Bond 23 - "Skyfall" *spoilers from post 595*

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Now that the MGM film studio is out of financial limbo, the new 007 film, Bond 23, is expected to get a greenlight after delays have suspended production for months. It is now scheduled for release November 2012. In fact, it was announced that the studio would like to plan on a new James Bond movie every two years, according to The Financial Times, if EON Productions, which controls the development of James Bond films, will make arrangements.

Daniel Craig is expected to return as Bond. However, he is currently shooting the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with director David Fincher, and that and other possible scheduling conflicts have caused speculation about whether or not he can return.

In 2011 Craig will star in Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens and Jim Sheridan's Dream House with Naomi Watts, and he lends his voice to Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, due for release in December next year.

Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road, Away We Go) has been in discussions as the director.

Meanwhile, a new Bond novel will be published in May next year, written by the author of The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver. The story's working title, Project X, reframes the series with a young Bond as an Afghan War veteran and "a very dark, edgy character."

Not the most reliable of sources but any sign of a new bond is good news in my book!!

MrStuffins

The new Bond's have been incredible. I'm not so sure about Sam Mendes? Simply because of his directorial history... it's not very New-Bond.

But the biggest disaster would be if Craig was to leave. I love him in the role (and in pretty much everything).

L'prof

MrStuffins wrote: »

The new Bond's have been incredible. I'm not so sure about Sam Mendes? Simply because of his directorial history... it's not very New-Bond.

But the biggest disaster would be if Craig was to leave. I love him in the role (and in pretty much everything).

I have to say I really enjoyed Casino Royal, but Quantum of Solace was fairly pants. Hopefully this one will improve again.

mike65

Since Bond became a cash cow its been Aon/UA-MGM policy to try to make a Bond film every two years. They usually managed it. Sam Mendes is interesting, will we see Daniel Craig lying on a bed imagining Miss Moneypenny covered in petals in the pre-credit sequence?

TonyD79

Can see the third film being crap and them getting in Nolan in to direct with Hardy as bond!!!:D..Freeman/Caine as Q?!!!

MrStuffins

L'prof wrote: »

I have to say I really enjoyed Casino Royal, but Quantum of Solace was fairly pants. Hopefully this one will improve again.

A lot of people thought this but before i went to see it, someone had told me that is was less plot driven and more action driven than Casino Royale... so i just sat back and watched.

Really enjoyed it!

Mr. K

Craig said he'd like to finish out the Quantum plotline, so hopefully he'll be back.

Richard Dower

Matt Bomber for Bond!!!!!!!!!!!

Goldstein

Looking back now, Casino Royale wasn't that bad really, given the pretty awful Quantum of SOlace that followed. It was still very disjointed with no logical flow but Quantum of SOlace viewed like a stream of deleted scenes.

Oh noes, Bond's nemesis is going to control the majority of the water in Bolivia unless someone does something?
Who fúcking cares? Worst Bond bad guy ever!

For the record I think Craig was a great choice to portray Bond, it's not his fault the movies were below par given their resources.

fluke

Some time has passed by and I'm still undecided on where I stand with Quantum of Solace. It's still better than a lot of Bond Films before it but I dunno if I like it. It's like the Batman Returns of Bond movies. I still think it would benefit from seeing where this whole Quantum story is going.

crash davis

TonyD79 wrote: »

Can see the third film being crap and them getting in Nolan in to direct with Hardy as bond!!!:D..Freeman/Caine as Q?!!!

Yep, defo with you on this one. Hardy would make a fantastic Bond and they need someone like Nolan to really chart a new and unique course for the franchise seeing as the last one was a poor imitation of the Bourne flicks.

fluke

I'm a huge Nolan fan but I do think its a bit much to be calling for Nolan to fix this franchise aswell

crash davis

fluke wrote: »

I'm a huge Nolan fan but I do think its a bit much to be calling for Nolan to fix this franchise aswell

Spielberg has said he always wanted to do a Bond flick. He might be passed it now but still, could generate a huge amount of publicity for it plus he's still capable of telling an action story.

fluke

I wouldn't mind seeing Spielberg doing one. actually I think Neil Marshall might be the man for the job.

crash davis

He can handle suspense and action, that's for sure, but what about a huge budget like a Bond flick? His last few films have been a bit dodgy too but yeah, it needs something different... badly.

irishh_bob

Goldstein wrote: »

Looking back now, Casino Royale wasn't that bad really, given the pretty awful Quantum of SOlace that followed. It was still very disjointed with no logical flow but Quantum of SOlace viewed like a stream of deleted scenes.

Oh noes, Bond's nemesis is going to control the majority of the water in Bolivia unless someone does something?
Who fúcking cares? Worst Bond bad guy ever!

For the record I think Craig was a great choice to portray Bond, it's not his fault the movies were below par given their resources.

agree about the villian in quantum of sollace , he was about as sinister and scary as Q , no presence whatsoever , hated the bond girl aswell

liked casino royale and liked the villian too

Mr. K

http://ie.movies.ign.com/articles/114/1143521p1.html

I'm glad that Craig will (at least) get to finish out the Quantum Trilogy. Hopefully it'll be a step up from QoS!

Goldstein

Hope the antagonist will have slightly bigger ambitions this time around than controlling the majority of water in Bolivia :rolleyes:

Also could do with less shakey cam & quick cuts to hide shoddily shot and executed scenes.

I miss Brosnan as Bond.

krudler

Goldstein wrote: »

Hope the antagonist will have slightly bigger ambitions this time around than controlling the majority of water in Bolivia :rolleyes:

Also could do with less shakey cam & quick cuts to hide shoddily shot and executed scenes.

I miss Brosnan as Bond.

Yup not enough sharks with laser beams on their heads in these new Bond movies, its ridiculous, villains living in houses?! hollowed out volcanos and space stations not good enough for them now? needs more women with names like Plenty Uptopp and Ivana Humpulots as well.

Goldstein

krudler wrote: »

Yup not enough sharks with laser beams on their heads in these new Bond movies, its ridiculous, villains living in houses?! hollowed out volcanos and space stations not good enough for them now? needs more women with names like Plenty Uptopp and Ivana Humpulots as well.

I think there's an attainable modern happy medium between Brosnan's invisible cars and Craig's James Bourne.

rednik

I initially had my doubts about Craig, but I thought Casino Royale was the best Bond in years. They have had enough time in between to get this right and if Craig is to leave, make sure he does by completing the trilogy in style.

-Kenny-

Great News !

I seriously hope they bring back John Cleese as Q .. Just isnt the same without him giving out to Bond over gadjets

irish_stevo815

-Kenny- wrote: »

Great News !

I seriously hope they bring back John Cleese as Q .. Just isnt the same without him giving out to Bond over gadjets

Would be cool, but i think the Q character is a bit too comicy for this current series of Bond movies. They could have a Q, but have him a kind of more serious character

Mickeroo

I'd be delighted to see them finish what they started with Craig,

Don't really get the craig haters tbh, and I think QoS was pretty decent, you just have to take it as Casino Royale part 2, it literally starts minutes after casino royale finished, watch them back to back and it's much better.

Casino Royale is the best bond movie ever, making bond into a bad ass cold blooded killer was a stroke of genius and is more like the character Ian Fleming had in mind in the first place.

baz909

cant see them bringing John Cleese into this incarnation of "007" ....

sure they brought Simon Pegg into Mission Impossible 3 as a similar Q character ...

JP Liz V1

http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/01/11/james-bond-returns/

Today’s announcement that the long-delayed 23rd installment of the 007 franchise was finally gearing up for production — with a release date of Nov. 9, 2012 — was the narrowest escape Bond has had since Goldfinger almost circumcised him with a laser beam. Last April, money troubles at debt-hobbled MGM forced Bond’s producers to suspend the film’s pre-production “indefinitely,” which triggered an avalanche of speculation. Would Bond ever return? Or would the most successful action series in motion picture history be tangled up for years in lawsuits and bankruptcy proceedings?
In the end, MGM made a deal with Spyglass Entertainment that saved Bond not a moment too soon. Since the suspension, Daniel Craig has been filling up his date book with lots of other projects, like Cowboys and Aliens and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Squeezing a six-month Bond shoot into his schedule was only going to get more and more difficult. Sam Mendes is still slated to direct, but Peter Morgan, who was writing the script for Bond 23 before the suspension, has apparently been replaced by John Logan, the ex-playwright who penned the screenplays for The Last Samurai and The Aviator.

krudler

-Kenny- wrote: »

Great News !

I seriously hope they bring back John Cleese as Q .. Just isnt the same without him giving out to Bond over gadjets

Noooo, Cleese was appalling as Q. Theres no need for him in the new version of Bond. I like that they've moved away from the plot device where he gets some watch with a mad random feature that just happens to come in handy later on.

irishh_bob

krudler wrote: »

Yup not enough sharks with laser beams on their heads in these new Bond movies, its ridiculous, villains living in houses?! hollowed out volcanos and space stations not good enough for them now? needs more women with names like Plenty Uptopp and Ivana Humpulots as well.

stop knocking the classics

krudler

irishh_bob wrote: »

stop knocking the classics

some of the Bond movies are indeed classics, From Russia With Love, Spy Who Loved Me, Goldfinger, but for every great one theres 3 terrible ones, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever etc The series became a parody of itself way before stuff like Austin Powers did a better job of lampooning it.

FortuneChip

So, I was on Paddy Powers website today. They're quoting 4/7 that Martin Sheen will play Blofeld in the next movie!!!
Now they say they'll refund bets if Blofeld doesn't appear, but even so! 4/7? Is he really the only candidate?

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/hollywood/james-bond?ev_oc_grp_ids=404335

krudler

FortuneChip wrote: »

So, I was on Paddy Powers website today. They're quoting 4/7 that Martin Sheen will play Blofeld in the next movie!!!
Now they say they'll refund bets if Blofeld doesn't appear, but even so! 4/7? Is he really the only candidate?

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/hollywood/james-bond?ev_oc_grp_ids=404335

lol Michael Sheen,who is a great choice.

I read Martin and was like wtf?!

godtabh

baz909 wrote: »

brought Simon Pegg into Mission Impossible 3 as a similar Q character ...

OT but I just saw on his twitter account he is doing MI 4

FortuneChip

krudler wrote: »

lol Michael Sheen,who is a great choice.

I read Martin and was like wtf?!

Yeah, I knew full well it was Michael... but that doesn't stop my tpying from drifting into Fantasy Land! Glenn Close is 250/1 for the same role. I'm not sure I even get the humour? It just sounds scary!

Michael Sheen is quality, but I don't see him as Blofeld! (Personally I'd rather Blofeld didn't appear in the next movie at all, especially if the idea is to round up the Quantum story)

irishh_bob

krudler wrote: »

some of the Bond movies are indeed classics, From Russia With Love, Spy Who Loved Me, Goldfinger, but for every great one theres 3 terrible ones, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever etc The series became a parody of itself way before stuff like Austin Powers did a better job of lampooning it.

i meant stop dissing the bond, isms , the cliches , their what make it what it is

my least favourite bond is never say never again ( which i know is not a real bond btw )

least favourite official bond is diamonds are forever and the man with the golden gun , a view to a kill is pretty awfull aswell but the ending saves it imo

iMax

-Kenny- wrote: »

Great News !

I seriously hope they bring back John Cleese as Q .. Just isnt the same without him giving out to Bond over gadjets

His character was "R". And, No.

mle1324

iMax wrote: »

His character was "R". And, No.

Not too pushed on seeing Q back in the new style of films but I do think that MoneyPenny deserves her place back in the films.

-Kenny-

iMax wrote: »

His character was "R". And, No.

His Character was R in The World is not enough, He replaced the Desmond Llewelyn,s Q in Die Another Day, you can even hear Pierce Brosnan call him "Q" in that flick .

I just loved the clever gadgets in the films , OK granted the watch he was given that was always "conveniently" the exact gadget he needed to get out of a sticky situation was indeed a bit much but comon who didnt love the exploding pen in GoldenEye etc..

Corkfeen

They should bring Martin Campbell back to direct. He's responsible for 2 of the best bonds in years(Goldeneye and Casino Royale.).:D

ziedth

I didn't much care for QOS compared to CR but I'd still be looking forward to this.

Sad Professor

Mendes is still attached so hopefully he'll do a good job. Then again who'd have thought that Forster, a talented director known for making slow-paced character-driven films, could have made the most over-edited, incoherent film in the history of the franchise. I always thought Campbell was a hack, but like Corkfeen said, Casino Royale was easily the best entry in the series since GoldenEye.

I'm slowly coming around to the belief that hack-type directors are best suited to the franchise. Because the auteur-types just don't seem to know what they are doing. You need someone who has experience directing action scenes, not just on the set but in the editing room. The second-unit directing on Quantum was excellent. The problem is Forster and his editors made a balls of the action sequences in post-production.

If Mendes has any sense he'll hire Stuart Baird again. I was re-watching Casino Royale the other night and the editing is excellent. It is fast and intense during the action scenes, but in between Baird and Campbell let the film breath. Contrast this with QoS where there's probably not a single shot in the whole film that lasts longer than 1.5 seconds.

Ridley

ziedth wrote: »

I didn't much care for QOS compared to CR but I'd still be looking forward to this.

It should be fine if Purvis and Wade follow their pattern of writing good then sucky Bond films (World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace).

What I'd like to see at some in the new series is a Daniel Craig'd Scaramanga/Trevelyan type antagonist who is just as good as Bond. Although that Trevelyan from the new GoldenEye game can take a long walk off a short antenna array... again.

niallon

Title is apparently Red Sky At Night and Rachel Weisz is set to play the head of Quantum...interesting, apart from the shambles of a title!!

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rumor-Bond-23-Titled-Red-Sky-At-Night-Rachel-Weisz-Wanted-For-Villain-22746.html


***EDIT: Appears this turned out to be nothing but a rumour generated by The Sun! Still though...Weisz sounded good!***

JP Liz V1

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a301078/javier-bardem-offered-role-in-bond-23.html

Javier Bardem has reportedly been offered a role in the highly anticipated Bond 23 film.
According to Deadline, there are no details about the nature of Bardem's character, but it is believed that the actor is likely to play a villain.
Bardem, who recently received an Oscar nomination for his work in Biutiful, has yet to accept the offer for Bond 23. He has also received an offer to star in the adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, another role that he has yet to accept.
Little is known about the upcoming James Bond movie, although it has been confirmed that Daniel Craig will reprise his role as the British 007 agent and that Sam Mendes (American Beauty) will direct.
Bond 23 is scheduled to open in cinemas on November 9, 2012.

JP Liz V1

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a307471/anthony-hopkins-to-play-bond-villain.html

Sir Anthony Hopkins is reportedly close to signing up to star in the latest James Bond movie.

According to The Sun, the Oscar-winning Silence Of The Lambs actor is in discussions about playing 007's nemesis in the spy series' 23rd instalment. Insiders have likened the part to recurring villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the early Bond pictures.

"The only stumbling block seems to be the number of films he is signing up for," a source said. "There is a chance the character they want him to play could become a regular feature, like Blofeld back in the day."

Hopkins recently appeared in horror movie The Rite and can next be seen as Odin in Marvel adaptation Thor.

Daniel Craig and Judi Dench will return for the untitled Bond adventure, while Javier Bardem and Ralph Fiennes are allegedly circling roles in director Sam Mendes's film.

humanji

It'll be one hell of a cast if they add Bardem and Fiennes. Can't wait for this. I loves me a bit of Bond, I does!

stevenmu

Looking forward to this. I really didn't enjoy QoS on first watch, or the second watch, but then someone on here mentioned that it should be watched back to back with Casino Royale and actually really enjoyed it.

And now I'm looking forward to the arc to be finished.

JP Liz V1

Marion Cotillard and Rachel Weisz (Daniel's new lady in real life) have been rumoured for the female role

JP Liz V1

http://www.digitalspy.ie/movies/news/a322788/bond-23-uk-release-date-announced.html

The James Bond film series' 23rd instalment will be released on October 26, 2012.
Sony Pictures UK confirmed the UK cinema release date on its official Twitter account on Thursday.
Bond 23 - the working title for the project - had already been announced as debuting in the US on November 9, 2012.
Plans for Bond 23 were reportedly put on hold last year as MGM faced a financial crisis, but were revived once the company emerged from bankruptcy in November 2010.
Judi Dench disclosed earlier this year that she is to reprise her role as M for the upcoming movie, but stayed tight-lipped on the film's storyline, saying: "I can't tell you anything at all!"
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes is to helm the film and Daniel Craig will return as 007, while Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will produce.
Sir Anthony Hopkins and Javier Bardem have both been linked to roles in Bond 23.

JP Liz V1

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/06/06/naomie-harris-bond-23/

Naomie Harris is being considered to star as a Bond girl

JP Liz V1

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Rhys Ifans joins

Trevor451

I really hope this won't be as bad as Quantum of Solace . Casino Royal was brilliant though