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I don't wish to see Craig go before a final fifth film but if they do reboot completely I don't think a year is enough to cast the new Bond and appoint a writer and Director to play to the new Bond's perceived strengths.
Granted in days of old Maibaum was capable of writing a script for a generic Bond (such as TLD for Moore) before the casting was known but those sort of days are long gone. If anything it would be easier in this current predicament for a new director and writer to come on board knowing Craig is the incumbent Bond and what style of film they'll be expected to deliver.
The thing doesn't shoot for another three months so here's hoping for no delay.
I don t think TLD was written for Moore. It was more the idea of writing for his kind of James Bond.
Edit: I see that is what you meant.
I'm sure Forster would relish the chance for more time and input this time round and he clearly worked more harmoniously with Craig.
Plus if the QOS pre-title sequence is anything to go buy, we could be guaranteed a Bond 25 which immediately starts off with a sense of urgency and a Bond whom means business.
Funny how thirty years on TLD does mostly seem to be just more of the same Glen\Maibaum we already had from Moore as it was probably written and developed as such and yet in 1987 it just all felt so wonderfully fresh and dynamic. The praise for which has to go to Dalton whom immediately gave us a believable Bond.
As with the Craig era, I just suspect that whoever is next cast as Bond will determine the style of the films we receive rather than the Brosnan greatest hits approach. Which is why holding the film (and possibly the script) back for just a year to hire another lead actor might not be enough to properly re-launch the series in earnest.
Perhaps Barbara Broccoli will go once Craig steps down as she'll need to be out of her comfort zone to make that clean break.
Agreed. Honestly Forster may even be my #1 choice right now for Craig’s finale. He has the experience and can improve on what didn’t go so well from last time. Campbell is likely out of the race, and even if he was available he has only done Bond films with a completely clean slate actor-wise. Mendes delivered a fresh, unique film with SF, but proved he was out of gas/energy and ideas with SP. An entirely new director might work too, of course, but they probably couldn’t be too auteur given what happened with Boyle, and Forster still has a leg up in familiarity.
Save Campbell for the next actor.
In five years time, Campbell will be pushing 80. Can't see him returning to Bond duties.
It's frankly unacceptable that after 3 years we still don't have a director with a movie supposed to hit theaters next year, but let's wait for a new announcement before ridiculously demonizing EoN or Craig. What if the Hodge's script was really getting too far? Too political? Maybe this shake-up will make things run a lot better. In the industry things like this happens. Better now than during production.
Campbell and Forster? Please, move on...
Not if they recast Bond and push B25 to 2020. He would be 76 at the time of shooting.
I presume Nolan will introduce the next Bond TBH, that seems almost inevitable, but Campbell is a safe pair of hands. Safer than most, even at his age.
Well, the 80's have long gone, Cubby died in 1996, Barry (who did not work for Bond for 24 years) passed away in 2011, Maibaum is also no longer with us. One might get melancholic and sad about that, but we as well as the Bond franchise have to move on.
I grew up with Sir Rog as Bond, OP being my first Bond at the movie theatre. And maybe we should really calm down a little until EON gives an official announcement on the whereabouts of Bond 25. The one internet meida source says this, another one says that, and others report other "facts", which are specualtons and rumours. There is nothing wrong about us speculating (that's why we are all here), but maybe we can do this in a bit of a more relaxed manner. We can't do anything about it, it's EON (and Universal), who pull the strings.
I agree. Vallee is great, an A list director who is not too famous and has a certain humility. I wouldn't need to drag my wife to watch Bond 25 (a first since CD) : she loved C.R.A.Z.Y. and Little Big Lies.
By those calculations, as it dwindles down, the next 27 years should only bring us 4 more films.
Well put. We simply aren’t going back and people need to get used to it. I’m sure we’d all love a Bond film every two years - but that can’t be gauranteed in this day and age, so I suggest people focus more on their preferences for Bond going forward, not how frequently they get them.
The landscape is vastly different from the one Cubby was producing in at his height (as I’m now bored of reiterating) and even then he was not ‘top dog’ beyond the late 60s. Nothing B&M have done is any less impressive than Cubby, they’ve just done it less frequently.
The bottom line is that this era, while infrequent, has been very successful and, I hate to say this, but I genuinely think a few posters need to seriously consider if Bond is for them anymore. If I harboured the vitriol for the series and those involved that I regularly see on here, I’d be seriously questioning whether it was time to hit the divorce court in the hope of getting custody of the 60s-80s.
I’ve always been of the mind that I’ll see what happens. I have preferences, but I don’t pine for very specific outcomes mainly because it’s out of my control.
Babs has worked on how many Bond films? How many successful?
Daniel Craig has starred as Bond in how many films? How many successful?
Boyle has directed how many Bond films?
Time to start laying the blame where it deserved to be.
Also, I don't see what's so insulting about the idea of a new guy in the role. Craig has been around well over a decade now, that's longer than all the others. I think he even surpassed Moore for longest running tenure? So why is it so preposterous that fans are starting to feel the need for someone else to play Bond? It seems natural to me after a certain time, that we are ready for something new and fresh, and shouldn't be mocked or belittled for it.
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/edgar-wright-jean-marc-valle-reportedly-in-the-running-for-bond-25-director-260
I don’t think anyone has argued with this point. People make decisions. Right now he hasn’t made that decision.
That being said, just rewatched Baby Driver and I now hope Wright has the job. Based on that car chase alone... Also, he could put on his journeyman director cap on just for Bond and then do his other projects with his own magic spells.
This is all summarizing the Archivo 007 story.