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Seriously, I'd LOVE Bond to come back to Japan! There are some amazing places to film here, gorgeous scenery, unique culture, etc. I wouldn't want a remake of YOLT but a new story set here, yes! And wasn't one of the later Bond novelists set on some island in Japan? I cannot remember. And no matter what, more Watanabe for me.
I for one am not for Bond remakes, let me make that perfectly clear. I am all for using thusfar unused Fleming material from novels already filmed though. There's a brilliant story in MR, the novel, but they left it mostly untouched for the film. Would a differently titled adaptation of MR upset me? Not at all. But it would it be a remake? No, it wouldn't be.
That said, I don't think the parallel holds. Star Wars and LOTR are each episodes of one large story, much more enslaved to nearly perfect continuity than the Bonds. Every detail matters, there's little room for creative freedom as fans leave little oxygen for the filmmakers to go nuts with the established material. The Bonds, however, can be allowed a bit of freedom to try something new. Each film is different from the previous one and few are connected, even in the most subtle of ways. Star Wars and LOTR are very rigorous in many respects. To alter a sacred element is to commit professional suicide. We may have our complaints from time to time, but in the end EON makes the call and we swallow it.
Tom Hardy for my money would be best served as a return to the classic blond henchmen: ala Necros, Kriegler, Hans, etc. We haven't seen that in a while, and it would be a nice homage.
The only caveat to him is that he is too big already, too much of an auteur, and I'm not sure how well that will go over with EON, even though they have loosened the reigns a bit in recent years. I'm just going to hope for the best.
I can see what you are saying DD. I am happy for unused material to be used certainly, and similiar action sequences incorporated into a new movies. But a full blown remake of original movies is a no no for me.
Its quite obvious that Bond is gonna be in situations where he uses a car, bike, boat, plane.....etc. But to repeat an entire story already done, and having to convince a movie studio to finance it? When they could finance a brand new adventure in the series? I would take a new one everytime.
Very much seconded.
Any new film, whether fully original or not, should be substantially different from the existing films. When remakes are the only way to go, they got nowhere left to go...
...unless perhaps in a different medium. As discussed before and in other threads, they could re-adapt the novels into material for a TV series or whatnot, but then totally disconnected from the films. That said, I'm not so sure that a faithful adaptation of the novels would indeed be a remake of any of the films, as most of the films are themselves not very faithful adaptations of Fleming's novels (or no adaptations at all.)
If they turned them to TV? Would you get the big expensive stunt and action sequences too? I would also guess the inevitable comparrisons to the movies both positive and negative would happen too.
Secondly, TV crews can handle quite a bit these days. They seem to be working a lot more efficiently and the results are often of cinematic quality.
If they had a 24 kind of pace and intensity? I could well be interested as i love that show, and look forward to the film when it arrives. :-bd
I agree with your comment. Heath Ledger's performance was fantastic and very memorable. Bond could do with a maniacal over the top villain of similar impact. Both CR and especially QOS have villians that lack the presence of the more memorable villians of the classic Bond films. Time to redress the balance.
I was reading an interview with him in the Empire, and he stated that, after Craig approached him about directing the film, he said he would only do it if he were absolutely sure he could do his absolute best job with the film, and wouldn't for a second consider such a commitment if he knew it wouldn't be the best it could be.
That's what I like to hear.
So Craig approached Nolan? That changes things. Perhaps he is not as keen on the job as I thought.
It is incredible how mjch say Craig seems to have. It must put a lot of strain on him to feel that he has so much responsibility - helping choose directors, working on scripts etc.
Dalton certainly didn't have this kind of input. Apparently he saw the LTK script for the first time 10 days before filming began.
This all sort of makes you wonder what BB and MGW actually do.
Let's not jump to conclusions too fast. BB and MGW still do most of the work but they collaborate with Craig. Connery had some saying in DAF back in the day but in the end, the actor won't get producer's credit just yet. ;-)
Looks like you misread that, Getafix. He meant Craig approached Mendes, not Nolan.
TMWTGG or YOLT yes, but FRWL or OHMSS?
They shouldn't remake any of them. End of.
But, time will tell, and I can't say I'll be too shocked if Hollywood ever decides to remake any of them. Seems to be the approach they take these days: prequels, reboots, remakes, etc.
On topic, I still stand with the thought that Nolan would be an excellent choice to helm a Bond film, but like he says, it would have to be under the right circumstances at the right time.
I also read that Spielberg stated he would have loved to do a Bond film, but he never did, and now, they "can't afford him."
Aren't several of the Bond movies already essentially remakes of themselves though?
I agree that 'remakes' using the same title is not a good idea, but re-using stories and plots is basically what's been going on since the Roger era.
Certainly YOLT-TSWLM-MR, and arguably DAF-DAD. But are these virtual remakes a good thing?