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And to those pundits who are predicting which direction the series will take post-Craig, Mendes had this piece of advice: "I can guarantee whatever happens with it, it will not be what you expect. That's what [Barbara Broccoli's] been brilliant at, and that's how it'll survive."
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond-25-sam-mendes-will-not-return-future-is-up-to-barbara-broccoli
Expect the unexpected.
Apparently, Broccoli and Wilson's play, The Kid Stays in the Picture, is likely to get a run on Broadway.
http://www.playbill.com/article/is-london-hit-the-kid-stays-in-the-picture-headed-to-broadway
But really anything apart from an adaption of You Only Live Twice for bond 25 would be somewhat of a shock for me.
I think this has been known for some time
Originally written 2013, updated 2015.
https://spycommandfeatures.wordpress.com/the-family-model-eon-vs-the-corporate-model-marvel/
So EON is a bit less genius then.
...then again, I do remember feeling the exact same way before they replaced Brosnan. That said, I think Craig is closer to the producers than Brosnan ever was - he even co-produced SPECTRE which is a first in the franchise. I've read that Cubby and Harry shot down one of Connery's similar proposals.
Pretty much what I was suggesting earlier, but it's always ignored.
That and I think for some reason Babs just didn't like Pierce as Bond. I could be wrong but that's just my feeling.
Well she certainly didn't champion his cause to become Bond,but Cubby had the last say for GE,so you could be right.
Daniel Craig.
Yep it was Cubbys last Big doing in the Bond world to sign Pierce. The contract was sign with Cubby. Pierce had 1 contract his whole Bond run. It's funny cause his 4th film was an option one.
How does the option one work? I know pierce could say no if he wanted too but what would happen if Pierce wanted to do the 4th film but Babs said no?
Dalton had walked by then,she backed Sean Bean for the role but Cubby chose Brosnan and Bean was handed the villain role instead.
Someone can correct me on this because I'm just theorizing based on my understanding of contract law.
That's how I see it....its in place to protect the actor.
Yeah from what I can gather Brosnan was always vocal about the direction he wanted the films to go in (iirc it was him wanting Bond to have a more meaningful love interest that resulted in the Paris character). Even pre CR, when he was still in the picture, he was vocal about wanting a grittier Bond. But for whatever reason they didn't listen to him like they do to Craig so he just did the best to sell what they gave him.
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/james-bond-007/news/a827591/pierce-brosnan-james-bond-regret-007/
"I wanted Bond to get a little more gritty and real and down and dirty, but however you try to nurse it along, the scripts would come along with the same outlandish scenarios"
Emphasis on "however you try to nurse it along". He gets a lot of criticism for sitting by and not doing anything about the poor material but he was probably a lot more vocal than his detractors give him credit for imo. He's just an actor at the end of the day. Can't help it if they don't listen to him. And I think this being because he was Cubby's choice rather than Babs and MGW would make sense.
Cubby had good taste.
Brosnan should have negatioated 5 films with Cubby. I'm sure he wouldn't have mind an actor committed to several films
Less so in boyfriends
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1068195/Why-did-I-split-Barbara-Broccoli-She-tried-buy-180-000-Aston-Martin-TV-chef-James-Martin.html