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Hey Peter
Just all rumors for now
I will let you know if I do hear anything about it….
Fingers crossed that this is indeed happening.
But I don't have my hopes up-- although we have fantastic cities; state of the art studios (including the second Pinewood here in Toronto), crews are world class, places like Toronto and Vancouver are huge service towns, and; it's a quick hop n skip back to NY for DC... Here endeth my pitch.
Realistically though, I do know that our studio spaces are booked out for months and months and months ahead of time... For a huge production like Bond to roll into any major city takes serious planning. So, perhaps, if this is real, they're in the planning stages of potentially shooting in Canada (just like in SF-- at one point I think the PTS was to shoot in India; because of expenses, it went to Istanbul)...
But no one hold their breath on this one (I sincerely hope I'm wrong).
no problem, sir! I will keep an ear to the ground until it's either debunked or verified!
Yes!!
Put me down for that as well!
Thirded.
(Fourthed?)
JUST BRING DAVID BACK! :)
...and thanks for keeping us in the loop, Peter! No doubt if it's happening, we'll start hearing something sooner rather than later.
Quick news on Craig's next movie. Check out which female actor has joined the cast. She's my dream pick for Bond 25. Ana de Armas!!!!!
I reckon they should go to Thom Yorke. They already ditched him once, and his recent Suspiria score sounds terrific.
He'd be rather edgy and unique. Then Radiohead can do the theme.
Script ... where oh where is it leading us now? I am not worried because we have Cary as director. He is a great storyteller and he'll surely have his hand in the story development. But it is quite a mystery now how much of P&W/Hodge script will remain, any key points, etc.
Music - I want David Arnold involved. But I am open to a new composer. Just not somebody who will give us a very "different" sound. The only thing that bothered me about Goldeneye was the music. That was it. I know Serra has some fans, but his work did not suit a Bond film in my opinion. Here's hoping Cary will be all for his composer getting the Bond theme in and the title song reworked into the film artistically. Unlike Newman, who had to be pushed by EON to even try that. We only got breadcrumbs from him, in my opinion (yes, I love Skyfall the film; there's my reference ... but the music was substandard in that one except the woefully underused theme song).
Is that why Newman keeps getting some of the best work, with the best directors, and Arnold hasn’t composed jack crap in 10 years?
Mine too!!!!!!
Anyone could do the same sound Newman does. Nothing distinctive. Safe, boring, a score-by-numbers. One less thing for the director to hassle with. Newman phones in some soothing, vaguely intense brooding score, case closed. It's time for Craig's movie to rock. God forbid we get another simpering Sam Smith wheepy ballad.
That tune will always bug me a bit. I've always thought it's a beautiful piece musically, just so conflicted -- fast/slow, low/high, light/heavy -- it never settles into a rhythm that lets you love it because it seems to not be sure what kind of Bond song it wants to be.
My feeling now is that with a simple continuing of the power ballad push through the entire chorus (no light touch/slowdown section) and a reduction in Smith's range to eliminate the ultra-falsetto bits, you'd have a classic Bond theme on your hands.
Makes me intrigued for what they deliver on Bond 25. I'd anticipate a return to something a bit more conventionally built, but I'm doubtful it will be entirely conventionally Bond -- could be something different, inventive, capturing the classic Bond/Barry/spy tone but with a very edgy and modern twist. Perhaps something more electronically driven, but in a good way that takes advantage of the emotional and rhytmic impacts the modern tools can really deliver.
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Whoops. Hey look something within the last 10 years. :))
Paging David Arnold or anybody with the right heart for a Bond film ...
As for you, @Murdock - you will always have an Oscar in my eyes. Oscar caliber work consistently, young man!
It's always entertaining to see the same old nonsense from the anti-Arnold camp, though.
Anyway, I've listened to Hurwitz' score for FIRST MAN, and it's quite excellent.
I don't have a problem with the discussion. It's just that we always seem to default to this like clockwork when the news cycle is dry.
I will try to watch the film either this weekend or sometime next week. The clip posted above is decent, but insufficient for me to formulate an opinion either way.
And the 2012 Olympics!
To be fair to the anti-Newman camp, I've never seen anything from them that wasn't a legitimate or understandable complaint about his approach and execution (even if I didn't always agree). Most of the anti-Arnold stuff I've seen has been incredibly lazy criticisms about his "lack of major outputs" in the last ten years or so, or about the man himself rather than his music.
I am not anti-Newman; I'm rather passive on him. He's done some good stuff, some fairly pedestrian stuff. But I've always found the Arnold criticisms equally as uninspired as the critics here claim him to be. I guess someone who is on a more middle ground will naturally find these criticisms to be a bit overblown though, so I digress.