Zac Efron as Bond?
Bond cancelled
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Nah, Bond now works undercover as a high school student and he's a vampire.
No no, they will sell all the advertising and product placement and Bond will be like The Truman Show, with the Bond Girls stopping to thank pantene and trimspa before Bond pulls out a trojan and winks at the camera. Then there will be an explosion of fireworks that spells out 'K-Y'.
I agree a lack of budget forces folks to be creative with characters and story. My husband just saw Moon and really liked it. An sf film taking place on the moon for $5 mil. That's dang creative.
I agree a lack of budget forces folks to be creative with characters and story. My husband just saw Moon and really liked it. An sf film taking place on the moon for $5 mil. That's dang creative.
In the best possible scenario the current economy would force the business back to concentrating on the story and the actors instead of massive effects. But that's a pipe dream.
Hell, one of the best movies I've ever seen is "Twelve Angry Men" from the late 50's. And that whole movie practically consists of 12 character actors inside a single room.
Hell, one of the best movies I've ever seen is "Twelve Angry Men" from the late 50's. And that whole movie practically consists of 12 character actors inside a single room.
Agreed.
It may take awhile - and Craig might get tired of waiting and thus bolt, just like Dalton did - but Bond will never be cancelled.
Well I don't know if Bond should ever really lose the spectacle. Hermiod is right, From Russia with Love is about as pared back as Bond ever gets, but never forget that Bond's very fist outing featured a villain with metal hands, his own secret nuclear powered base and his ability to topple rockets using radio waves...FRWL is a proper spy thriller, Dr No is a science fiction film. Goldfinger is probably somewhere inbetween, as is Thunderball, but then you've got You Only Live Twice and its all hollowed out volcanos and spaceships eating each other (and remember this is still Connery!)
I don't know, part of my likes the Craig films, but part of me misses the more ridiculous elements of 007's adventures. But that, for me at least, is the wonderful thing about the franchise and nearly 50 years worth of films. Some days I feel like gritty hand to hand fights in train carriages or Bond cradling Tracy's dead body, but other days I just wanna see Rog ski off a cliff and deploy a union jack parachute or have Brosnan use a tank in a car chase!
To be honest there's only about three Bond films I really dislike (one Connery, one Moore and one Brosnan) and I think every guy who's played the part did it well, even Lazenby.
Bond will return, maybe dark and gritty, maybe light and silly, but probably I'll enjoy it either way. I really was hoping for a more traditional Bond starring Craig though...
^From what's been said in interviews since QoS was released, I got the feeling they were trying to move it in that direction, too. Small steps, anyway, at least by re-introducing Moneypenny and Q.
Glad to see some love for Lazenby, too.
Glad to see some love for Lazenby, too.
If they remade 12 Angry Men today, it'd have a car chase.
"There's 12 of them... and they're ANGRY!"
Probably.
There was another adaption of the play during the late 90's but I never watched that one.
There's also a recent Russian adaption of the play as well, called 12.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_(film)
^^
Loved the Picket Fences episode where they used it for the A plot (the one where the sheriff had jury duty).
^From what's been said in interviews since QoS was released, I got the feeling they were trying to move it in that direction, too. Small steps, anyway, at least by re-introducing Moneypenny and Q.
Glad to see some love for Lazenby, too.
I would've enjoyed seeing the return of Moneypenny and Q. I wonder if they would've kept Cleese?
^From what's been said in interviews since QoS was released, I got the feeling they were trying to move it in that direction, too. Small steps, anyway, at least by re-introducing Moneypenny and Q.
Glad to see some love for Lazenby, too.
I would've enjoyed seeing the return of Moneypenny and Q. I wonder if they would've kept Cleese?
I doubt it, though I'm sure given his latest expensive divorce Cleese would have loved to come back.
I suspect they'd have brought him back in more of a straight Quartermaster role.
Yeah, I'd love to see faithful adaptations of the books, too. A series of HBO TV movies would do the trick.
