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Especially when his films resonate at the box office as well. There aren't too many who can do that. Certainly not Villeneuve, who is praised here but doesn't have that sort of track record.
He has his flaws, as do others, but he has proven with Dunkirk most recently that he is not a one trick pony. He has range.
As I've said previously, I think he has enough respect for Bond that if given the opportunity, would make a film for the ages - one that positively surprises his fans as well as his detractors. He's just one of those film makers that comes along once in a while. Like Spielberg, I doubt he will get the chance though. I can't see EON giving it to someone as big as he is. If they move on from the franchise, then perhaps.
No one is saying his opinions are more valuable. No one said that, least of all the Colonel.
People on this site like hearing his opinions because he gets to report back from an insiders perspective (he's in the film industry, worked with EoN and has many friends who've been on these Bond films for literally decades).
So he gives a slightly more clear perspective than those jumping on tabloid reports of temper tantrums; for those who have no understanding of the film industry (DC has too much power! Babs doesn't know what she's doing!), or for those who have some strange agenda, as @RC7 has rightly called it... The Colonel brings, as others have noted, levity-- and sanity.
I enjoy all opinions. This is a fan forum and not an industry forum. People are entitled to express themselves and everyone gets equal billing from me. Everyone, no matter how controversial their views may be.
If people want to discuss media reports, let them. If others want to contradict that, do so. Just back up your opinions. Justify your position. I learn a little bit every day from everyone here.
Yes, but did you see that one film he directed? Based on the one film he created, he is now capable of directing James Bond. Reliable track records are silly.
Yes, absolutely ;) And the title of the book/play Mi6 could publish in a few years :)
I too value @ColonelSul. And all the members that have come and gone over the years. I've left and come back some times myself. @NicNac knows it and he knows why. And Mi6 do their best to keep these pages going. We must respect them and try to be civil to each other. So, if one could stop making others see red, others would stop seeing red and things would not escalate.
I hope real news arrive, so we can all resume our natural discussions and stop speculating and getting paranoid. This is not good for the fan base. Wish they'd feed us something to ease the waiting. Anything at all. Even Daniel could very well post a pic of him training for the film and we'd know its on track.
I must say I’m quite disappointed with how violent and nasty the discussions have gotten on this thread. Perhaps we have some trolls or Russian agents among us? I’ve always thought that this forum had a decent level, worthy of Bond and the legacy.
The whole situation surrounding B25 is just depressing for all the stakeholders:
- DC tries to make a decent finale to end his tenure
- EON really feels they want to up their game since SP
- Boyle and Hodge can’t work out their original idea
- Us fans are left waiting in uncertainty
I’ve also been fan of DC as an actor, not as a producer. Nonetheless given the length of his involvement with the franchise, I can imagine him having a say on a couple of things.
Killing off Bond would be a very drastic move in my humble opinion, not the least because this would give support to this atrocity of a “code-name” theory.
So far there is a lot of speculation in the press and on this thread. Perhaps it’s better for everyone to keep calm and carry on with their lives until there is actual news.
Here is a suggestion to kill some time: start penning your own script for a Bond movie, rather than writing down rubbish here about everyone.
Yes, this is my opinion as well. One day, perhaps. Perhaps even Bond 26. But probably not this one, whenever it comes. But yes, Nolan would love doing it. And that would show.
For me it was the opposite. DUNKIRK proved to me was that Nolan wasn't able to put his own indulgences aside to tell a good story and reaffirmed the one-trick pony comment. Yes, there was technical mastery on display for sure - that is one of his many positives - but even still it's held back by his recent inability to just tell a simple story well. It's why I haven't had an urge to revisit the film since it came out.
Since Inception he has told two complicated stories badly and one simple story badly. There is a lot of imagination in his work, and the concepts are all pretty strong. That certainly is to be admired, but it's all for moot if the execution isn't able to match that imagination.
I really don't want that sort of thing for Bond - at least not for a while yet. I want simple stories well told and executed with a bit of flair and style.
I'd find it hard to believe that Eon would have the gall to tell him to reign it in should he opt for something less conventional.
Of course, it could go the other way too. Based on that respect for Bond as a character, he could just make a straightforward Bond; strip away those signature traits that flow through his other films - but then what would be the point? Nolan would be making a diet version of himself.
Anyways, I'd like to follow this Yann Demange criticism for his film, WBR-- form Variety:
"Although Demange directs the heck out of it, “White Boy Rick” ultimately feels like a glorified TV movie, albeit with a better cast and a much hipper score." This sounds like not so much a problem with the director, as with the story. Plus the kid playing Rick was someone they picked off the street (he is not a professional actor). This says a lot, to take an unknown and non-professional, and make him believable in his scenes and the over all film, is a talent of the director.
"Scuzzy. That’s the word to describe the tetanus-infected look and feel Demange brings to 1984 Detroit." -- texture is what I'm looking for in a director. Seems he delivered.
"playing secret agent must have been exciting — so why doesn’t the film set out to capture the cocky, chosen-one status Rick must have felt working for the authorities?"-- once again, this sounds like a story issue, and not the director's vision.
"Screenwriter Andy Weiss and brothers Logan and Noah Miller... leave out huge chunks of Wershe’s story..."
Disappointing review, but it sounds like Demange (who was hired on, this wasn't a project he built), did a fine job as director, but according to the reviewer, the script and its story-telling perspectives ultimately wasn't up to snuff.
I'm going to try and get my hands on some tickets when WBR comes to TIFF in a couple of weeks, but Demange is still my personal front runner for 25.
Just feels like days then.
I think the next Bond actor should be one of these three people:
1. Nicholas Hoult
or two young actors Nolan has worked with before:
2. Jack Lowden (the younger pilot in Dunkirk)
3. Harry Styles (I am dead serious)
If Styles gets anywhere near a Bond film, that's me done with the films, that's for sure.
This is a thread about Bond 25, and I don't wish to read about who contributes more or who is passive aggressive and whatnot. It creates a toxic atmosphere.
NO WAY to Hoult, but the other two are good picks.
Thank you.
There's something to be said for a director who has genuine passion for the subject matter. I for one truly believe he would give us something special, but honestly doubt he will get the chance. Maybe once Gregg is in charge, as he's said some positive things about Nolan. I somehow can't see it with Babs in the chair though. I just feel she may not want to let someone that big get a hold of the franchise, lest he become the story, rather than Bond.
Don't you think it was inventively done though, with the interspersed timeline and so on? Was it difficult to follow on first viewing? Yes, but I really enjoyed it the second time around. It was also very different to his 'talky' exposition driven prior films. Very lean, short and mean. Visceral and yet thought provoking, at least for me.
I actually enjoyed how he wrapped up the Bat story (TDKR is perhaps my favourite - I alternate between that and BB), and personally love Interstellar if not for the melodrama which is laid on particularly thick. It's unfortunate.
I can understand the concern and it's potentially valid. I'm sure he knows people feel this way about him though. Perhaps he will surprise us all if he is given the keys. What better way to show how good you are than to deliver the unexpected.
In terms of him making a straightforward Bond film being pointless - we'd still have his directing skill on display, and that's certainly worth it imho. I'd take something like the TDK bank heist, truck flip, sky hook or TDKR plane sequence over anything in SP or QoS (opening car chase excepted) frankly. He also tends to get decent performances from his actors.
At the moment it's all a bit of a mess. The producers had three years to come up with something new and instead of being ready to shoot in a couple of months. We have no director, probably not a script and even casting isn't done.
Personally, I think a delay is inevitable. Which saddens me, mostly because Roger Moore's record of longest serving Bond being broken, not because I want to see Craig back on the silver screen as 007.
I respect your opinion and 100 percent agree.
Guess we'll never know but Connery would have thrown is toys out of the pram much sooner due to his tolerance with the media back then.
What actors have had to deal with has intensified so much more in the advent of the internet, we'll see how the next guy does.
I don't think a delay is inevitable in fact I'm willing to bet everything goes to schedule, fine you don't like Craig then butt out and wait for an actor more to your pleasing.
I had to stomach Brosnan in the role, we can't always have what we like it's just a fact of life.
Funny. That’s how it feels reading your daily updates. You know, the ones that are essentially the same point reworded.
Echoing my own sentiments really. Was never happy about Brosnan's casting - nor Campbell's mean-spirited trashing of Dalton's portrayal in the Goldeneye publicity - and just had to bide my time during the Brosnan era.
There's plenty of Bond material to return to if you're unhappy with Craig and the 7th Bond will be with us in the next five years.
It is indeed an ailment of the internet age in that people have an insatiable appetite for news and information that they don't really need as they swipe to refresh Facebook and Twitter constantly.
Naturally as fans we would be interested in the minutiae of production details for each film but how much of the 'dirty laundry' do we really and genuinely need to know? I respect the courtesy of EON saying 'creative differences' and leaving it there. No point looking to fuel an anti-Craig agenda on false assumptions he is a prima-donna. Funny how Colonel Sun's debunking of that hasn't gone well with some.
We'll know from EON of the next developments when they are good and ready. YES of course it is fun to speculate, but I personally find this constant wishful thinking that a Nolan directed Bond film starring Adian Turner is just round the corner because of tabloid click-bait articles has proved far more repetitive and tedious than yesterday's solitary but much welcome reality check from @ColonelSun.
I think this rumour may be real. That sounds logical to me.
And....if that's really is the truth....why????
Why would you hire another writer??? What am I missing?
Boyle wanted to work with his writer...he probably wrote a good script....idk..I don't get it...why?
Also...today is 1st day of September....
If we don't get new director by the end of this month...I'll start to get worried :(
When all is said and done, hundreds of years from now, this will be the Bond film that survives. Soderbergh was right.
A bigger problem in the Craig era is the breakdown of licensing - Bond hasn't had a good video game in over a decade, the toys and merchandise have declined, all while the gaps between films get longer. A significant amount of 20-30 something Bond fans likely got involved in the franchise through ancillary methods, but where's the stuff to build the next generation of fans? Why should a 12 year old care about James Bond today?
An assessment with laser-guided precision.
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