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I'm afraid that I have to 'fess up to loving YOLT as well!
Yes, I feel like a heretic sometimes saying it, but I've always found TB a disappointment, right from the very first time I watched it. I really dislike the PTS with the silly rocket pack. Along with DAF it's my least favourite Connery film. The underwater scenes are sort of impressive (and great music of course) but overall it's a bit dull, isn't it...?
I've heard a thousand times the YOLT is supposed to be Connery bored with the role etc, but really... does it impact my enjoyment of the film? Not at all. So much in it to love.
Nope, Connery. :)) Could you use a Connery slap?
Warner Bros may have finally found its The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I’m hearing that Tom Cruise is in early talks to star in the film that will be directed by Sherlock Holmes helmer Guy Ritchie. If this happens, it would give Cruise another shot at a franchise. He already has Mission: Impossible, which has another installment being developed by Christopher McQuarrie to direct, and I’m told that he will reprise the Jack Reacher role from Lee Child’s books, after the $60 million-budget Jack Reacher grossed more than $215 million worldwide for Paramount and Skydance. Warner Bros began quiet talks with Cruise after he completed All You Need Is Kill with director Doug Liman, which must have turned out pretty strong.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/tom-cruise-eyeing-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e-with-guy-ritchie-at-warner-bros/
I don't find TB dull at all. It has long, slow moments, but they are parts of its charm. In any case, I would take a new TB over a new YOLT at any time. TB was by far the smartest movie. Anyway, to stay on topic, I would rather have a new Terence Young than a new Lewis Gilbert. Gilbert directed three times the same movie. I know things will be repeated and readapted, but that is a lot.
Cruise is on a roll. All these franchises and the man is 51.
I think you've assumed that because Branagh cited TSLWM as being the archetypal Bond picture, a Branagh picture would be a copy. Slightly naive imo. There's a clear difference between inspiration and replication. Branagh is a very clever bloke and an exceptionally talented actor/director.
I do not assume, I simply do not like where he would be getting his influence from. I don't think it would necessarily be a copy of TSWLM, heck I am not sure if Spottiswoode was a fan of YOLT, TSWLM and the others, but TND's plot is very close to it (with a hint of GF for good measure). Yes, Branagh is a clever guy, he is a great director and actor, heck as I said I even enjoyed his Frankenstein, which was unfairly panned IMO. I would have Branagh adapt a Sherlock Holmes story over Guy Ritchie. I would have him adapt an Anthony Burgess novel. And Burgess is my favorite writer (and he also worked on a script of TSWLM). But James Bond, I am not so sure. That said, if he was chosen I would give him a chance, obviously. Hoping to be very wrong about my reserves.
Exactly. The man says he loves TSWLM and the assumption is that he wants to become Lewis Gilbert and remake the exact the same film...? How does that work? I seem to remember Mendes saying he likes LALD - he didn't end up remaking the movie.
As much as I love GF and will always feel it is the best of the series, that scene bothers my sensibilities as well. Way too heavy handed. That may have worked for Fleming's fantasies but not for mine. But I must say that I also don't see how this relates to Severine and the shower scene, except to say that I think the tongue here is firmly placed in your cheek ;)
Reminder to all- Severine's already called Bond "handsome and well dressed" at this point. Geez, these are compliments in most places last time I checked. Also, she has two glasses and champagne ready and waiting for Bond's arrival. She expects him to survive the casino goons or she wouldn't have set a table this way, and seems disappointed he isn't there when the boat casts off. And she's quite comfortable in her bath robe. She LIKES Bond and wants him. So when Bond meets her again in her shower, where's the Pussy-like resistance? That's right, there isn't any because they want each other. They exchange quips and get on with their desire, knowing it could quite possibly be their last moment of earthly pleasure before arriving on Silva's island. And for Severine, it is.
I still wish it hadn't been written this way, Marlohe is so hot and did such a great job for the short time she was there, she was the perfect girl to save. Hopefully the new director will have Bond shagging a woman in the end, it's time we got back to that as the norm rather than the exception.
Firstly I do not assume. I just don't share Branagh's view of the perfect Bond movie. I would rather have an admirer of Terence Young's Bonds than Lewis Gilbert's for director.
Regarding Mendes, I was somewhat skeptical about him, but because I find American Beauty overrated (maybe THE most overrated movie to earn an Oscar). As a director, I find Kenneth Branagh superior, but I am not certain Branagh is right for Bond. I may be wrong, and if I am proven wrong then I will very happily admit it.
Bond 24 will be out in within three years. With a possibility for a start of shooting at the end of the year.
I think Mendes leaving was a shock I don't doubt that EON can get a director and start filming at the end of this year but its a tought road.
A) not busy with something else (eon has no time to haggale)
B) wants to do it
C) is on EON's radar
I am pretty sure we can think of like 6 names that would work
So Nolan and Boyle are out Ritchie will be 2 Brannagh doesnt seem to be on EON's radar
Tony Gilroy hits all 3
Hooper I think hits all 3 (though the mercury biopic might destroy that)
Joe Wright hits all 3
Ridley Scott (though that is streching it in terms of radar)
Pierre Morrell seems to fit all 3
Thats about it.
I still think Rupert Wyatt has the directing job on the next film.
We will get both soon enough. Any reason why Wyatt?
Ben Affleck next to MGW ,Very Nice to see !
Ang doesn't strike me as the type to make the same mistake twice, that said, I think Bond is a whole different beast (pardon the pun), and with Craig in the role and Logan writing the screenplay, I think Ang would be intrigued.
That'd be superb. As I've said before, he's one of the bestc working today.
He's the American director of choice for me. It's interesting to note his trajectory and how he sees a lot of his early acting roles as being bad decisions on his part. It seems family life has given him the grounding and subsequent springboard to go on and do what he's capable of. Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo are fantastic films in my book. If you'd said to me 10 years ago that Affleck would be one of my favourtie directors I would have laughed in your face. I genuinely think he's better than most of his contemporaries and I think he would 'get' Bond.
He is surprisingly fantastic, who would have guessed? My major concern is that he always seems to find a character for him to play, and usually a major one.