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i didnt even know there was going to be Bourne 4
It's much like the Die Hard series, when the first one was made the entire action film genre took note and changed, action got more explosive, as did the expletives and the gritty violence increased, the gun porn aspect was magnified and the blue collar action hero emerged, but did the next three Die Hard films really add anything new and long lasting to the genre?
I think it's impossible to even guess how much a film that hasn't even been made yet will influence Bond films of the future, but it's an almost certainty as history keeps showing us at some point a new film of some description will come along and have a radical influence on the future of 007.
@forgotmyusername There's no chance a 24 film is released next year. Not without a script being aproved.
Maybe though Jack Bauer will one day have a say in how Bond is done...
Bond influenced Bourne, end of. Bond began decades before Robert Ludlam picked up a pen and the character of Bond redefined the action/adventure genre. Down the years yes Bond has had to reflect trends in order to stay relevent, but no one can say that the name Jason Bourne will move people to head for their local multi plex. The name Bond however? A different thing altogether.
As for the style of action in Bourne. Maybe QoS was similar, but the Bourne movies were not the first movies to shoot action scenes that way either.
The bottom line is, Bond after 50 years will still pull the punters in. All you have to do is put three numbers on the screen - 007 - and you have yourself a hit. What other franchise can say the same?
If they get it wrong, well the mistakes are honest ones. They try again. A long running series like this will have its peaks and troughs for sure. But what they can't do is stand still and try to re-make FRWL over and over. That would be the end. They have to pander to a wider audience than us bunch of anoracs. ;-)
Any snippet of Bond news gets the tabloids twitching. Bourne will not get the same response, so a few years between films and the general public will (hopefully) cool. ;-)
Will Bourne still be about in 40 years? I guess not.
James Bond : First 9 years : 1962 (DN) - 1971 (DAF) = 7 films.
We can see which franchise is stalling, and which producers are desperate to make the franchise spark.
Bourne films are 100+ million to make. They can't come up with the cash that easy, no matter the BO totals, or produce a film that fast. It doesn't work that way now.
Still, I believe DC has a point. 7 films in 7 years, even on a more modest level like Saw, is impressive. [-(
Seriously, here in the US is only grossed $33million and the US is the market where the studio gets the largest % of profits. My point is that audiences did not flock in to see the latest Bond film at the rate of most of the other ones. I guess if the film was not a James Bond film it probably would have done even worse so I guess you do have a point.