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Its a tease for next week.
If GMB are putting out trailers for the press conference - this can only mean that the press have now been formally invited to something.
Either some of our members who work in the media industry will get in touch with confirmation of the date - or we wait till Eon say something on Twitter.
Nonetheless, from that video it seems clear to me that the invites hae been sent!
@Lizo may be able to confirm.
Potentially a bit of a different situation than the "hop on down the highway to Pinewood from London" we saw with SPECTRE, which would have been easy enough on two days' notice for the London-based press. Even on Skyfall, I believe the P.C. was held in a hotel (Corinthia?) in the heart of London, just off Whitehall.
Hopefully this coming Tuesday is when we'll hear from EON officially.
It's not really a week.
In the UK we have a long Easter weekend with two public holidays - essentially, today is the last working day until Tuesday.
If Eon doesn't send the invites out soon, the conference probably wouldn't happen next week because next week is also a short working week.
I can't see Eon stepping on Endgame's toes (mainly as the Avengers film would swallow it alive). Its probably going to be the most successful film of all time, so why get in its way? Just do the conference on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Also, @dominicgreene don't get it twisted. The ONLY source so far is GMB, JamesBondRadio are just two fans who are likely members of thsi forum who got excited last night reading @RC7 post.
They are NOT a source.
I saw an episode one of them was convinced Humperdinck was doing the title song because someone added a joke on IMDB. JBR is the definition of Amateur hour.
Either that or - I'd go one step further - in lieu of a traditional presser, GMB gets the UK exclusive announcement of the title/cast etc an hour or so before the official one. That's the only reason why they'd actually be promoting this like that. Plus, it would instantly hit a much bigger general public audience.
WE NEED AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT, NOW !! SINCE FEBRUARY 15th WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING !!
;)
The thought of Piers Morgan announcing anything related to B25…
Thankfully he's not on the show for a few weeks, he wasn't in the promo...
I seriously doubt Eon would give the GLOBAL press launch of bond 25 to a fairly controversial and bottom-feeding news programme.
You would make just as large a splash with a simple press release.
No, GMB is an opportunistic operation who are simple using this chance to bolster ratings. By all means they have been invited to the presser. But that's it.
You'd make as big a splash if the announcement was on the BBC or Sky. No one picks GGM when they have a choice - you go on that show and give them an 'exclusive' when you have no choice.
Ie; you're an ex-reality show star who needs to argue about whether people can do makeup on trains.
Sure hope you're right, and that he's not involved in any way in their coverage.
Next Thursday, April 25th
;)
I'd still think they'll be involved somehow if they're actually going out there and promoting this 'Bond special'...that promo would have had to have been signed off by EON/Universal's partnerships. Maybe they'll be actually the exclusive outlet carrying the press conference on actual TV (while EON/Uni/UAR do the online broadcast), since BBC/Sky wouldn't be able to fit that into their schedules? And ITV have had film exclusives on their shows before, the first trailer for Andy Serkis' Mowgli (back when it was a WB release) premiered on This Morning.
As controversial and bottom-feeding GMB is, people still give those exclusives because of ratings/audiences they pull anyway. It's like why Baz at the Daily Mail gets exclusive official announcements like clips etc - it's the #1 most visited UK news site.
Let the mayhem begin...
Let’s see:
Another female character in the Sony emails is CIA agent Charlotte (email 63219) and Felix Leiter has been rumoured to be coming back for B25 and he was, at one stage, to be back in SPECTRE (email 64219). The CIA is also working with Blofeld in an early SPECTRE draft (email 56934); which is odd as the CIA were working with Quantum in QOS. Bond works with Charlotte for part of the film and they even go undercover as man and wife (email 45027). Many fans are expecting Bond and Madeleine to be married and Daniel Craig was wearing a wedding ring in the Spain filming that was allegedly for a Heineken advert. Other B25 rumour is that Bond will work with a younger female MI6 agent. That maybe as far as the similarities go as Charlotte is seen in the Scandinavian villa scene (email 32966), so she will not be young when she is with Bond; it is more likely she is about Bond’s age. And Charlotte turns out to be a villain (email 56934). To have the young female MI6 agent turn out to be a double agent will repeat a DAD plot line.
Other unused SPECTRE plotlines involves Africa, a diamond mine (email 24914) and Bond and Q escaping the collapsing mine (email 56034). Rami Malek is expected to be the villain and he is of North African descent. One Sony executive says that it’s good to see the plot revolve around “colonialization coming back to bite Britain in the ass” (email 56934). Which would be a good theme for a Brexit linked movie. Another possible Brexit/Trump related B25 plot angle from SPECTRE’s early scripts could be that “allies are being picked apart creating paranoia and suspicion is great” (email 24914). The Sony execs also asked, “Is it just about avenging the deaths of people from prior movies who were close to him?” (email 45027). If Madeleine is killed in B25’s PTS then the same question could be asked of Bond 25.
Recent Daniel Craig Bond films have developed this Scooby Gang approach with the MI6 team. Early drafts of SPECTRE had them out in the field, with M meeting Bond in a cemetery (email 64219), Q taken hostage (email 24914) and Moneypenny injured (email 24914). With Bond now apparently retired from MI6, M could meet Bond somewhere, maybe a cemetery, in B25. Tanner was going to be a traitor who Bond allows to commit suicide (email 64219). As C was the MI6 mole in SPECTRE and not Tanner, this plot line may not be deemed unused.
Other small ideas proposed for SPECTRE which may end up in B25 are, a boat chase (email 56934), Felix Leiter meets Moneypenny (email 64219), there’s a plastic surgery/transformatlon clinic (email 32966), a death mask ball and an attack on an intelligence summit (email 56934), and there is a code book that needs to be deciphered (email 45027).
If you want to check for yourself, here are the email notes:
64219
M meet Bond in a cemetary
Moneypenny dance class
Charlotte, female CIA agent
Kaja was early name for Madeleine
Tanner suicide, unlikely after Spectre
There's a mine
Felix meets Moneypenny
32966
Bond in a cage match
Boat chase in Amsterdam
Charlotte kills a character called Valenti
scandivian villa: its good to see mr. white but why do we want bond to fall in love with a girl we introduce as a child there is something totally weird vibeey here. scene with mr. white is good though . why does charlotte show up there and blow it up though.
what kind of a clinic is it one where people go to be turned into someone else?
24914
the idea that allies are being picked apart creating paranoia and suspicion is great but inconsistent throughout
Diamond mine
Moneypenny is injured
Q as hostage
Blofeld arms trader diamond mines Africa
56934
Boat chase has the MI6 scooby gang
colonialization coming back to bite Britain in the ass
Attack on an intelligence summit
Valenti is a cage fighter or organises cage fights
Death mask ball
CIA working with Blofeld
Charlotte turns on Bond
Bond and Q escape mine collapse
45027
Code book deciphered, leads to Blofeld
Is it just about avenging the deaths of people from prior movies who were close to him?
Bond is under cover as husband and wife with Charlotte
They've basically recycled the same trailer they used for Spectre:
Actually it was premiered on Breakfast on BBC One
https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=10193
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00sx7z9
Lizo.
Oh snap!
@Lizo has spoken!
Lizo, is the press conference taking place next week? We are starving here!
Which leaves the question of whether or not Eon signed off on this. Surely after all this time it warrants an updated GMB trailer.
No, the footage of the presenters in front of the gun barrel has been re-used from their Spectre advert. But they spliced in some images and footage from the Spectre premiere that weren't there in the 2015 advert. So this appears to be a genuine Bond 25 advert, albeit with re-used footage.