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News Daniel Craig signs up for Bond 25, Christopher Nolan in talks to direct

Kor said:
Skyfall was definitely a stand-alone story that really had no narrative or thematic connection to the plot-line that ran through both Casino Royale and QoS.

But then SPECTRE came along and did a quick and dirty retcon to messily tie the hitherto separate and disparate CR/QoS and Skyfall storylines together to take full advantage of MGM finally having the rights to use Spectre and Blofeld in film. :rolleyes:

Kor
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Big deal, and so what? The original novels were tied together too, you all forget, and they had a thread connecting one to the other. There's nothing wrong with Eon and MGM doing this except that people seem to want the silly Bond of the Moore era to come back, or at least the version of the later two Brosnan films, which might be a disaster.

Personally, I think that this Bond more than fits what Fleming was trying to do, and was a lot more realistic; this is a guy who works for the covert wetworks division of MI6, and who has a nasty job as mentioned in 'The Writing's On The Wall'. I wish that people would read the novels and get familiar with that aspect.
 
Shaka Zulu said:
Big deal, and so what? The original novels were tied together too, you all forget, and they had a thread connecting one to the other. There's nothing wrong with Eon and MGM doing this except that people seem to want the silly Bond of the Moore era to come back, or at least the version of the later two Brosnan films, which might be a disaster.

Personally, I think that this Bond more than fits what Fleming was trying to do, and was a lot more realistic; this is a guy who works for the covert wetworks division of MI6, and who has a nasty job as mentioned in 'The Writing's On The Wall'. I wish that people would read the novels and get familiar with that aspect.
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I've read the novels. All of them. Including the short stories. As have others around here, as the discussion of how to adapt "The Spy Who Loved Me" proves.

And I've got to say, I disagree with the notion that Fleming's stories were all that realistic.

Fleming had the bizarre villains (Mr. Big, Hugo Drax, Auric Goldfinger, Dr. No, etc.), the girls with silly names (Gala Brand, Tiffany Case, Pussy Galore, etc.), gadgets (a gun inside a cane, a Geiger counter inside a camera, etc.), larger than life threats (the Moonraker missiles, the stolen missiles from Thunderball, etc.) and completely surreal concepts (Dr. No's lair, the aforementioned Death Garden of Dr. Shatterhand, a secret underground Soviet base hidden beneath a bush).
 
Shaka Zulu said:
Big deal, and so what? The original novels were tied together too, you all forget, and they had a thread connecting one to the other. There's nothing wrong with Eon and MGM doing this
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Well, except when they make shitty movies. Like Spectre.
 
Metro US|Danny Boyle confirms he is directing James Bond 25, will shoot at the end of the year

I actually don't agree fully with the headline, there.

Gregory Wakeman via Metro US said:
Considering all the rumors swirling about Boyle and Bond I asked the director if he was indeed going to oversee the 25th installment to the franchise, and he responded in the affirmative.

“We are working on a script right now. And it all depends on that really. I am working on a Richard Curtis script at the moment. We hope to start shooting that in 6 or 7 weeks. Then Bond would be right at the end of the year. But we are working on them both right now.”

When I pushed Boyle for more details on “James Bond 25” he confirmed that John Hodge is currently expanding an idea the pair had for 007 into a script. Hodge and Boyle previously worked on “Shallow Grave,” “Trainspotting,” “A Life Less Ordinary,” “The Beach,” “Trance” and “T2 Trainspotting” together.

“We’ve got an idea, John Hodge, the screenwriter, and I have got this idea, and John is writing it at the moment. And it all depends on how it turns out. It would be foolish of me to give any of it away.”
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From those quotes, it sounds like he's working on it and, if Hodge's script is approved, so if all goes as planned by Boyle, then he'd direct. The article later mentions another script being worked on at the moment (likely the Purvis/Wade script), so it remains to be seen where this is going.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
I've read the novels. All of them. Including the short stories. As have others around here, as the discussion of how to adapt "The Spy Who Loved Me" proves.

And I've got to say, I disagree with the notion that Fleming's stories were all that realistic.

Fleming had the bizarre villains (Mr. Big, Hugo Drax, Auric Goldfinger, Dr. No, etc.), the girls with silly names (Gala Brand, Tiffany Case, Pussy Galore, etc.), gadgets (a gun inside a cane, a Geiger counter inside a camera, etc.), larger than life threats (the Moonraker missiles, the stolen missiles from Thunderball, etc.) and completely surreal concepts (Dr. No's lair, the aforementioned Death Garden of Dr. Shatterhand, a secret underground Soviet base hidden beneath a bush).
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Don't forget the giant squid in Dr. No, which, alas, did not make it into the movie version.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
Metro US|Danny Boyle confirms he is directing James Bond 25, will shoot at the end of the year

I actually don't agree fully with the headline, there.



From those quotes, it sounds like he's working on it and, if Hodge's script is approved, so if all goes as planned by Boyle, then he'd direct. The article later mentions another script being worked on at the moment (likely the Purvis/Wade script), so it remains to be seen where this is going.
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I really hope Eon have a fullback plan if they don't like Hodge's script, especially given they have a November 2019 release date that's presumably pretty fixed, and for God's sake Bond #25's taking enough time to come out, I don't want to wait any longer! I think the Purvis and Wade script is already written, don't get me wrong they've done some good stuff but the franchise needs something new (though not something by John Logan obvs!) Worst case scenario is that they turn down Hodge's script, Boyle refuses to do the Purvis/Wade script and they have to hire another director very quickly and we're back in the rush they had with Spectre.

Remember when Bond films used to be a well oiled machine?
 
CorporalClegg said:
Yuck. Purvis and Wade again? They have one competently written story in six attempts.

It's time to move on.
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Better than Logan... "Gladiator" got hoopla only because of the effects, "Star Trek Nemesis" was a really poor copycat of TWOK, "Skyfall" used fast pacing to hide its shortcomings and that ending surely came right out of "I Spy"'s episode "Home To Judgment" (Robert Culp was a fantastic writer) before "Home Alone" turned the trope into a cartoon but otherwise still had the usual discontinuity and set pieces that end up not becoming more than the sum of their parts...
 
ComingSoon.net reports that Universal will be the studio to follow in Sony's footsteps and partner with EON (sic) and MGM to release Bond 25.

They also name Danny Boyle as the films director, so whether it's official now, or the writer of that article was just lazy. The latter is quite possible, considering they wrote Eon in all-caps.

Edit: Nope, not lazy. The James Bond Twitter Account confirmed Boyle as the director.
 
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Kai "the spy" said:
ComingSoon.net reports that Universal will be the studio to follow in Sony's footsteps and partner with EON (sic) and MGM to release Bond 25.

They also name Danny Boyle as the films director, so whether it's official now, or the writer of that article was just lazy. The latter is quite possible, considering they wrote Eon in all-caps.
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"EON" is the stylization the company itself uses, so, no, it's not a writer being lazy, nor is your "sic" appropriate.
 
I'm pretty stoked about Danny Boyle directing Bond 25, as I'm a fan of 28 Days Later, Sunshine (well, the first two thirds) and both Trainspottings. Does this mean we'll get to see Cillian Murphy or Ewan McGregor in a Bond film? I hope so!
 
Turd Ferguson said:
I'm pretty stoked about Danny Boyle directing Bond 25, as I'm a fan of 28 Days Later, Sunshine (well, the first two thirds) and both Trainspottings. Does this mean we'll get to see Cillian Murphy or Ewan McGregor in a Bond film? I hope so!
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I sure hope so, and if we're really, really lucky, both!
 
I don't know. I think having either of them in the film would only make the audience wish they were Bond instead of Craig.
 
I'm happy with Boyle, I think he's a good director, I'm more excited about someone else writing the script other than Purvis and Wade (though lets hope it works better than on Spectre when they still had to come in to work on the screenplay!)
 
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