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On paper that might be true. But I seriously think, that Broccoli and Wilson lack the necessary vision to give a straight yes or no to whomever director they have. Each and everyone of their movies in the new millennium is full of " Are you fricking kidding me?!? Get out of my way,run and never look back"moments courtesy of their respectively directors. For example: Brosnan surfing the Tsunami, Craig without the Tuxedo jacket leaning over the casino table like a nouveaux rich Texan oil billionaire during the climax of the poker game, Forster rushing through his 200 millions budget scenery with about 300 mph and Mendes blowing completely up the (probably reasonable logical) script of P&W just because it stroke his fancy.
You need to understand that we also live in the era of social media. Each bit of criticism is enlarged to such a scale, that it sometimes can make or break a movie. Directors can not do just.....nothing. Allthough criticism nowadays is being spread out truly fast, directors can not just ignore that criticism.
For me personally it would be wrong to replace Thomas Newman again for David Arnold. Because don't forget that even David Arnold received lots of criticism for his "unimaginative" scores.
Change is good. Even fast changes sometimes help. But if it's too fast and if the director's decisions become only "reactions to...", and not carefully weighted decisions, then it goes wrong.
So far, I think that's not the case. All of Craig's movies were box office successes, and not just mild ones. No, Craig's film created a new kind of "golden age" for Bond. Perhaps the only real risky move was to fire Pierce Brosnan from his role. But even that I found a ingenious decision afterwards.
So in all honesty I think Babs & Michael's vision to the Craig films really work. Just compare CR/QOS/SF with GE/TND/TWINE/DAD and you can not just say that Babs & Michael lack vision.
What I wanted to say is this: Ask yourself if you are going to a job interview and there are several candidates. Do you really think the candidate with the less impressive CV gets the job? Off course not. The movie business can be as hard as other businesses.
I honestly hope they gun for Martin Campbell back for Bond 25. For sure his last Bond film, and he can finish Craig just as he started him, at the top of his game. Bring Arnold, too.
Great news about Hoytema.
I would have preferred to have Deakins but the man with the name of a Bond villain is great choice.
I trust the team that is part of the movie that will give us another great movie.
The guy wrote out of the blue here it was confirmed just two days before a well respected site breaks the scoop in a similar manner ? For me it's a sign he got some real info, and not just an educated guess, on the contrary...
The world of scoop is weird though : HitFix claims it's confirmed it's Van Hoytema but can't confirm he will use film. Weird, on this forum, we know from Deakins for 4 months now, that Deakins said "All I know is 100% shooting back on film as I know the lab handling it" (on his forum).
http://www.rogerdeakins.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2977
There you go, you can put a scoop on Hitfix, with an actual source anyone can check this time :)
Perhaps Mendes and Hoytema are still debating the format or whether to use multiple formats. Hoytema just used 35mm, 65mm, and IMAX for Nolan's "Interstellar" (which is similar to the approach Nolan and Wally Pfister used for "The Dark Knight Rises").
Before that, Hoytema used the Arri Alexa for "Her" (2013), which is the same digital camera used by Deakins for Skyfall. Hoytema seems to have become more comfortable using digital during the past two years.
It's possible that Bond 24 will use a 35mm/IMAX hybrid or be digital entirely. I guess we will know when the the Bond 24 press conference happens in December.
Bond 24 won't be shot in digital, we have known this for a long time.
We know that if Van Hoytema works on Bond, it's probably not from a decision taken ages ago, as he had a conflict with his most important project, the biggest movie ever in his country with his director friend - that was yet delayed again in the end.
However, when you have to be sure the film laboratory will be ready for you to process all the daily rushes etc.. yes, you have to book them quite in advance. Films labs are part of companies who now are making less and less business (because the mass is going digital), you can't ask them to be very reactive. There are even directors like Spielberg who proposed to fund film factories so they are sure they will still have films and film lab in the next years !
So Deakins knowing 100% for sure the lab has been booked is IMO actually the strongest piece of information of all we heard on the topic (apart from the fact he said he won't return, obviously :) ). But yes there's still the possibility they can cancel everything. It'll be a bad news if a production this big goes digital at the "last minute" though, funders will consider film less and less a reliable business.
I wouldn't mind him doing the Swedish film. There's already another version of the Lionheart Brothers which is considered a Swedish classic. I can understand why do would need more time to get that right. If they are gonna film that in Sweden it will surely be during the summer. So, it would give Hoytema good time to work on Bond 24 from December to May.
* Now playing "Tennyson/Enquiry", and feeling the tension building up towards a climatic attack by Silva and and his henchmen, dressed as the London Metropolitan Police. *
* Re-reading van Hoytema's entire CV in extacy. *
* Me becomes nerdy again :)) 8-} =D> *
jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-326324-le-tournage-du-24eme-james-bond-debutera-en-decembre-prochain.html
Filming will begin on december 6th in Italy, Morocco and Austria. No news on the title still.
And read hear an article that confirms it. Thanks MI6-HQ :-9. http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/history-connery-1965-merchandising?t=&s=&id=03754
Several sources confirmed it to me.
As a film buff and a huge James Bond fan, I have always enoyed his work. He is one of the best cinematographers today. I am so glad Mendes is working with him.
The fact that he has already worked on a spy film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (although it is different than a Bond film), big action sequences in " Interstellar " and worked with several acclaimed filmmakers (Alfredson, Russell, Jonze and recently Nolan ) makes him ideally suited for the "Bond 24" job.
Yeah, let's blame David Arnold for an awful film with a horrid incomplete screenplay, a terrible directing, a cacophonic theme song and an underwhelming cast (aside from Craig, Dench, Giannini and Olga, and three of these were cast in the previous movie).
David Arnold is not responsible as such. That is nonsense, and you know it.
I do blaim Arnold for a rather lacklustre score that IMO was quite forgettable, except for that one mysterious track called "Night At The Opera".
That makes it 1:0 for QoS vs SF, which was simply utterly boring.
The copyright for their "vision" in the Craig era to me seems resting firmly with the guys that pulled of the first season of 24, the makers of the Bourne movies and Nolans take on Batman. Not much credit left for B & W, in my opinion.
I think Arnold was really onto something with his Quantum score, that opening sequence of the PTS is a cracker and I love that cue, love to see it revisited in a later entry one day not unlike what Barry used do with 007.
Now I'm looking forward to Interstellar more than ever. :)
Nothing new in it of course, but since it mentioned MI6 I thought I'd share it.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/latest-james-bond-movie-gets-a-start-date-and-all-the-97677470937.html
As usual, about as substantial as cotton candy. I expect more of the same soon.