The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)

[Starkers]

Some very random thoughts:

Unless there’s a huge u-turn on the age ranges that were being discussed even before Amazon bought out Eon, I don’t see Cillian Murphy or Tom Hardy as Bond but given that the last 3 films featured Oscar winners as the main baddie, Cillian has to surely be a contender for that role.

Interesting that we’re looking at a 3 year wait or so but there is no talk (yet) of standalone movies, prequels, spinoffs or a 007 expanded universe. Instead, we have an a-list director and accomplished writer, for whom Amazon are apparently content to wait. Frustrating in one way but good that they’re willing to do it properly, rather than just get something, anything, into the studio. “Will people remember that it was on time or that it was good?”, as GRRM asks? Though given the wait, I think it’s not inconceivable that they will announce some kind placeholder Bond stuff.

While not a spy or espionage thriller, I remember really enjoying Eastern Promises, which Knight wrote and would like to see something equally twisty-turny and raw for his Bond movie.

Yes, Amazon are taking their time and hiring good people. It's reassuring.

I think they could have rushed casting, and I imagine plenty of screenwriters could have written something fast. Hire a director like Guy Ritchie and they could have got something out quick, and it might have been perfectly enjoyable, but it might also have been rubbish!

But the reverse also applies of course. Plenty have films have had all the right people behind the camera but haven't come out right. It still amazes me that the same people who made Skyfall made Spectre!!

 

[cardinal biggles]

Maybe there will even be a return to “ James Bond will return in [title of next movie]” in the end credits.

Unless they're going to start planning things way in advance, I doubt it. They haven't done that since A View to a Kill, mostly because by then they'd pretty much run out of Fleming titles to use.

 

[SithHappens]

Maybe there will even be a return to “ James Bond will return one day” in the end credits.

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