Bond #25: NO TIME TO DIE

Time to stop making auteur wishlists for the Bond director gig.. The Broccolis will always want to ghost direct!

there goes their shot at making this at least quasi interesting

Thought the revive would be about the rumours that Idris Elba is lined up to play Bond.

More interesting than the director is whether the script goes ahead without Purvis & Wade as planned

God, please

Danny Boyle would've made a fun Bond sure but I do still look forward to Ken Loach's take on the iconic spy

— Italian Alex Pareene (@pareene) August 22, 2018

Loach, Gareth Evans or Joanna Hogg, all fine by me

i know this never will happen and never would've happened but i would've liked to see a soderbergh bond

Don't know if Craig has any sway but as they worked on Logan Lucky together I wouldn't rule it out.

FWIW would love to see what Paul Verhoeven would do with it.

james gunn’s available iirc

Albert Brooks

Brad Bird

i was gonna say it's a little redundant but basically any m:i director not named jj abrams would've prob made a good bond film

Verhoeven doing a PG-13 action film would be a waste.

omar otm

Based on how well the fight scenes were staged in the last WHAS, I'd go for David Wain

i know this never will happen and never would've happened but i would've liked to see a soderbergh bond

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Just get a good cinematographer and stunt coordinator and a journeyman director.

that’s irrelevant unless the atrocious writers are replaced as you said before!

like, Boyle & Hodge wld have been meat & potatoes, but Skyfall was watery gruel with plaster in it & Spectre was a greasy turd with a paper umbrella stuck in it at a jaunty angle

still get angry when I think about Spectre.

maybe this is naive but I don't understand why you'd spend millions making a movie and not go to the trouble of making sure your screenplay isn't total garbage, how hard can it be?

bond movies are copyright-maintenance exercises where the scripts are product ads strung together with action setpieces

why bother thinking to hard about the scripts when showcasing jaguar and patek philippe or whatever is much more important

yes, sure, but is it actively more expensive/time-consuming to have a not shit script?

well, at the very least you gotta find a decent writer who wants to do it, can do it for the budget the broccolis are willing to pay, and is available to turn in a final draft for the date they need to hit in order to meet their release date, so it probably is, yeah!

the problem with the last pair in particular was the sense that they really wanted to make critically approved action masterpieces as opposed to making great Bond films. So they made them ponderous and weighty and full of all kinds of Nolan hand-me-downs w/r/t motivation and "the past haunting the present" and all that bullshit.

Quantum of Solace for all its faults was less a disaster than it was more of a throwback to the more mediocre (and yet still entertaining) Connery/Moore Bond films.

quantum is gorgeously filmed except for the action sequences which are nonsense. it v rapidly evaporates from memory but i really enjoy it when it's on

skyfall and spectre both suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

i have probably posted both of those opinions 10000x before

no Bond film should ever involve the villain appearing on one end of a very long room and taking a ten minute walk towards the camera while delivering a monologue, I'm pretty sure Torgo from Manos Hands of Fate walked faster than Silva in that scene.

Hahahah. But art!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/14/james-bond-25-007-writers-neal-purvis-robert-wade-rehired?CMP=share_btn_tw

ah ffs

Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig announced today that #Bond25 will begin filming at Pinewood Studios on 4 March 2019 under the helm of director, Cary Joji Fukunaga with a worldwide release date of 14 February 2020. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/Oyzt826sXd

— James Bond (@007) September 20, 2018

huh - had they announced before that fukunaga would be directing?

no, this is the announcement

WE GOT (working) TITLE

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/22/shatteredhand-james-bond-working-title

...wait, what?

Shatterhand, wish in the other, see which fills up first.

shatterhand?

shitterhand morelike

that shatnerfist in full

https://i.giphy.com/media/wAhJF6wUMowy4/giphy.gif

tbf Daggermouth was already taken

In You Only Live Twice, published in 1964, Blofeld returns and Bond finds him hiding in Japan under the alias Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. He has once again changed his appearance. He has put on some muscle, and has a gold-capped tooth, a fully healed nose, and a drooping grey mustache.

The Shattered Hand clan (or simply the Hand)[2] was originally an orcish clan that dwelled in the Spires of Arak. Formed from outcasts and liberated Highmaul gladiator slaves, the clan was named after its gruesome self-mutilation practices. The clan was left behind on Draenor during the First and Second Wars, but later rallied under Ner'zhul's banner. Following Draenor's transformation into Outland, many Shattered Hand transformed into fel orcs, with their founder and chieftain, Kargath Bladefist, becoming the Warchief of the Fel Horde in service to the Illidari.

In the modern day, the Horde-loyal "Shattered Hand" refers to a secretive multi-racial organization of spies, assassins, and rogue trainers seemingly fulfilling a similar role as the Alliance's SI:7.

if this movie pits bond against an army of savage orcs, it’s a day one viewing for me tbh

Shat-In-Hand

ew

The clock is ticking and despite that pre-production has already bled over into some production—cameras have been rolling on “Bond 25,” though it’s all second unit photography without the principal cast—the gears keep on turning on the screenplay for the next 007 movie. The Observer reports that Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been hired to “liven up” the still as-of-yet-untitled ‘Bond 25’ screenplay.

Waller-Bridge might be best known by American audiences for playing the recalcitrant droid L3-37 in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” but she is a critically-acclaimed artist, writer, playwright known for the creating and writing the critically-acclaimed BBC comedy “Fleabag,” and the currently-beloved BBC America black comedic spy thriller “Killing Eve.”

But Waller-Bridge recently announces that “Fleabag” has ended after season two, she’s no longer the showrunner of “Killing Eve,” and has delegated duties and apparently has a hole in her schedule. That’s enough for star Daniel Craig who has reportedly specifically requested her to bring her wit and quirkiness to the screenplay.

this is both very good news and very bad news imo

i think i know what you mean

Bond has always been a heavy boozer! It's just in recent films that it's been commented on as a flaw.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/12/13/250474378/if-you-drank-like-james-bond-youd-be-shaken-too

Dr. Indra Neil Guha, a liver specialist, and his colleagues at Nottingham University Hospital in England spent a year poring over Ian Fleming's James Bond books and tabulating how many drinks the suave spy drank a day.

Their conclusion? Even just steadying his Walther PPK might have been difficult for Bond.

On average, Bond consumed about 45 drinks a week, or six to seven a day, the authors wrote Thursday in the Christmas edition of BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal. That's way more than the amount considered risky for men by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

It wasn't just chronic drinking that roughed up Bond's liver. He also went on some mean benders. In Casino Royale, Bond knocked back nearly 20 drinks before going on a high-speed car chase, getting in a wreck and then spending two weeks in the hospital. "We hope that this was a salutary lesson," the authors wrote dryly.

"This man clearly consumed what are considered to be harmful amounts of alcohol," says psychiatrist Peter Martin, who directs the Vanderbilt Addiction Center. "There are data that show that drinking like this, about 100 grams of alcohol a day, is highly likely to be associated with liver cirrhosis and also cognitive deficits." It would also be likely to increase risks for depression and sexual dysfunction, conditions that would not be very Bondian.

nonsense, surely Ian Fleming drank like that, and he lived to the wise old age of *checks notes* fifty-six

never mind

James is so drunk and delusional he just runs out in public and stalks and shoots civilians each day, but in his mind they all appear as agents of SPECTRE so he is unaware of his depravity

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p sure it was the chain-smoking as much as the booze that did for Fleming

james bond would never smoke

xposts to dr casino - rewatching SPECTRE gave me a much better feeling towards madeline, it may not make you like NTTD more but might at least give it a bit more stakes? i think it holds up better in light of the new movie.

i rewatched NTTD tonight and cried during the ending this time, after being pretty much emotionless watching it in the theater

it's funny, in my mind i remember hating SPECTRE, but if i look back at my comments on the relevant thread, they're pretty mixed but not super mad at it. i definitely liked the action scenes. then if you scroll another year down in the thread, i've reached my present day point of remembering it as a terrible movie i have no interest in rewatching. hmmm.

DO IT

The Being James Bond doc/promo thing is now up for a free watch on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZdJrph3RA

i’ve been on a mythology kick lately & while I was refreshing my memory of the 12 labors of Heracles, came upon the recounting of his death

from wiki:

This is described in Sophocles's Trachiniae and in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IX. Having wrestled and defeated Achelous, god of the Acheloos river, Heracles takes Deianira as his wife. Travelling to Tiryns, a centaur, Nessus, offers to help Deianira across a fast flowing river while Heracles swims it. However, Nessus is true to the archetype of the mischievous centaur and tries to steal Deianira away while Heracles is still in the water. Angry, Heracles shoots him with his arrows dipped in the poisonous blood of the Lernaean Hydra. Thinking of revenge, Nessus gives Deianira his blood-soaked tunic before he dies, telling her it will "excite the love of her husband".[40]
Several years later, rumor tells Deianira that she has a rival for the love of Heracles. Deianira, remembering Nessus' words, gives Heracles the bloodstained shirt. Lichas, the herald, delivers the shirt to Heracles. However, it is still covered in the Hydra's blood from Heracles' arrows, and this poisons him, tearing his skin and exposing his bones. Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him (according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him). Heracles then uproots several trees and builds a funeral pyre on Mount Oeta, which Poeas, father of Philoctetes, lights. As his body burns, only his immortal side is left. Through Zeus' apotheosis, Heracles rises to Olympus as he dies.

This is now available free to subscribers on Amazon Prime, which is what I was waiting for to finally watch it.

In the UK, that is. No idea about elsewhere.