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As for Thomas Newman, it's sort of a love/hate relationship. Because I've listened to the SF & SP soundtrack so many times and I really love them, but sometimes I'm wanting David Arnold back. I think his QoS score is better than most of Barry's Bond work honestly.
He's been known to try and play the media, so I don't think we can take his silence as confirmation he won't be back.
This recent speculation is therefore as valid as anything else, and given that he directed the last two and is quite tight with the producers and current actor, there is a higher probability of his returning than otherwise unless there is a complete team shakeup.
There is a far higher chance of Mendes than any other director who has been mentioned here. Names like Villeneuve etc. will have to wait for a recast in my view.
Mendes and Craig's relationship is great and all but after SP, their relationship needs to take a break professionally. At this point Craig needs to work with a director that will really challenge him and take him to someplace new. A new perspective is definitely needed.
For perspective, the last time Craig worked with someone other than Mendes on Bond, George W. Bush was still president.
Why has that hope ended?
It hasn't officially really, more of a response to the possibility of Mendes, then Newman returning for B25 and continuing where SP left off. I'm hoping B25 is a stand alone film with or without Blofeld and Spectre. Also if Mendes, Newman and Craig return together for B25, and we actually don't get it until 2019, I'd rule out the possibility of a 6th Craig altogether along with Campbell coming back.
That possibility seems slight at the moment given that Mendes has said that he's done with Bond.
TSWLM, GE, TLD, OHMSS and GF.
If Mendes continues that way I could even live with Newman again.
But the risk of getting another drab and dreary snot like SF that was mainstreamed to boring death just to appeal to mass audience is too high with Mendes.
SF is great. Far better than SP.
// Hopefully he has heard and understood some of the criticisms about SP, and approaches B25 with more humility. //
Mendes is 51 years old. I can't imagine such a drastic change in his personality.
That's about the same age Moore Bond went from his MR self to his FYEO self. ;)
This. Had SP been a critical monster I think Mendes may have walked, but I believe he'll feel he has unfinished business. DC likely has one more in him. Anything could happen, but there is a logic to it.
Can I take it from your profile picture that you are a Turner fan? I had only seen him in the Hobbit and just didn't see him as Bond. But I have just sat down to watch an episode of Poldark for the first time and now I could see it. Still not convinced, but I could see it working. Have you seen him in anything else that convinces you?
:-h Hello there!!
Yes I am indeed a huge Turner fan. It was "And Then There Were None" the adaptation of Agatha Christies best selling novel that aired in December of 2015 that initailly convinced me this guy could be Bond. If you google that, he wears a tux, is clean shaven, and has straight hair for once. This guy screams Bond, let me tell you!
I also have seen both series of Poldark, and it becomes more obvious that this is the headstrong, dark figure with the right sinister stare to become Bond. He'll be 35 around the time B25 is currently expected, the perfect age for Flemings character! :D
I am a Turner fan since almost ten years now. Mitchell is one of my favourite TV characters ever and Turner already was bloody (literally lol) fantastic in Being Human at a very young age.
Imagine what this guy can do once he's reached 35-45!
That's perfectly possible! it may also be as mentioned above that he came across as weak because the Hobbit films were silly and not particular well made... he was sharing screen time with a cast of multitudes too which probably didn't help his cause.
I take it your not impressed with his other work @peter?
Do you think it could be the case as with some other actors that he grows into a big screen leading man? He is still young afterall. I think whoever ends up replacing Craig (be that for 25 or further down the line) has big shoes to fill. I think unlike Dalton (who I think had to 'act' the part) I think Craig actually shares quite a few characteristics with Bond.
In a nutshell.
I hope you didn't take offence to my Dalton remark; I have said on this forum that the man had the right idea, I just found he executed with too much staginess, not enough natural flow (and, at times, I found him angry and not likeable!).