I wouldn't be too fussy about it. But regardless, it is the case, so it doesn't really matter.
I got there from the comment, 'If it 'was' true', which you wrote again, above. That implies debate - ie. it may or may not be true. What I'm saying is quite simple. There is no debate.