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Now if I had my way, the role of Moneypenny would always be more traditional than not. I see no reason to change that on an artistic level and agree that it lends to confusion as to her actual role. They can't keep flip-flopping on this, she needs to be much more one role than another so either she's a secretary or a field agent and not some dual purpose character. I definitely do not want to see Moneypenny in car chases and shootouts as we saw in SF anymore than I want those crass and cheesy lines of Sam Bond's "Smuttypenny" to return in it's place. Had enough of both and this is too divergent of the spirit of the character as Fleming wrote her.
That said, I fear the winds of change away from tradition will continue to blow. This started with the hiring of Judi Dench and the expansion of her role as M and we've seen this happen with Moneypenny as well. Now instead of minor character actors playing these minor roles, EON hires movie stars. They command more in the way of salary and like any business, their paycheck must be earned. There is no way that they will be satisfied with Naomie Harris limited to one or two traditional scenes. Same as Whishaw and that goes double for Fiennes who probably does get double what they get in salary. So while I'm disheartened to hear Mendes muse what he has, I'm not surprised by it. Not one bit. @OBrady's response to @Wizard in his 2nd paragraph is going to be the new standard for the old formula and what @Wizard wants, as much as I'd also enjoy, isn't ever going to happen.
Except Felix?
But yes, keep Moneypenny in the office. That's what she does. That's who she is.
My inner pessimist is coming out and making me think that they're going to go too far into the introspective/do things differently/explore his motivations, and really mess up the classic stuff. Then they'll overcompensate for Bond 25 and make it too over the top and the Bond series will be on the wane yet again.
To have three consecutive films with Bond having to deal mainly with personal problems is much more absurd, as is the wish of many fans to have Chris Nolan make a Bond film, which would most probably again deal with personal issues of the protagonist.
After having re-installed all those traditional elements like MP as M´s secretary, male M in traditional office, and Q, it would be really absurd to drop one or more of those ideas again immediately in the next film. It would make large amounts of SF´s story redundant. That has nothing to do with fan boy fantasies.
He shouldn´t envision too much at all as far as side characters are concerned. He should envision a rich adventure for Bond. How can one creatively improvise on a building if the foundation isn´t solid? I enjoy very much the team appearance of the Enterprise crew, but Bond films are Bond films, and not MI6 films. Or are they?
You are a fan and want this kind of thing but Craig's Bond is unlikely to appear in a GF, TB, his films are more likely to be like OHMSS, I'm not saying I like this more personal and anguished take on 007 but SF was huge, I don't think they'll drop that for the sake of a few fans grumblings when the masses lapped it up.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/13/the-orphanages-ja-bayona-to-direct-sam-mendes-and-john-logans-penny-dreadful/
Which means he will be free much earlier than antecipated (Penny Dreadful was supposed to start filming in September). Good find @Pierce2Daniel!
This is very encouraging news. Does this mean 2014 might still be on?
This will give Mendes enough time to iron out a few things with the script if it needs tweaking and other preliminary logistics for an early 2014 shoot. Come on Mendes, you complimented Greengrass for surpassing supremacy with ultimatum, do the sane cot dammit and give us something more exciting and something to fist punch the air with Bond 24.
Very good find and very encouraging news indeed! Hopefully after the weekend we may get more hints as to what is going to happen? Especially as Charlie would have then opened to the public! :-bd
Next month could be what we've all been waiting for.
In an age of Islamic terrorists who think nothing of blowing up skyscrapers and hacking people to death on city streets in broad daylight; in an age of nuclear proliferation into that Islamic world (viz Iran), now more than ever is the time for a Bond who "saves the world." The world in 2013 is more dangerous than it was in 1963.
As for Moneypenny, I don't want her to be the new Felix Leiter, and I trust Mendes (and Micolli) are not foolish enough to go that route.
Didn't see it that way at all. Virtually all of SF was highly traditional and very reverential toward the past. Even the denouement signaled the return of a traditional Bond. The destruction of the DB was not symbolic, it was a plot device to enhance Silva's villainy and Bond's rage.
I find these recent developments, short of some word from Mendes and EON that contradicts them, to be a solid indicator that a 2014 release is still quite possible. It's very telling that Mendes has dropped out of several projects that could have compromised him directing BOND24 early next year.
I know that @Samuel001 has mentioned dates allotted for film releases and indicated November 2015 as still being available, but I can see that changed very quickly (and the studios can and I have seen them so do before) if this film starting shooting early in 2014. There's absolutely no way it will stay in the "can" for a year or more, the series is way too big at this point in time and people simply won't stand for it. It would make even less sense the way secret details leak out now. They'll rearrange release dates to accommodate the new film, especially given SF's huge box office.
Absolutely.
And after SF Bond is a behemoth for other films to shy away from. If EON say its Nov 14 then its for other films to worry about and change their release dates.
However, I "fear" that what @battleshipgrey suggested might be possible too, ie this:
"I took it as returning familiar elements from the Bond films of old and ushering them into the new era of Bond."
I use scare quotes for "fear" as even if this is the case, it could still be a good film, despite not being what I would prefer.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=105661
"Morten Tyldum to Direct Ghostman
Source: Deadline , Roger Hobbs
June 20, 2013
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Headhunters director Morten Tyldum is set to helm the upcoming Warner Bros. adaptation of Roger Hobbs recent novel Ghostman. Published earlier this year, the crime thriller is officially described as follows:
When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from "Jack." Only thirty or so people are sure this man exists, some believe he's dead, and none know anything at all about his true identity. Those are closely guarded trade secrets, to say the least, for an exceptionally trained, experienced, and talented criminal. But as he struggles to clean up the mess left in the wake of the bungled Atlantic City heist, he finds himself increasingly more visible as he's pursued simultaneously by the FBI and other interested, if mysteriously elusive, parties--a situation that requires every gram of his skill, ingenuity, and self-protective instincts, especially when offense and defense become meaningless terms.
Tyldum will soon make his English-language debut with the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game. Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley are both attached to star.
The feature film version will work from an adapted screenplay by Peter Craig with Kevin McCormick producing through his Langley Park Pictures."
I suspect EoN are moving things forward on the quiet and waiting for the majority of the summer tentpole movies to die down before releasing updates on Bond 24.
Agreed. TSWLM changed the whole concept of the PTS.
I think the whole point of a PTS is to grab the audience from the start, and a PTS without Bond would be much less exciting.
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/21891/20130620/james-bond-24-news-update-daniel-radcliffe-next-villain.htm
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I certainly wouldn't want Raddy anywhere near Bond, but I do wonder if a boy wonder would make for a unique and effective Bond villain. Looking back, none of the Bond villains have been extremely young, and I daresay only Elektra was younger than Bond, and she inherited her villainy rather than earning it. What about some mad, boy genius in his early twenties as a villain? It's a thought, anyway.
I don't know what is more sad, the fact that a website would take a comment from Radcliffe to mean he is going to be the next Bond villain or the fact that some fans would get so lathered up about they are going to commit.
Is this murder or suicide?