No Time To Die: Production Diary

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  • Posts: 820
    AgentM72 wrote: »
    Red_Snow wrote: »


    As of 9hrs ago DC and RW were in New York.

    With particularly strong 007 hair, one might add. Hope it stays that way next week.

    +1. A little bit of length and some styling, and it'd look very nice.

    Potential there for high(-ish) and tight. Always thought it the look that suits him best as Bond. Pierce, as well.

    Only an opinion a hardcore Bond fan could have (or even think about): their best haircuts, by wide margins, are SPECTRE and TWINE, respectively.
  • Bentley007Bentley007 Manitoba, Canada
    Posts: 567
    It is mind boggling that we're still at a stage of arguing about when and how a director, who is now not making Bond 25, was initially hired to direct Bond 25.

    Who cares? They didn't like the script. It's over and done with. Boyle has moved on. It's for the history books. It's no longer pertinent to the production of the film. Get over it.
    He has already started in norway...

    AE67-F7-AA-519-F-4305-B1-E1-9-F43-DAD64720.png

    That's a lovely view.

    I may have found more proof that this is indeed the stunt double for a character played by Rami Malek. The actor above recently started following Malek's alleged acting coach on Bohemian Rhapsody https://instagram.com/pollyannabennett?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=14ehclmy7bh38
  • Posts: 19,339
    AgentM72 wrote: »
    AgentM72 wrote: »
    Red_Snow wrote: »


    As of 9hrs ago DC and RW were in New York.

    With particularly strong 007 hair, one might add. Hope it stays that way next week.

    +1. A little bit of length and some styling, and it'd look very nice.

    Potential there for high(-ish) and tight. Always thought it the look that suits him best as Bond. Pierce, as well.

    Only an opinion a hardcore Bond fan could have (or even think about): their best haircuts, by wide margins, are SPECTRE and TWINE, respectively.

    Personally I prefer Dan's CR hair and Pierce's TND look.
  • MalloryMallory Do mosquitoes have friends?
    Posts: 2,057
    AgentM72 wrote: »
    AgentM72 wrote: »
    Red_Snow wrote: »


    As of 9hrs ago DC and RW were in New York.

    With particularly strong 007 hair, one might add. Hope it stays that way next week.

    +1. A little bit of length and some styling, and it'd look very nice.

    Potential there for high(-ish) and tight. Always thought it the look that suits him best as Bond. Pierce, as well.

    Only an opinion a hardcore Bond fan could have (or even think about): their best haircuts, by wide margins, are SPECTRE and TWINE, respectively.

    TWINE hair is Pb epic. QoS better than SP for the DC era.
  • HildebrandRarityHildebrandRarity Centre international d'assistance aux personnes déplacées, Paris, France
    Posts: 467
    A funny thing about the Mendes project is that the three main stars were in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, photographed by Hoyte van Hoytema.
  • ShardlakeShardlake Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 4,043
    Newman needs to be far away from Bond 25 as possible.

    Hopefully Mendes will make sure he's busy, we certainly don't want anymore rush jobs on the score like his cut and paste SPECTRE fiasco.

  • edited March 2019 Posts: 17,293
    Another article behind a paywall, but it looks like a local service station have noticed the presence of the film crew, as they're "washing their cars all the time". Muddy roads the reason, apparently.

    https://www.hadeland.no/kultur/nordmarka/james-bond/solete-veg-for-filmcrewet-i-nordmarka-de-vasker-bilene-sine-hele-tida/s/5-21-556024
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
    Posts: 4,343
    25 shooting selected sequences in IMAX is excellent news!
  • Posts: 19,339
    Shardlake wrote: »
    Newman needs to be far away from Bond 25 as possible.

    Hopefully Mendes will make sure he's busy, we certainly don't want anymore rush jobs on the score like his cut and paste SPECTRE fiasco.

    I couldn't agree more,it really was woeful,lazy and arrogant work in SP.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    edited March 2019 Posts: 3,497
    You people should know that I haven't listened to his SP score yet...

    But yeah, bring back Arnold! ;-)

  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    Posts: 15,423
    JamesCraig wrote: »
    You people should know that I haven't listened to his SP score yet...

    But yeah, bring back Arnold! ;-)
    If you listened to the SF score, you already listened to the SP score. That's about it, old chap. ;)
  • edited March 2019 Posts: 4,400
    antovolk wrote: »
    Not sure if posted already.... Photo from the set confirming something that I thought was no longer happening but looks like it's back on...

    ktf6sgqxmso21.jpg

    https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/b6ersr/first_photo_from_the_bond_25_crew_shooting_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

    Bond 25 is shooting select sequences on IMAX 70mm film :O

    Great news @antovolk .... Thanks for sharing

    Disappointed by this...

    I think this style of filmmaking fetishises the action sequences.

    It tells the audience that when the aspect ratio opens they can get excited as the ‘spectacle’ is about to begin. Essentially, 2:35 is used for the ‘boring story and plot’ bits.

    Christopher Nolan has been doing it a lot and it leads to an ugly and inconsisten look. Not a fan.

    I was hoping that Fukunaga and Sandgren would see a return of the dream team of Menses and Deakins....
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
    Posts: 4,343
    JamesCraig wrote: »
    You people should know that I haven't listened to his SP score yet...

    But yeah, bring back Arnold! ;-)
    If you listened to the SF score, you already listened to the SP score. That's about it, old chap. ;)

    Oh come on... in SP there are some lovely new themes. Day of the dead, Lucia's, Backfire, Bond and Madeleine lovely piano theme... I’m not a super fan of Newman’s Bond scores but there are some fine new additions in SP.
  • NS_writingsNS_writings Buenos Aires
    edited March 2019 Posts: 544
    Shardlake wrote: »
    Newman needs to be far away from Bond 25 as possible.

    Hopefully Mendes will make sure he's busy, we certainly don't want anymore rush jobs on the score like his cut and paste SPECTRE fiasco.

    The SPECTRE soundtrack is repetitive but by no means a fiasco. The romantic tracks (Madeleine, Donna Lucia, Secret Room, End Titles) are among the most beautiful I've ever heard on the series - to be honest I prefer them over some pieces of Barry and Arnold in a sense they are more subtle and poignant. In fact, if I had to pick between the soundtracks of Skyfall and SPECTRE I'd pick the latter without a shadow of doubt. It's a hundered times more Bondian and this time Newman isn't scared of playing with the James Bond Theme (Detonation, Los Muertos Vivos Están, the unreleased gunbarrel and Bond Theme riff before the main titles). I can understand SPECTRE has many weak points, but to me the soundtrack is definitely not one of them.



    This brings back memories of Eric Serra's "For Ever, James" but like 10 times more poignant. I hear this and the first thing that comes to my mind is love and careness, like a feeling of a truly romantic love.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
    Posts: 1,755
    Shardlake wrote: »
    Newman needs to be far away from Bond 25 as possible.

    Hopefully Mendes will make sure he's busy, we certainly don't want anymore rush jobs on the score like his cut and paste SPECTRE fiasco.

    The SPECTRE soundtrack is repetitive but by no means a fiasco. The romantic tracks (Madeleine, Donna Lucia, Secret Room, End Titles) are among the most beautiful I've ever heard on the series - to be honest I prefer them over some pieces of Barry and Arnold in a sense they are more subtle and poignant. In fact, if I had to pick between the soundtracks of Skyfall and SPECTRE I'd pick the latter without a shadow of doubt. It's a hundered times more Bondian and this time Newman isn't scared of playing with the James Bond Theme (Detonation, Los Muertos Vivos Están, the unreleased gunbarrel and Bond Theme riff before the main titles). I can understand SPECTRE has many weak points, but to me the soundtrack is definitely not one of them.

    I concur. I thought there were some brilliant aspects of the SP soundtrack.
  • NS_writingsNS_writings Buenos Aires
    Posts: 544
    DonnyDB5 wrote: »
    Shardlake wrote: »
    Newman needs to be far away from Bond 25 as possible.

    Hopefully Mendes will make sure he's busy, we certainly don't want anymore rush jobs on the score like his cut and paste SPECTRE fiasco.

    The SPECTRE soundtrack is repetitive but by no means a fiasco. The romantic tracks (Madeleine, Donna Lucia, Secret Room, End Titles) are among the most beautiful I've ever heard on the series - to be honest I prefer them over some pieces of Barry and Arnold in a sense they are more subtle and poignant. In fact, if I had to pick between the soundtracks of Skyfall and SPECTRE I'd pick the latter without a shadow of doubt. It's a hundered times more Bondian and this time Newman isn't scared of playing with the James Bond Theme (Detonation, Los Muertos Vivos Están, the unreleased gunbarrel and Bond Theme riff before the main titles). I can understand SPECTRE has many weak points, but to me the soundtrack is definitely not one of them.

    I concur. I thought there were some brilliant aspects of the SP soundtrack.

    I also tought "It's repetitive" until I saw the film and how it fitted with each scene.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    Posts: 4,554
    JamesCraig wrote: »
    You people should know that I haven't listened to his SP score yet...

    But yeah, bring back Arnold! ;-)
    If you listened to the SF score, you already listened to the SP score. That's about it, old chap. ;)

    Let me help you out:

    The Spectre OST has 26 tracks, totaling nearly 80 minutes. It is all original material.

    Any previous work (from SF) used in SP is at the discretion of the director. This happens sometimes. Cases in point:

    1) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross wrote the music for Ken Burns' documentary The Vietnam War. But Burns also reached back and used some of their work from Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network.

    2) In the 1999 film The Virgin Suicides, Sophia Coppola hired the band AIR to write the original music. However, she also chose to use a couple of tracks of theirs from previous work.

    Thomas Newman's work on Skyfall won him a Grammy and a BAFTA Award for best film music, as well as an Academy Award nomination. It landed on the Billboard Hot 100 Albums chart and ranked as high as 36 on the UK albums chart.

    Now that we have that cleared up, let's move on to Bond 25, which will likely NOT be scored by either Thomas Newman or David Arnold.
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
    edited March 2019 Posts: 2,541
    antovolk wrote: »
    Not sure if posted already.... Photo from the set confirming something that I thought was no longer happening but looks like it's back on...

    ktf6sgqxmso21.jpg

    https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/b6ersr/first_photo_from_the_bond_25_crew_shooting_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

    Bond 25 is shooting select sequences on IMAX 70mm film :O

    Great news @antovolk .... Thanks for sharing

    Disappointed by this...

    I think this style of filmmaking fetishises the action sequences.

    It tells the audience that when the aspect ratio opens they can get excited as the ‘spectacle’ is about to begin. Essentially, 2:35 is used for the ‘boring story and plot’ bits.

    Christopher Nolan has been doing it a lot and it leads to an ugly and inconsisten look. Not a fan.

    I was hoping that Fukunaga and Sandgren would see a return of the dream team of Menses and Deakins....

    What if they shoot the whole film in imax.... Infinity war did it and results were terrific. If they can waste 30 million in that car chase why can't they spend it on imax cameras.
  • dominicgreenedominicgreene The Eternal QOS Defender
    edited March 2019 Posts: 1,756
    Shardlake wrote: »
    Newman needs to be far away from Bond 25 as possible.

    Hopefully Mendes will make sure he's busy, we certainly don't want anymore rush jobs on the score like his cut and paste SPECTRE fiasco.

    I hate a love/hate relationship with Newman. He's created some great tracks for Bond, but the stupid "She's mine" repetition, and the awful French horn melody in "Backfire" is still painfully ingrained in my mind whenever I think of Spectre

    Wa wa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa wa.
    WA WA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WA?
    WA WA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WA!
    WA WA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • edited March 2019 Posts: 3,164
    antovolk wrote: »
    Not sure if posted already.... Photo from the set confirming something that I thought was no longer happening but looks like it's back on...

    ktf6sgqxmso21.jpg

    https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/b6ersr/first_photo_from_the_bond_25_crew_shooting_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

    Bond 25 is shooting select sequences on IMAX 70mm film :O

    Great news @antovolk .... Thanks for sharing

    Disappointed by this...

    I think this style of filmmaking fetishises the action sequences.

    It tells the audience that when the aspect ratio opens they can get excited as the ‘spectacle’ is about to begin. Essentially, 2:35 is used for the ‘boring story and plot’ bits.

    Christopher Nolan has been doing it a lot and it leads to an ugly and inconsisten look. Not a fan.

    I was hoping that Fukunaga and Sandgren would see a return of the dream team of Menses and Deakins....

    What if they shoot the whole film in imax.... Infinity war did it and results were terrific. If they can waste 30 million in that car chase why can't they spend it on imax cameras.

    Because those aren't digital IMAX cameras (rebranded Arri Alexa 65s) like the ones used on Avengers but 70mm film. Because they're so noisy you could only really use them for select sequences, you can't use them for dialogue without ADR. Not even Nolan did a film fully shot on the cameras....
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,034
    matt_u wrote: »
    25 shooting selected sequences in IMAX is excellent news!

    It's also an indication that the film will be shot on both film and digital, which is good news I think.
  • edited March 2019 Posts: 3,169
    It tells the audience that when the aspect ratio opens they can get excited as the ‘spectacle’ is about to begin. Essentially, 2:35 is used for the ‘boring story and plot’ bits.
    That's not how it works. Some of the best and most intense moments in the TDK-trilogy and Dunkirk were 2.35.1, not IMAX. And some of the "boring bits" were in fact shot using IMAX cameras. It depends on what the director wants to achieve.

    I am very surprised that B25 will be shot partly using IMAX gear. We've had 2.35.1 since TMWTGG.
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
    edited March 2019 Posts: 2,541
    I neither want Arnold nor Newman, I don't want someone who takes two or more than two films to get themselves adjust to the bond sound. I want someone who start with a bang on score with their first film like Martin/Hamlisch/Conti. Even if they only had one chance they did a tremendous job imo.
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    I neither want Arnold nor Newman, I don't want someone who takes two or more than two films to get themselves adjust to the bond sound. I want someone who start with a bang on score with their first film like Martin/Hamlisch/Conti. Even if they only had one chance they did a tremendous job imo.

    Arnold did exactly that.
  • Posts: 416
    AgentM72 wrote: »
    antovolk wrote: »
    Not sure if posted already.... Photo from the set confirming something that I thought was no longer happening but looks like it's back on...

    ktf6sgqxmso21.jpg

    https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/b6ersr/first_photo_from_the_bond_25_crew_shooting_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

    Bond 25 is shooting select sequences on IMAX 70mm film :O

    That all sounds lovely. ;)
    Red_Snow wrote: »


    As of 9hrs ago DC and RW were in New York.

    With particularly strong 007 hair, one might add. Hope it stays that way next week.

    might finally have the hair style from casino royale then.
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
    edited March 2019 Posts: 2,541
    antovolk wrote: »
    antovolk wrote: »
    Not sure if posted already.... Photo from the set confirming something that I thought was no longer happening but looks like it's back on...

    ktf6sgqxmso21.jpg

    https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/b6ersr/first_photo_from_the_bond_25_crew_shooting_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

    Bond 25 is shooting select sequences on IMAX 70mm film :O

    Great news @antovolk .... Thanks for sharing

    Disappointed by this...

    I think this style of filmmaking fetishises the action sequences.

    It tells the audience that when the aspect ratio opens they can get excited as the ‘spectacle’ is about to begin. Essentially, 2:35 is used for the ‘boring story and plot’ bits.

    Christopher Nolan has been doing it a lot and it leads to an ugly and inconsisten look. Not a fan.

    I was hoping that Fukunaga and Sandgren would see a return of the dream team of Menses and Deakins....

    What if they shoot the whole film in imax.... Infinity war did it and results were terrific. If they can waste 30 million in that car chase why can't they spend it on imax cameras.

    Because those aren't digital IMAX cameras (rebranded Arri Alexa 65s) like the ones used on Avengers but 70mm film. Because they're so noisy you could only really use them for select sequences, you can't use them for dialogue without ADR. Not even Nolan did a film fully shot on the cameras....

    Ah I see thanks for clarifying that, but are they going to yes ADR?
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    Zekidk wrote: »
    It tells the audience that when the aspect ratio opens they can get excited as the ‘spectacle’ is about to begin. Essentially, 2:35 is used for the ‘boring story and plot’ bits.
    That's not how it works. Some of the best and most intense moments in the TDK-trilogy and Dunkirk were 2.35.1, not IMAX. And some of the "boring bits" were in fact shot using IMAX cameras. It depends on what the director wants to achieve.

    Either way, I believe the technique is vulgar.

    It’s a cheap way of conditioning an audience. Sam Mendes had the right approach to action – incorporating the action into the story and involving character.

    Opening up the aspect ratio is another way of telling the audience the ‘rollercoaster’ is about to begin. I think action should be more organically incorporated. The Nolan method fetishizes the action.
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
    edited March 2019 Posts: 2,541
    RC7 wrote: »
    I neither want Arnold nor Newman, I don't want someone who takes two or more than two films to get themselves adjust to the bond sound. I want someone who start with a bang on score with their first film like Martin/Hamlisch/Conti. Even if they only had one chance they did a tremendous job imo.

    Arnold did exactly that.

    Tomorrow Never Dies is one of the weakest score of PB era even more so than DAD.
  • Posts: 3,169
    @Pierce2Daniel

    Aspect ratios that change during the course of the movie, can take me out of the story. Like a bad edit, very bad acting or like those 70's movies where you could spot the boom-mic in the top of the frame.

    I'm an absolute sucker for IMAX-movies, though. Those documentaries that are 100% 70mm. Sadly there's no chance that B25 will be 100% IMAX.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    Posts: 15,423
    TripAces wrote: »
    JamesCraig wrote: »
    You people should know that I haven't listened to his SP score yet...

    But yeah, bring back Arnold! ;-)
    If you listened to the SF score, you already listened to the SP score. That's about it, old chap. ;)

    Let me help you out:

    The Spectre OST has 26 tracks, totaling nearly 80 minutes. It is all original material.

    Any previous work (from SF) used in SP is at the discretion of the director. This happens sometimes. Cases in point:

    1) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross wrote the music for Ken Burns' documentary The Vietnam War. But Burns also reached back and used some of their work from Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network.

    2) In the 1999 film The Virgin Suicides, Sophia Coppola hired the band AIR to write the original music. However, she also chose to use a couple of tracks of theirs from previous work.

    Thomas Newman's work on Skyfall won him a Grammy and a BAFTA Award for best film music, as well as an Academy Award nomination. It landed on the Billboard Hot 100 Albums chart and ranked as high as 36 on the UK albums chart.

    Now that we have that cleared up, let's move on to Bond 25, which will likely NOT be scored by either Thomas Newman or David Arnold.
    No need to help me out. I've got all I need. And I need no bias justification. Especially the "awards" argument.
    matt_u wrote: »
    JamesCraig wrote: »
    You people should know that I haven't listened to his SP score yet...

    But yeah, bring back Arnold! ;-)
    If you listened to the SF score, you already listened to the SP score. That's about it, old chap. ;)

    Oh come on... in SP there are some lovely new themes. Day of the dead, Lucia's, Backfire, Bond and Madeleine lovely piano theme... I’m not a super fan of Newman’s Bond scores but there are some fine new additions in SP.
    There are some good ones. But, they don't make much of long tracks than cues drowned in long minutes of reused echoes extracted from his SF work. You can't deny that, can you?
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