The James Bond Thread

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Four year gaps and longer between Bond films are not unusual.

There was six years between License to Kill and Goldeneye, four years between Die Another Day and Casino Royale, four years between Quantum and Skyfall and six years between SPECTRE and No Time to Die.

I really don't want Amazon to make tv series about secondary characters. Characters who are often killers and psychopaths. They'd have to win in any series, you can't suddenly turn them into nice folk who are defeated by some random new character.

As for earning his 00 status, that was covered in Casino Royale, so been there done that. A film which was the beginnings of the character as 007, License to Kill.

Besides Bond is dead. Finished.

Some of the recent delays have been to do with rewrites injuries on set, stunt problems, and long post production, plus the stories about whether whoever was playing could be convinced to do another film.

I don't particularly want TV shows either, but if they help finance feature films and keep interest in the characters and mind storylines going, then I'll happily watch them.

Regarding the Casino Royale opening sequence, I was thinking a bit before then and a film, like x-Men: First Class, Cruella, and Monsters University, and Wonka - a film set in the 1950s between World War II and Dr No in 1962, showing the end of Bond's military career recruitment to SIS, and getting to the point where he is the among the elite and needs a test to prove he's worthy of a license to kill and 00 status.

[iank]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

That heyday was also almost thirty years ago when it finished.

That's my point. It's been poorly managed for decades.

[SymbioticFunction]

One good thing to come out of this, would be that we will see new content (hopefully in theatrical film form) that wasn't written or rewritten by Purvis and Wade. It's ridiculous that the same writers were used for over 20 years, things were getting stale imo.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Following their $8.5 billion purchase of MGM it apparently cost Amazon an extra $1 billion to get control of MGM's largest asset in James Bond.

No wonder they've already decided on a late 2027 release for their reboot and a budget of $250m - the same as No Time to Die.

[iank]

They've put Amy Pascal in charge - the genius behind Ghostbusters 2016 and the Sony no-Spiderman spinoffs.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

They've put Amy Pascal in charge - the genius behind Ghostbusters 2016 and the Sony no-Spiderman spinoffs.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

I highly rate and very much enjoy some of the film she's produced, particularly The Post, Little Women, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the two animated Spider-Man films (Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse).

I thought Molly's Game was a solid film and enjoyed the Ghostbusters film much more on second viewing than the first time I saw it. Although they differ in quality, I've also spent quite a few hours enjoying the Venom films.

That said, I don't know what producing such superhero/comic book films tells you about someone's ability to supervise/oversee the James Bond films.