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Perhaps, but you have to look at the titles they have used recently,
Casino Royale
Quantum of solace
Skyfall
SPECTRE
Property of a lady
To me, it doesn't sound like it fits in, they should have called octopussy property of a lady, that title could have worked in those films
In anyways, my firm belief is neither The Property of A Lady nor The Hildebrand Rarity will ever be used. Eon twice placed them in the narrative of separate films which to my understanding is their way of saying these won't be used in their series. The former was used in Octopussy as the title in a book articulating the Faberge Egg, while the name "Hildebrand" was provided for the safe house in the third act of Spectre, for which Tanner claims he hasn't heard about. What are they going to make about Hildebrand? That it's a safe house?
The James Bond films will go on for as long as cinema as we know it does, which means for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years more. They are absolutely going to use every last Fleming title, including many of his chapter titles, with the possible exception of an obviously ill-fitting one like 007 in New York. The Hildebrand Rarity and Property of a Lady are joining the film canon. The only question is when?
no , this name mean james bond movies finished
I don't think THR will be used, but not for this reason (they did use The World Is Not Enough after all). It's simply too dull to be a Bond title.
I quite like the idea of using some of Fleming's original book titles, like The Belles Of Hell (the original title for OHMSS) or Mondays Are Hell (LALD) which is a bit quirky, but I do like it.
Love The Belles of Hell, though. It does sound like descriptive of a title and sinister enough. But, 'Mondays' I can imagine being used for a parody story like '007 Strikes Camp' and the likes unofficially published during the sixties. It would be showing Bond heading to work on Mondays and caught in heavy traffic, in order to vent out, he uses his license to break traffic laws by shooting rockets out of his car to clear out the way, much to Q's dismay. ;)
Also the novel itself doesn't feel that far removed from Fleming, so a proper adaptation of it would be the next best thing to adapting some of the unused Fleming material.
hence why when Spectre came out and we were delusionally hopefull of a bond film coming out in 2017 and Craig doing two more personally I would of preffered the following films to end off the Craig era
The Property of a Lady (bond 25) reworking elements of OHMSS and You Only live twice
Blofeld (bond 26) reworking elements of You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun
while Blofeld is not an incredible film title it would work as A) it's recognizable and B) it works in the context of Bond
Yes the title The property of a Lady goes against the Current pattern (with now Odd numbered films being titled after the location of the Finale and Even numbered films talking about both the organization and Bond's emotional state) But patterns be damned it's a cool title and works.
This.
This is true, at one point it will most likely happen. Heck, one day Bond will enter public domain, anyone could do it. It's just that I don't see a Bond movie being called "Property of a Lady" or "The Hildebrand Rarity" in the near future. I like "Risico" a lot though.
A) It's Lazy and uninspired
B) It's going to be ending up being the butt of jokes on the internet due to a certain pronunciation of a ring "Blofeld" has into it, with MAD Magazine already taking the piss on the name long before it's been a considered title. And that's not good for marketing, is it?
No. For me it's about capturing the essence of Fleming, not plundering the specifics of his oeuvre for the sake of it. Personally I feel like Skyfall is a cracking bit of channeling by Wade. It wouldn't be out of place in a Fleming. Spectre on the other hand is completely uninspired.
The title doesn't bother me as much as the content in the film. I would much rather have another LTK, where the title has nothing to do with Fleming, yet the film itself is grounded in the world Fleming wrote - and (more importantly) contains several scenes from the novels.
Whereas giving us a film like QoS or TWINE, which uses a Fleming title or reference, yet there isn't one single scene adapted from the novels, I could do without.
Have the balls EON. You want something different. Then there you go. You don't need a brainstorming session by committee, tossing ideas round left right and centre, waiting to see what P&W can conjure up this time. Just go back to the novels. It's all there, staring you in the face - if only you could be bothered to look.
There are counter-examples, like TWINE. Eventually they will get to R and TPOAL at least.
Trusted agent killed in the line of duty. Honored by the naming of the safe house.
His villainous offspring are up to some mischief.
Other possibilities.
As with Risico or For Your Eyes Only, I could definitely see a Krest-less and Corrector-less adaptation of THR forming a segment of a larger film. Maybe the first leg of the film following the titles. Mrs. Krest perhaps could be an intriguing secondary girl whose ethics Bond questions. I don't see her surviving the film though. She would surely be eliminated, rightly or wrongly, by whomever "Krest" affiliates with / works for, perhaps motivating Bond to go after them. Sounds like it's another renegade Bond tale, haha. Oh well, past renegade Bond flicks have turned out pretty good. Just so long as he's not related to anybody.
Oh that's how I was thinking of it too. Bond on vacation and he unwittingly gets caught in a plot that concerns the fate of England/the world. I too think it would be very refreshing to get a Bond film that thinks outside the formula. Those tend to be my favorites in fact (OHMSS, LTK, TWINE, QOS).