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But if it's taken over a year and a half for Craig to decide on returning, there's no way he'll give it another go after filming another one. He's got one more in the tank at most, I'm calling it now. He'll already be 50-51 by the time they start shooting 'Bond 25,' and there's no evidence that hints that 'Bond 26' would follow two years later.
Heh. Aren't you the jumped up popinjay these days, little Tommy? If you post your moronic political opinions in this thread it is my prerogative to refute them. And if you can't handle that, perhaps you should cease and desist or go crying to a mod for surcease.
We are building ourselves up here, when their isn't much to go on. Best to wait until something solid gets announced before jumping the gun. This premature connecting the dots will only end in disappointment.
I'll tell you. The reason is that MGM have been fancying themselves to self-distribute and they reckon the revenue from one more film will be enough to set them up. They are on fragile ground financially and can't wait out another 3 - 5 picture deal.
It's a battle to the death, whichever studio head is left standing at the end wins the rights.
Marc Forster was hired 17 months before Quantum Premiered. They would have to hire a director next month to have the same time that they had with Quantum, a film notorious for it's rushed script/execution. I really don't think it's anything to being getting excited about, or celebrating personally.
I don't think a final Craig film will be like the other last Bond films for the actors where it feels like any other film, and the new Bond disappears to make way for a new one with no explanation to what happened in the interim. The movie will be built to tell a conclusive story that demands a fresh continuity be made afterward, likely at the behest of Craig who has wanted to really do something new and consequential with the character from the beginning. The next script and all the things it could have Bond doing would provide him with a lot of acting meat to send him off on a powerful high, whether it's a more stripped down film, a bit of a blockbuster, or somewhere in between. These films have never been regular, and in each movie EON have pushed people's expectations of what a Bond film could be, stripping it back in CR and QoS while also going for heavy theme and message stories in SF and SP. It's only fitting then that the last film of this Bond would not be like any other, as Craig has always been the experimental 007 of the bunch.
I would personally love to see the character written off in such a way, and have the film feel conclusive enough to be its own story. Then the new era of the next actor can be what it needs to be, but will be a fresh start with a Bond already in action so that EON can have a new approach without feeling a slave to continue Craig's Bond. Dan is such a particular actor and has played such a particular kind of man built to his own quiet but smoldering and sardonic sensibilities that this seems a likely option for me. Much like how it's at times weird to see George trying to play a Connery Bond in OHMSS, it would feel strange to see another man ape Craig. It's best to give Dan the finale he deserves after putting in so much work and commitment in with the character that has spanned over a decade, and allow him to then pass the Bond baton to #7 in a manner that he can go his own way and play his own version of the character like he was able to.
Barbara is a great and understanding collaborator in that way, and I feel she would work with the new Bond just as well as she has with Dan to make the era that man's own, different from the last. I'm sure it'll be a tough go to see Dan off, though, as they've become great friends and partners throughout the series in a way no other Bond/producer relationship has. But they both understand Bond is bigger than the people that make the films each go around, just as they know when it's time to call "cut." This seems to be heading for Dan's ultimate curtain call, and the chance to see him off while also telling a story like we've never seen before.
Well, this is an interesting thought. When I think of "the man he's destined to be," my first thought is 'alone.' After years of ending the movies with Bond rolling up with a new woman, a fresh take could effective.
Maybe B25 ends with Bond driving/riding/sailing/walking off into the sunset . . . alone. That could be a nice image to end on.
Agreed.
And yet, that YOLT ending is so tempting for Craig. When will Eon get that chance again?
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Sure!!! But, as far as I know, the person who knows someone in Pinewood is not him.