We Have All The Time In The World: OHMSS Turning 50

Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by cooleddie74, Nov 24, 2019.

  1. Starkers

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    Weed have all the time in the world
     
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  4. Captaindemotion

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    From the gossip website/subscription email Popbitch last week:
    Imagine if Harrison Ford had accidentally killed Macca with a joint!
     
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    Paul smoking weed with Harrison Ford blows my mind.
     
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  7. Starkers

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    So apparently Sam Mendes was asked to direct the next Bond film.

    A few points.

    1. I love how the article ignores Marc Forster and says Mendes followed on from Martin Campbell :lol:
    2. It's really telling how Mendes is quoted as saying that making Skyfall was one of the best experiences of his life ;)
    3. I can see what Eon were thinking, in the same way they brought back Campbell to direct Craig's first film they wanted a known quantity. I thought they'd opt for Fukunaga again but guess either he's not interested or the accusations from a year ago are still hanging around (things have gone v quiet on that front).
    4. I think Mendes wouldn't be a terrible choice but they'd need a good script. For my money he made one of the best Bond films and one of the worst (I'll leave people to figure out which is which.)
    5. I guess this at least proves Eon are thinking about the next film! What do we reckon, 2025 or are we looking at 2026 (Jesus!)
     
  8. The Wormhole

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    I don't expect a new movie before 2026. Not going to be surprised if it's later than that.
     
  9. Starkers

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    I'm hoping for 2025. I think the absolute earliest might be Christmas 24 but that's me at my most wildly optimistic and would rely on them casting a new Bond and getting a script ready this year which might be pushing it, especially with the strike on! And certainly for Eon given their recent sluggishness but who knows, maybe Amazon have been quietly prodding them behind the scenes.

    Who knows maybe they're further along than we think they are but at my least optimistic I think you may be right @The Wormhole and we might even be talking late '26 (which will make me 56 when the next Bond film comes out so really am starting to wonder how many more Bonds I'll get to see!)
     
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    Admittedly I'm attached to the 2026 theory for purely silly reasons, I can just see the promotional side milking the ever-living hell out of "introducing the first new James Bond in twenty years!"
     
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    They missed the opportunity to release a 007 movie in 2007, so I don’t think that this anniversary will be quite so important to them.
     
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    Didn't they want to try to get Quantum of Solace into theatres for 2007 but ultimately couldn't pull it off because of Craig's schedule? I swear I remember hearing something like that years ago.
     
  13. Captaindemotion

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    Casino Royale was 2006, so unless they’d filmed the two back-to-back, I don’t think that was ever going to happen. I don’t think they have released Bond movies in successive years since the first few. After Thunderball, it moved to every other year.
     
  14. The Wormhole

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    Now that we're jogging the memory, I do remember someone shooting down the claim saying "if they cared enough about having a movie in 2007 they'd have simply held Casino Royale back."

    Irregardless I still don't expect a new movie before 2026. But I will appropriately dine on crow just before attending the 2025 premiere of a new movie should I be wrong.
     
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    The last time they released films in successive years was Roger Moore's first two, but even then there was an 18-month gap (LALD opened in the U.S. in June 1973, TMWTGG opened just before Christmas in 1974). Unlike the early Connery ones, where they released on a pretty regular annual basis (Dr. No in October 1962, FRWL in October 1963, Goldfinger in September 1964, and Thunderball in December 1965).
     
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    It is mad to think they trotted them out so quickly, it's no surprise Connery got pissed off.

    Of course even up to Brosnan they could trot them our every two years, at least until DAD which was three years, but on the subject of anniversaries I wonder if that was specifically so they had a film coming out for the 50th?

    I would like them to get back into a pattern, even if that pattern is, heaven forbid, a film every four years. I don't think two years is viable in today's world (unless they made them back to back) but I would settle for a new film roughly every three years.

    Of course it might help if they got back to making lean two hour long films rather than insisting on throwing the kitchen sink at them and making them bloated (and I realise they're not the only ones insisting on two and a half hours + these days.)
     
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  17. The Wormhole

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    A movie every three years should be doable. It's on average how much time there is between each movie in the individual MCU series, at least prior to the pandemic anyway.
     
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    It helps that Disney is a well-oiled machine, while MGM seems to be eternally in dire financial straits, even pre-pandemic.
     
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    Honestly, there's the real possibly Jimmy drank his last martini.
     
  20. comsol

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    I doubt that. I can't see EON or MGM (or is it Sony now) being willing to forgo the profits from more Bond films.
     
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