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Since a couple of months a go i thinking about:
Neal Pervis and Robert Wade, Jez Butterworth and Chris Marrs Piliero.
Piliero Wrote and directed Britney Spears videoclip Criminal in 2011 and video clip having a bit of Skyfall style and in 2014 he made some short/comercial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Marrs_Piliero
If writing movie going to far, mabey atleast then titlesong and writing/directing title song videoclip.
Like i said before with Daniel Craig era i don't mind Britney Spears doing a Bond song.
It not be first time some kind of videoclip writer working on Bond. With Tomorrow Never Dies Mobey and David Arnold making version on the Bond theme. Also Paul Oakenfold and Die Another Day.
In all honesty, I don't expect Bond to be a serious epic drama but it needs to have some innovation and refinement rather than just go the Hollywood action route.
Another Berkeley Mather, Roald Dahl or George Macdonald Fraser perhaps? Not a bad idea, I would say.
He also wrote this English movie
There also make tv series of another book of him:
I think that Anthony Horowitz should get the chance to write a screenplay, or adapt his novels for the screen. I know he wants Bond set in the past, but Fleming’s books weren’t period pieces for their time either. Forever and a Day would be a great starting point for a new Bond actor. Same with Carte Blanche. RUNS FOR COVER. One of my guilty pleasures is big ensemble casts, and CB doesn’t disappoint me with characters that could be used for future stories.
Minetoo but if he gets the job I am sending him the short tory compendium Quantum of solace with all the short stories and highlighting full passages and parts that ddnt get filmed yet ;)
Haha sounds like a plan mate
@Jordo007 and @Risico007 : fantastic! It just so happens I’ve put a petition together to submit to EoN and convince them that I should be the next writer! I’ve placed both of you on the list (the list that only has two names…).
In all seriousness, it would be a challenging gig for any writer (and one where you definitely wouldn’t be able to satisfy all the people. Those that aren’t satisfied would certainly fire arrows your way, 😂!).
Just use the short stories The Hildebrand rarity and From a View to a Kill as a film plot and we will be fine :)
Pheobe Waller Bridge. I know it’s hard to pinpoint what she contributed to No Time to Die, but what we do know is that she had a lot of input into the scenes with Paloma, and even the film’s detractors seem to agree that was a highlight. She’s great with character and funny, zippy dialogue, without ever coming across as too clever clever and snarky. I don’t think plotting is really her strength, the first season of Killing Eve was by far the best one, but it did get weaker towards the end. So, might be best to have other writers on the back burner to help in that area. But I still think she could deliver something fun and fresh, and I’d like to see what she could do with a Bond film that was her own story.
Mark Gattiss and Steven Moffat. Gattiss is a big Bond fan who knows his Fleming, Moffat is one of the most imaginative and high concept writers working, and both are great at coming up with funny, snappy bits of dialogue. I’m surprised neither have jumped to films too, because I think shorter form storytelling could suit them a lot better. The weakest part of Moffat’s Doctor Who was the series arcs, and Sherlock went off the rails by the end. But if they were tasked with delivering a tightly plotted standalone blockbuster, then I think they could nail it. They could get Edgar Wright to help too, and have him direct. I think they’d work well together.
Armando Ianuccci. An unconventional choice, because he hasn’t really done any sort of action/adventure stuff before. But he’s a brilliant and versatile writer, and I’d like to see something with a bit more real world relevance again next time around. I don’t just mean the same old drab surveillance state/is Bond still relevant themes either. I mean something like a villain who’s parodying some real world figure, or some sort of political satire. I think he could be the man to deliver that. In a similar vein, maybe Jesse Armstrong? His Murdoch stand in is much better than TND’s (and so was Steven Moffat’s, come to think of it).
Paul Schrader. A prestigious name who’s still on top form (I really loved First Reformed, and the Card Counter is meant to be good too). Only thing is, would he deliver something quite heavy emotionally? I think he’d be attracted to exploring the moral implications of Bond’s job, and the psychological consequences, and we’ve had a lot of that lately. I‘m hoping for something a bit less introspective next time.
Quentin Tarantino. Won’t happen obviously, but a man can dream.
Any other suggestions? I don’t mind Purvis and Wade, they’re solid and dependable, but I do think they’ve been repeating themselves a bit in recent years, and I’d like some fresh blood with a strong new feeling voice. Waller Bridge bought that to NTTD’s rewrites, but it’d be cool to have that from day one this time.
For Rami Malek he comes to late, Malek also get a part in The Master. Whyle of course there can do FRWL (Where there connected the previous villian Dr No with Spectre) but then with showing flashbacks to Safin to refeal more about his chacter by another chacter. I sugest in another thread to connected Safin with with Mystery Quantum member/You Know My Name and let him refeald as real guy behind everthing (Safin just be played by him to get ridd of Spectre.) with Hinx return (As there did with Jaws in Moonraker). Besides using Quantum symbol (Use at theater play in QOS) there can even consider
Poster earler:
Sean Durkin
Martin Amis
Daniel Waters
Richard Curtis/Emma Freud
David Mamet
Shane Black
Jesse Armstrong
Tom Cain
Tom Bradby
John Grisham
Peter Morgan
Aron Sorkin
JK Rowling
In a wild dream, Aaron Sorkin is writing my favourite Bond film. What I love about Sorkin is that he excels at dialogue, which is always intelligent, witty and tremendously kinetic in his voice. I'm sure he would give Bond killer one-liners. But another writer would have to come in for the spy and action stuff, I'm sure.
Christopher McQuarrie, would be a dream but I doubt it'll happen
Cary Fukunaga again, with a clean slate would be great
And of course @peter
David Koepp
Dan Brown
Russell T Davies
Eric Van Lustbader
Andy McNabb
Charlie Higson
Brian Freeman
Tony Gilroy
What about Anthony Horrowitz? He's doing a good job with the books.
Tony Gilroy
Billy Ray
Brian Helgeland
He wrote quite a decent Fleming pastiche/mickey take for one of his articles many years ago I recall.
I’m not sure if it’d work either to be honest, doesn’t seem his gig at all, but to play devil’s advocate, sometimes getting an “outsider” perspective can be interesting. Peter Morgan’s a republican who’s made lots of interesting stuff around the Royal Family for example, because he finds that whole circus fascinating.
Don’t think I’d want that next time though. I think the Craig era has done enough critiquing and deconstructing, time for something fresh. Horowitz could be good, as long as they don’t let him do another origin story. I found that side of Forever and a Day really contrived. Trigger Mortis was great though. There’s even a few bits in that one I wouldn’t mind them using in a film actually, now that the continuation novels seem to be on the table.
Michael Arndt
Ben Elton
David Hare
Bruce Feirstein
David Webb peoples
Oliver Stone
Steven Zaillian
Michael Schiffer
David Goyer
Antonia Fraser
Rona Munro
Ian Briggs
Daniel Petrie jr
I'd say likewise for the suggestion of Martin Amis as a future Bond author too. Although he's the son of our own Sir Kingsley Amis and a highly successful author in his own right, he once said* that he'd only write a Bond novel if he'd suffered from some kind of brain aneurysm or brain injury. However, he also revealed that as a teenager he'd helped his father think up potential Bond girl names for his father's book The Book of Bond or Every Man His Own 007 (1965). He offered critiques to his father on the writing in Colonel Sun (1968). He does seem to take a rather snobbish approach to the idea of writing a Bond novel, rather like how Sebastian Faulks talked about the literary Bond in press and TV interviews as part of the publicity for the Fleming centenary Bond novel Devil May Care (2008). No future Bond author (or past one, for that matter) should think that the material is below them.
I think that the next author should be someone who is not only a great writer but also a fan of Ian Fleming and James Bond. A great writer with a good depth of knowledge of Bond should be the basic entry requirements for the role of Bond continuation author. One thriller writer I'm surprised that they haven't approached before is Ken Follett. He is a literary Bond fan and he certainly knows his stuff.
* On Amis, Amis and Bond, (BBC Radio 4, 17 July 2007).
You don't think there's any difference between Sherlock and Bond from a script point of view? Really?
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