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La La Land looked great but the film overall did very little for me.
Still, a great choice.
If you mean prior to working on a Bond film then Freddie Young would like a word.
I'd highly, highly recommend that anyone who hasn't yet heard his score for First Man check it out. Perhaps the most Barry-inspired effort to grace a mainstream film in some years. Some pieces feel like they could have been downright lifted from a collection of unused OHMSS tracks.
There's a short list of names that would elate me as a Bond 25 composer choice. David Arnold leads that pack by far, but Daniel Pemberton and Justin Hurwitz are in the mix too.
Fukunaga is beginning to put together a dream team. This news has me very excited for Bond 25. Also, might be worth nothing that Sandgren is known for shooting on film opposed to digital. This may hint to Fukunaga's chosen format.
A small sampling of his work:
Indeed. The music choice on Bond 25 will be something that excites me even more than usual. You're quite right on the list of names too - all great choices. Arnold would be returning back after ten years, and Hurwitz and Pemberton are both on a hot streak. Win, win, win.
La La Land is one of my favourite films from the last few years, and so bringing Sandgren on board is tremendous. I know in that film they wanted to make all the locations they filmed on to look so good it would almost look fake. And First Man look beautiful as well.
Hopefully more news starts to dribble through the new year and we may get some news on casting soon.
I never used the term "massively".
That's all well and good, but to me that is a separate argument because you're not only talking of things on screen I feel.
The films, taken on their own terms, are admirably ambitious. And as @TripAces pointed out above, one can see it as an experimental phase - one that hasn't always worked (and certainly didn't work too well in 2015) but there has been ambitious intentions with the content in the Craig films despite SPECTRE going off the deep end, hence my "slightly unfulfilling."
Anyway, if there was any confusion I apologise.
Regarding Sandgren: I haven't seen La La Land or First Man, nor do I intend to. However I have viewed Joy and American Hustle, for which he was also the DoP. Both are very nicely lensed films, even if smaller in scale and scope.
Perhaps that will be one of the themes of B25. It wouldn't surprise me if eternal recurrence or some other philosophy finds its way into the film in some way shape or form.
I’m all for it. I absolutely loved the score in First Man. At some times it sounded very reminiscent of classic Bond scores.
DoP for me is a big part of certain movies, and I think that Hoyte was incredibly underused in SPECTRE..... and it's a shame really..
I hope Linus is used more in the next movie
Don't worry, it was intentional.
Daniel Craig is James Bond
in a Cary Joji Fukunaga film
shot and lit by Linus Sandgren
More than happy with this. All good news so far.
Essentially, a project named "B25" has filed an application for an incentive program regarding shooting on location in Norway. Make of that what you will.
I did some quick digging and found the source article as well: https://www.bt.no/direkte/kultur-direkte/pinned/125607
Read that a while ago. It might happen, but I wouldn't count on a potential Norway location being used extensively, given the cost of filming over here.
I wouldn't mind that. If the Nietzsche thing only gets so far, and not into Bond's mental state. Although Villains always like to quote Nietzsche, right? If only they would be intelligent enough to quote say, Jorge Luis Borges and his eternal river poem, better than a posthumous literature nobel prize, I'd say ;)
I recall Norway being a rumour a while back, but surely it wasn't this specific story?? After all, the article presumably got the info directly from the mentioned Norwegian commission after the 27 November application deadline, which is pretty recent.
True. it's certainly a staple of a good Bond film that I've always enjoyed. An overconfident villain pompously speculating on what made him who he is while simultaneously casting aspersions on Bond's unyielding loyalty to the cause.
I hope Fukunaga resists the temptation to go down the poetry quote route though, no matter how good the source or how appealing it may seem - perhaps that should remain the exclusive privilege of SF. ;)
Yes, I quite agree. SF did that well, though, IMO. Nihilism it is then ;) Good old world (order) destruction plot.
Anyone think that Canada made be the contingency plan should the application to Norway not be granted?
Well then it's still a new development - albeit a recurring one.