The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)

[the G-man]

Why are things taking so long with James Bond?

Eon and Amazon are indeed having clashes of what to do with the Bond franchise

Amazon/MGM & Barbara Broccoli Fighting Over Next James Bond; Studio Wants “Marvel-Style Spinoffs" — World of Reel

It's been over three years since the last James Bond, “No Time To Die,” was released, and we're still seemingly nowhere near getting another one. A Wall Street Journal report has now revealed some behind the scenes troubles.

www.worldofreel.com

-One wants keep it close to their chest
- The other wants to dilute it into an MCU/Star Wars franchise and develop content(which apparently it touched a nerve when Amazon reps called Bond "content".)



I had a feeling they don’t want the franchise to be diluted like “Star Wars” did when Disney took over

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I'm on team Broccoli with this one. An expanded movie universe has only worked once, that was with Marvel and, in that case, it wasn't really an expanded movie universe as Marvel was that in comics long before the Downey Iron Man came out.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm on team Broccoli with this one. An expanded movie universe has only worked once, that was with Marvel and, in that case, it wasn't really an expanded movie universe as Marvel was that in comics long before the Downey Iron Man came out.

While I would like spin offs or one off movies, I too kind of agree with Broccoli, oh and I am so stupid all these years didn't realize they were not male. I thought that was some weird naming and it was a guy.

 

[Turtletrekker]

While I would like spin offs or one off movies, I too kind of agree with Broccoli, oh and I am so stupid all these years didn't realize they were not male. I thought that was some weird naming and it was a guy.

Barbara Broccoli is the daughter and heir to Albert Broccoli, the man who pioneered the Bond movie franchise.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Barbara Broccoli is the daughter and heir to Albert Broccoli, the man who pioneered the Bond movie franchise.

Oh ok I thought I was going mad. I remembered an Albert Broccoli but then seeing that name thought it was his wife not daughter my mistake

 

[Nerys Myk]

Oh ok I thought I was going mad. I remembered an Albert Broccoli but then seeing that name thought it was his wife not daughter my mistake

You thought his wife was a guy?

 

[cardinal biggles]

sigh...

The original producers of the Bond series from Dr. No through The Man with the Golden Gun were Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, through their production company, Eon, and its holding company, Danjaq LLC. Saltzman had money troubles and sold his share of Danjaq to United Artists in the mid-70s, and from The Spy Who Loved Me through Licence to Kill, Cubby was the sole producer. Starting with GoldenEye, the producers of the series have been Barbara Broccoli, Cubby's daughter with his third wife Dana, and Michael G. Wilson, Dana's son from a previous marriage, Cubby's stepson and Barbara's half-brother. Both of them worked their way up through the productions – Michael almost from the beginning of the series, to the point where he was an executive producer starting with Moonraker, and was a co-writer on all five of the '80s Bond films, and Barbara serving as an assistant director on Moonraker (2nd AD), Octopussy and A View to a Kill, and an associate producer on the two Dalton films.

Got it straight now?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

You thought his wife was a guy?

No I thought it was just some weird spelling like how Michael is Burnham's first name in Disco I've noticed that with different names on women that are sometimes used for men too

 

[UssGlenn]

New James Bond cartoon

who else remembers James Bond Jr?

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[Gingerbread Demon]

who else remembers James Bond Jr?

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I remember watching that one in 1992

 

[Kai "the spy"]

i have the action figure.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

i have the action figure.

So you're the person that bought one...... Not sure how popular those were

 

[cooleddie74]

I'm a toy collector and even I forgot that toy line even existed!

 

[Set Harth]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

If there's a cartoon in the 80s or early 90s, there's a toyline connected to it. It's a pre-internet rule.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even the late '90s. A really bad Jamie Lee Curtis or Dustin Hoffman sci-fi movie from the early CGI era had a toy line.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Even the late '90s. A really bad Jamie Lee Curtis or Dustin Hoffman sci-fi movie from the early CGI era had a toy line.

What movies were they?

 

[cooleddie74]

Sphere, I think? Pretty sure one of the flop movies with a bad toy line was Sphere.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Sphere, I think? Pretty sure one of the flop movies with a bad toy line was Sphere.

I think you may be thinking of Congo, another Crichton adaptation from the 1990s

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[cooleddie74]

Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis. That was the film.

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[Tallguy]

They mad VIRUS action figures?!? I swear when I saw that movie I thought that was the end for Donald Sutherland. I wouldn't have thought even Michael Caine could come back from that.