Bond 23 - "Skyfall" spoilers from post 595

grames_bond · 06-11-2010 2:15pm #1

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 · 06-11-2010 2:17pm

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 · 06-11-2010 2:38pm

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 · 06-11-2010 2:46pm

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 · 06-11-2010 6:07pm

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 · 06-11-2010 6:19pm

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 · 06-11-2010 8:24pm

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

Richard Dower · 06-11-2010 8:46pm

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

Goldstein · 06-11-2010 10:02pm

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 · 07-11-2010 2:33am

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 · 07-11-2010 2:36am

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 · 07-11-2010 2:43am

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 · 07-11-2010 2:44am

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 · 07-11-2010 2:50am

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

crash davis · 07-11-2010 2:55am

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 · 07-11-2010 10:32pm

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 · 11-01-2011 10:29pm

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 · 11-01-2011 11:14pm

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 · 11-01-2011 11:26pm

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 · 11-01-2011 11:41pm

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 · 12-01-2011 12:01am

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- · 12-01-2011 12:50am

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 · 12-01-2011 1:01am

-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 · 12-01-2011 2:02am

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 · 12-01-2011 9:44am

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 · 12-01-2011 11:18am

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 · 12-01-2011 11:30am

-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 · 12-01-2011 7:12pm

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 · 12-01-2011 8:45pm

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 · 13-01-2011 3:22pm

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 · 13-01-2011 3:40pm

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?!

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