It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
But then where does that intimacy coach hired for Craig and de Armas come in? If Madeleine is the main Bond girl, are we really going to see Bond sleeping with a girl while he's deeply in love with another? That's going to look good...
Unless it's part of the plot. Bond is forced to sleep with Paloma to get information out of her, because he needs to get the job done. But that's such a dark plot point, that I doubt they'll go for that.
Naomie Harris was there, too. And by her own admission she won't have any scenes in Jamaica. I think they just flew out everyone who had a clear schedule, regardless of how big the role is. Just to fill the room. And perhaps because Seydoux could answer some questions regarding her character (vaguely, but still), and people like David Dencik and Dali Benssallah could not. (spoilers, and all)
My guess is that the film picks up shortly after SP much like QoS, hence the reappearance of the DB5, Madeline is either killed or splits with Bond, then there's some passage of time where Bond has been living alone in Jamaica until Felix pulls him back into the fray. I'm not exactly sure why, but I think we're getting something like Skyfall where the primary "Bond girl" isn't necessarily a love interest (Judi Dench/Lashana Lynch) with the more traditional one being a minor role (Berenice Marlohe/Ana de Armas).
Lea has said she is excited about further exploring her character, which strongly suggests she has a solid role to play. I think dropping her after the pre-titles is too predictable and contrived. I think she and Bond re-unite, but perhaps later in the film, and after any encounters Bond has with de Armas in Cuba etc. (which seems, due to the Jamaica connection, to be early in the film.) Also, in OHMSS, after starting a relationship with Tracey, Bond still sleeps with other women while he's undercover.
Well Bond does bed 2 women at Piz Gloria whilst he's truly in love with Tracy in OHMSS!
Agreed.
I think it breaks down like this:
I like this.
*screams in The Wizard of Iceian*
Thank you, @Tuxedo Certainly, she seems to be talking about Lashana Lynch.
It's possible that Madeleine can still be killed off in the PTS and that any flashback will figure elsewhere in the film.
What is fascinating is that after the tepid response to QoS and SP, Eon is forging boldly (?) ahead with the White/Madeleine story. Fascinating. They must have a lot of confidence in the story.
Of course, YMMV.
I'm hoping for this too.
I think it's the most likely scenario - and I suspect the connection between Swann and the girl is linked directly (due to her father's, Mr. White's, criminal/Spectre connections) to Malek's character and his experiments/research.
You are welcome :-)
That would be great. Plenty of opportunities to intersect SPECTRE in the narrative without it necessarily being a Blofeld-driven film.
And I would applaud them for being this original with Madeleine. The Tracey remake is so expected. But Tiffany Case-inspired twist with a Tracy-type character (and potentially happy ending?) is such a more dramatically rich opportunity for Bond's character to confront.
And it opens up that first act to get him up to his usual shenanigans without too much remorse or later regret. If they're separated, it's not as if James Bond is going to be half-monk, half...also monk.
+1.
I don't like the idea of killing Madeleine off in the PTS or revealing that she's somehow connected to Malek because he's her evil cousin or s**t like that. Swann actually being connected to Malek because of Mr White/SPECTRE sounds great and could lead to some interesting storylines.
Another clue to what I think may, just may, be the connection between Swann and the girl; the casting call in Feb requested a young girl who resembled Lea, and some of us speculated about a flashback scene, but if the ice-lake scene is no flashback, then, perhaps, Malek's character might be after the child for a very specific reason - i.e. she has value to his research and the scientist he has had kidnapped - and I do not think the answer is that the girl is Swann's secret daughter.
Hobbs and Shaw is out at the start of August. So I assume that the first trailer drops at the end of July. Which is sooner than you think!
I'm pretty sure that's @antovolk
Word on the street is that the title is a little bland. Now, I’m not saying this to bring the mood down, just tempering expectation. To be honest, it’s rare titles are slam dunks, and anyhow, they usually take time to settle and are wrapped in subjectivity. I would, though, surmise it isn’t a Fleming as some had hoped.
NB. This is by no means a given. Just what I’ve heard.
It sure is!
Unsurprised if it's not a Fleming. Equally unsurprised that it's a bit bland. As long as it doesn't have the word 'Die' in it, I'll be fine with it.
Interesting. At this point I would be surprised if they used a Fleming title, which would at least appease most of the hardcore fans. I just have this feeling it's going to be another original like SF. I think Barbara Broccoli said Shatterhand and Eclipse were not the titles, but I wouldn't be surprised if one or both of them (especially Eclipse) was a working title that was scrapped - perhaps because it was leaked. It would be nice to at least get the official thing soon so we can finally stop calling it Bond 25.
Unfortunately for you it’s called ‘Die Die Muthaf*cka Die’ - title track by Kully B & Gussy G.
Gah. This movie is DOOMED.
Interesting....I couldn't care less.
The titles of Bond films are fairly inconsequential. There have only been a handful that really resonated with him. The title just becomes the film eventually.
I think we are destined for a vague and bland title. Something like 'Nobody Lives Forever' etc.
The last big trailer to reveal a title was Star Wars with 'The Rise of Skywalker'. I don't think you get a much blander and uninteresting title than that.
@RC7 do you know if the title is the same one that they had the press conference but decided against revealing?
Just wondering where the info on the title being bland came from?
I suppose the term "bland' could be subjective. I can imagine many movie goers considering THE PROPERTY OF A LADY to be a bland title, or RISICO. Whereas I myself, would be thrilled at the prospect.
Something like ECLIPSE or JAMES I would consider bland titles and probably would be disappointed.