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100% agree. Ritchie is a one trick pony.
They weren't asking for advice, they were making a suggestion...
Liking Man from UNCLE depends on your type of humour. It either appeals to you or it doesn't.
Same as Martin Campbell pre-Goldeneye, or Craig pre-CR (imo). People of brilliance (Mendes) can still deliver sub-par films as we've seen.
Yes, and I don't even particularly like Ritchie's style of filmmaking.
Someone like Zack Snyder? Wholeheartedly agree.
Thank goodness 'most' Bond actors choose to bring their own spin to the beloved character rather than recycling what someone else did better before.
Uncle was an interesting one. I had absolutely zero expectations. In fact, if anything, I expected to hate it.
Sadly, and I hate to say it, I enjoyed it far more than SPECTRE.
There were some great moments. Great pacing. Atmosphere, wardrobe and art direction were spot on. Great sequences and some sly humour (Cavill tucking into the gourmet picnic basket and enjoying a fine wine as Hammer gets his arse kicked). Cool soundtrack too.
Sure, it was a little campy (intentionally so). But you know what? I walked out of the theatre having ENJOYED the experience.
I walked into the cinema expecting to love SPECTRE. I walked out feeling completely disappointed.
The writing in SPECTRE is absolutely atrocious.
For christ sake's - how could they possibly waste Christoph Waltz so horribly? Now there's an actor that can handle dialogue. Just watch him in the opening 20 minutes of Inglorious Basterds. A masterclass in screen magnetism. With the right script, the man can make magic.
In fact, it would be interesting to see Tarantino write a Bond script. His ability to craft tension, subtext and powerplay into dialogue is unsurpassed. I'm suprised so many people hate the idea of him having anything to do with Bond on this forum... though some people would love to see Aiden Turner take the role (vomit)... so there's no accounting for taste...
Ok...
Still no news and there won't be any soon. 2018 is highly unrealistic.
As for a possible release date summer 2019. I think it is not that important what the competition is but what Bond 25 will have cost.
Bond 25 must scale back on the cost.
That's imperative.
If they have a budget of 150 million all things considered (tax-cuts, sponsoring, marketing costs etc) then Bond 25 will be a huge financial success, that is pretty much guaranteed. If it makes 650 million which is set in stone obviously that's a whopping raise in ROI compared to the last 4 films. Imagine it would make another 850 million...
Less is more, EON is caught in the dangerous spiral of making every new film even more expensive as they error in thinking "bigger=better".
If the director, the cast and the script are good or even brilliant, it will be another classic for the ages even if the budget was only 150 million.
I have yet to see Cavill show me once that he can do that. I was a huge proponent of his prior to Craig's casting, but I now realize that Babs made the right call, reportedly disagreeing with both Campbell & Wilson.
As for @Gustav_Graves 's fantasy of a Formula 1 setting, here are my two cents.
I can see it in terms of a depiction of a cultural event, which serves as a background setting for something in the plot. To make it less abstract: something like the sumo wrestling in YOLT, Nic Nac's peanut scene in TMWTGG or, briefly, the horse race in Siena in QOS. Or, to keep it relevant and up to date, perhaps a terrorist attack at, let's say, the famous Monaco or Abu Dhabi race circuits. I can't possibly imagine a full Formula One themed Bond movie, because the subject seems way too niche.
I think too often we forget that Bond is a sportingman. In almost every Fleming book, Bond has an interest in sport and plays a game - cards, golf, horse racing, you name it. That has been forgotten once they ran out of Fleming books, or after Albert Broccoli died. The films since then have focused just on action and espionage... and have forgot to include a taste of sports and gambling, the thrill of the win, the ruffle of the cards, the thrill of a winning bet.
So why not bring back some sports focus. Now Bond is a unique lone wolf and would not play a team sport like rugby. So that limits us to solitary pursuits... and motor racing is one of them.
Particularly in the books Bond is a lover of cars and has plenty of spare cash to splash around on fixing them up. Maybe not Formula 1, but Bond could compete in a classic car rally for his own pleasure... but of course he stumbles into some intrigue on the track in true Bondian fashion...
For what?
Stunt Coordinator?
:-? ...maybe.
I'm just kidding. I actually like Apted but not so much his Bond effort.
Call me a fan of the Uncle movie then. Ritchie gets props for that.
As for who is to direct the next Bond film, colour me uninvested actually.
My inclination to declare a good Bond director really doesn't manifest until the director has got one film under his belt.
So in that spirit I nominate Ritchie for Uncle Part 2. He crafted I think, a smart, fresh take on the iconic tv-movie series.
I think the main problem people have with Tarantino is the man's own ego. His ideas and style would clash with Eon's principles (Yes I've set you up for a good jibe at Eon there, be my guest). As a director he wouldn't want to work to the expected deadlines.
His behaviour is erratic and he could easily pull out of the movie at the 11th hour.
He would probably insist on 'Quentin Tarantino's **th Film'.
And, as a writer would he really give us a great Bond film just because he can deliver 20 minute scenes of pulsating dialogue? He writes well for street wise American characters, but Bond is a different kettle of fish. And an audience expects different things from a Bond film than a Tarantino film.
Also, his movie tricks are starting to become predictable. You may say (and you have) that they have been re-making the same Bond films for 50 years. Well Tarantino has started to remake his own films as well.
The control room and MI6 finale 'one on one' with Bond were lacking the sort of spark that characterized the Bardem/Bond opening scene (and that one could have easily been from Tarantino).
I 100% agree with this. Tarantino knows how to create and frame a scene bursting with energy, whether it be quiet or explosive; the man knows how to create a scene.
The basement scene in IB, the dinner scene in D'Jango, the majority of every character interaction in the hateful 8, the apartment scene between Jules and Brad in PF and pretty much everything in RD is more than enough proof that he could give a Bond movie the best and most memorable scenes in the series. Just imagine his take on the SP meeting scene and the control room/torture scenes. Heaven help EoN if Tarantino comes out with his own spy film.
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I can't see her being either, but it is an interesting prospect. Personally, I think starring in and singing the theme is a bit of overkill. But maybe there is someone out there who could nail both.
It got me thinking and I am absolutely certain that I don't Mendes back ever again. He wastes Bond girls (love interests) like no other. Turkish girl was wasted; Severine was wasted, Estrella...wasted; Madeline horribly used and yes, wasted...Monica freakin' Bellucci; wasted!
If Mendes does return my heart will sink. It wouldn't even matter who the Bond girl is, she'd be, that's right, wasted.