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Why do you have your job and not a different job?
It about as accurate as some of your other predictions.
Why is it unreasonable to think Nolan is not the best person to direct a Bond film?
That's a strange attitude given Eon made all the films that helped make you a Bond fan. So presumably at one point they had a better understanding of how to make a Bond film and lost it somewhere along the way. What is it that has been lost and when did this happen? And what makes you think Nolan could do better?
Why? That's not a huge gap. They'll be ready when they're ready. Eon are under no obligation to churn them out at the rate they did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
EON has no obligation to do anything. They have no obligation to make another Bond film again. If Barbara Broccoli wanted to, she could announce today that the Bond franchise is finished and that they aren't making another Bond film ever again.
I bet the "EON has no obligation to do X" crowd would very quickly start singing a very different tune then.
'Villains like Jaws or Oddjob are something she would like to see again if they remake an older Bond film.'
As for the hunt for the film's next director, Barbara is said to have set her sights on French Canadian director Villeneuve, who is behind the juggernaut that is Dune Part 1 and 2.
'Barbara Broccoli is very eager for Denis to direct the next Bond,' the source continued.
I’m pretty sure no Bond fan would want that.
But I’d be willing to bet the ‘Veruca Salt style Bond fan would make more noise than anyone.
'It is all in the details and agents and lawyers are going through all the red tape and how many movies Aaron will sign up for,' an insider said.
'It is currently looking to be a three-picture deal with the option of a fourth.
'They have done all the fittings, they have the haircut they have in mind for him, and he's already in tremendous shape.
'Barbara Broccoli and the rest of the producers are going to make a huge deal out of the announcement.'
Thank you
Nolan is very expensive.
We can fansplain all we want why Nolan would be perfect and whatnot, but the intricate machines that are EON and Hollywood are difficult to get a grasp on. Nolan is but one fish in the pond -- a big fish, no doubt about it, but just one. If there's any good reason why he doesn't want to be locked down by EON, or why EON doesn't consider it fruitful to sign him up, then that's it.
EON never worked with Nicolas Roeg, Alfred Hitchcock, Guy Richie, Ken Russell, Terry Gilliam, David Lean, or Ridley Scott. And these are merely British directors. What about Friedkin, Cameron, Spielberg, McTiernan, Zemeckis, and so on? All of these have had "their moment(s)" in film history when it would have made sense, going by the logic I've read in this thread, to hire them. So why didn't that happen, then? Why not "just" hire them? Simple enough, no? "You! You're hired." So why didn't any of these big names end up making a Bond film?
Perhaps EON didn't want them, for a variety of reasons. Perhaps these guys didn't want to, for a variety of reasons. Perhaps someone else made them a better offer (see Spielberg.)
These runaway speculations and this overzealous future-telling aren't bringing us any closer to seeing your wishes fulfilled. Can't we just wait and see what actually happens? It's okay to express hopes and wishes, but some of this has become obsessive lately...
Lucidity! Please repost on every future page, my good friend.
PS: fansplain is a very good neologism ;) Love it. Will use it.
Bring back Goldfinger.
My apologies, it's just that I kept finding new information.
Thanks, @Univex. It has been on my mind for some time. A lot of fansplaining going on these days, about why [insert empty fan speculation sold as hard movie science].
Thank you, now I'm upset I didn't get a David Lean Bond epic followed by a Terry Gilliam Bond crazy fantasy. Could I get Jenny Agutter as a Bond Girl and Peter O'Toole as a mastermind, too?
It could be worse. fans defending Eon all the time.
Ah, the famous Deke Rivers post. Two sentences, if you're lucky, intended to annoy people, with few actual contributions to the ongoing discussion.
Sigh.
I'll bite. Since I've been around here for, let's see now, oh over 18 years longer than you have, let me assure you that not a single member here defends EON "all the time." However, there's criticism and there's criticism. Some people act as if they own EON, as if they could run EON so much better from behind their keyboards than the people who have actually been in the business for decades, and as if EON absolutely wants to disappoint us. Some here insist on telling EON where to go next, on behalf of "us" all. Some, in fact, advocate inviting EON to a table discussion so that we, in our infinite wisdom as fans, could help them make the greatest Bond film ever, since we agree on everything. Countering such utterly pathetic and irrational behaviour is not about defending EON, it's about defending common sense.
At least at this forum. Or else the non Bond fans are a bit like Stacey Sutton at Zorins horse sale.
Amazon has a lot of money. Seriously, I never ever want to hear the argument again that Nolan is too expensive to make a Bond film. That argument has already been destroyed, torn down, demolished, wrecked, shattered like a dozen times.
The lengths some fans go to defend EON no matter what they do really is baffling. Seems like Stockholm syndrome.
It's not the money you have, it's the money you want to spend.
It’s true that Amazon have very deep pockets. But they’re also a business. Why hire Nolan when they can get director X for a fraction of the price?
When has the argument been destroyed and torn to shreds?
Are we talking legitimately or in your opinion?
Would you have considered Martin Campbell suited to direct Bond before GE? Remember that up until then, he had mostly made nudie cuties, cheap dramas and some low-rent action flicks.
Would you have considered Sam Mendes suited to direct Bond before SF? Another director of drama films, crime thrillers and comedies.
Bond directors aren't always people whose resume screams spy flicks. Now, lest we understand one another, I'm a huge Chris Nolan fan. Haven't missed a single one of his films since Memento; saw most of them twice or even thrice in theatres. If Nolan makes the next Bond film, I'll definitely be happy. The one thing I've been saying for months now, however, is that I don't see why we absolutely need Nolan (or Villeneuve) for the series to survive. That's a compulsive behaviour I don't understand. Could he do it? Hell yes. Is he the only one? Hell no.
No, you're missing the point. Some fans dream stuff up, then sell that as hard fact, then turn obsessive over it and will stop at nothing to dismiss every other scenario as less good. Other fans subsequently try to point out that we know nothing at this point, that all of this is speculation in thin air, and that what the future holds may not even be known to the big chiefs themselves. And because said fans try to invite some clarity back into a discussion that's getting awfully lost in tunnel vision, they're accused of "defending EON", which makes zero sense.
Let me ask you: what will you do if Bond 26 is made without Nolan? Will you spend the following months arms crossed, assuring us that the next film will be worse than bad, and slowly work towards a self-fulfilling prophecy? We have seen that, you know. (Even from people who spent months moaning about a Bond film without having seen it.)
Hm. Interesting thesis. I wonder what it means. Please enlighten this forum.