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

It still irks that if they hadn't wasted time on Boyle I'd have a shiny Blu-ray of NTTD (though maybe it wouldn't have been called that) on my shelf and likely would have watched the film five or six times (seen all the Craig films at least twice if not three times at the cinema).

I've got the feeling a lot of issues were down to Eon and Craig. Barbara Broccoli definitely wanted to explore other avenues and likely a sizable gap (though nowhere near as sizable as we ended up with) between films was a prerequisite of Craig coming back. Re the gap between QoS and SF while not the major reason I do wonder if the perceived failure of QoS had made them rethink the logic of trying to pump a Bond film out in 2 years?

Maybe there's an alternate universe where Risico starring Henry Cavill came out in 2018

 

Now Thunderball is kind of its own thing—remade as Never Say Never Again.

Any movement on that front?

 

I'd have delayed it still further to October 2022 so that they could release a film for the franchise's 60th anniversary and be (fingers crossed) absolutely sure of clearing the pandemic.

 

What's the point in delaying a bog standard Bond film even further just to tie in with the 60th? SF was specifically made as a celebratory film as was DAD (40th anniversary and the 20th film) whereas NTTD wasn't. Sod waiting another 18 months. If they can't release in the cinemas come Oct they need to seriously consider the VOD route.

 

I doubt they'll ever go for VOD, and tbh I hope they hold out. Even though I don't even particularly love Bond movies, they're one of the few things I'll actually go see at the cinema. More than most movies, they feel made for the big screen. I guess they know that and want to retain the prestige.

 

Words fail me. The whole world is facing its biggest crisis in modern times, and here we have Hollywood Suits worrying that a movie that won't see a release any earlier than a year and a half after its original release will have outdated product placement and are fretting over what to do about it.

Because when this movie does get a theatrical release, someone in the audience is going to lose it when they recognize something from 2019 and walk out of the theatre and get their money back as a result.

 

Ugh, this is why product placements are garbage. It's just as bad as McDonald's dictating movie releases because of Happy Meal toys.

Yeah, yeah, I know it's all about the money but fuck.

 

A friend of mine, who is a watch vendor and who has a podcast about watch manufacturing, mentioned the Omega becoming outdated way back when the film was first postponed. But the Sun always has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

 

A brand name is a brand name. I mean, who here is going to watch a Bond movie and splash down money on new Omega after? How big a loss is it going to be? Sure, we all want to buy an Omega but to me Omega is a brand that Bond wears. I don't really give a damn whether it's an Omega from 2019 or 2020. If by chance I did buy an Omega what ass is going to notice it and come up to me and say, "2019 Omega, tsk tsk".

 

It may be niche, but according to my friend, promoting the latest (at that time) model was important to Omega. But yeah, I imagine most of us won’t be rushing out to buy one, any more than I’ll be buying an Aston Martin.

 

2021 Omega watch and 1963 aston? How's that gonna work?
And from what I've read there are 4 aston martins from different years.

 

It still seems a bit silly. It's not unusual for a movie's product placement to be outdated by the time the movie hits home media, and no one gets upset over that. The company isn't going to go bankrupt just because a movie in theatres in late 2021 shows the product that was made available in 2019.

 

Bump! Not directly connected to NTTD but Amazon have bought MGM. I’m not sure if this means they now own future Bond films as well as the back catalogue (I don’t know Eon’s exact relationship to MGM). But I’d say the odds of seeing a Bond film premiere by streaming have shortened a little.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/amazon-to-buy-mgm-studios-for-8point45-billion.html

 

I think if this had happened 6 months ago we might have had NTTD streamed by now. I think now they'll wait for the cinema release (or do a joint cinema/streaming premiere)

 

I was reading one of those dubious-at-best interwebz articles the other day that suggested one of the big negotiation points was Amazon exploring the idea of franchiseifying Bond and Babs was none too happy.

 

I can definitely imagine Amazon wanting to look at a Bond tv show or some sort of expanded universe. I know I harp on about this, but I think a streaming platform would be ideal for doing risky, offbeat takes on Bond, such as period-set ones, more character-driven stories, etc.