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I wonder who has done the score for it...
“It's anything to put off the day we have someone besides Daniel Craig in the tux, I fear... “
If you actually read my posts, rather than twisting it to fit your narrative, i was saying that from what I’ve heard, not a lot has been happening on B26, certainly not a secret audition and secret casting for one actor.
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About my hibernation question?……….
I agree, to act as if no thought or work has been done on the next incarnation is ludicrous.
How many years would that be already?
Tomorrow it'll be 4 years since filming for NTTD wrapped
Superman: Legacy principal shoot date has been delayed to spring.
More projects have already died and will never see the light of day.
The entire industry has been disrupted, and there is a lot of evidence of these disruptions…
Edit: great article @Mallory and it is one of the only things (along with the Spy Command), that have a reasonable and realistic understanding of the business and why there are delays.
I hope all the members on this site who feel impatient, click this link…
Yes I get this. But at least MI and Superman are work in progress.
I suppose what we would all want to hear as fans is there is a draft script they are working on, but no one has been cast yet, and so there isn't a shoot date yet either. That would at least sound promising.
To say rather dismissively that they haven't even thought about starting the next one yet is what is disappointing fans.
Yeah NTTD had it easy compared to them- it must feel like a cursed set! Covid, strikes, lockdowns, they've had it all. By the time it comes out they'll started shooting five years before!
They can't cast anyone when there's a strike on (I feel like this has been pointed out a few times in this thread! :) ), and as actual work-in-progress films (as you say) are having their release dates pushed back, issuing one for a film which hasn't even started would seem pretty optimistic, no?
She was also promoting the TV show, not talking about the next movie, so probably didn't want to talk about it; what she said about it may not be the entire truth (they tend to only announce directors etc. when they've actually been hired, not before they've finished negotiations etc.); and may well have had her hands tied by some sort of internal situation anyway. There's no need to be disappointed just yet.
They don't care, I mean have there been any good films from British Film Franchises in the last ten years?
Look at Harry Potter and its spin offs Fantastic Beasts, for example.
For me, if there's anyone who should be concerned about this, it's the IFP.
If Lucy Fleming is still in charge, why not have her question Broccoli and Wilson about the state of the Franchise? Well, I'm not expecting, killing Bond doesn't bother her either.
Either not relevant to making films, or just flat-out hyperbolic and untrue exclamations.
They're still in charge with the character too, right? What I'm saying is if who's the one in charge with IFP should question Broccoli and Wilson about these long delays.
Because they still have the rights regarding the James Bond character.
That's my thought.
Think of why the Franchise still couldn't adapt those continuation novels, because the IFP still have the control, think of why they still couldn't adapt TSWLM novel? And I think that's also the reason.
They still have the influence, power and control over the James Bond Franchise.
I'm actually surprised that IFP had no reaction regarding the events of NTTD (killing Bond), so let alone this.
Paddington? Which itself has changed director and taken 6 years to get a release date for the third film which is still going to be another year.
Also IFP have done Young Bond and Sherwood's trilogy, I think they're much more risk taking than EON have been. But yeah given those I don't think killing Bond would've phased them, they've keep plowing on and there's no reason to think EON aren't doing the same.
Bingo.
Read my statement above.
I think due to these factors:
1. Barbara is still looking into the new Hollywood trends, perhaps?
2. Introducing the new Bond actor into this era is really hard, especially which tone are they going? Is it going to be campy? Gritty again? That's another thing.
3. How to keep Bond relevant into this world.
4. Introducing Bond into the new generation of audiences.
5. Barbara Broccoli is busy doing other projects (see Till).
It's hard to blame Barbara Broccoli, it's really hard to think of a new tactic, if it's still in the Craig Era, then it's more easier because people already acknowledged his era, but what we're talking here is introducing the new Bond actor into the role, everything's new: new tone, new style, all is new and different from the Craig Era, and that's the hardest thing: making the new Bond actor's era a distinction from the previous eras, they've tried all the formulas, so they're thinking into something unique and haven't done before.
I'm not sure what you're on about. They have control over what they do with the character themselves to a certain extent but it belongs to Danjaq i.e. EON.
If you open a recent Bond novel you'll see an inscription saying 'James Bond 007 used under licence from Danjaq LLC' - they're not in control of Bond overall at all and have no power, no. However you certainly won't see the IFP name on a Bond film. If anything, EON have the power over them. They can choose to take James Bond away from IFP any time they like. I can well imagine, in fact, that EON have signoff on the novels IFP produce.
EON are resistant to adapting continuation novels because a) there's nothing really crying out to be adapted
b) they'd have to pay adaptation rights which they don't have to do if they come up with a story themselves.
They are separate entities in entirely different mediums….
The quote wasn't the best to be honest, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a white lie on Barbara's part. I doubt they've done no work on Bond 26 whatsoever
Yes indeed, and one owns the character whilst the other just uses it under licence from the other. A licensee has no power over the item which they're effectively renting.