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What liberties has BB taken?
Skyfall was released after 2006
Yes, in Skyfall which came out in 2012
No, never, sadly.
To be fair he's only been in naval uniform in 3/24 films and has been referred to as 'Commander' in a handful of films.
You sure?
Moore and Brosnan at least once each.
Connery I think more than once.
Must prefer a "dry death".
Ooops you're right. Sorry Mr. Dalton.
Dalton did wear scuba though.
Isn't that funny. I could have sworn I've seen Bond more in that naval uniform.
A shame that neither Dalton nor Craig ever wore it. It sure would have looked good on them!
Almost every other Bond actor.
Connery, Moore, Dalton (I think.), Bronson, and Craig have all piloted a speedboat.
Yes, but factor in longer production schedules and delays between some films too. BB and MGW deserve credit for what they've done.
But that was very different. The landscape of the film industry has changed significantly since then.
Absolutely. Had there not been the MGM situation post QoS we would certainly have had SF sooner. Also, they could have just called it a day then, but stuck it out. I hope Gregg carries the torch once Barbara and Micheal leave and it remains a family business.
What I meant to imply by taking "certain liberties" was the reimagining of Bond's past, demonstrated in SF and to a lesser degree in SP, that were not part of Fleming's background story on a young Bond and his adversaries. Such as Bond not having a family estate called Skyfall, nor a gamekeeper called Kincade, with the omission that Fleming wrote that Master Bond in fact went to live with his aunt, Miss Charmian Bond somewhere in Kent. Poor Charmian Bond was completely airbrushed out of his backstory because it didn't fit in with the "damaged orphan" shtick they were trying to tell. Not that I want to hear about Bond's childhood, mind, but if you're going to include it, why not do Fleming justice and include what he wrote? OK, not huge liberties, but liberties all the same considering none of the previous movies touched on his past.
Also, there's the childhood connection to Blofeld via Hannes Oberhauser mentioned in SP. Again, not exactly sticking to Fleming's template here are we? If we factor in Moneypenny having changed her background from Lieutenant RN to a cackhanded Field Agent who mistakingly shoots Bond out in the field, then I think it's fair to say, we've wandered off somewhat from the Fleming template. None of which was done on Cubby's watch. Only saying, like.
Bond was only a foster child for a short while before going to live with his aunt is the way I took it.
The short while with Pappa Opie apparently was traumatic on the older son Hans.
That young Hans I guess could be argued followed close to Fleming's history of Blofeld ..or could follow close to Fleming's Blofeld history.
Of course the novels never featured that ...nor Madeleine.
Still no clue how they will handle Tracy.
MGM are in better financial shape now than they have been for years, with $252m in profits last year.
On a side note, I was always led to believe the only reason Fleming gave Bond a history was to say sorry to Connery for doubting him as Bond in Dr No. Hence the Scottish connection. It was never intended to be used as the basis for a story, as Fleming belived it was better that Bond remain an enigma.