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pixelburp · 13-09-2021 8:46pm

I speculate it's more an overture for an attempt to tap into that sweet "shared universe" money that's all the rage across Hollywood. The producers have had brief flirtations with spin offs before, never taking off presumably due to the quick realisation there's no market for a Bond movie without Bond. As far back as Halle Berry back during the Brosnan days, or the more recent scuttlebutt this version of Moneypenny was to get her own flick.

Or it could just be a marketing gimmick to try and distance Bond from its reputation. Look how many girlboss spies we have in our film!

Sad Professor · 13-09-2021 8:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117886798#Comment_117886798

A bit of both I think

eviltimeban · 14-09-2021 9:41am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117864768#Comment_117864768

You might like this: https://www.bondsuits.com/

Agent Coulson · 14-09-2021 12:15pm

15 years as Bond for Craig that must be the longest run time wise any actor has had the role.

Dades · 14-09-2021 1:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117886707#Comment_117886707

This type of trailer really invokes the fear of the woke in people. Wimmin are here for our jobs!

Bond and 007 are a brand that won't be compromised by the codename being owned by another agent when Bond is "dead".

No doubt the reboot will put all right with the world.

loyatemu · 14-09-2021 2:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117889153#Comment_117889153

Yes - Moore had 12 years from 73 to 85 but managed to squeeze an extra couple of movies in to that timeframe.

OU812 · 14-09-2021 2:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117889587#Comment_117889587

Ummm… that’s not what I said.

To be honest, I’d welcome a move like this. Have a core supporting cast and make them about the organisation rather than the one character.

MisterAnarchy · 14-09-2021 3:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117889587#Comment_117889587

Well according to Lashana Lynch the next Bond can be anyone: a man or woman, a young or old person, from any race.

“We are in a place in time where the industry is not just giving audiences what it thinks the audience wants. They’re actually giving the audience what they want to give the audience.

“With Bond, it could be a man or woman. They could be white, black, Asian, mixed race. They could be young or old. At the end of the day, even if a two-year-old was playing Bond, everyone would flock to the cinema to see what this two-year-old’s gonna do, no?” the Captain Marvel star said.

🙄

James Bond will always be a man luv, for numerous reasons.

That trailer with the female agents looks very cringeworthy and cheesy.

You cant go for a serious tone and have fluff like that .

Looks like Bond is being knocked down a few pegs to make the female agents look good and he will have to rely on their help now as he is an old dinosaur with a bad knee and an unsteady hand.

Dades · 14-09-2021 3:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117890176#Comment_117890176

Okay fair enough! I didn't really mean you personally, rather than those who do react adversely.

Personally I'd hate a departure from a single male Bond focussed series. It's him that differentiates it from [insert generic spy thriller]. He is a continuation of Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan et al.

Of course nothing to say the films can't be stocked with strong supporting roles (as have had many Bond movies already). Though trailers like the one above are almost patronising in their approach to promoting their female roles.

Agent Coulson · 14-09-2021 4:24pm

Pierce Brosnan pitched that idea when he was looking for one more go at Bond that the Bond name would be a code name like 007 and anyone could play Bond.

They just spend 4 movies giving Craig's Bond a back story all the way to childhood.

So now they just turn the Bond name into a codename where anyone can be James Bond seems off

johnny_ultimate · 14-09-2021 4:31pm

There’s no bloody internal consistency whatsoever in this series. I mean, can you imagine Daniel Craig’s Bond surfing a tidal wave or going to the moon?

They make it up as they go along and change the tone / approach regularly. The idea that there has ever been one canonical, singular ‘James Bond’ seems utterly preposterous to me with no basis in the actual films themselves.

pixelburp · 14-09-2021 4:38pm

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The Bond series has always been reactive though, never secure in its own ideas or direction. I'd well believe a sudden course correction cos jts innate to the franchise.

Let's not forget this is a series so insecure in itself, it released Moonraker as a response to Star Wars. Casino Royale inspired by Bourne; while the original Casino Royale, the comedy, had multiple 007s - it is just a codename after all. really, if the series did decide upon that direction and made Bond a woman it'd kinda be consistent for the production. Reactive.

Agent Coulson · 14-09-2021 5:02pm

I suppose they could make the next Bond transgender.

A female agent transitions into a male Bond at the start of the next movie.

I wonder how that would go down.

Dades · 15-09-2021 10:25am

For sure, 007 could just be a reusable codename. I'm sure there was another 006 after Sean Bean got squished by a crane.

However given its use of 007 as a brand I can't see them disassociating it with Bond himself for long. After all, "James Bond is 007.... license to kill..." Whatever M or Q we have frequently refer to him as 007. It's one of the recognisable tropes of the franchise. Maybe another agent has the codename at the start of NTTD, but the reboot will surely address this.

Just look at the amount of official 007 branded stuff on the Bond store!

https://007store.com/search?type=product&q=007

pixelburp · 15-09-2021 11:18am

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Oh yeah, this is the conundrum of the brand, ultimately, for the executive level. It's an analogue watch in a digital world; one where shared universes and the extendability of an IP is the driver in blockbuster economics. But James Bond has no extended ensemble to play with; no real backstory or ongoing conspiracy to tap into. It just is its own thing, always moulding itself to trends and making bank doing so. The brand now too gargantuan as well, too large to scale back into modest productions & projections.

Arguably, this is the first time said trends don't have an immediate match with the series. As you say, they could make 007 the brand, but James Bond is too synonymous. Daniel Craig parachutes with The Queen, cos that's where the character exists now.

Of course, if they do make Lashana Lynch the new lead of a 007 film, and it flops, the reason for this won't be seen as related to the above. Those obsessed with "go woke, go broke" rubbernecking will feel validated, but the reality will speak more to a brand that struggled to mould itself to the latest economic trend. Better to pause for a few years, see where Hollywood goes to next. Or maybe Bond goes into a clone of John Wick - as seen with Casino Royale cribbing from the Bourne films.

OU812 · 15-09-2021 11:28am

Regarding the “007 Universe”.

By getting rid of James Bond and doubling down on the 007 brand, they can have different actors of different races and genders take over the role which will make it incredibly dynamic. If someone’s not working out or the public vote with their feet, then they’re killed off screen between missions and the new one takes over.

It also means there can be a shared universe, where we can have high production values TV shows which concentrate on Q-Branch or on Moneypenny as a single girl living in London and working for the secret service. Think SATC with guns.

Whomever is playing 007 at that time could have the occasional cameo and situations could be shared across the shows/movies like they do with Marvel

There’s every reason for them to go in this direction. Particularly now since Amazon are involved with them.

johnny_ultimate · 15-09-2021 11:36am

I find it hard to imagine the James Bond series could do anything that's as bad as Die Another Day. That utter piece of **** should have been a franchise killer in a just world. Makes even Quantum of Solace and Spectre look good (and those films aren't very good at all).

Dades · 15-09-2021 4:49pm

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It just goes to show how time away, and a really fresh take can revive anything.

Regarding the 007 "universe", sure maybe they'll go down the route of telling the story of other double-Os at MI6, but there's plenty numbers other than 7. If Bond is to survive in movie format also, why strip him of his codename and all the history it carries?

Sad Professor · 15-09-2021 7:15pm

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Yahoo did a poll which actually ranked DAD as only the third worst Bond with both QoS and Spectre ranked below it, which I find crazy. QoS and Spectre are both perfectly watchable which can't be said for DAD.

pixelburp · 15-09-2021 7:23pm

Sounds like a poll with some Recency Bias at play. I'd also say stuff like Man With the Golden Gun were not just worse Bond movies, but worse films as stories go. Die Another Day was awful, but it had a ludicrous excess that made it something to laugh at (though that might be because the last time I saw it, I was half-cut at Xmas). MwtGG was just pointless and boring.

FunLover18 · 15-09-2021 7:28pm

Like PB says you can laugh at how ludicrous DAD is. Spectre is an absolute slog with no redeeming qualities. I will defend QoS till my dying day.

Sad Professor · 15-09-2021 7:38pm

I like QoS too. The script (a victim of the writer's strike) was undercooked and didn't really stand on its own but it still would have be a great epilogue to Casino Royale if not for the hyperactive editing. Forster should have been removed from the editing room. Instead they decided that the film was too serious and they needed more jokes and winking at the audience.

loyatemu · 16-09-2021 9:17am

Spectre drags on a bit, but there are plenty of worse Bond movies. DAD has some really good bits in it, but unfortunately also some of the worst scenes in any of the films.

B.A._Baracus · 16-09-2021 10:33am

Spectre was sh*te :p

Blofeld being James Bond foster brother. Go way out of that.

CastorTroy · 17-09-2021 8:11pm

https://twitter.com/itsfilmthusiast/status/1438860428059283458

Taken from the "Being James Bond" documentary

billyhead · 18-09-2021 11:04am

Would David Tennant make a good bond?

OU812 · 18-09-2021 11:23am

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Nope.

great actor but too short and weedy looking.

FunLover18 · 18-09-2021 11:58am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117907398#Comment_117907398

He's 6 foot but that aside, I tend to agree. He's also 50 now so that ship as sailed.

Maybe they had done a more classic style espionage film, less action heavy. He's probably closer to the David Niven-esque look which Fleming had in mind.

Mr Crispy · 18-09-2021 1:02pm

I like pixelburp's shout for Dev Patel. If they still want a "traditional" Bond I'd go for someone like Richard Madden, or Nicholas Hoult maybe.

FunLover18 · 18-09-2021 1:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117907663#Comment_117907663

After watching The Wedding Guest on Amazon, I'm fully on board for Patel. It's not a great movie by any means but it's a good demonstration of his more serious side.

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