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When Lake Bell did Man Up with Simon Pegg (and Rory Kinnear), people who hadn't heard about her assumed that she was English.
At least the 'model' he posted had a nice pair of personalities. It was the most gratifying comment he's ever blessed us with!
I'm not sure where the Fukanaga worry has come from. I thought most of us were pretty happy about his appointment. Did I miss something? Is it just because of his heritage?
You've even been e-mailed about this - if it wasn't clear after having a dozen accounts banned, that's why you've been banned. Pretty much any shot you had at returning has been irreversibly destroyed by said dozen alt accounts and posting of porno. Excellent work.
For anyone else: please ignore, flag, and move on. Don't antagonize or prop this idiot up. Thanks.
@TripAces who he work for even wonder if he is tied to Spectre? man they look similar.
My thoughts exactly
the difference being of course - that the action isn't being chopped and cut 15 different ways.. there is nothing wrong with the handheld look, as long as you know what you are shooting and you aren't telling your editor to take a chainsaw to your scenes lol.
Pinewood Studios (March 31, 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, announced today a second season for the animated series JAMES BOND JR. originally released in 1991. In the original, the international spy James Bond’s nephew, James Bond Jr., was determined to follow in his uncle’s footsteps. James Bond Jr. and his friends I.Q. (Q’s grandson) and Gordo Leiter (son of CIA agent Felix) enrolled in Warfield, a preparatory school located on the grounds of an old counter intelligence training base in the UK. Together, the schoolmates fought against S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), an international cartel of terrorists and mad scientists. Michael G. Wilson on the new series:
"When we created James Bond Jr., we wanted to tell a story from a new angle that would speak to children on both sides of the Atlantic, while paying tribute to the character of James Bond who the « older children » grew up with and have learned to love. It’s been a while since we thought about restarting the series but were afraid it’d too similar to the original. The world has changed a lot since the 90s, thanks to the computer technologies, and with the reboot of the film series, we thought it was time to bring back the series by updating it to our time."
Collaborating with MGM and EON Productions, the creative team of TITMOUSE, INC. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) will be in charge of animation and co-writing. Chief Creative Officer of Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina:
"It’s an honor to be part of the Bond franchise and to work with the prestigious MGM team. We were involved in the project because we were always fans of Bond, and being an American company we could write more easily for the American public, and especially because we had the same idea to relaunch the series: to update it for audiences of today. Our series is not a continuation of the original [which ended with Bond Jr. recovering Thor’s hammer] but rather a reboot, similar to the kind of reboot they did a few years ago for the movies. Fans of the original series will not be disappointed since we took the best of the original series and kept the same structure. However, we really want to use what Daniel Craig has brought to the franchise by anchoring our series in the current ‘era’ to bring it up to date."
Changes have been made so that young audiences can identify more with the latest films:
"Our James Bond Jr. will be blond and we changed the skin color of Gordo Leiter to reflect Jeffrey Wright’s participation in the movies. This last character is very important to us because he is the main connection with America’s culture and fashion, which can contrast with the British one, giving a little comedic style to the whole series. In the original series Gordo is a fan of surfing, but this sport is less appealing for young people than it was thirty years ago, so we decided to give him a ‘gansta’ style, especially with a red cap with the inscription « Make Rap Great Again » in order to update him for 2019. Similarly, since Ben Whishaw is too young to be a grandfather, we changed I.Q. to Q’s little brother instead of his grandson. We also changed Tracy Milbanks to Madeleine Milbanks. It is very important for MGM, EON and for us that the series reflects the current movies", says Tim Kalina.
One of the big novelties of the series will be the presence of action scenes in a world of virtual reality:
"Virtual reality headsets have invaded the market in recent years and as our I.Q. is a kind of ‘geek’ video game fan we thought it would be fun for Bond Jr. to face S.C.U.M. in virtual worlds created by I.Q. and his alter-ego ‘genius-computer scientist’ baddie, Boris (as in the original series we’re bringing back emblematic villains of the films like Boris and Elvis). The great thing is that in a world of virtual reality you can do anything: change the era, introduce fantastic elements and even do away with the laws of physics when you want to; I think that it creates beautiful scenery and original fights like never seen before in the saga".
For Associate Producer Gregg Wilson: "The show is already looking better than the previous one, I was recently able to see a test screening with kids of an episode where S.C.U.M. steals the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower and demand a ransom; the returns were wonderful. They can’t wait for the show to come out and I think their parents won’t either. They won’t worry because the violence is very light and no characters die on the screen. We went with fewer episodes than the first season, only forty. Especially since this time there will be a common thread, it concerns the father of Bond Jr. (the brother of James Bond), I can’t say anything more but if you saw SPECTRE, you already have an idea about what to expect…"
"Since we felt that two James Bond Jr. girls are not enough, we can already announce a partnership with ZODIAK MEDIA that will allow Bond Jr. to team up with the full team secret agents of the TOTALLY SPIES! for one episode. This is one of the many surprises that awaiting fans of the new series".
Season 2 of James Bond Jr., produced by MGM and EON Productions, directed by Titmouse, Inc. and distributed by MGM will be broadcast in early 2020 in the UK on BBC One and will follow shortly after in the USA on NBC. A range of toys and comics will be unveiled later this year.
http://www.007.com/james-bond-Jr-season-2-announcement/
http://www.commander007.net/2019/03/eon-annonce-saison-2-a-serie-james-bond-jr/
Oh, and
Yeah and Bond Jr. have one too in the original show :
Forster tried way too hard to reproduce the style of the Bourne films directed by Paul Greengrass. And he never realized that Greengrass, no matter how chopped his scenes may look, prepares a lot of visual cues, sometimes nearly subliminal, that allow the audience to pick on what's happening even if it's too fast to fully understand it. It can be a particular colour, an emblematic shape, etc. There's quite the amount of work in pre-production for this.
Compare this to the PTS in Quantum of Solace. Bond in a grey car is chased by bad guys in similar cars, and similar colours. You spend your time trying to recognize in a shot if it's Bond's car, and then the shot is over.