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https://deadline.com/2018/08/bond-25-2019-release-date-jean-marc-vallee-david-mackenzie-yann-demange-daniel-craig-1202451415/
Playing devil's advocate - this doesn't seem the ideal way to run a franchise. Get rid of your director a few months before filming and hope you can find someone else. Hmm.. feels a bit "make-it-up-as-you-go-along!" But I guess this does happen in Hollywood. The you know what hits the fan and someone has to clear up the mess!
Of course there is. But the sky-is-falling craziness in the media and on this site has become like a wildfire.
As I said last night, this is business as usual for these people. A director has been relieved of his duties. This was a decision made not because of a temper tantrum and a casting decision (that's media drama, and if you believe it, you're as gullible as the readers of the National Enquirer, coz the film industry and its mechanics are so much bigger than a tantrum (too much money is riding on any given production)); this was a decision that HAD to have been made by ALL the players: EoN, MGM, UNIVERSAL, ANNAPURNA... This was done as a committee.
And Universal is a titan in this business. And they made a splash for a one pic deal for Bond. Do you think they would have taken Boyle's dismissal lightly? Do you think, as the papers would have you believe, that this was all over Craig blowing his lid? Seriously?? Even if you aren't involved in this industry, you must see this makes no sense at all.
Universal won't miss the release date as easily as everyone has speculated.
Are they under the gun? Of course. But this is Bond; they already have a list of candidates; any director on that list who is free would cut off a limb to show their stuff (looking at you Demange). Since this started, I never doubted that this film will be release in '19 (or WORSE CASE), in the fourth or fifth months of 2020.
Craig will not be going anywhere. If you think Babs loves him, part of Universal's one pic deal is BANKING on Craig as 007. If they wanted a re-cast that would have been in this deal. And, for all the Craig-haters out there, don't be surprised that if Universal stays on for more Bond, they don't try and lure DC back for one more...
(but he's a hasbin, right?)
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@JET007, I have no doubt there will be a new special edition watch for B25 as well. I'm just pretty sure it won't be the Commander Seamaster or the one on Craig's wrist in that recent photo. As I said, he has an arrangement to promote Omega watches in general outside of the Bond films, even when dressed in a dinner jacket.
HARD PASS
yes.
Bond 25 Production Diary: AHHHH!!!
It would certainly reflect the atmosphere of this thread.
who says it's been scrapped?
Or you could argue the opposite viewpoint and suggest five years is a long enough gap to warrant a new actor becoming Bond. Dalton to Brosnan (six year gap). People were excited about a new actor taking over the role. Brosnan to Craig (four year gap). People were curious about the new actor, Daniel Craig.
Also, 2020 is the start of the third decade of the 21st century. Craig's first Bond film was in 2006. 2006 seems a fair time ago! If Barbara Broccoli wants to keep Bond fresh then she has to accept Craig's time has come to a natural end. Boyle's dismissal may be a blessing in disguise because it allows some breathing space; time to re-evaluate where to take the franchise. Bond 25 - summer or winter 2020 - is the ideal time to reinvent the brand with a new actor and Barbara Broccoli should accept this is a realistic, practical suggestion. She could have stuck with Brosnan for a fifth - she didn't. She doesn't have to stick with Craig for a fifth. She should look at her own past history and not be complacent. Use the delay to recast the role. Universal and MGM know Craig won't be Bond forever. I'm sure they'll accept a new actor if all the other elements are in place - good director, strong screenplay, talented crew etc.
Great post, I couldn't agree more!
Variety is a sister publication to Deadline Hollywood.
One is speculative about an actor creating a hissy-fit, and this spreads like a match on gas...
The other is reporting of a shortlist of directors that are actively being sought. Not as sexy. Gets a little less recognition. But is more realistic to this happenstance.
One is tabloid-type hand-ringing;
One is about active recovery (no one in the film industry wants to shut down production (why?? Too f'ing expensive...))....
Correct
Do you honestly think Universal got into the Bond game to recast?? On a one pic deal?? Do you?? Then that’s a lousy bet. Coz they wanted Craig as Bond OR, during negotiations, one of their demands would have been a recast.
They want a recast as much as they want a hole in the head.
You’re arguing from your own bias or emotion. The film industry, whether fast n furious or Bond, don’t care what you, or the hysterical media thinks!
The filmgoers will rule over you and the hysterical reports from the media.
Apart from this site and a few regurgitating outlets, Daniel Craig IS Bond... EoN and Universal see him as Bond (part of their one pic deal included DC), and the haters who are going on about a tantrum that didn’t happen should look in the mirror and take a deep breath...
One day Craig will be replaced. I don’t think it’s happening any time during B25, unless he himself decides enough is enough (and, from what I’m hearing? That time has not arrived)
He said “I think so.” The door was never completely shut. Also, you can never say never until the official replacement happens. Even then, Connery returned for DAF after a film in between.
You make some excellent observations @peter, as always. As you rightly put, it’ll be a combination plus a culmination of things that saw Boyle exit the production. However, I’m sure things must’ve been said in various meetings that were then filtered down to their subordinates, which somehow found their way into the intray of Deadline Hollywood. Maybe they’ve been taken out of context due to the nature of it being secondhand information, but the essence of the message will still be there, perhaps? Either way, I’m hoping whatever problems that there are, that they’re sorted out quickly.
I totally agree with your comments about the studios having a big say in all of this, too. Some folk here are quick to lay all of the blame at Broccoli’s feet, forgetting that she is in a partnership with the studios as well. It’s their money that they’re burning here, so the decisions will not be entirely Barbara’s alone.
Of course, we’re still getting conflicting news. Has the script been truly flushed, or can it still be saved? Has Hodge’s exited also? We’re still unclear, at this stage, whether anything is salvageable. If it’s a clean slate, then there’s no way they’ll meet the starting date. Of course, something might have been freshly posted since I started writing this post that sheds more light on the matter.
With regards to a replacement director, the only two names being realistically touted are Mackenzie and Demange again. Mackenzie is again available, after completing the Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce Scottish epic Outlaw King, and Demange finished the Matthew McConaughey-starrer White Boy Rick.
We won't get another Bond as good as QOS for a while. We must make due with the 'okay' ones... remember Moonraker. 'Nuff said. ;)
In his head it’s DC’s last.
If 25 is a success? Universal will want a quick follow up with DC again. And they will toss $$$ at him... (whether he says yes is another story)....
They (Universal), love DC already, and that’s what their one pic deal included: Daniel Craig as Bond. That must suck for all the hysterics....
Which I admit is about a 0.00000000000001% chance, all of eons sins will be forgiven