VIRUS was a horrible, horrible movie and it got action figures???????
The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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Quality of the movie has nothing to do with whether it gets action figures, plenty of crappy movies have had action figures. What is surprising about Virus having an action figure line is I don't recall that movie being aimed at children at all, yet those action figures definitely look as though they were aimed at the children's market as opposed to the adult collector's market.
OK that is one odd bit of marketing
He's also cameoed in an awful lot of Bond films, sometimes he even has dialogue! Hey, there have to be some perks to the job, right?
I think my two favorite cameos are him as one of the wall o' corporate lackeys in Tomorrow Never Dies, and as the chief of police who gets arrested in Casino Royale.
Rambo the cartoon
Back to the future even got a cartoon but they only made happy meal figures
There was a show for everything back then...
"Chuck Norris is Chuck Norris in Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos, starring Chuck Norris!"
"Chuck Norris is Chuck Norris in Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos, starring Chuck Norris!"
And the toyline.
As for BttF, they did release toy cars back in the day, and of course there have been action figures in the last decade or so.
And became the star of a TV series as Walker Texas Ranger. He really hammed it up in that role.
Worse still, it got a theatrical release!!! Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland had a few bad films to their credit, but the moment their angry dialogue begins, the film dies at the three-minute mark. VIRUS even got a tie-in book before the film came out, with a slightly happier ending...and one additional survivor.
WALKER. Where any nuance whatsoever died 100 years before the show even began.* No wonder it's constantly on free TV even today.
(Minus any redeeming LONE WOLF McQUADE-style mega-cheesiness. Bless you, McQUADE. Pluck you, WALKER.)
And, of course, also had its own toyline.
I think Amazon will try to get the rights. After the 1989 movie, the Cool Family had sued MGM for the rights. MGM wanted to buy the rights again. Finally, they reached an agreement and started the Pierce Brosnan series in 1995. I think they will sue again or give it up on their own accord or reach an agreement. And Amazon will say, "Let's not create a Marvel-like universe, but let's release a Bond movie every 2 years starting in 2027, 2028."Why are things taking so long with James Bond?
Eon and Amazon are indeed having clashes of what to do with the Bond franchise
Amazon/MGM & Barbara Broccoli Fighting Over Next James Bond; Studio Wants “Marvel-Style Spinoffs" — World of Reel
It's been over three years since the last James Bond, “No Time To Die,” was released, and we're still seemingly nowhere near getting another one. A Wall Street Journal report has now revealed some behind the scenes troubles.www.worldofreel.com
-One wants keep it close to their chest
- The other wants to dilute it into an MCU/Star Wars franchise and develop content(which apparently it touched a nerve when Amazon reps called Bond "content".)
I had a feeling they don’t want the franchise to be diluted like “Star Wars” did when Disney took over
“young M” series
The early days of Moneypenny
The office type antics of Q branch
Jane Bond exclusively on Amazon Prime
New James Bond cartoon
Even if Bond movies returned to a regular release schedule, I don't think we'd see a new one every two years. That just isn't practical with modern action movies. You'd need a minimum of three years, and even then that sort of pace could not be maintained indefinitely.
You're right, but Amazon, if you don't let us build a Marvel-like universe, then they will definitely pressure us to release a Bond movie every 2-3 years.
I think three years is doable, but I do agree that's likely the minimum (unless they were to film two back to back)
I think the Brosnan series was weird in that GoldenEye was great but it works as, almost feels like, both a first and last film, feels kind of introductory but almost more conclusive. Then, aside from Brosnan looking different from that in all the sequels, TND went in such a very different direction, I think TWINE feels much more like a sequel (in part from bringing back Coltrane but not just from that) and then DAD like an interesting follow-up to TWINE.
I think Tomorrow Never Dies (or Tomorrow Never Lies) would have probably been better and more interesting if it had been later, like from 2004-2008, when more people knew and cared about Rupert Murdoch and China was more visibly becoming a rival superpower although maybe I am understating how much that was already so in 1996-1997.
I think Tomorrow Never Dies (or Tomorrow Never Lies) would have probably been better and more interesting if it had been later, like from 2004-2008, when more people knew and cared about Rupert Murdoch and China was more visibly becoming a rival superpower although maybe I am understating how much that was already so in 1996-1997.
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