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GMA: More James bond for you?
NH: I hope so. I really hope so. James bond fans, I really hope so. There's no news so far. No news if Daniel is coming back or what's happening."
Sadly that rather points in direction of Jamie Bell or Jack O'Connell types than real Bond material like Aidan Turner.
These odds mean nada.
Anyways, news round-up for November, 2016:
November 2016
-AT&T acquires Time Warner for $85 billion and is likely to put a freeze on future deals, including a possible distribution deal between Warner Bros and MGM, who they have been eyeing to take over from Sony for quite some time
-Naomie Harris says she thinks the current MI6 cast will continue beyond Craig's possible departure
-An MGM conference call reveals that B25 is in development and will be released, along with other franchise films, 'in the next few years' according to CEO Gary Barber. It is also reported that the film studio suffered a write-down of $48 million after Ben Hur's massive underperformance at the box office
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Oh, and give Martin Campbell a call...
I sure hope not. Aidan Turner? :'( Of the three people from The Hobbit having been in the running for next Bond, I think he's the worst.
Just to be clear, Ben-Hur caused a $48 million "impairment charge" for the third quarter. Essentially, these are costs related to Ben-Hur's awful box office performance.
The company still had a profit of the quarter of $12 million. That was way down from the $124 million profit for 2015's third quarter. This is spelled out in the linked Variety story.
None of this changes the basic situation, just mentioning it for the record.
SPECTRE performed just fine at the box office in NA, but calling your films things like "Quantum of Solace" and "SPECTRE" isn't exactly begging for Americans to have any clue what you're talking about. Casino Royale at least sounded fancy.
Not suggesting you have to dumb it down, but imo, SPECTRE is a lazy title for a rather lazy film.
I don't understand why we haven't moved on to a younger generation of producers yet. I'm curious just how interested Gregg is in taking over for his dad and what ideas he may bring to the table.
I think the most important thing for the franchise to do going forward is abandon any strong sense of continuity. Return to single episodes and fun adventures.
Marvel gets away with linking every film closely to a bigger story because a. they plan accordingly unlike Craig's era, and b. they release multiple films every year and are not expecting the audience to remember stuff from a movie 2-3 years ago.
Yes.
//and b. they release multiple films every year //
Yes, was two a year, now ramping up to three.
//and are not expecting the audience to remember stuff from a movie 2-3 years ago.//
Except in a general sense. In Captain America: Civil War, there was a reference (by the Vision) to "Mr. Stark revealing himself as Iron Man eight years ago."
Next year's Thor: Ragnarok movie will be challenged along those lines since the last Thor solo movie was in 2013. Odin is missing, so the 2013 movie will have to be referenced somehow.
Also, all these "infinity stones" will have to be referenced somehow in the 2018 Avengers movie. We'll see.
The argument could be made that Iron Man was major enough as the first MCU film, and it spawned two sequels in later years as general reminders. Not too challenging to remember Iron Man when he's in almost every movie.
Thor will be a struggle getting people to remember. I never even saw the second film. But there was an end-credit reminding you with this year's Dr. Strange, so people still have time to catch up or are reminded.
As with the Infinity Stones and the Thanos story in general, it's common opinion that's the one thing the MCU has handled horribly.
SF was a global success for a reason. SP performed less well in NA because we can tell a piece of sh%t when we see it.
Don't start the NA hating. There's no dumbing down.