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Well you say that but the truth is this crime against humanity got within a mosquito's erection of being greenlit.
So it makes you wonder if EON really do have a clue what they're doing.
And they'd probably be better actors and more interesting characters to boot!
In all honesty I think I'd rather watch an animated film featuring Q's cats combatting Blofeld's cat.
Better stories too!
I wonder how serious anyone ever was about Jinx's spinoff series. We mainly heard about it when DAD was being promoted and I think only Tamahori and Halle Berry were enthusiastic about it.
I hope we continue having the Bond we all know and love without any type of exhibitions (including gay black female teenage fat psychic Bond)
Yes spinoffs are for "lighter" franchises. Marvel can go with them because the whole source material is made of spinoff and crossovers.
There were other interesting comments from P&W in the book. In particular that the Bond of their script in CR would seemingly have been younger. Initially the idea was that the film’s opening would have seen Bond as a backpacker (or at least posing as one) in Madagascar. He would then have a card game with a character called Two Finger (who was inspired by Lord Lucan) before the Parkour chase.
Even more interesting are the comments that the CR script was initially tailored for Brosnan. The plan was to make a tougher, grittier and edgier film with him. This was something that Brosnan had been promised but apparently he upset the producers with his salary demands.
And someone correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the fate of Brosnan was sealed when they decided to go for CR?
The Jinx script did get everyone excited, but other major films with female leads had flopped, so the studio got cold feet. Pierce2Daniel is right that several of the elements from the Jinx script found their way to CR, when they decided to go for that instead.
From what I know everyone at EON thought this was a great idea and the script had been through several drafts and things were getting quite advanced and it was only someone with a bit of intelligence at the studio refusing to bankroll it that saved us from this abomination.
I'm sold!
The name Jinx, gives it away, as to what would of happened to this film if it had been made.
^ Well one good thing to come out of a Jinx spin-off is how it would help with the government's drive for increased literacy - i.e. "1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2" etc.
Is there any way to get it?
If you live in LA then apparently it's here
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pz5bbw/entire_text/
I don't think it's online anywhere. I'd also really like to read it.
Oh yes, of course. I just mean to point out that the spinoff idea is better than ruining the character, like some SJWs want.
My chosen title for the movie would be "Feast Like There's No Tomorrow", and the theme could be by any techno artist, don't care who, with audio clips of Jinx's lines put into the song. Maybe even have Halle Berry sing the opening theme, I don't know if she has singing talent but she probably does. Music score by David Arnold of course. Bring back Michael Madsen (if he is not in the moment suffering a drug relapse), but no James Bond cameo, let the movie stand mostly on its own.
Maybe Bond 25 can introduce a female side character that can catch on with audiences, and provide a true spin off potential. That would be a most preferable option, rather than tarnishing the legacy of James Bond by recasting him as a woman (which would only be for trendy, political reasons).
A bird with decent tits as the main Bond girl.
Another bird with slightly bigger tits as the secondary Bond girl to be bumped off/femme fatale.
A few birds knocking about in minor roles (tit size variable).
A middle aged mentalist who wants to cause global mayhem and kill loads of people.
A big unit of a bloke who's handy.
And Bond. On his own shagging/fighting (delete as applicable) his way through the lot of them.
It ain't rocket science.
I demand Red Sparrow is male next time.
Quite a few scenes were put into CR I believe.
The airport scene being one of them.
Berry was a big star back in 2002. She had just won an Academy Award and was getting a massive degree of media attention. So it made sense that EON, not only wanted her to play the female lead in a Bond film, but also lead her own series.
This was also around the same time the Bourne films were getting big. The plan was always to produce a $70-80 million gritty spy series with Berry. They wanted Stephen Frears to direct and it was supposedly a pretty good script (it even had Javier Bardem attached!).
However, it was canned after Berry’s star began to quickly diminish. I think her hideous performance in DAD played a role in that, as did Catwoman. Other female-led action films around the same time also underperformed (Aeon Flux and Charlie’s Angles 2), so MGM asked EON to refocus their attention on Bond.
Apparently, this vexed Barbara as she liked the script for Jinx. But P&W decided to lift a lot of ideas from the script and used them in Casino Royale…..which fascinates me. As a Jinx film (based off what we saw in DAD is a terrible idea) but CR was a great film, though much of that greatness came from Paul Haggis/Martin Campbell.