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And obviously it wasn't. I think Deadline had reported that Sony and WBs are in the lead. It's a finicky business, lots of $$$s to made, and lots of lawyers to go over every dotted "i" and crossed "t".
Negotiations between titans don't happen over night-- too much to gain, too much to lose.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3552308/Matthew-Goode-takes-swipe-Bond-film-franchise-reveals-hasn-t-invited-second-audition.html
Has he seen the box office receipts???
If Goode, or Mendes4, don't like the direction of the series, that's a matter of personal opinion. But to say it's not working as well...?
I wish my failures pulled in billions of dollars...
I don't know that it has to be cut that drastically, but they do need to do something about how they spend their money.
I do wonder what a film would look like where they spent the kind of money they did on Spectre, but actually spent the money wisely. That was the biggest problem with Spectre, not necessarily the amount of money itself.
As is the alternative. Don't confuse quality with success.
Agreed, @Dalton: they didn't spend wisely. It was too much about capturing past "classic" glory. Honourable intent, not too successful in execution.
Start with the script. Let new writers be creative. Get a director who will keep the action flowing forward.
I understand but I don't get that feeling.
http://collider.com/lucky-logan-daniel-craig-katherine-heigl/
Yeah, that was definitely far too much, especially for a car chase that wasn't really even a chase, but rather a backdrop for an awkward information dump.
@Mendes: I was responding to Goode and your point about old vs modern Bond "not working".
Please don't take my words and squeeze them into an argument you want to have. Because if I were to judge your more recent participations in these discussions, BB, MGW, and EoN have done nothing correct.
I sincerely apologize for not seeing eye to eye with you on this.
I've enjoyed all the films, but, I do agree, there were hiccups in the last film (that started with a panic in pre-production and spiralled from there). In fact, it's still remarkable to think SP came out as entertaining as it did, considering it seemed, from the start, that everyone was behind the 8-ball trying to overcome the initial failures of the Logan scripts. And then Craig gets injured... and then... and then... and then... It was a laundry list of setbacks, so kudos for them for completing a finished film that made almost $900 million at the int'l box office.
However, it's time to take a look at what went wrong (the things that were in their control (script development, and so on)), and work to see they rectify issues, and not make a pattern of it.
@Mendes: correct (maybe we can see eye to eye on some things)... But this bloated feeling of the last film goes back to getting a great script... Then yes, less bloated film, less spent, better, tighter film.
If you've seen Dan Stevens in The Guest then you can easily see why he'd be ideal for the role. The guy has it all. If I were EON (perhaps they already are) I would get onto his agent quicker than George Galloway over a rug and saucer of milk.
Never mind the competition, old Bond was sophisticated itself. But i'm all for cutting the running time down, and making a spy thriller with less action.
The action is what costs, afterall. You can have a scene with great suspense on a shoestring budget. All you need is a bit of ingenuity.
Completely agree. After probably unattainable Fassbender, he's my first pick.
Agreed. Action scenes like the stairwell fight in CR, the silhouette fight in SF, and the other smaller-scale action sequences of the three pre-SP films should be the template for the action scenes moving forward.
That'll never happen, of course. I just hope that they never subject us to a car chase like the one in SP ever again. That was essentially a joint Aston Martin-Jaguar commercial produced for the sole purpose of giving us one of the worst lines in the franchise's history.
It's also incorrect speculation on their part as well. It's not the rights to Bond that are being "auctioned" off.
I'd like to see a Bond film more along the lines of The International. That film had one action sequence, and look how much that sequence was talked about. Put one other action sequence in the film, space them apart, and that's what i'm thinking about.
Much talked about? The film rather flopped as far as I remember. QOS time, I believe