James Bonds 60th Anniversary year. What would you like to see?

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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Dwayne wrote: »
    Excellent points @MaxCasino. And, yes, I've also heard that GL and PB are not the best of friends.

    You probably already have this, but in case you don't: Cinema Retro put together a DN "Making Of" publication back in 2012. I think they still have a few copies in stock.
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    http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6888-COMING-IN-OCTOBER-2012-CINEMA-RETROS-MOVIE-CLASSICS-PRESENTS-DR.-NO-SPECIAL-EDITION-ISSUE!.html

    Thank you @Dwayne!

    Another thing that I would like to see if anything is TD and DC talk about Bond, as their portrayals are similar. I know they are both private men, but they are both the closest to the original Bond in Ian Fleming’s books.

    I would also like to see a possible villain spinoff, arguably of Goldfinger or Blofeld. I’m writing my own versions, if IFP is interested!

    In terms of Bond 26, I think a director and a script confirmation would be nice.

    If they remaster GE, they should remaster EA’s run from TND to FRWL.

    Above all, publishers really need to publish GL ‘s autobiography, The Other Fella. It was scheduled to be released in hardcover by Century in 2013, and in paperback by Arrow in 2013, but as of now the book has not been released.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Scaramanga is the guy for a villain spin-off I think, as he’s closest to being Bond.
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
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    I'd love to see more deleted scenes from the films, especially the Brosnan and Craig era

    It'd be nice to have a retrospective look at the different eras over the years in a documentary

    Project 007 release date

    In a perfect world, reveal the actor playing Bond #7. Although I think it's too soon for that, I'd rather Eon make the right decision, than rush to cast someone in time for the 60th anniversary
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Another thing that I would like to see is Michael G. Wilson write a book, especially if he retires. He’s the number one person alive who has the most James Bond experience.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    A cage fight between Lazenby and Brosnan.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Another thing that I would like to see is Michael G. Wilson write a book, especially if he retires. He’s the number one person alive who has the most James Bond experience.

    It would be amazing to have a peek inside his memories of the films: all the good stuff I'm sure he can never publish though! :)
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    In addition to the complete collection, I’d also love the HD GoldenEye rumors to come true, get something from the new Project 007 game, and any kind of tidbit regarding Bond 26.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
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    QOS Redux.
  • edited July 2022 Posts: 2,165
    The BFI have announced a weekend of screenings and interviews in London for the 60th anniversary:

    https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=jamesbondat60&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

    Three Craig films at the BFI IMAX - Skyfall, Spectre and NTTD as they already have IMAX versions. NTTD will be the 3D version, first time it will be shown in the UK I believe.

    The BB MGW interview would be interesting. Wonder if they’ll take audience questions. That would be fun 😂
  • I'd love to see a proper Blu Ray or 4k box set with a special edition of Quantum of Solace and Spectre and NTTD released with decent extras and commentaries.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I'd love to see a proper Blu Ray or 4k box set with a special edition of Quantum of Solace and Spectre and NTTD released with decent extras and commentaries.

    A man can dream. I'd love this too but I figure we would've got hints of such a set by now since we're almost in August already.
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    Last week I was surprised to see one of the cinemas near me was showing DN for the anniversary as we in the U.S. aren't getting the rereleases every week. Then I saw the notice on here that Fathom's prints may not be worth the admission price. I noticed on their description they claim the film is 155 minutes and say in the heading its part of the 60th anniversary but on down it mentions the production was from 2022. That doesn't help their case.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Was the DN showing a Fathom Events screening @BT3366?

    I also saw the "do not watch" notice on the MI6 main page but didn't see a Fathom Event listing for DN when I checked. In fact, the only mention of DN was as a "past event" not a current presentation.

    My guess - and that is what it is (a guess) - is that for the US, DN may screen for a day or so around October 5th. Other than that, one off Bond events at the Alamo Drafthouse, for example, is all we are likely to get.

    A pity, but EON seems to view the US market as an after-thought (or at least one gets that impression).
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    I wish this would be released in the US and in 4K. It looks like a great set.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I would love to watch a seance with all six Bonds.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    BT3366 wrote: »

    Thanks @BT3366. I see it now.

    Having DN as a scheduled Fathom Event, helps explain why the NYC Film Forum (as part of their "62-63-64" film series) is only showing FRWL and GF.
  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
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    I wonder if the 60th anniversary will kick into gear at the end of the year?
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited July 2022 Posts: 3,152
    I still want QOS Redux!
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Still “zip” here in the US. I fear that for US fans this anniversary is shaping up as a non-event. :((

    So, with that in mind, I’ll make it an event (a dual event, actually) for my DVD player.

    20 Days (and counting) before the 60th anniversary (October 5th, 1962) of the initial release from two legendary British intuitions.
    ♫…Bond, Bond me do
    You know I love you
    I'll always be true
    So please
    Bond me do
    Whoa, Bond me do…♫
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,976
    Dwayne wrote: »
    Still “zip” here in the US. I fear that for US fans this anniversary is shaping up as a non-event. :((

    So, with that in mind, I’ll make it an event (a dual event, actually) for my DVD player.

    20 Days (and counting) before the 60th anniversary (October 5th, 1962) of the initial release from two legendary British intuitions.
    ♫…Bond, Bond me do
    You know I love you
    I'll always be true
    So please
    Bond me do
    Whoa, Bond me do…♫

    I keep checking local theaters once a week in hopes that we get something, anything, but it seems unlikely at this point, unless we get some rollout in a few weeks alongside James Bond Day.
  • edited September 2022 Posts: 463
    AMC did run Dr. No on a random Sunday a couple of weeks back here in Michigan. I’m thankful I seen the advertisement on the internet or else it would have come and gone without me knowing. But there was only one or two showings.
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    Like several other people I'd love for the 4K remasters of the Bond films to be released on Blu-Ray.

    I'd also like to see a book based on actual access to the EON archives, rather than another oral history. Taschen sort of did this, but the text was subservient to the pictures and limited. EON wouldn't want researchers going through its current papers but there would be no harm letting a researcher view the papers relating to the classic films released between 1962 and 1989, now that all the major personnel are dead.

    I'd also love to get a series of books on the scripts of unmade Bond films, such as the Ben Hecht and Joseph Heller screenplays of Casino Royale, Fleming's Moonraker script, the drafts of the third Dalton film, and the Connery/McClory/Deighton screenplay of Warhead. Throw in a book on the complicated script history of TSWLM, another on DAF (including the early versiond when Bond was still out for revenge, and the later ones with Goldfinger's brother), and maybe one on later films like OP (including the version with Blofeld and Spectre).
  • I want a goldfinger dildo
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Revelator wrote: »
    Like several other people I'd love for the 4K remasters of the Bond films to be released on Blu-Ray.

    I'd also like to see a book based on actual access to the EON archives, rather than another oral history. Taschen sort of did this, but the text was subservient to the pictures and limited. EON wouldn't want researchers going through its current papers but there would be no harm letting a researcher view the papers relating to the classic films released between 1962 and 1989, now that all the major personnel are dead.

    I'd also love to get a series of books on the scripts of unmade Bond films, such as the Ben Hecht and Joseph Heller screenplays of Casino Royale, Fleming's Moonraker script, the drafts of the third Dalton film, and the Connery/McClory/Deighton screenplay of Warhead. Throw in a book on the complicated script history of TSWLM, another on DAF (including the early versiond when Bond was still out for revenge, and the later ones with Goldfinger's brother), and maybe one on later films like OP (including the version with Blofeld and Spectre).

    I agree with your second paragraph. I think the main reason we haven’t seen something like that is because EON still might use those ideas in the future.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Dwayne wrote: »
    Still “zip” here in the US. I fear that for US fans this anniversary is shaping up as a non-event. :((

    So, with that in mind, I’ll make it an event (a dual event, actually) for my DVD player.

    20 Days (and counting) before the 60th anniversary (October 5th, 1962) of the initial release from two legendary British intuitions.
    ♫…Bond, Bond me do
    You know I love you
    I'll always be true
    So please
    Bond me do
    Whoa, Bond me do…♫

    I do think that's a bizarre coincidence which I only heard about relatively recently! :)
  • TheSkyfallen06TheSkyfallen06 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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    I want a goldfinger dildo

    :> :> :>
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 2,847
    mtm wrote: »
    Dwayne wrote: »
    Still “zip” here in the US. I fear that for US fans this anniversary is shaping up as a non-event. :((

    So, with that in mind, I’ll make it an event (a dual event, actually) for my DVD player.

    20 Days (and counting) before the 60th anniversary (October 5th, 1962) of the initial release from two legendary British intuitions.
    ♫…Bond, Bond me do
    You know I love you
    I'll always be true
    So please
    Bond me do
    Whoa, Bond me do…♫

    I do think that's a bizarre coincidence which I only heard about relatively recently! :)

    @mtm. In the run-up to Skyfall (and the 50th anniversary), ABC News in the US actually devoted a long segment to that coincidence, and one of my local newspapers addressed the issue as well.
    https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/october-1962-brought-not-arrival-screen-james-bond-history-book-full-enduring-pop-culture-icons-article-1.1163940

    Recently, author John Higgs wrote an entire book around the belief that October 5th 1962 – and the twin releases – helped define two opposing views on the world. Titled LOVE AND LET DIE, he postulates that James Bond and The Beatles represent two very different things (i.e., Bond is “macho and war”, while The Beatles represent “love and peace”). Needless to say, I don’t agree with him, and as a MASSIVE fan of both, I view the coincidence of them emerging at the same time in history as being the result of a kind of collective desire for a new kind of energy and freedom in pop culture.

    In any case, from this photo you can see that George Harrison really hates Bond, absolutely hates Bond!! In fact, the links between them are fairly large in number, with HELP (1965) serving as a kind of Bond spoof – right down to the riff that composer Ken Thorne inserted on the (US only) soundtrack.

    tumblr_n94mla6mxy1rsc32po3_500.jpg


  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
    edited September 2022 Posts: 3,789
    Dwayne wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Dwayne wrote: »
    Still “zip” here in the US. I fear that for US fans this anniversary is shaping up as a non-event. :((

    So, with that in mind, I’ll make it an event (a dual event, actually) for my DVD player.

    20 Days (and counting) before the 60th anniversary (October 5th, 1962) of the initial release from two legendary British intuitions.
    ♫…Bond, Bond me do
    You know I love you
    I'll always be true
    So please
    Bond me do
    Whoa, Bond me do…♫

    I do think that's a bizarre coincidence which I only heard about relatively recently! :)

    @mtm. In the run-up to Skyfall (and the 50th anniversary), ABC News in the US actually devoted a long segment to that coincidence, and one of my local newspapers addressed the issue as well.
    https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/october-1962-brought-not-arrival-screen-james-bond-history-book-full-enduring-pop-culture-icons-article-1.1163940

    Recently, author John Higgs wrote an entire book around the belief that October 5th 1962 – and the twin releases – helped define two opposing views on the world. Titled LOVE AND LET DIE, he postulates that James Bond and The Beatles represent two very different things (i.e., Bond is “macho and war”, while The Beatles represent “love and peace”). Needless to say, I don’t agree with him, and as a MASSIVE fan of both, I view the coincidence of them emerging at the same time in history as being the result of a kind of collective desire for a new kind of energy and freedom in pop culture.

    In any case, from this photo you can see that George Harrison really hates Bond, absolutely hates Bond!! In fact, the links between them are fairly large in number, with HELP (1965) serving as a kind of Bond spoof – right down to the riff that composer Ken Thorne inserted on the (US only) soundtrack.

    tumblr_n94mla6mxy1rsc32po3_500.jpg




    :)) man, he found Bond disgusting, he really abhorrs Bond.

    He even mocked him with that shirt! See?

    Was it a sign of a protest?

    Oh, George.....

    All of the George I do find fun (George Harrison, George Lazenby, George Cloon- oh sorry!)
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