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There wouldn't have been many surprises if you had. Hopefully next time around, people will have a bit more respect and keep it to one spoiler heavy thread. I think it's fair enough if people want to do that, personally I think it's bordline mental, but each to their own.
The main problem this time was people popping up in threads where some of us were hypothesising, and chiming in with 'Well I know what happens, who wants to know?' or 'We know you're wrong because of the clapperboards'. This takes all the fun out of speculating and got really, incredibly tiresome. Some idiots, who've since left (obviously) made it their business to just respond to these speculation threads with hard facts, which was even worse.
@RC7 Exactly. I was speculating about how I hoped there would be a big finale on Silva's island and some arsehole chimed in with "you haven't been reading the clapperboard thread have you?"
If people want to ruin the film for themselves then fine but please don't ruin it the rest of us.
Yep which is one of the reasons why I avoided the clapper board thread. Some people were clamoring to get a hold of the script and storyboards too. It's crazy and @RC7 is right, you had some a-holes running around dropping spoiler bombs in various threads just to show how much they knew. Star Wars fans were never this bad and that's saying something.
Yep, no more activity from VeryBond here since Nov 2012 for instance. Now he knows less than many instead of more...
When I was part of those running the French fan club in the early 90's, I knew everything about Goldeneye well before it hit the screen, from the final action scene to the DB5 cameo, we knew people on set etc... It indeed spoiled it for me in the end. I've been since on sets of French movies, and it's indeed fun to be there in the making process, but just being spoiled, and not being on set oneself, is actually the least exciting thing to be I found out.
Now for instance for SF I simply left the forum while it was becoming too spoilerish (but VeryBond had time to manage to ruin some parts for me for posting in unexpected threads the spoilers...). Next time I'll try to be even more away from it. And when I come back, I guess some will call me "newcomer" again :)
I was quite lucky to escape most spoilers save two - what Skyfall itself was and the fact that the end of the movie took place there, and the death of M. The death of M was something that certain posters were so...joyful about that it was easy to think that it was merely wishful thinking on their part (these were posters who had a near-misogynistic anger that Bond's boss was a woman or that Barbara Broccoli had "infected" the films with her "feminist agenda"). So when the shootout at the parliamentary hearing took place I was surprised that M *didn't* die; in fact at that point I thought, okay, I guess she does live to be in the next film. But as soon as I saw that she was wounded at Skyfall Lodge then I knew she was gone - which, I think, anyone watching the film would guess whether they knew any spoilers or not.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02-19/skyfall-star-ben-whishaw-daniel-craig-and-i-will-be-back-together-in-about-ten-months
So will Bond 24 be shooting by January 2014?
So yeah right now signs are pointing to a January start date
Let it be January 8->
Actually I was just thinking.. Mendes and Paul Greengrass did that questionnaire together.. perhaps they've pulled him in?
But beyond speculations, they've definitely got a director, meaning we should know very soon what to expect. :)
Any guesses for when we'll hear something official? I say June.
Official.. June.
Baz.. April.
This.
June seems like a good time. EON announced Forster would direct "Bond 22" in June and they also announced that Peter Morgan would help write "Bond 23" in June as well. Doesn't mean anything but it's something to point out
Just a thought
Indeed. It's so odd going from four years of nothing to four years of constant speculation and news. Odd.. but enjoyable. :)
Yes, especially as now that SF is out on DVD I was thinking that the forums would start going into hibernation mode...
And that said They Made Casino Royale and then the (in my opinion) brilliant Quantum of Solace in two years time I think they could do it again.
Okay, I love Taken...but calling it "original"? :))
Please no! Not Hooper :-L
But as we history has taught us the team need a good year to crack the script, and often moving too quickly, while an exciting prospect (as we get another Bond film sooner than later) can lead to a rather rushed release. On the last 2 year cycle we got QOS and you just have to look on these boards to see the general distaste for that film opposed to the slower more deliberated release of something like SF which admiration is sky high for.
The success of Sf has meant that not just any ordinary 'Bond film' will do, it has to be good. The bottom line on why Sf was such a success was that it was a good movie and people were talking about it a lot, the buzz was near deafening. The last thing the prods want is a so-so reaction after the non-precedented critical, award and financial success that was SF. I'm guessing they want that trajectory to keep going up and time is needed to get the story right without a doubt.
Therefore, I think a 2015 date is inevitable and something that should really be embraced. The wait is a small price to pay in order to get a great film.
2014 for Bond 24 is very doable.
OBrady, you make some points but I have to go with Stamper. Yes, the movies were back to back in the 60's and they turned out nicely. It seems that when they have less to work with they get more creative and turn out a better quality product.
That being said, the scope and magnitude of TB right on the heels of GF could never be done today and I just don't know why. With these multi million dollar budgets and with more technology, you would think but no, QoS was rushed and came out two years after CR and it looks rushed and messy. Four years between DAD and CR and look how CR turned out. four years between QoS and SF and look how well that turned out.
I'm also fairly sure that M is now one of the mainplayers. Today were connected to other people more than in the old days. I would think it's the same for secret agents. They also cast another great actor to play M, so they will most likely utilize him more than Bernard Lee and I'm prepared for that.