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

Starkers said:
I've listened to a few of her songs now and two things stand out. One- she has a great voice. Two- she has a very eclectic mix of styles, so I have no idea what we're going to get.

I'm hopeful, but at the end of the day its only the title song, it can hardly ruin a film.
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Exactly. Personally, there are few, if any, Bond songs that I outright dislike. I’m not a fan of A-ha or Duran Duran but whether through nostalgia or whatever, I like their efforts. Wasn’t fussed on the Chris Cornell one initially (despite liking Soundgarden and his voice), then heard a local cover band absolutely rock it and now I love it. Even the Sam Smith one ultimately grew on me.

Probably the only one I’d change the radio to get away from is Madonna’s Die Another Day.
 
A Variety profile on No Time to Die, Barbara Broccoli, and Michael Wilson: https://variety.com/2020/film/featu...e-barbara-broccoli-michael-wilson-1203466601/

It's pretty standard stuff, but has some good tidbits in there.

- Barbara reiterates yet again that the next Bond can be any color, but will be a man, because she disagrees with gender-swapping roles and favors creating new female characters instead. This will irritate brigade of media clowns who want a female 007, and I will continue to relish in their disappointment. She has more sense than all those virtue-signaling bloggers who crave social media points...as well as Pierce Brosnan. I love her, she's awesome.

- The movie was shot on film instead of digital, with certain sequences in IMAX (I always like when stuff is shot on film rather than digital). Fukunaga has actually been on their radar for awhile now, which surprised me. Mentions how the Bond set has a family-like feel and they take care of the crew, which I've heard plenty of times before...but I suspect this (and probably the whole piece, really) is damage control to deflect from the numerous reports of a troubled production for this installment.

- I had forgotten about the Halle Berry spinoff and the "Bond at Eton" prequel stuff that was bandied about years ago. I'm glad those never happened. Danny Boyle's original script idea of tensions with the Russians sounds pretty good, honestly, and I'm kinda bummed we won't see it. File it away with Tarantino's 1953-set Casino Royale. I'm sure plenty of people would've thought that was covering old ground but it would've been cool to me. Today's tensions differ from the Cold War era.

- I had no idea this thing had a budget of $250 million. That's massive, and means they're shooting for $1 million box office. Pretty crazy that that seems to be the standard for tentpole movies these days. Honestly I have my doubts whether this can reach that number. Skyfall was an outlier. But if Joker can do it.....?

Finally, they mention that they're keeping an eye on the future and streaming. Bond films on Netflix? That would be odd to me. I go to the movie theater maybe once every 2-3 years, and Bond films are part of that. But a spin-off miniseries with other 00's on Netflix I could see happening....maybe.
 
sttngfan1701d said:
A Variety profile on No Time to Die, Barbara Broccoli, and Michael Wilson: https://variety.com/2020/film/featu...e-barbara-broccoli-michael-wilson-1203466601/

It's pretty standard stuff, but has some good tidbits in there.

- Barbara reiterates yet again that the next Bond can be any color, but will be a man, because she disagrees with gender-swapping roles and favors creating new female characters instead. This will irritate brigade of media clowns who want a female 007, and I will continue to relish in their disappointment. She has more sense than all those virtue-signaling bloggers who crave social media points...as well as Pierce Brosnan. I love her, she's awesome.

- The movie was shot on film instead of digital, with certain sequences in IMAX (I always like when stuff is shot on film rather than digital). Fukunaga has actually been on their radar for awhile now, which surprised me. Mentions how the Bond set has a family-like feel and they take care of the crew, which I've heard plenty of times before...but I suspect this (and probably the whole piece, really) is damage control to deflect from the numerous reports of a troubled production for this installment.

- I had forgotten about the Halle Berry spinoff and the "Bond at Eton" prequel stuff that was bandied about years ago. I'm glad those never happened. Danny Boyle's original script idea of tensions with the Russians sounds pretty good, honestly, and I'm kinda bummed we won't see it. File it away with Tarantino's 1953-set Casino Royale. I'm sure plenty of people would've thought that was covering old ground but it would've been cool to me. Today's tensions differ from the Cold War era.

- I had no idea this thing had a budget of $250 million. That's massive, and means they're shooting for $1 million box office. Pretty crazy that that seems to be the standard for tentpole movies these days. Honestly I have my doubts whether this can reach that number. Skyfall was an outlier. But if Joker can do it.....?

Finally, they mention that they're keeping an eye on the future and streaming. Bond films on Netflix? That would be odd to me. I go to the movie theater maybe once every 2-3 years, and Bond films are part of that. But a spin-off miniseries with other 00's on Netflix I could see happening....maybe.
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Great interview, thanks for the link
 
sttngfan1701d said:
- Barbara reiterates yet again that the next Bond can be any color, but will be a man, because she disagrees with gender-swapping roles and favors creating new female characters instead. This will irritate brigade of media clowns who want a female 007, and I will continue to relish in their disappointment. She has more sense than all those virtue-signaling bloggers who crave social media points...as well as Pierce Brosnan. I love her, she's awesome.
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Thank God. Wouldn't be up in arms about a female Bond, but the people bandying that idea around always seem to do it in such a 'look how woke we're making Bond' way, as if simply swapping genders would make the character more modern. It's such a lazy way to change things up.

Captaindemotion said:
Wasn’t fussed on the Chris Cornell one initially (despite liking Soundgarden and his voice), then heard a local cover band absolutely rock it and now I love it.
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I love that one, although I'll admit it certainly isn't what people would expect from a Bond theme. Helps that the Casino Royale intro is so awesome. Don't see what's wrong with Billie Eilish. Has a voice that I think could go quite well with a Bond intro.
 
sttngfan1701d said:
I had no idea this thing had a budget of $250 million. That's massive, and means they're shooting for $1 million box office.
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Colbert mocked the choice in last night's episode (jump to the 3:13 mark):

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Starkers said:
What do people thing of the rumoured near 3 hour run time? :eek:
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Makes me glad this isn't a summer movie, meaning there's no hot temperature coercing me into buying a Coke from the concession stand. Because, I tell you, there's no way my bladder would let me sit through the whole movie under those circumstances.

Even without the Coke, that's going to be tricky depending how close to the three hour mark it is.
 
I obviously meant billion and the million was a typo, but whatever makes you guys feel clever. :shrug:

As for the 3 hour runtime, (1) I highly doubt it will actually be 3 hours. Runtimes these days as reported always include the credits. It's not like it used to be when 3 hour movies were ACTUALLY 3 hours. For example, Avengers Endgame is only 169 minutes but the press made a huge deal about it being "OVER THREE HOURS!!!!11!!!11"

And (2) I regularly watch movies that are that long. You just need 3 distinct acts in the movie to sustain it, so it feels like 3 interconnected episodes. But again, I doubt it will be that long. Theaters will lobby for it to be cut down in order to have more showings. Perhaps the director's cut will be longer.
 
sttngfan1701d said:
I obviously meant billion and the million was a typo, but whatever makes you guys feel clever. :shrug:
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Here you're typing 'billion' when you clearly meant to type '1 billion, gagillion, fafillion, shabolubalu million illion yillion ... yen.' Damn that autocorrect!

Starkers said:
What do people thing of the rumoured near 3 hour run time? :eek:
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I've been hoping for more lighthearted Bond after the dark, gritty, gloomy, gritty, gritty Craig era, and a 3 hour run time does not suggest that. Nothing conclusive, obviously, but I'm not happy to hear it might be on the longer side.
 
sttngfan1701d said:
I highly doubt it will actually be 3 hours. Runtimes these days as reported always include the credits. It's not like it used to be when 3 hour movies were ACTUALLY 3 hours. For example, Avengers Endgame is only 169 minutes but the press made a huge deal about it being "OVER THREE HOURS!!!!11!!!11"
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However, because of trailers and commercials, even if you skip the end credits, you're still in the theatre to something close to the posted running time anyway. Plus, this is a Bond movie, meaning there's definitely going to be an opening credit sequence, and being a Bond movie they're going to include things in the opening credits most modern movies leave to the end in order to justify the music video. Meaning there's going to be a significantly shorter end credits compared to other movies.

Going off on a tangent now, end credits in modern movies sure have gotten long. And I'm not just talking about the removal of opening credits resulting in that sequence being added to the end. Rewatching the Star Wars movies early December leading up to Rise of Skywalker's release, I noticed the original trilogy's end credits averaged around five minutes or so, the prequels around seven minutes or so. The new ones 8 minutes plus, with the credits for The Force Awakens actually clocking in over ten minutes. Does CG actually require that many people to be hired?
 
Kai "the spy" said:
I miss David Arnold.
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I feel he had his time. IMO he was much more suitable for the Brosnan era's "greatest hits" approach to making Bond films. But I was never a fan of his tendency to over-write with his scores that more often than not took me out of the films. I look more forward to different composers coming in and putting their own stamp on the legacy. Nobody will ever take John Barry's place, so you might as well keep the composer's spot on rotation.
 
A three hour Bond movie? What fun! Now we can see Bond being sad and running around in an incohesive plot for three hours!
 
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