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

I liked, if that’s the right word, how they were pretty much prepared to summarily execute Bond there for quitting. Pretty shocking (try not saying that to yourself in a Connery-in-Goldfinger-voice).

While I really like the Craig films, it does irk me a little that he’s quit or been suspended in basically all of them. I think it’s happened more in his 4 (released) films to date than all the others put together. It kinda loses the impact that it had when Lazenby or Dalton did it.
 
It’s definitely overplayed!

I remember reading about how QOS was going to end with Bond quitting the service, but then it turned out to be the opposite: “I never left.” I assume it was a discarded idea that was then brought back for SPECTRE. EON tends to save unused ideas for future films.
 
Just as a side note a really cool book I got "50 Best Bond Cars." It's a really neat book featuring some of the unique vehicles that Bond movies have had over the years. Q did trick out a car in QOS but it's not overdone like the older films, and I had forgotten that was there in that film.
 
cardinal biggles said:
Please tell me the Ford LTD sedan Roger Moore uses as a rental car in A View to a Kill doesn't make the list.
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Let me check

No thank goodness.. Only these Fords were mentioned

Ford Mustang Diamonds Are Forever
Ford Falcon Ranchero Goldfinger
Ford Country Squire Goldfinger
Ford Fairlane Thunderball
Ford Thunderbird Die Another Day
 
It's interesting how much/often in this series the quality of the title song and of the overall film are strongly correlated.
 
suarezguy said:
It's interesting how much/often in this series the quality of the title song and of the overall film are strongly correlated.
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Maybe but certainly not always and sometimes the exact opposite. I love Tomorrow Never Dies but don't care for the song. Conversely, I didn't like The World is Not Enough but I love the song so much thst I wish it was the song for Tomorrow Never Dies.
 
suarezguy said:
It's interesting how much/often in this series the quality of the title song and of the overall film are strongly correlated.
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I hear that comment made a lot, but the only time it felt accurate to me was Quantum of Solace, where both the title song and the movie left me confused and asking WTF?
 
Which proves the point that such a correlation is fully dependent on opinions: I quite like the film (but I recognize im in the minority) and I find the song enjoyable (but it didn't grow on me like Casino Royale's "You Know My Name" which I didn't like initially).
 
Gingerbread Demon said:
Wasn't there a rumour about a future black James Bond for a future movie?
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The character of James Bond will never be played by anyone other than a Heterosexual, CIsgender White Man.

Period.

Acknowledging that fact isn't being racist, sexist, or 'out-of-touch'; it's just being honest and realistic.
 
So I know that trailers for NTTD were released some time ago (first one in December 2019?!), but it was cool to finally see the trailer on the big screen recently as theaters have opened up again.

Kor
 
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Gingerbread Demon said:
Wasn't there a rumour about a future black James Bond for a future movie?
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Idris Elba has supposedly been a frontrunner to play Bond for years, but between the long gaps between Daniel Craig's films and the additional delays caused by COVID and its disruption of the film industry, he's pretty much aged out of the part. Elba will turn 49 in September, and I doubt they'd be able to get the next film before cameras for at least two years, so you're looking at a 51-year-old first-time Bond. While I'm sure he's in better shape than Roger Moore was in his later films, that's still going to severely limit his tenure. It's a physically demanding, and sometimes punishing role (Craig has suffered major injuries in each film starting with Quantum of Solace).
DigificWriter said:
The character of James Bond will never be played by anyone other than a Heterosexual, CIsgender White Man.

Period.

Acknowledging that fact isn't being racist, sexist, or 'out-of-touch'; it's just being honest and realistic.
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So glad you're here to establish these facts for us. Tell me, who did you get this confirmation from? Barbara Broccoli? Michael Wilson? Or did you just pull it out of your ass like everything else?

I'll save you the trouble of reading the Variety article I linked. Here's the relevant part:
Already, the media has begun speculating about who could step into Bond’s impeccably tailored tuxedo, with everyone from Idris Elba to Richard Madden finding himself at the center of chatter. Broccoli and Wilson insist they haven’t started to map out a post-Craig world; they’re focused on completing “No Time to Die,” an enormous, $250 million production. But they seem open to broadening the search beyond the usual suspects.

“You think of him as being from Britain or the Commonwealth, but Britain is a very diverse place,” Wilson says.

There are certain things the duo appears open to considering, and other conversations that are nonstarters, when it comes to selecting the next Bond. “He can be of any color, but he is male,” says Broccoli. “I believe we should be creating new characters for women — strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.”
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DigificWriter said:
The character of James Bond will never be played by anyone other than a Heterosexual, CIsgender White Man.

Period.

Acknowledging that fact isn't being racist, sexist, or 'out-of-touch'; it's just being honest and realistic.
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...and everyone now has this quote bookmarked to pull up when inevitably you're proven wrong. Yet. Again

And then poof. You'll disappear. Yet. Again.
 
cardinal biggles said:
Elba will turn 49 in September, and I doubt they'd be able to get the next film before cameras for at least two years, so you're looking at a 51-year-old first-time Bond. While I'm sure he's in better shape than Roger Moore was in his later films, that's still going to severely limit his tenure.
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Just to elaborate on this a little, these are the ages of the official James Bonds when they started their tenure. (I'm going off of the date filming started on each actor's first film.)
  • Connery: 31
  • Lazenby: 29
  • Moore: 45
  • Dalton: 40
  • Brosnan: 41
  • Craig: 37
 
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