Skyfall: Bond #23

They need to quit being so cautious and let Tarantino direct one, someday.

ha, the article agrees with me.

i thought the fassbender/myers scenes in IB were the most tolerable scenes. but he is such an epic douche and it'd have shitty references to other films and ugh.

iirc he is actually talking about doing a len deighton novel.

he should do austin powers 4 imo.

Should be Mark Neveldine amirite?

had to google that (for shame): guessed it was the director of 'the room'. wrongly.

I think there's a queasy disturbing emo quality to the Cranks which wd fit nu-Bond to a tee.

wonder if it'll be in 3d

pretty sure the world is ready for james cameron's bond, if that wasn't already done in true lies

I think 3D is a fun party gimmick but sucks for watching movies in.

true lines would have been epic if it hadn't starred arnie and that annoying guy.

ya 3d would suck... unless eva green agrees to star amirite.

lol trudat

her eyes would be amazing in 3d

Spot where the roffles begin:

No, this isn't an April Fool's prank. According to both The Times' Hero Complex blog and the Hollywood Reporter, Sam Mendes, the wonderfully cerebral and cultured filmmaker who once upon a time won an Oscar for directing "American Beauty," is in discussions to make the new James Bond film, which could go into production as early as this June. Daniel Craig would be onboard, reprising his role as Mr. 007.

i like the suggestion that instead of this, mendes should do an 'after hours' and make a low-budget indie movie to get his mojo back. perhaps he could team up with a hip young novelist to do it? and it's true -- like martin scorsese he should avoid playing the industry's game by (say) making a sequel to someone else's movie.

I think the April Fool lies somewhere between "wonderfully" and "cerebral".

Mendes has never made a good movie and should stay far, far away.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/nolan-says-hed-love-to-do-bond/

this would be better than mendes

clive owen and nolan 2012 imo

^ yes

And away we go.

Godammit. New Bond title "Boredom is Forever"...or "Stare At This Thing For A Long Time While Nothing Happens"

You Only Have a Midlife Crisis Twice

Theme song by Josh Groban.

A Merchant Ivory co-production

so i'm pretty psyched for this now. i like how he says the new script excites him more than Casino Royale's did.

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/daniel-craig-bond-23-will-be-better-than-casino-r/227418

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pw7i82JUaw

fuck sam mendes with a big fucking stick

He's hardly going to say "the script is worse than Quantum of Solace", but, yeah, will watch. I don't give a monkeys about gadgets though, really.

not even watching the interview but yeah Craig's quote is basically "this new album is my strongest work yet" and fuck sam mendes with a great big fucking stick and yeah will watch

Skyfall appears to be the title, Javier Bardem to play the villain.

http://fusible.com/2011/10/new-james-bond-film-to-be-titled-skyfall-domain-names-privately-registered/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/javier-bardem-bond-23-villain-246719

Works for me.

I hope he actually reprises Anton Chigurh.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a348799/james-bond-23-press-conference-live-daniel-craig-on-skyfall.html

Bérénice Marlohe, Naomie Harris are the new Bond girls. Albert Finny and Ben Whishaw also cast. Scotland, London, Istanbul and China the locations.

Elder Scrolls XXIII: Skyfall

fuck the poster sucks

god i REALLY hope this is good. Royale was a frickin masterpiece of a Bond movie.

our Dan looks a bit knackered mind

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pixies/2011/11/3/1320333022686/Daniel-Craig-and-Sam-Mend-007.jpg

Sam Mendes: danger danger danger

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/skyfalls-daniel-craig-to-endorse-heineken-as-james/259502

Altogether now.. "HEINEKEN?? FUCK THAT SHIT.. "

next thing you know, he'll be endorsing ford mondeos or something...

more tittle tattle. i think this is gonna be amazing tbh.

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/james-bond-skyfall-director-likens-movies-to-doctor/267394

hey and check the wacky user comment at the bottom too while you're there. interesting.

wacky, but I like it. A good chin-scratcher.

Trailer in the next few days. Meantime:

http://images.fandango.com/images/fandangoblog/skyfall-poster-1.jpg

Cool poster. If it's half as good as Casino Royale I'll be happy.

Sweeeet

HOW IS MAN WALKING UP GUN BARREL??

he's v tiny, iirc

"Man. Ant-Man."

"Look at this exploding fountain pen, Q, it's huuuge!"

"Sure is, Tiny Bond!"

Tiny Bond confronts Blofeld.
Blofeld steps on Tiny Bond.
Fin.

Hold me closer, tiny Bondster

Tiny Bond: For Your Microscope Only

Didn't they like trumpet a return to the set up with MI6 that they had in the very beginning of the Connery sequence? with Ralph Fiennes becoming Bernard Lee's M and the black girl who shot Bond at the beginning becoming Moneypenny.
So looked like they were trying to return to something approaching where things were then and this new Spectre/Blofeld development would just add to that. Not sure how things compare to the books since its been a while since I read those that I have, just wondering if it is trying to reboot something closer to them or something.

there's definitely a reboot of sorts going on. but the key question is how many more films will the producers let daniel craig make. skyfall was full of 'too old' themes, so my guess is one more for dc, the next story will include some transition to a younger replacement.

ffs he's not Doctor Who

they should ride craig as long as they can imo

aw yeah

for sure, the odds of a replacement being an improvement are pretty slim

he's signed for two more bonds iirc

the new one was original going to be a two-parter but they scrapped that idea once Mendes got back on board

I really hope they do give it to Idris Elba next. Seems very unlikely though.

They should reboot and shoot the next four or five as period pieces tbh

i wd really enjoy films of the original books - inasmuch as they're filmable - but it wd be "James Bond" not James Bond and kinda too big a budget for the arthouse and too out of time for the multiplex

Anyone read William Boyd's Bond novel? I'm quite keen to.

no way they can top Skyfall/ Royale with the next one. they should quit, take the rest of the decade off and come back with a new guy. the quote about how they were bringing back Bond's funny knockabout romp side (or something) doesn't fill me with much hope.

I'm not waiting 10 years for another bond movie just bcz you've had yr fill ffs

I could top skyfall with my phone camera, a bic lighter, a bmx and a jack jones shirt

+ komodo dragon

the quote about how they were bringing back Bond's funny knockabout romp side (or something) doesn't fill me with much hope.

I have the opposite view: IMO part of what makes Bond Bond is the humour/quipping/charming bastard side of the character. Bond shouldn't be just a thug, otherwise you could just be making generic action movies and not call the guy James Bond at all. I thought the thuggishness and overt seriousness was okay in Casino Royale, because it was established Bond was still a rookie and this was his origin story of a sort. But three movies of that is enough already, you don't need to imitate your imitator and makes James Bond into Jason Bourne. So yeah, bring back the one-liners!

make two James Bonds, one for people who love the vibe of the books and the early movies, the other for people who enjoy whatever the fuck Roger Moore thought he was doing

Well, I didn't mean they need to revert to late Moore level of buffoonery. But in the early years Moore was still pretty good, and Connery wasn't overtly serious either. The later Connery and early Moore movies are probably the platonic ideal of the cinematic James Bond, they had a good balance of seriousness and rompishness, so I see no problem in taking your blueprint from those.

Except for the moore thing

So yeah, bring back the one-liners!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUTr3tkVGo

i'd like some good one-liners and not weird stuff like the ones in skyfall like where he lolled @ the woman being shot

casino royale had plenty of one-liners, not that i can remember any of them?

James Bond: [laughing - after being stuck five times with a knotted rope] Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls!

i'd like some good one-liners and not weird stuff like the ones in skyfall like where he lolled @ the woman being shot

Yeah. A while ago I rewatched For Your Eyes only, and it was kinda weird to realize that movie had the strongest female protagonist in any Bond movie made before or after it. Not long after that I went to see Skyfall, and it had the rapey boat scene, the aforementioned "just shoot her" scene, plus the Moneypenny subplot with the implication that women aren't cut to be field agents, and the ending where the proper gender order was re-established with a new male M and a Moneypenny behind the secretary desk... Give me your over-the-top crossbow-wielding female avengers and thighs-of-death assassins over this kind of "realism" anyday.

Yeah totally, all of that is the main reason I really can't imagine ever wanting to watch this again, that and it being eight years long.

I don't know why but I'm again pondering how unfortunate it was that there was an actual Bond film with Christopher Walken and Grace Jones and they fucked it up by having a weak plot

tbh there isnt any suggestion throughout craig's tour of duty that he's cut out to be a field agent himself, it's three movies of disaster upon disaster.

plus he really doesnt seem to like it

it's a job, right

we've been spoiled by seeing genius super-ninjas in the Bourne franchise

I really hope they do give it to Idris Elba next. Seems very unlikely though.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Idris Elba for everything imo

sadly he'll be too old by the time craig ages out

If they go with another white dude, Fassbender has a very Bondian way about him

He can reprise stringer bell in crossover sequel: The Bell Only Rings Twice

lol

The Spy Who Luthered Me

the name's Pentecost. Stacker Pentecost.

If they go with another white dude, Fassbender has a very Bondian way about him

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:55 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah fassy would be great

like I'm almost convinced that he's irl Bond

every tv interview I've seen him on, I keep waiting for him to shoot a watch dart at the interviewer or pull a martini from somewhere

the fass reminds me a bit of cranston

hmmm

yknow....

Fassbender's real-life history of violence against women would put him right in the Connery tradition.

the fass reminds me a bit of cranston

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:18 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

haha i spent a lot of 12 years a slave imagining cranston playing epps instead of fassbender

this was on tv

i had forgotten, or never clocked, that just before the infamous "waste of a good scotch" line when bardem pours craig the 50-year-old macallan and clinks bond's glass, saying "to women we have loved", bond actually drinks it. bond doesn't drink that, does he? a villain's toast? (from a bottle no one else has taken a sip of yet, even?)

http://i.imgur.com/CnuJpat.jpg

if they're going to reboot the villains, what the next one needs is a really vicious train fight as per 'From Russia..' between Bond and a Shaw-esque psycho thug.

pisces 'Broccoli' x tips his hand!

the scene where Silva shoots up Parliament actually made my anxiety spike when I was watching it again. even though it's different countries obv, after January 6th, anything resembling that (or worse) = revulsion.

well shot scene though.

also aren't the realtors angry that Bond destroyed a home he didn't own anymore