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It's not really Daniel's fault EON couldn't come up with a competent script. Although he did have creative control it in. So what could have been two good movies in half the time, we got one bad one and maybe one amazing one if Villeneuve on board.
Then again Dan's absence of foresight on his Bond career certainly hasn't helped.
If Villeneuve is truly directing the next one, maybe it would be all worth it.
Somebody decided to have Blofeld back for B24, and it was always going to be foolish to try to 'bring him in' and 'close him out' in one film. Ultimately that's where the mess lies. They should have held him back for the next actor and rolled him out in stages rather than the retro back fit.
Yep, I have to agree with you.
What it came down to was Craig's inability to commit, which crammed SP, then he had the nerve to come back for another. Now we have the mess which is Spectre and a Bond movie delayed 4 years after. And Babs begged for him back. Not a very professional movie making process at all.
If true, very disappointed.
Hardy + Villeneuve could have been marvelous.
Like how I keep telling everyone I'm playing Moneypenny in the next one and nobody believes me. Just wait and see.
I believe this is a variant of that article. However, @barryt007, it's heavily recommended that you approach it with a pinch of salt. I had to read it myself and it's all just assumptions like Jake said.
http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/841378/James-Bond-007-Daniel-Craig-Bond-25-Tom-Hardy-Christopher-Nolan
Thanks for that @ClarkDevlin ,I will have a little look.
We know from the leaks that Logan started writing Bond 24 as one movie. So while initially they planned to do Bond 24 and 25 back-to-back, that idea was scrapped before the screenwriting stage. Do you want me to send you all the relevant e-mails in a personal message?
Me too please.
True. But there was almost enough footage shot on SP for two films. I'm not saying SP should have been split in two and released that way--it wasn't structured for it. But I am saying that the time and energy put into SP was enough for two films.
That said...if SP and Bond 25 were meant to be two films, it certainly would explain why the script was a mess. Perhaps it was intended to be two films, and it had to be truncated.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/11/blade-runner-2049-to-bond-25-denis-villeneuve-director
I feel wiser though. The Guardian perfectly sums up why Denis Villeneuve would be a good choice to direct the next Bond film. I would like to add that this would also make the producers and Daniel Craig happy, which could be a good thing for the overall atmosphere on set.
Add to that Villeneuve's orgasmic remarks from this week, and you shouldn't be surprised that EON is able to succesfully kidnap the man ;-):
Still, let'ss not forget that a good Bond film always starts with a damn good story. I am longing for the days when the actual screenplay writers get applauded tremendously by the Academy and get an Oscar nomination for that. I think it would be beneficial for the overall finalized product.
Problem for the Academy side is not that the screenplay is not good or the movie is not Oscar-worthy, but that, a part from some very little exeptions, they don't take action films in account.
Well, we have the Critics Choise Awards and People's Choice Awards for that no? Also, if action movies are being taken into account full-blown, then what's next? Nominating "Furious 8"? The way I see it is this: You have the critics, Academy members and press.........and you have the people.
Sad thing however is the fact that nowadays critics, media, reviewers, press, the Academy, writers and news outlets....are being treated like dirt. As if every human being on this planet really knows everything, and the 'media' knows nothing. Which by default is not true.
So I don't see the problem really.
It's an interesting article.
The visuals on SF and BR2049 are down to Roger Deakins' genius. He is the link between the two and the key participant to bring on board if they want to recapture SF's box office magic in my view.
Also, while it's true that Villeneuve and Nolan are both visionary film makers, only the latter has delivered box office smashes while being visionary. As I mentioned here some weeks back, Villeneuve is not in that league yet. He is more like Mendes, who struck gold with a captivating conflict at the core of SF. If Villeneuve gets it, I suspect we will have an interesting moral conflict at the centre of B25.
I'm not sure. I think in general the Bond franchise is this "pure, playful, massive toy". Regardless of the seriousness of the Craig films, there's still plentiful larger-than-life narrative approach to it. Infused by both Mendes and Campbell. A larger-than-life Silva (with his obsession for caressing Bond's body), a larger-than-life Le Chiffre who's addicted to his benzedrine inhaler, a larger-than-life Blofeld/Oberhauser who likes torturing for the sake of finding analogies with cuckoo birds. And then there's Daniel Craig himself who occasionally still gives us a good laugh when he belittles a villain ("To the right! To the right!). So probably Villeneuve is referring to that.
I have studied Villeneuve's behaviour/body language a bit during interviews, and to me he comes across as a bit nerdy. Like he indeed is a happy little kid playing with 'toys', and speaking a bit too soon before thinking. Sam Mendes however comes across as more serious :-).
So having said that, it's only positive to me that 'little kid' Denis Villeneuve is raving about Bond the way he does. And I think he needs to back off a bit from too dark, dystopian sci-fi projects to find renewed creativity, motivation and vision. Bond #25 could therefore be the perfect project for the man.....and for Her Majesty's Secret Agent James Bond 007 :-).