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Nope. He had fulfilled all his contractual obligations. It was expected he'd come back for a 5th but that didn't happen.
Agreed. It is also ominous that the title of the last chapter in the novel OHMSS is also mirrored in Bond's last line in this script. It's also Bond's last line to the dead Tracy in the book.
I don't mean as the main titles, I meant during the closing credits - where they've been using the Bond theme recently.
After the end of this movie they have 4 options:
- start a new era with a different actor,
- kill Madelein and make a new revenge movie
- forgeting Madelein, she has changed identity or something.
- Blofeld attacks, but MS survives and JB returns to kill 007, my personal choice.
Anyway, Bond 25 will be titled as "Blofeld", it is my bet.
Following the events of 'Spectre'?
(Blofeld tasks Irma Bunt with taking out a list of secret service agents.) After a failed attempt on 007's life, results in the death of Madeleine. James Bond and mi6 are on the hunt for who is behind these killings.
Cast:
James Bond: Daniel Craig
Irma Bunt: Tilda Swinton
Anna Arquette: Charlotte Le Bon
Hinx: Dave Bautista
Blofeld: Christoph Waltz
004: Idris Elba
Madeleine Swann: Lea Seydoux
Felix Leiter: Jeffrey Wright
Minister of Defence: Charles Dance
Q,M,Moneypenny, Tanner: Same as Spectre
(Scenes with Blofeld in prison like Hannibal Lector!)
I am intrigued by how the film will end, and what meaning we are to take from the "All The Time In The World" reference.
I am not concerned about too many nods to original timeline because the re-boot is an alternative-universe timeline, which might parallel the original timeline to some degree, for benefit of fans.
SP is looking like new-Bond's Tracy adventure with a few twists. So I do like all the obvious nods to OHMSS.
Swann is the new Tracy. I am sure she is doomed, probably early in B25, otherwise we get the same Bond girl for two films in a row.
But I think Bond fans, of both Fleming's book and the film, were saddened that Bond didn't get any time with his new bride, that we had become so invested in, especially in the film.
We understood though that for the Bond legend to go on, he couldn't very well have a wife. C'est la vie.
But with this new treatment, Bond does get some time with love-of-his-life, althoug this time I doubt they get married. That would be kind of repetitive. OHMSS did the wedding scene well enough.
And there is also no clash with Fleming ie I would like the character Tracy to remain as Bond's one and only actual bride.
The film finishes on an upbeat instead of the downbeat of the original story.
The "We Have All The Time In The World" reference, I am sure is a foreshadowing of what is to come. ie, they don't have all the time in the world.
The ending perfectly sets up for Oberhauser to ultimately manifest in the next film as thee Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Chief of Spectre, lover of white persian cats and ongoing nemesis of Bond.
This is what I would like to see, ie don't do Bond killing Blofeld in Castle of Death in the next film, although I think that may be what we will get, if they are treading Fleming's OHMSS-YOLT path.
However!!! Even in this scenario, Blofeld's death could be ambiguous, much as it was in the DAF pts.
Bond thinks the job is done, but it really isn't. Then we get best of both worlds ie Castle of Death story but without the end of Ernst.
Bond is a big boy. He will only grieve for so long, as he did in the book and presumably did during the two year interval between OHMSS and DAF films.
By DAF pts, he was long past grieving, and was in full revenge mode.
Once he sent Blofeld "to hell" he relaxed and was able to focus on the new diamond smuggling assignment.
When Blofeld popped up later, for Bond, it was just back business, ie another villain that needs taking down.
The new continuity could do the same thing. ie we can still do Shatterhand and the Castle of Death, and Bond's revenge, without losing ESB forever.
Maybe park Ernst for a movie or so, and bring him back two films later with big dramatic reveal.
I do like the idea of Spectre as main nemesis going forward indefinitely, which is really just a continuation of what's been going on in the Craig-era all along anyway.
It's been a Spectre show from the start, we've learned.
Variety can be achieved by varying Blofeld's role from film to film; prominent to completely in background.
Same! There are just too many signs pointing to the lack of a 5th Craig film which I for one was really cited for as it meant he'd of stayed in the role longer and done a decent number of films.
As I said before, this could all be a negotiating ploy. If the Sony contract is up after SP (and I think it is) they all want to have an ending that gives as many options as possible, depending on how all contract negotiations go. If they don't work out, then we start with possibly a new Bond (and we all can assume how Craig's Madeliene met her end post-SP) and a new distributor. If they work out then we are back with a true successor to SP (and they again, have so many directions in which they can take this). I think this is what they want. Options.
This makes sense. Options as insurance, but I do think Craig is back for 5th film. In fact, I am like 99% sure, so I think we are setting up for a B25 as I envisioned two posts above.
However, if by some chance, DC does not return, then we don't really need a YOLT type follow-up. It wouldn't quite work with a different actor. It could actually but why bother?
Just as easy to do soft relaunch, and presume Swann went on her way, like so many others before.
The bullet hole could just be an homage to OHMSS. Why would they wrap up the continuity of one Bond girls death to have another one start in the next film? and especially in Craig's last film.
I think Madeleine will just not be present in Bond 25, unless she becomes a Sylvia Trench type. All Bonds have ended with Bond in the arms of a Bond girl. The Swann/Bond relationship will only be made clear when we see it on screen. It could come across much differently than we imagine.
(QUICK POINT (OFF SPECTRE SUBJECT): Does anyone else think if Dr. No was 50 years later, they would kill off Trench and Taro?
I am only speculating here, but it seems like after the dramatic screen-impact of the golden girl death of Jill, the producers couldn't get enough of this plot device - the schock value of killing sympathetic Bond girls, because it persisted for every film afterward from TB, YOLT, OHMSS, DAF, LALD (even if Rosie wasn't quite good, she was still victim) TMWTTG, TSWLM (tenuous here with Felicca, but still its there) MR to FYEO.
It finally stops for long stretch with OP. Paris Carver was actually the only other one until the Craig era.
I am only talking of death of Swann, if the intent is to parallel her with Tracy, and procede with an adapation of Fleming's Shatterhand-Castle of Death story, which has never been done - otherwise, I think Swann could just disappear into the night, like so many others.
Well it doesn't matter; a new Bond film always brings with it new Bond girls.
That's precisely what I said regarding Bond 25 and believe will happen. However, Swan wont be coming back and especially not for less than 3 minutes of screen time.
Very true. Dead or alive, every Bond actor has ended their tenure with the girl but that's been practically the case for every Bond movie at least up until Craig came along.
Anything could happen but Trench 's role was more of a glorified side-chick. She was just a piece of ass, so it's likely she would have gotten less screen time than she actually had or at the very least only appeared in one movie. She'd be very similar to Danish chick from TND. As for Taro, I see no reason to change anything, she had sex wuth Bond, got arrested and taken away.
I beg to differ. The script number won't change much, because they simply won't re-number them much during the changes to avoid headache for the production : "- Guys, substract 3 to all the scenes after scene 9 because we changed the PTS ! - Uh... But I have to change all the labels on the stuff in Morocco then ??"
But "65 T" ? Either this is a suffix I don't know the meaning of (and it very well could be), either it means many many changes, so that they had to use 65 A/B/.. etc before it (it can mean other versions that were erased since then, it does not necessarily mean 20 new scenes...). I'm far from sure it is so of course, but it *could* be the case.
Look at the 3rd act in the December script, you can see for instance they had to go up to F for scene after scene 173.
So I'm betting the script had many more changes that we don't know of. And it's probably still on going. There are many surprises ahead for all of us.
Eh who knows, maybe the Gunbarrel will be changed for an intro in which Bond shots a VideoSurveillance camera which is following him :)
With this leak, some people are a bit too sure of what will be in the movie IMO (not to mention all those who take all the leaked mails at face value, out of the context of a movie production !).