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Or for that matter, The Imposter. Loved that one.
I have been advised by a few members here that The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are also pretty good, and as I remember, the latter has also been reasonably on point but appears to engage in a bit more speculation. Recently they've suggested that the date could move, which of course is something we're all concerned about, but have no hard data about. Time will of course tell if they were onto something or whether their speculation was out to lunch.
As you said yourself, all the media are focused on trying to get updates on progress, so we're bound to get some news within the next month or two, at least from Baz or Deadline. They will comment when and only when they have something concrete either way, so no news is actually good news imho. For now, it would be best to be patient and hope that it's all on track.
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Has anyone heard anything more on those built sets that were rumoured last weekend to be coming down?
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I plan to see both at some point shortly. I shall report back when I do.
I shall add though that I started viewing Danny Boyle's work after he was announced and didn't see how he would be compatible with Bond, so I'm not sure if my impressions of Layton will be any more accurate.
I haven't heard that !
They are getting rid of them,writing them off ?
Totally agree,DD,well said.
Even if it happens, it could mean anything though - including that they've reconceptualized some of the action.
Anyway it was just speculation and I was curious to learn if anything more was known at this stage.
What a waste though,if it happens.
Look at the Predator franchise. Simple concept. Alien comes to Earth, hunts people then kills 'em. Can't get more simple than that. Look at most reviews of The Predator (2018). Awful storyline, stuff reshot. Very easy to screw it up. Shane Black joins Star Wars' Rian Johnson in the 'hated directors/writers' club.
Basically it all sounds easy in theory - Bond goes on mission, has some action scenes, kisses girl, kills henchman, blows up base, kills bad guy, kisses girl again. The End.
And then you write the storyline and everyone has their opinion: "change this, add that, blah blah blah" and you end up with a storyline the producers don't like: Hodge's screenplay! It's a minor miracle any big budget film turns out good. I'm guessing there is so much alteration to the screenplays it's a surprise when most of it makes sense and flows well!
Well put.
Look at SPECTRE (a Bond film that I personally feel seems to be very underrated). The online armchair narratives would push that it's a "soap opera, family drama, a brother angle that ruins it, awful ending, boring, terrible script" etc. -- basically, as far-stretched as you can take subjective observations.
Many of those folks might also scream for the return of a 'conventional' Bond film. And yet SPECTRE, to me, seems the most conventional Bond film we've seen in the Craig era. By far.
-Thrilling pretitles, dropping Bond stylishly in mid-mission.
-Conventional M 'briefing'.
-Bond's flat appears.
-Conventional Q scene.
-Maybe the most Bondian sequence of locations imaginable: London, Rome, the Alps, the North African desert.
-Car chase in a beautiful city between a leading-edge Aston Martin and Jaguar
-Sequence in the most OHMSS-inspired spot on the planet I could imagine
-Massive story echoes to OHMSS, a fan 'favorite'
-The return of SPECTRE itself, and Ernst Stavro Blofeld
-A story that dares to end resonantly for the character
Now, I can already hear the counterarguments. "It's not the ideas, it's their execution." And you know what? That's perfectly fine. I might even agree with you, in more than a few of those cases.
But that's exactly my point. Echoing @fanbond123.
These things are incredibly hard to get right. They're even harder to get done.
It’s interesting, you’re breakdown of SPECTRE does indeed look like it would be would be a great Bond film; it’s actually far more effective than the actual film .
Unfortunately the execution of most of these points was lacking and the film as a whole was muddled.
The right screenwriter could do wonders within the framework of your SPECTRE breakdown.
Imagine what McQuarrie could do with this.
No doubt it's extremely difficult, but most things worth doing in life are. This is a high stakes product with millions of $ at stake.
At the end of the day we have to trust the film makers to get it right, and I'm sure we all hope they do so in 2019.
Haha, that's just it. I'm not inventing anything. That's all real. It *is* a great Bond film! So it's also an interesting question to discuss why it doesn't feel that way to many people.
I have my own theories, but they're best saved for another thread.
I'm curious as to how Boyle talking about his involvement with B25 well before he was announced has/will effect any announcements made about future crew/casting decisions.
Had he not spoken about it publicly beforehand, how long would have EON waited to make an official announcement? If things fell apart creatively before an announcement had officially been made, could all the media brew-ha-ha of the last few months largely been avoided?
Been off line a day and it seems there is still no news. Oh well.
Good point. I've been feeling that could apply to Bond casting as well. Most of the potential replacement names mentioned I just don't see as Bond.
If Eon were to announce tomorrow that Craig has bailed, and for the first time in the series an A list American actor has been cast as 007..............and that actor is Tom Hanks...................... there would be countless threads discussing his potential as Bond.
Indeed. Writers and directors -- any professional filmmaker, really -- finds themselves in a similar boat on any franchise tentpole. And each franchise is different.
It's a give and take relationship. Any collaborative undertaking on this scale, with this kind of investment behind it, will be. There are opportunities for personal expression and creativity everywhere in the process, but to expect these projects to be the uniquely the vision of a core creative personality -- director or otherwise -- just isn't practical.
That's what irks me about flippant, superficial review comments like "bad screenplay" or anything that tries to lay blame solely at a writer's/director's feet. That reviewer rarely has any idea what that person had to battle through in the making of that film, or how many arguments they were on the right side of and ended up losing along the way.
It's on a need to know basis, old boy.
Haha. I'm always surprised how quickly fandom seemed to turn on the man who was such a driving force in bringing them a near-universally acclaimed masterpiece in Skyfall.
And yet, there are two sides to every coin. My logic above doesn't absolve writers and directors from imperfection, either. Plenty to discuss about what works and doesn't work in a film like SPECTRE, and it's not as if there's a fine line where "good director decisions" exist on one side and "bad producer mandates" live on the other.
Despite what some would have us believe. ;)
Danny Boyle's (still untitled) musical comedy will be releasing earlier than expected, as it's opening day moves up from Sept 13th to June 28, 2019.
https://deadline.com/2018/09/danny-boyle-richard-curtis-comedy-eyes-sept-2019-release-two-months-before-james-bond-1202365674/
Spectre is the right start for me, which is why I usually rate it the most highly of the Craig films, followed by Quantum, a severely underrated film.
No, they wouldn't. There would be a general feeling that Eon jumped the shark.