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"Bond 23" delayed indefinitely

JacksonArcher

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James Bond franchise producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced today that development on the next installment in the James Bond series, under the working title Bond 23, has been delayed indefinitely due to the uncertainty of the sale of MGM.

The film, which was slated for a 2011/2012 release, hired writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) to do a draft of the screenplay along with writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have written screenplays for the last four James Bond films. Earlier this year it had been reported that director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) had been tapped to direct.

Now that the film is on indefinite hold, it is unsure whether or not the producers or whoever becomes responsible of the franchise after the sale of MGM will continue with Morgan's script or keep Mendes as director. Furthermore, while Daniel Craig is contracted for more films, this seems to mirror the legal dispute that plagued the Timothy Dalton films almost identically. After License to Kill, Dalton was signed to appear in Property of a Lady, which would have been his third outing as 007, but prolonged time and legal disputes had Dalton eventually dropping out, and Pierce Brosnan signed on for 1995's GoldenEye.

It appears history might repeat itself unless something happens soon with the sale of MGM.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65332

This is pretty unfortunate, since I'm a big fan of Craig's two Bond films and I would have liked to have seen him continue in the role for a third time. I certainly hope this issue can be resolved soon so production can resume on the next film.
 
You bastard, you stole my thread. Since it's you, I'll forgive you though.

(Was surprised you hadn't posted one even before I started mine)
 
Captaindemotion said:
You bastard, you stole my thread. Since it's you, I'll forgive you though.

(Was surprised you hadn't posted one even before I started mine)
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I think you posted yours just right after I did mine. Since it's you, I don't really care. :)

I'm pretty distraught over this. I really want Craig to continue in the role. Furthermore, a Sam Mendes-directed, Peter Morgan-scripted James Bond film would be incredible. I hope it happens.
 
JacksonArcher;4009862Since it's you said:
Touche! :lol::lol::lol:


Mods - a merger perhaps? Since I'm giving Jackson the oxygen of publicity and strangling my own poor thread at birth.


I'm pretty distraught over this. I really want Craig to continue in the role. Furthermore, a Sam Mendes-directed, Peter Morgan-scripted James Bond film would be incredible. I hope it happens.
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Me too, on all counts. I don't think we'll get as long a hiatus as we did post-LTK, as Casino and Quantum were both such big hits (LTK famously underperformed). Someone will probably buy MGM out before long. Craig has also been a lot more popular and successful in the role than Dalton was after his (only) two efforts and even in another 6 years, he'd be no older than Brosnan was when cast in Goldeneye. I think Eon were happy to get rid of Dalton when they did - I suspect they'll be keener to hold onto Craig.

I'm pretty sure that the Morgan script will largely survive, perhaps with some re-writes, though it's unlikely that Mendes will be retained. Shame, as that was shaping up to be a great package (and I'm not referring to the ex-Mrs Mendes' bosoms).
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Well this sucks. I'm a big fan of Craig, and while QoS wasn't all it could have been, I've been feeling confident that 23 would bounce back in quality. Now, though? Who knows... all I'm sure of is that I want Craig to stick around a while.
 
Aw crap! Not again!

And you'd have to worry that the producers might want to move on from Craig if it's five or six years again. Yeah he wouldn't be that old, but Brosnan has aged well, DC is already looking craggy, plus he strikes me as the kind of actor who might baulk at returning to a character after such a hiatus.

Be a shame though, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of things about the last two films, but Daniel Craig was perfect (and I say that as someone who hated the idea of him as 007 when he was cast)
 
You know, it's weird, but I had a weird feeling while watching the end of Quantum of Solace. It had a sense of finality to it, pretty much wrapping up the storyline started in Casino Royale. It did allow for a new take for the next movie (or you could have ostensibly continued with the Quantum organization...) but if for some tragic reason QoS is the last Daniel Craig James Bond movie at the very least there's a sense of closure.
 
While a Sam Mendes directed Bond movie would indeed be interesting, this makes me happy.

I hope the delay is long enough another revisualization comes along. One closer to the tone of the best Roger Moore movies.

Yeah, I fuckin' said it.
 
I sincerely hope they'll get this back on track again soon. I really want them to continue with Craig and the path they laid out in the two previous movies.
 
T'Baio said:
JacksonArcher said:
Argh, I hated the Roger Moore movies.
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Well, the Roger Moore movies told me they hated you, too.

So there.

:p
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I admit it's a different take on the Bond mythos. Certainly valid. Not what I imagine when I envision James Bond, but The Spy Who Loved Me definitely ranks up there as one of the best Bond movies regardless. I just didn't like how Moore couldn't take the character seriously, and he really started to show his age in some of the later movies like Octopussy and A View to a Kill.
 
If they end up 'rebooting' the franchise again they should just fuck it and go for faithful adaptations of the novels, even going so far as to make them period pieces.
 
T'Baio said:
While a Sam Mendes directed Bond movie would indeed be interesting, this makes me happy.

I hope the delay is long enough another revisualization comes along. One closer to the tone of the best Roger Moore movies.

Yeah, I fuckin' said it.
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Nothing wrong with that. Except for Live and Let Die, Moore didn't make a bad Bond movie.
 
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