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With his expertise and brand power, it's the launch of someone new, either for B25 or B26 (& that's what EON are considering). First time we get someone other than Campbell in almost a generation
- Bond 25 in 2019 without Nolan, with Craig
- Nolan getting ready to shoot Bond 26 with a new actor pretty soon after the release of Bond 25, so Bond 26 can be released without a huge gap.
Yes, could be.
I get the impression she views Bond as a sexist, misogynist, dinosaur, whereas her father though of him as a hero.
I hope if Nolan is the director for Bond 25, that he has input into the script, and enforces some unused Fleming scenes from the novels. He seems the type that would do that, and I doubt P&W would fight against it, because as far as I'm aware, they've been trying for years to incorporate Fleming scenes, but for whatever reason been overruled by Babs & co.
If that is true, I think its time Babs and co. give up the franchise to someone like Nolan, who would have a better idea on how to take Bond forward. Not relying on Fleming scenes, and discarding them whenever P&W tried to shoehorn them in, is a gross dereliction of duty in my book, and its time they handed the baton over to someone else.
Someone who would have the balls to give us Shatterhand, Bond brainwashed and trying to kill M, Horror and Slugsy in a motel, Bond undercover as Mark Hazard, Bond at a mud baths and seeing a horrific torture take place after a thrilling horse race set-up. etc.
I could go on and on about the unused scenes and storylines from the books. Its my biggest bugbear with the franchise, and I hope if Nolan does come in, he won't ignore them. I've got a strong feeling he won't, because he went back to source material (the comics) for the Batman franchise.
Wrong.
http://www.batman-online.com/features/2016/3/6/comic-influences-on-batman-begins-2005/2#sthash.aQmmh1dW.dpbs
The third film relied heavily on the whole story arc of Bane, directly from the Knightfall series.
Knightfall series.
Bruce being weakened, then getting his back broken by Bane is directly from the comic.
http://www.batman-online.com/features/2012/7/29/comic-influences-on-the-dark-knight-rises#sthash.44NOfNnJ.dpbs
Batman Begins has loads of references to the comics - http://www.batman-online.com/features/2016/3/6/comic-influences-on-batman-begins-2005/2#sthash.aQmmh1dW.dpbs
As does The Dark Knight - http://gothamalleys.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/comic-book-references-in-movies-part-vi.html
I could go on and on with this....
Nolan also made a reference to Jason Todd by giving Bane a red helmet in reference to The Red Hood, which had nothing to do with Knightfall or the Red Hood himself. But... one can call it an Easter egg I suppose.
1) If they go with the Nolan idea, does this push production back? Idea by definition is less developed than a full (if only first-draft) script.
2) Could this tie into the Archivo 007 post about Nolan "working" on the movie now? As in, hypothetically speaking, Nolan is fleshing out the idea (turning it into a treatment or, if more advanced, working on a first draft).
To say Nolan completely discarded the comics and didn't go to them at all, going with a complete different, brand new approach, as implied in your original post, is factually incorrect. All three movies borrow heavily from various references and moments from the comics.
You are speaking to a Batman comic book nerd here, BTW. I have most of the comics, dating right back to 1978.
Glad to hear you’re a fellow Batman fan. I’ve collected the comics myself (and still do search for some missing issues) up until the New 52 happened which killed my interest in the ongoing timeline (as well as radically changing a couple of characters’ affiliations and backgrounds).
I got into Batman as a kid in the late 70's, hence why Irv Novick is my favourite artist, as he was around during that period, although I really liked the Don Newton/Gene Colan stuff with Doeg Moench in the mid 80's.
I just hope if Nolan does come in, he goes back to the Fleming novels for moments and scenes, like he did with the Batman films.
I agree on the scenes from the Fleming novels that have to be used. In Cubby’s days, those things were done, but what’s holding the current producers from having a crack at it I’ll never know. When there are plenty to use from Fleming, they instead went for Amis with the recent entry. Go figure.
It certainly could. I can see them going back to Nolan (who they perhaps had tapped for B26) and saying come in and do B25, given Villeneuve apparently fell through.
I don't think they want Demange, and understandably so purely from a marketing standpoint. Bond is big business (one of the few sure fire hits globally) and they (distributor as much as producer) need a big name to take it forward after four years of lull.
Just for the sake of clarity, are you saying there is a significant chance that Craig doesn't return after all and Nolan takes over instead? And would this involve a sale of the rights? Paramount handled the domestic distribution of Interstellar, so Nolan does technically work with other studios, although obviously he is very comfy at Warner.
There is a theorethical possibility that Nolan could be called into tweak B25 without directing it though, therebye allowing a transition into direction for B26, but I doubt that. Why? Well, Craig is old, and having him back necessarily means a story that completes his particular arc. I can't see how Nolan transitions out of that for B26 without starting completely fresh, which means he's really not needed at all for B25 as it will be part of Craig's self contained reboot story.
I can't see a sale of rights to Warner (assuming EON indeed want to sell) until the AT&T deal is sorted out. I'd imagine they are the front runners for it if it's up for grabs. So I'm reasonably sure that B25 will go ahead without any sale.