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Desperation.
Because they have no plans or good stories and bond can't survive forever in the modern day he belongs in the time period he was written where they can bang out a film every two years because they are just faithfully adapting the novels so they don't need to waste four years getting ideas and then for the next 30 or so years we will have strong modern bond films
Trust me, the problem with not being able to churn out a movie every two years mainly lies in the hands of MGM who keeps holding Eon's leash. Bond can survive in whichever time he's in, even though I'd love a revisit to the sixties with the condition they keep the Connery iteration of the character rather than the literary version. And to say there aren't any good stories in the continuation novels only indicates to the fact that you've never read them. Both Gardner and Benson had terrific novels that put some of the existing movies to shame. Alas, many times we believed they had no plans to using continuation novels, even though Colonel Sun itself lent many movies elements for their respective plot outlines. Now, that they officially credited Kingsley Amis estate for letting them officially use materials from his book in Spectre, the assumption that Eon has no plans to use continuation novels in the future falls into the category of falsehood.
"They have no plans".
yeah I see what you are saying but what i was referring to when I said they have no plans and stories is that they don't have a solid writing team that has movies planned out like spectre where they just did backwards continuity to try and force a story that clearly wasnt supposed to be there and they don't necessarily have to do a period piece but even to return to the novels, fleming or continuation to have a solid set of stories to then adapt as opposed to hiring john logan, having a garbage script, then hring purvis and wade, then hiring butterworth, its a mess I think they should just go book by book and make more faithful adaptations as a lot of solid bond stories havent been tapped beyond their titles. I have read all the fleming books but I havent got around to the continuation books
yeah those comics are solid and good modern day bond adventures
Yeah the characters were fine just the people writing them weren't
Bond was born as a book character and the most appreciated movies in the series are all adaptations of the book, why are you against it (other than the fact that they openly discredit your beloved codename theory)?
I just think that the time for adapting them has passed. Bond can exist outside of the strict narratives that Fleming penned. In fact, I'd argue is better to do that. Direct adaptations only invites comparisons, and not favorable ones.
Then it would not be a faithful adaptation anymore. They would have to tamper with the story dramatically in order to justify the budget.
Barbara Broccoli has made clear she doesn't want to make Bond films on an every-other-year schedule. That's her prerogative. But how is that MGM's fault, especially when it filed a business plan in bankruptcy court calling for Bond films to get back to an every-other-year schedule?
The whole MGM-Danjaq relationship is complicated. At times (during particular MGM management regimes), it has been dysfunctional. But why is it all MGM's fault?
yeah your probably right
Sure let's just ignore what Fleming wanted entirely god forbid they stick to his rule of Bond being of the times (with Bond in flemings own novels changing a few times to keep up with the year the book was released)....
I don't want Bond as a period piece the moment they do that I stop watching
Or go on a one off mission, continue the sort of continuity style story lines or go back to the more one mission a movie and nothing really linking the movies
With you here too
While I agree with that I wouldn't mind if they OHMSS'd it and had another movie with Craig and blocked but if they get a new actor then forget about it
Classics stories are retold all the time. Conversely, Fleming material shouldn't be eliminated and consciously excluded from Bond films as a rule.
If they did, we'd end up with what we got in the video game adaptation
Totally agree.
Pretty much but that game was awesome it would be worth it
Nonsense. Bond was created in the cold war but he doesn't and shouldnt be exclusively resigned to that period just because you think it means an increase in film frequency.
First of all, a Bond movie doesn't need to be 200 million. It's precisely these inflated budgets that are one of many problems plaguing this series. Secondly, have you actually read FRWL? We dont need a FRWL movie thats bigger than what we got in '63.