Never meant to imply you did, mate.
I do have to laugh at people siding with Barbara Broccoli against the hideous woke Amazon bastards... when she was the one that had a black woman take on the 007 mantle in the last Bond film, and has stated that Bond could absolutely be a man of any colour.
Shame Idris is a hundred and fifty five years old now.
Is he the fellow from Rebel Ridge? Because that was a surprisingly solid movie and he was great in it.I want to see this guy in a Bond movie:
He can be Bond or 00-whatever, but he's got "it".
Yep. Aaron Pierre.
Check and mate.
That's part of the problem. Austin powers took all of the piss out of the campy bond formula, then stuff like mission impossible beat them at the stunt spectacular game. They have no where else to go
Hard disagree. Best Bond film of Daniel Craig's career. Casino Royale is boring. Quantum of Solace is a Tom Clancy film. Skyfall is a Die Hard film. Spectre is plain dumb. In contrast, No Time To Die nails Bond as a character and adds the mystery aspect necessary in a good spy film.
Give him a few more films. He certainly has the build for it but Rebel Ridge was a little disappointing in the third act IMHO and deprived him of a big action finale.
The plague bit was definitely neutered due to covid. And the much bally-hooed "black female 007" ended up being, LITERALLY, his chauffer for the ENTIRE film. And in the end, rather than have her stand up, tell Bond that she could sacrifice herself just as easily as he could and let him have his ride into the sunset, they let her, again, drive his baby momma and daughter away. Pathetic.
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Right. Compare how the Tolkien family is now managing LOTR vs. Christopher Tolkien. It's obvious that whoever manages it now doesn't give a shit and just sees it as a way to generate cash.“content” And that's why modern streaming service produce so much shit.
With the budget's we have seen, we should be in the golden age of entertainment with idea's put to screen that was not possible in the past. What did we get? Amazon pissing away a billion on Lord of the Ring's and getting 2 nobodies to run it
I ask how did we get here but I know, its not entertainment its “content”
Bond is ALWAYS profitable. And in the old days, RIDICULOUSLY profitable, with a ROI that would be unimaginable today.
I would also argue that a reason for the profitability is is also in this charge, that you can go back to 1964 and it still fits on a single image. Every Bond movie is an event. What happens when they are churning out garbage like they do for every major IP?Bond is ALWAYS profitable. And in the old days, RIDICULOUSLY profitable, with a ROI that would be unimaginable today.
You can see the REAL problem with Hollywood in this slide. Just look at the ballooning budget starting in the late 90's and really taking off in the 00's, WTF? Those kinds of costs are just a MONSTER, killing creative freedom, risk taking, and accountability.
We never had a gap longer than 3 years till the transition to Brosnan and then to Craig, then he sttrreeeeeettttccchhhhheeeddddd it waaaayy out with that NTDT gap, he really should have been recast and then back to 2-3 year breaks. If you really look at it (and discount NSNA) we are 'short' about 3 bond films. If you pardon the first few years with THREE films in 18 months, its a 41 year span with 25 films (and then NSNA and the first Casino Royale) so clearly the pace of a film every 2 years, even every 3 is too slow for this juggernaut franchise. The appetite for a fun, action packed Bond film is virtually inexhaustible, PROVIDED the leading man has 'pre sold' audiences and the films are solid. I can look at the list, pick out my Bond 'stinkers' and the BO reflects it mostly (YOLT, MWTGG, LTK). The low ball films at the box office are the new Bonds (well, Lazenby mostly) and the OLD Bonds (Moore and Craig, sorta, and Connery with NSNA was pulling less than the previous Moore outings).
I think we are on the same page here, I am speaking to this idea of saturation that you see in the way so many companies handle their "IP", where they just swamp their streaming services with shit, they have multiple directors working on a dozen movies, etc. Look at all the Soy Wars shit we have gotten AFTER they shitcanned a bunch of movies. Look at all the Marvel junk we are bombarded with. I am speaking to that. That we wouldn't just see a new Bond film every 2-3 years, but we get a Bond "cinematic universe" with TV shows and spin-offs that come out constantly.
Would somebody think of all the exploited minorities?
I knew they wanted to make the next 007 a woman. Fucking Amazon ruins everything they touch.
James Bond producers shot down Amazon’s ‘woke’ female 007 idea: ‘F–king idiots’
The family that controls the James Bond movie franchise reportedly refuses to give Amazon the go-ahead.
I still think it's hilarious that people who obviously didn't watch the movie or have sub-80 IQ's don't realize that the "black female 007" was a deliberate subversion of wokeness and that she did nothing the whole movie and then handed the number back to the real 007 to save the world at the end
I saw the movie twice, and did like it overall, and I agree that she was pretty much window dressing in the movie, with all the personality, charisma, and charm of a potted plant, but I would be surprised if that's what they wanted or planned to do lol.
I'm guessing they had 'plans' for that character, but the actress they hired didn't deliver so they trimmed her down as much as possible. The Ana De Armas character had 1000x more chemistry with Craig than any woman they have paired him with across FIVE films, so they rightly maximized her scenes.
Wasn't that Skyfall? Silva literally had the same MI6 handler as Bond.
The franchise is about a single fictional character who is part of the family with the motto of "The World is Not Enough" a.k.a. Bond.We need a Bond film with Cavill and he was a double agent all along, defects to Russia, and a new guy has to step up. There is a lot of room to show other 00 agents, you just need a clear BOND type in there for the final act. None of this "he's -almost- Bond" for two films with Craig, then he jumps to "I'm too old for Bond" in film 3
I don't ascribe to that theory. And even if true, the "last member" of that family took about a dozen cruise missiles to the face, soooooo, who is left to play Bond?
James becoming an orphan at a young age and being the member of a somewhat prestigious family is plot relevant in a lot of the Ian Fleming novels. However loosely adapted the films are, anything without that foundation would be a spin-off like The Bourne Legacy is to the Jason Bourne films.
I actually think the Bourne series was on to something, a set of conditioning to create a somewhat predictable output. In that context anyone COULD be Bourne, i.e. do all the spy stuff, they just gotta eventually break out of it and turn on Treadstone. Even in your version, the "Skyfall" ranch takes orphans and raises them all to be ultra-patriotic, self-sacrificing, soldiers to Queen and Country, some portion of them becoming 00s, others presumably would stick with the Navy, go SAS/SBS/Royal Marines, or what have you, because they were literally raised for that stuff.
The same thing that happened to Star Wars: brand oversaturation and collapse.