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That bs needs to change.
+1 Mendes was fully involved in shaping the story and he shat the bed with his remit as a director and his obvious inability to communicate direction with Logan, which led to the disastrous scripting problems.
if we are talking about just the US box office..
QOS grossed $168.3mil, and CR grossed $167.4 (unadjusted).... QOS might not have been a critical success over here, but it did (at the time) open to the largest opening weekend in US history for a Bond movie ($67mil) - and as previously shown, just barely outgrossed CR - where it fell short was at the foreign b.o., where it grossed almost $25mil less than CR...
This. Several pages of guff before anything resembling logic. I thought it was quite plain, but everyone seems to have worked themselves into a stupor.
Precisely.
One can make the argument that the US doesn't matter, or that Americans may have poor taste to defend SP if one wants, but facts are facts.
It is (-35% before accounting for higher ticket prices in 2015 vs 2012 so it's even bigger) and there will be adjustments as a result. That much I'm sure of.
I can't believe that Kermode loved it so much especially considering his disdain for QOS.
Given time this is going to go down as the dog of the DC era for, QOS grows in stature all the time, especially in the light of the generic tick the box mess that is SPECTRE.
Mendes was clearly saying that about the next Bond because DC was leftfield casting, he understands that BB doesn't go for the obvious, PB was obvious and we got a by numbers portrayal that was safe as you can get and BB understands to keep the series alive it has to move on and the general publics views on this are irrelevant.
Think about it. After that brief period of confusion, there could be a new Bond film just over the horizon. Imagine that. I love following the production of a new Bond, so I knock off another 12 months for that. For me its only 18 months until the games begin. SO EXCITED!! :D
Exactly. I find the 12 months before the release of a new Bond are as exciting as the film itself. That's not waiting for me, that's basking! I love the feeling of Bond hysteria slowly rising around me.
However, I too am going to try and stay away from production and clip news next time as much as I can. SP was spoiled for me in many ways, but then again we had the script leak problem last time out which was a one-off (hopefully).
A whole years worth of free entertainment isn't worth missing out on for me! ;)
Completely agree
Same. I say it every time, but I really need to make a point of doing so this time around. The less I know, the more I feel I may enjoy it. I tire of getting to finally see a new Bond film, and feeling like I know almost every beat of the movie already.
Agreed. I think the screenwriter(s) should be British ...Bond needs that voice but good directors can come from anywhere.
I never doubted a 2018 release either.
Also, things aren't moving any faster now than they were a few days ago. Mendes had already said that he wasn't returning. The only thing new we have is Mendes speculating about the next Bond. I'm not sure how Mendes commenting on Barbara's process all of a sudden makes 2018 more possible than it was viewed to be a few days ago when some viewed 2018 as an impossibility.
To do that, we need (in no particular order): a) a leading man b) a director c) script d) rest of cast e) a distributor/co-financier.
Can it be done? Sure. What's the pace like right now? I have no idea.
To be specific: Skyfall (U.S.-Canada) $304-plus million in 108 days of release, SPECTRE, $200 million in 154 days of release.
Number of tickets, almost 38 million for Skyfall, 23 million for SPECTRE.
All figures via Box Office Mojo.
Broadway, a movie, two seasons of a show, and 'Bond 25' in a little over two years? I wish I was as optimistic as you were.
Plus didn't he film QOS & Defiance at the same time?
No, the screenwriter doesn't have to be British either IMO. Richard Maibaum wrote most of the screenplays upto and including LTK and probably provided the best dialogue in the entire series.
Purvis and Wade - two Brits - have been catastrophically awful.
I think the whole art of screenwriting is much stronger in the US and I would be more than happy for an American to write them. The issue of "getting" British dialogue is slightly exaggerated I think.
I like the fact that the films are made at Pinewood but that doesn't mean we need silly rules about who can and cannot work on them.