The James Bond Thread
Discussion
Gameface said:
He and the rest of his foursome were wrecked. Loud, obnoxious and playing slowly. Wouldn't let us play through. Pissing in the rough. Played the "don't you know who I am" card. Later they were asked to leave the dining room because they were still at it.
Sounds about right. Of course as Bond he could handle his drink.
Broccoli and Wilson: “We are absolutely thrilled to be releasing Bond 25 on 8 April 2020"
So not the initial 8th Nov 2019, nor the postponed to 4th Feb 2020, but April 8th. Does that mean it will actually be July 2020?
https://www.nme.com/news/james-bond-25-release-pus...
So not the initial 8th Nov 2019, nor the postponed to 4th Feb 2020, but April 8th. Does that mean it will actually be July 2020?
https://www.nme.com/news/james-bond-25-release-pus...
Burwood said:
DickyC said:
Remind me why Clive Owen isn't going to be Bond. Is he too old now as well?
Far to old. He’s over 50. And if true to the character (sniggers at jack reacher by cruise) he is active Naval commander on the Field agent side so not 50. Maybe Owen Jones could be a Bond for the new age we live in ?
I’ve posted on this before but one way around all the issues if they wanted to stay true to the original concept would be to stage the films back in the 1930’s and onwards.
The original books and short stories were a million miles away from most of the films and good in their own ways (apart from those books like gold finger or OHMSS that were plot treatments for the films from the outset and read page for page like the films).
If you get chance to see killer elite with Clive Owen and Jason Statham set in the early eighties, this is the kind of Bond film that would break the continuous need for sequential plots and the paradoxes they contain.
Fleming had such a short writing career relative to his creation and this is why the series can sometimes appear trapped at a point in time.
Agatha Christie’s characters and plots don’t suffer the same fate as they became developed over a longer period and were only meant as individual outings for the characters generally.
Put Bond back into context in the post war and you get the magic of Thunderball etc without the heavy cynicism that has grown with the competition he now faces at the box office.
DC has done a fantastic job and remains my favourite, let them make the largest film as his swan song then reset.
Steven Spielberg did a great job of this with his Bond wannabe Indiana Jones and these remain an example of how a modern action
film can be set in the past but still smash the box office.
It’s maybe too big a gamble though for a franchise that derives so much from modern product placement.
The original books and short stories were a million miles away from most of the films and good in their own ways (apart from those books like gold finger or OHMSS that were plot treatments for the films from the outset and read page for page like the films).
If you get chance to see killer elite with Clive Owen and Jason Statham set in the early eighties, this is the kind of Bond film that would break the continuous need for sequential plots and the paradoxes they contain.
Fleming had such a short writing career relative to his creation and this is why the series can sometimes appear trapped at a point in time.
Agatha Christie’s characters and plots don’t suffer the same fate as they became developed over a longer period and were only meant as individual outings for the characters generally.
Put Bond back into context in the post war and you get the magic of Thunderball etc without the heavy cynicism that has grown with the competition he now faces at the box office.
DC has done a fantastic job and remains my favourite, let them make the largest film as his swan song then reset.
Steven Spielberg did a great job of this with his Bond wannabe Indiana Jones and these remain an example of how a modern action
film can be set in the past but still smash the box office.
It’s maybe too big a gamble though for a franchise that derives so much from modern product placement.
Spielberg pretty much based the concept of Jones around a 1930’s Bond type character.
Some of Flemings short Bond stories set in the Second World War are very evocative and simple but capture the essence of his character.
There was a book entitled something like the authorised biography of James Bond that cleverly had the author interview a late middle aged Bond. In this he covered a lot about his early life including the accident that took his parents in a far less clumsy way than Spectre did in the film.
This would be great material for a new series of films with a young actor.
Provided they didn’t try and over explain everything like in the recent Solo film as they ruined some of the magic there for me...
Some of Flemings short Bond stories set in the Second World War are very evocative and simple but capture the essence of his character.
There was a book entitled something like the authorised biography of James Bond that cleverly had the author interview a late middle aged Bond. In this he covered a lot about his early life including the accident that took his parents in a far less clumsy way than Spectre did in the film.
This would be great material for a new series of films with a young actor.
Provided they didn’t try and over explain everything like in the recent Solo film as they ruined some of the magic there for me...
996Type said:
It’s maybe too big a gamble though for a franchise that derives so much from modern product placement.
This. Bond films today are basically a Kay's catalogue with a (flimsy) storyline, whose principal purpose is to link shots between product placements. It's more difficult to make product placements relevant in a historic setting.
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