Where does Bond go after Craig?

ColonelAdamski

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine that when Craig wanted to kill Bond off, they thought 'yea, why not, we don't feel like making any more after this one anyway'.
I base this vague assumption on absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

CrabKey

I'll see the film no matter what. I fully expect the new Bond actor will take some getting used to: he's not Sean, not George, not Rog, not Tim, not Pierce, not Dan. If anything, I expect more of something along the lines of Mission Impossible in terms of style, story, and look -- almost too polished and A.I.ed. I would love a film that has a Connery vibe, but I'm not sure if anyone these days would know how to do that. It needs to feel like a Bond film instead of an action/thriller that could have been any other film without calling the main character James Bond. Let's hope it's not a Jason Statham film without JS or an F&F defying the laws of gravity film, a something like Kinsmen or any of those hyper-stylized films. And yes, let's have some gratuitous sex and violence.

mtm

ColonelAdamski wrote: »

Last_Rat_Standing wrote: »

There wasn't much chatter when CR came out being that we just saw a different version of the character parasurfing a glacier just 4 years prior. Maybe since it was more of an origin story and we just received a similar version with Batman Begins just a year prior

Speaking for myself, I can cope with a bonkers timeline much better than an 'alternate Bondverse'.

Each to their own of course. As some people have said on here, it's probably as daft to believe that Brozza was the same guy who sung Underneath the Mango Tree as it is to believe in an alternate James Bond timeline. It's just that I could cope with an origin story set in 2006 much better than a reversable big screen death scene with all the fanfare and whistles and bells that went with it. If I'm being asked to care that a character dies, then at least that character should be dead, and not just 'dead withing their own timeline' or whatever explanation they'd offer up. That kind of thing works in sci-fi, for the people that enjoy that stuff. I've never considered James Bond fantasy.
Fantastical, yes. But always based in the real world.

Have you seen different adaptations of Macbeth? Or any other classic where a main character dies? Just because it gets adapted again and the next version of the character starts out alive, it doesn't mean it becomes a fantasy, they're all separate versions, just as this is.
This is the story of Bond, retold again, just like it was with Hamlet or Robin Hood or Sherlock Holmes or whoever.

And just as a side note, James Bond really is a fantasy! But I know what you mean: you're talking about the genre.

007HallY

mtm wrote: »

This is the story of Bond, retold again, just like it was with Hamlet or Robin Hood or Sherlock Holmes or whoever.

For better or worse, this is kind of where Bond is at now. We got a conscious reboot with Craig as far back as 20 years ago, and look how many different comics, novels, and now video games there are of the character. We’re long past the days of the ‘original timeline’ of ‘62-02, and arguably there never was any such timeline anyway.

I suppose Bond in his cinematic form has consistent tropes (the Bond theme, gun barrel etc) which those other characters don’t quite have. But generally yeah, there’s a lot of room for reinventing the character.

mtm

007HallY wrote: »

I suppose Bond in his cinematic form has consistent tropes (the Bond theme, gun barrel etc) which those other characters don’t quite have. But generally yeah, there’s a lot of room for reinventing the character.

I was thinking that Superman is sort of entering that realm now, with the latest movie being reasonably different in approach to all the previous ones, and yet using the Williams theme and similar title graphics. I think like the Bond theme, that kind of just is being seen as the general Superman theme now which scores lots of different versions and isn't going away.

The Saint is another one: different screen versions of the character over the years, but pretty much all using the same stick man logo and whistling theme by Charteris.

ColonelAdamski

mtm wrote: »

Have you seen different adaptations of Macbeth? Or any other classic where a main character dies?

No, I've not seen that play as a movie.
But it's not a series of films based around one character is it? It's just one story. The comparison with James Bond movies doesn't really work for me.