Dang at that Hiddleston quote, wow.
I love the Hiddlestone shaming though. Just the kind of pathetic comment I expected from the Broccoli Family.
No to what?
No to the most charisma-free man ever to inhabit the role of James Bond.
... I thought that was obvious?
@windleopard, Tam never liked Daniel Craig as Bond.
Hiddleston would be no better though. I stick by Chiwetel Eijofor and Idris Elba as my choices.
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I'd prefer Chiwetel to play the role of a bad guy/villain.
Wasn't Aidan Turner considered as an option some months ago?
edited 6th Apr '17 2:17:18 PM by Quag15
Making Ejiofor play a villain would be demeaning. Typical form for EON but demeaning. He should be Bond. I've said this before so that's hardly surprising.
I know what you thinking, but I already had an idea of Idris Elba as Bond to prevent the accusations.
Five Hollywood studios are currently battling over which one will make the next James Bond film.
Said studios being current producer Sony versus our four new contenders, Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, and Annapurna.
Also.
How many James Bond stories are left to be adapted before they start remaking the older films?
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I think they already got them all from the original Flemming ones.
Probably the most famous story (though Non-Flemming) story they never adapted is Colonel Sun.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
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The only Fleming work that has had neither title nor plot used so far is the imaginatively-named short story 007 in New York. There's also The Property of a Lady and Risico, whose titles were never used but whose plots were accordioned into Octopussy and For Your Eyes Only respectively.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Would that it were so simple.
The original plot of You Only Live Twice hasn't been used yet.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Of the movies that share a novel title, only about half of them are any more than superficial plot similarities. Moonraker being one of the most famous divergences.
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Book!LALD and Book!MR got Setting Updates in Licence to Kill and GoldenEye though.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Well, in Golden Eye the central MacGuffin and villain end goal is more similar to the Moonraker novel but the overall plot is still vastly different. Moonraker is famous for having no globetrotting, staying in Britain, and the villain is secretly an ex-Nazi using the Moonraker project funded by the British government to destroy London. Golden Eye is about a Soviet forgotten superweapon from the cold war falling into the hands of a 00 agent who faked his death, going from Moscow to Cuba tracking him down.
IIRC Die Another Day is (also?) inspired by book!Moonraker, with the weirdly race lifted North Korean villain standing in for Drax his faked English identity/persona. Somewhat similar end goal too, right?
Does kind of make me think that although the series did this as recently as Quantum of Solace, the movies are probably due for another Villain with Good Publicity, and a Neo-Fascist would make some sense.
How politically/socially relevant are the Bond films usually?
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Hmm... at best, they could be a sort of reflection of the zeitgeist, past and present. Skyfall involved that whole thing about surveillance, and the older movies reflect some aspects of Cold War dynamics. There is also a political subtext in some of the Fleming books about Britain's place in the international stage, and Britain's/Fleming's perceptions of other countries during the Cold War.
But generally, insightful or 'innovative' political or social commentary are hard to find, because they're secondary to the action and spying motifs.
edited 24th Apr '17 6:41:34 PM by Quag15
The books lay it on more thick with Fleming's conservative imperialist worldview, but the movies are tamer in this regard.
Goldeneye (with the end of the cold war being a pretty major theme), Skyfall (with the hax and neo-terrorism) and Quantum of Solace (with how american business manipulate third world countries) are probably the ones I can think that focus more on quasi-political aspects.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
It's not quite political but Tomorrow Never Dies is almost prophetic in how it portrays the news media obsession with being first.
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Elliot Carver is a damn relevant villain nowadays.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Would that it were so simple.
So apparently Roger Moore released a hilarious tell-all retrospective about filming Live and Let Die in 1973 as a movie tie-in.
edited 25th Apr '17 8:37:19 PM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Daniel Craig's Bond is becoming tiresome and dull; like, even in a phenomenal film like Skyfall, he's the least interesting part of the film. And he plainly hates making these films; how much did they need to bribe him back to the role?
edited 5th Apr '17 8:12:48 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."