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

[Commander Troi]

I meant with unexpected changes in leadership.

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Doctor Who comes back 4/12 FYI.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Any James Bond theme park worth its salt will have slot machines that fully pay out when you flash your wristwatch over them. The hotel rooms will have fake bugs for you to find because the real ones you never will.

Of course, the Orient Express should devote a few cars to the James Bond Experience, wherein you can get assaulted by your choice of Red Grant, Jaws, and Hinx performers who will do their darndest to kill you, so it's not for the faint of heart. So use your wits and your brawn to survive these mobile escape rooms!

 

[cooleddie74]

A James Bond theme park needs a rotating Blofeld who looks like Donald Pleasance one day, Telly Savalas the next, Charles Gray another and then is in a wheelchair and you never see his face on the next occasion. And to really mix things up, every once in a while he's in a three-piece suit behind a screen and you can't see him from the neck up.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

And before you go to sleep at night in your hotel bed a male voice says, "Cuckoo. Cuckoo."

 

[oktay]

James Bond’s Road to Amazon: Barbara Broccoli’s Tight Control, Snubbing Christopher Nolan and More

Following a year of fraught negotiations, Amazon will soon have a full grip on the franchise that has spawned 25 films about Agent 007.

variety.com

 

[cardinal biggles]

A James Bond theme park needs a rotating Blofeld who looks like Donald Pleasance one day, Telly Savalas the next, Charles Gray another and then is in a wheelchair and you never see his face on the next occasion. And to really mix things up, every once in a while he's in a three-piece suit behind a screen and you can't see him from the neck up.

And then you and your family can stop for lunch at Blofeld's Delicatessen — now in stainless steel!

 

[cooleddie74]

You get dropped off at the end.


Too soon?

 

[cardinal biggles]

At least they didn't use a slide whistle when his wheelchair fell off the helicopter's landing skid.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

And then you and your family can stop for lunch at Blofeld's Delicatessen — now in stainless steel!

Just don't sit in the chairs provided.

 

[Samurai8472]

I know we already have "007: Road to a Million" but I wouldn't mind a reality show where you have to recreate the exact action scene from a James Bond movie.

"Hey! We're actually going to drive a tank in Saint Peterberg!"

 

[Tallguy]

James Bond’s Road to Amazon: Barbara Broccoli’s Tight Control, Snubbing Christopher Nolan and More

Following a year of fraught negotiations, Amazon will soon have a full grip on the franchise that has spawned 25 films about Agent 007.

variety.com

Decades earlier, Steven Spielberg wanted to make a Bond movie following “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” but was blocked by Broccoli’s father, the late Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, because he was too inexperienced.

I will never trade a possible Spielberg Bond (especially not one starring Roger Moore) for Raiders of the Lost Ark. We won.

 

[oktay]

James Bond’s Road to Amazon: Barbara Broccoli’s Tight Control, Snubbing Christopher Nolan and More

Following a year of fraught negotiations, Amazon will soon have a full grip on the franchise that has spawned 25 films about Agent 007.

variety.com

Important parts of the article:

In late January 2024, Barbara Broccoli attended a performance of her stage musical “Buena Vista Social Club” at the Atlantic Theater in New York. The longtime James Bond producer and gatekeeper was joined by three top Amazon MGM Studios executives — Jennifer Salke, Courtenay Valenti and Julie Rapaport — for a night that also included dinner and shop talk. For months, Salke’s boss, Mike Hopkins, had spearheaded discussions with Broccoli about Bond’s future at Amazon. The purpose of the night’s tête-à-tête was for Salke to make Broccoli comfortable with the studio’s loose plans for the first Bond movie since Amazon acquired MGM in 2022 for $8.5 billion. But sources say Broccoli left the meeting uninspired by Salke, a longtime TV executive, and returned to her home in London. Shortly after, talks began for the siblings to relinquish creative control of what is viewed as the last untapped mega-brand, one comparable to Lucasfilm, Marvel and DC. (Amazon declined comment. Eon did not respond to a request for comment.)


Following a year of fraught negotiations, Amazon will soon have a full grip on the franchise that has spawned 25 films about Agent 007 but whose TV, licensing, spinoff and interconnected cinematic universe potential remains unmined. (The deal needs regulatory approval in the U.S. and U.K., which is expected sometime this year.) Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, who signed off on the complex transaction that sees Broccoli and her half-brother, Michael Wilson, retaining a financial stake in the property, is keenly interested in how the tech giant can bring Bond into the digital age.

Decades earlier, Steven Spielberg wanted to make a Bond movie following “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” but was blocked by Broccoli’s father, the late Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, because he was too inexperienced.

Sources familiar with Amazon’s next steps on Bond say a film is still the top priority, and the studio will look first to attach a producer in the vein of David Heyman, who shepherded the “Harry Potter” and “Fantastic Beasts” films with a cohesive vision.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Any James Bond theme park worth its salt will have slot machines that fully pay out when you flash your wristwatch over them. The hotel rooms will have fake bugs for you to find because the real ones you never will.

Of course, the Oriental Express should devote a few cars to the James Bond Experience, wherein you can get assaulted by your choice of Red Grant, Jaws, and Hinx performers who will do their darndest to kill you, so it's not for the faint of heart. So use your wits and your brawn to survive these mobile escape rooms!

I love it..... Now someone has to make it happen

And a casino where the roulette wheel spins and little bullets come out the spikes at random

 

[Set Harth]

Of course, the Oriental Express should devote a few cars to the James Bond Experience, wherein you can get assaulted by your choice of Red Grant, Jaws, and Hinx performers who will do their darndest to kill you, so it's not for the faint of heart. So use your wits and your brawn to survive these mobile escape rooms!

And also Jaws' girlfriend but if you mention her braces everyone acts like you're crazy

 

[oktay]

List of highest-grossing media franchises - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

When I look at the list of highest grossing media franchises, James Bond's market value is $9.75 billion. If it's true that Amazon bought it for $1 billion, they bought it for less than market value. Although Star Wars is also worth $47 billion, Disney bought it for $4.5 billion.

 

[cardinal biggles]

That's because the numbers you're seeing there are grosses across decades — Winnie the Pooh stretches back 101 years to when A.A. Milne published the first book in the series. It doesn't mean the property itself is worth $48 billion, it just means that's how much they've grossed from books, stuffed animals, T-shirts, movies, TV shows, DVDs and VHS tapes, and all the other stuff over the course of a century. So in that sense, Amazon and Disney paid what I'm assuming was a good market value price for Bond and Star Wars respectively.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

And also Jaws' girlfriend but if you mention her braces everyone acts like you're crazy

Show of hands, then. Who remembers Dolly with braces?

*raises hand*

 

[cooleddie74]

That Mandela Effect is a monkey on so many of our backs!

 

[IMC Headquarters]

That Mandela Effect is a monkey on so many of our backs!

Perhaps we should scour thrift shops for the earliest VHS edition of Moonraker for residue of that timeline.

 

[Commander Troi]

Show of hands, then. Who remembers Dolly with braces?

*raises hand*

Yeah, I thought that's how she and Jaws bonded.