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Yes Taken was very successful, but another reason for the resurgence of the old guard (add Kevin Costner and Mickey Rourke into that group) is that there are simply no real movie stars who have come along to replace them. Who are the tough guys of today's generation? It just seems like an endless parade of generic guys named Chris playing superheroes.
Same here. Watched the first one in the theater because I'd heard it was awesome and a more 'real' Bond style movie, but found it to be a dull and mediocre experience. I remember there was hype about Clive Owen being the next Bond (LOL) and he displayed his usual charisma of a bag of dry cement in it.
Hope we have some Bond news.
You must give me the name of your oculist.
Steven Soderbergh Admits He Was Once In Talks For James Bond
http://theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-admits-james-bond-talks-new-weird-midnight-edition-kafka-20160713/
I really like this idea. Soderbergh is a terrific director and a huge fan of the series. I love the sound, look and editing of his films. His casts are always terrific. I recently watched Haywire and he created a great sexy spy thriller that is very much a throwback to the early Bonds whilst incorporating some crunchy Bourne-esque/MMA-style fights.
I also recently saw Contagion which is a terrific procedural thriller which is so confidently executed.
Soderbergh toyed with the idea of making The Man from UNCLE, so clearly he has a spy itch that needs tending to. Furthermore, he's currently working Daniel Craig on Logan Lucky. We know Craig likes to offer the job to his friends, so he may be enticed to return if Soderbergh gets involved. Notice in the article, Soderbergh dosen't want to talk too much about Bond untill the reporter pushes further. Maybe there is something there.
He also wrote a terrific piece on his blog about OHMSS:
http://extension765.com/sdr/2-most-irrelevant-no-1
In the meanwhile, when do we think he was in talks? I'd imagine sometime in the 90s and maybe one Craig film.
Eon fell in love with Mendes probably. I dunno. One of those off decisions like hiring P&W back...
Who knows...
It was just announced last week that his next film is about the Panama Papers.
'Logan Lucky' was the heist film I'm talking about, doesn't seem confirmed that he'll be directing the Panama movie, just producing. If he does end up directing, though, that means it's another one of those false retirement announcements I heard of, then.
He retired, then unretired. Logan Lucky is his first film since (it also has Craig in it).
Agree with this. I'm sure it'll be a great tightly paced action spy thriller film just like the rest of them are but I was really hoping they'd do something different, especially when I heard about the Vegas setting. Instead it's just Bourne fighting the CIA again, this time with more emphasis on his backstory. Yay.
I think the best route would have been to make him kind of a Jack Reacher figure. After finding out who he is Bourne becomes a drifter, he just sort of wanders, finding himself in work that suits his skillset and getting caught up in plots that form the basis of the films.
I really hope, if nothing else, that Treadstone (or whatever the other one was called) don't play a role in the plot. If they absoloutely have to keep the whole modern political spy thing going, with the CIA as the villains, at least do something different. No more groups of highly trained super assassins please.
I understand that Damon and Greengrass like to use these films to provide political commentary but they could do that with a number of issues all around the world. Bourne as a character has limitless potential, the franchise could be so much more.
I've read some of the continuation books and enjoyed them a lot. They could definitely look to the source material a bit more instead of doing the same old routine again.
It'd be great to get a film where we follow the life of Bourne on his own drifting and the life of the assassin tasked with taking him out so that when the two ultimately face off, you really don't want them to fight because you've connected to each and sympathized with their causes.
It appears that way. Sorry if I seemed to be ganging up. I saw the initial commented and replied before seeing other comments on the subject.
Seems to be a popular Bond film among directors. Refn sited it as his favorite as well.
OHMSS is very highly regarded amongst many filmmakers, not just directors, but editors and DOPs as well because it's just so brilliantly made. The action, stunt work, fight scenes, editing, score, etc., and a very fine screenplay. It remains my favourite with CR a close second and then, equally close, FRWL.