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You do it, you're a shoe in for that. Ha.
I would have zero interest in it, I've seen him and don't need to dreamily stare into his eyes constantly.
It's definitely a possibility. The primary concern is that streaming services haven't consistently handled major acquisitions effectively. I would have preferred if HBO had acquired the Bond series, to be honest. If Bond had to go to streaming, at least HBO has done things I like. But this is all highly subjective, so I'll leave it at that.
Yeah they are a bit more creative. Or Apple to be honest, their quality stays pretty high (ignoring that awful De Anas spy movie thing).
I wonder if we'll stop getting all of these dreadful processed movies where someone learns that someone in their family has been a superspy all this time now that one of the streamers has the definitive superspy.
I endorse this post ;) Very well put.
Question, and this one comes from a Babs defender and fan (well, not since yesterday's decision. I'm genuinely angry with her, and no one can change that, I thought she was an Iron Lady. Her decision left me truly disappointed). But this is the question. How will we react, as a bunch, if Amazon surprises with some sort of GE or CR? Hiring the right folk, taking on some good writers, caring for the property because they want to, at least, get things going well for their golden goose? I mean, what if we get surprised? Daniel Craig showed us that expectations can be subverted all the way. So, why not try and steer ourselves into some positivism and try to voice our opinions on how this SHOULD work? Because you can bet there'll be corporate and artistic people from Amazon looking at us and to our opinions now.
One thing that everyone always answered me for years when I complained about the producers was that "they didn't owe us anything", I guess that yes, that sentiment was exactly right. They didn't owe us to endure, to not cave in to the money mongers. Money is the world's only ruler now. It always ruled, but amongst other things, like principles, and ideals. Now, there's only money. And it ruins everything, because to make money you have to please them all, and there's just no pleasing them all.
Also, I recommend everybody to go listen to Calvin Dyson and the Bond experience live stream. They did last night. They make a lot of good points on this Amazon Bond decision.
True, Amazon is a better home for Bond than Disney or Netflix.
Could you paraphrase?
That is not on her defense. Quite the contrary, since for years they have build the notion it was a family business, and that, given that particular, nature, it was as close to their hearts as family itself is. They’ve just sold a relative for a billion, a loving relative at that. Tiredness isn’t a good excuse either, most of us have even more tiresome jobs, and are payed bellow our achievments and worth. It’s all just very disappointing, no way around that.
That being said, we should now elaborate on how this new scenario can work.
Had to log in after 4 years or so away to express my displeasure.
There's already speculation that Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas could be brought in to produce the films. In the past it never made sense, because them and EON would be stepping on eachothers toes, but that's no longer a problem. People also want Johnathon Nolan involved since he is already affiliated with Amazon.
Chris has bigger things going on and a contract with another major studio. As producers? Maybe. Now, Johnathan Nolan would be truly interesting.
The film releases July 2026.
I'd watch it.
Your views don't necesarily allign with "people"'s one
That means they could probably get him for a November 2027 release for Bond 26 at the earliest
But obviously we're in uncharted waters. Maybe Amazon will go down the route of giving very established directors a good deal of creative control from film to film (although it remains to be seen in practice). So we'll see.
I can't see them waiting 2 years to start production.
Also, based on what they did with the other IPs (Ryan, Reacher, etc) I can see they focusing on a big name to star, not on a big one to direct.
Well if we're assuming that Amazon is basing it's decisions on Algorthims, then at least in theory they should be far less likely to have story/character disagreements with Nolan than Barbara was, because she was so invested in each aspect.
Agreed. As much as I dislike Amazon, at least their products don't look cheap. Most of the Star Wars shows look very cheap (Kenobi, Acolyte, even The Mandalorian at times) and most of Netflix products do too, with the exception of Stranger Things. The Boys has some poor writing but at least the CGI and the sets look on point.
Besides, one of the worst thing about Disney's Star Wars is how everything gets... watered down. Look at all the self-aware Marvel-stlye humor, and the villains are cheaper versions of what we encountered before. Boba Fett was a cool assassin bounty hunter in the original trilogy and even more so in EU, then they made a show about him and he was just a poor idiot who wandered aimlessly around.
It's that's true, then Martin Campbell can be expecting a call in the next few days. He's about the only director available on such short notice, everyone is busy.