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Shoot him out of a cannon.
Nah, I'm sure he can swim as well as he can drive stick... When Craig told the Marines guy that he wasn't going to wear the lifejacket, he was told that if he didn't wear it the boat wasn't going anywhere. So he reluctantly put it on and sulked a bit through the press conference. Lazenby would've said sod it then and gone to the pub with the PR girl instead...or stolen the boat and driven it to the press conference himself. 😉
I was told by someone who is very close to these productions:
1. Nothing will move before the Amazon sale is locked (which was also my belief);
2. They won’t cast before a script is done, but;
3. he says there isn’t a script for Bond 26;
4. nor have writers been hired (as of this post).
5. As I’ve also said, Barbara Broccoli is finishing post on a film (a civil right’s film co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg and (I think, but could be wrong), Barbara Broccoli’s ex-husband Frederick Zollo.
6. Barbara is also producing Daniel Craig’s MacBeth on Broadway that opens late April and runs through to summer.
7. This is my own add-on: there is also a retrospective look at Craig’s five Bond films in the book Being James Bond by Mark Salisbury (I mention this because, theoretically if you’re searching for a new Bond at this point, but a retrospective on “the last guy” is being released, it could run a little interference for the potential incumbents).
Combine all of this and I think Broccoli et Al will want the deck cleared of anything involving Daniel Craig (his Broadway play with his Bond producer and a retrospective book on his five 007 films); then they will hire writers.
I’m guessing after the Bond roll out, the Civil Rights film and producing MacBeth, Broccoli takes the rest of the summer.
Come autumn she and her crew start interviewing writers for their take on a Bond story.
Say they hire the writers in late fall; then there is Christmas break where the film industry has a nice long pause.
January ‘23 they work with the writers on the new direction.
The writers go away to write outlines.
By Spring theyre given the green light to go ahead and do a three step development.
By the time they have a solid draft (there will be more rewrites to come, but that will be after casting), they will start their search. Say this is October ‘23.
How long does a casting cattlecall of this magnitude take? Six months? Eight months? A year? With a potential Christmas break in the middle of it?
Maybe a new Bond is cast in September or October ‘24? Then into filming in November for a November ‘25 release (?)?….
I could be right off the rails, and it’s happened more than once in my life, but taking the scraps of info I’ve been gifted, and some guesswork on my part, my gut still says all of this will be even further down the road than my optimistic outlook above.
Like I said, take as you will; this was compiled by scraps of info and my guesswork stringing everything together.
But, I suppose, these are also crazy times and things can change. However, that’s the info I have right now, and the rest was me threading that info into something coherent and, I think, realistic.
Anyways, let’s see how it plays out, 😂.
We waited 6 years for NTTD (a highly disappointing film) and now we're looking at potentially a 4 year wait for Bond 26 since NTTD? I wish Barbara would priorotise her focus and efforts on Bond. I see no reason why script treatments can't start as early as this year.
1. Daniel Craig isn't electing to hold up the proceedings to spite you or something; everyone involved is currently caught up in other projects that are equally worth their time.
2. "A highly disappointing film" to you maybe, but clearly not to a great many.
3. You may wish that, but the world does not revolve around your opinions or what you want. You come across as quite self-centered and spoiled with a post like this.
Everyone has lives, and several projects on the go, especially successful business people like Broccoli and MGW. They're not just going to drop everything to make a Bond film for you.
I feel obliged to ask a counter question:
I realize producing a Broadway show requires a lot of work, but I still don't understand why it shouldn't be possible to interview possible writers and get the process starting in the meantime? Working on different projects is possible (my employers demand that of me anyway :P ). She isn't writing the script, the writers are. She just needs to hire one or two. Besides, it's not like she is alone. MGW is also hanging around and should be able to do some work. Or will he simply take another holiday now?
You should be able to get the writing process started even if the final details on the contract with Amazon is still being finalized and Craig is still hanging around. I don't really see the issue, honestly, but maybe I'm just being naive...
If it's right about nothing going ahead until the Amazon deal is finalised (and it makes sense, why would you start if the money isn't there yet?) then that sounds like the main obstacle at the moment.
Well he is 79; it wouldn't be a major shock if he decided to step back. He still seemed to be very active on the promo for NTTD though.
I've been hearing for at least a year -- from this same person-- that Gregg will be taking over the day to day role that his father played leading up to and into the next film.
I believe MGW will be very much a strong presence as a consultant and I imagine his finger prints will be on the new direction and story (as well as having a voice in casting);
As for why Broccoli wouldn't interview writers while at work on the Broadway play? Complete shot in the dark from me: she most certainly could, but it's my feeling (purely my feeling), that while she's working with Craig, on a completely separate project than Bond, she's not looking at all at the series for these next few months. It doesn't seem to be the way she operates. I could be absolutely incorrect in this, but when we were chatting about all things EoN, my friend was clear that nothing is happening and seems nothing will for quite some time.
That's why I took whatever info he shared and threaded a time line.
I'd be surprised if the previous plays she worked on hadn't overlapped with Bond though. Chariots of Fire and Skyfall were even both premiered in the same year.
I’m also guessing that if Amazon will be ponying up the finances, they would want, and they indeed will, have a say on the future of the series, the story, the casting of the new actor….
So the time line I threaded was putting together everything I know (and don’t know), at the moment (the sale needs to be finalized, casting won’t start without a script, yet writers have not been hired at this moment (meaning no script/story is in place); added on top of that there is the Broadway play and post on her film project (and there was the No Time To Die roll out), so my guess was that the earliest Broccoli and company would get to talking with the writers would be the autumn (providing that the sale has been closed).
Like I said, I could be way off the mark. But we will see how this plays out.
Anthony Horowitz new Novel
Kim's 00 books
Project 007
Goldeneye 007
And
reprints of the Fleming books next year (I am guessing this one but i could be wrong)
In my opinion the best thing the franchise can do is keep and even pace with the next film released ever 2 to 3 years...hopefully approved writers are at work right now as we speak
You really wasted your time with this post. How I feel and what think is my own business. I don't need you to point out the obvious, especially your corny point #2. Do I care if the whole world loved NTTD? No. I found it disappointing and that's what matters to me. Next time you feel like coming off as sanctimonious, remember no one gives a shit.
However, I have other things to do and enjoy. Life is full of joy if you look for it :).
Thanks @peter you have said what I largely suspected. While there's no deal finalised with Amazon there's no money in the coffers for much of anything. This is why I was asking some pages back about it because it all hinges on that going through first. It makes perfect sense to me.
The long wait between Bond films, to me, make their release so much more of a special event, IMO. I can certainly understand @00Heaven's perspective too, though.
It doesn't really seem to me like M:I films come out any faster than Bond films? Perhaps they do, I'm sure you've got the date information to back it up, but they feel like special events too.
@00Heaven, perhaps the continued release of continuation novels, with one coming this spring, is something to keep us going until the next film?
Just to clarify I'm not that down about it! It's just a very selfish point of view that I hold :).
The MI films are slightly faster. Rogue Nation in 2015, Fallout in 2018 and 7 this September coming. Roughly about 3 to Bond's 2. I think 7 would have been out faster if it wasn't for the pandemic too. 8 is slated for 2023 as well. By the way, I watched Fallout for the first time over Christmas and absolutely loved it but my feelings were the same over Rogue Nation. That's a different topic anyway!
I've preordered the book and looking forward to it very much so. The comics tide me over as well.
By the way, what happened to your avatar? I was thinking about that game today and how much I loved it as a kid.
Fair enough! Makes sense, the M:I are in fact faster to release. I really enjoyed Fallout and Rogue Nation. Ghost Protocol too, all fun to watch.
I've got the book preordered too; I've sort of given up on the comics, stopped when they made that one with Oddjob (no specific reason, the Oddjob thing was kind of cool, but none of them really grabbed me after Vargr and Eidolon). Jason Masters' visual interpretation of Bond, though, is near-perfect IMO.
I went through a phase recently where I was trying disconnect from the forums a bit lol, getting rid of the avatar felt like a tangible way to do that for some reason... I'm back of course, as always, so it'll be back in some form or another.
Yes indeed, royale and yourself are two of the more sensible posters on this place :)
I think we'll need to be patient, but I do think it'll be an exciting few years ahead
Even though I've resigned myself to probably not getting the casting I'd want, I trust Eon will make the right call casting Bond #7