007 Shared Universe??

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  • Posts: 11,119
    I have been reading this news article from @marketto007, and I am starting to, reluctantly, think that it could make sense:
    ‪http://origin.007.com redirects to the official Bond website. Does this mean anything?‬

    And guess what? Searching the WHOIS and looking for the domain owner, we can see FOX FILM is somehow connected to the 007.com URL.

    https://www.whois.com/whois/007.com

    I mean, the word "origin" is already referring to another reboot if I'm not mistaken. I am actually very much against the idea of a "007 extended cinematic universe", but my worries are furthermore enhanced by the Dynamite Comic Book series. We all know that this 'comic book universe' is already extended by separate Moneypenny and Felix Leiter comic book series. The new comic book series could give EON Productions plentiful source material and it could enlighten pre-production work for EON, since they only have to adapt these comic books.
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    Well I presume 'Origin' is a codename for the BOND25 project,and FOX being linked means I think we might know who our distributor is.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
    edited July 2017 Posts: 15,423
    I have been reading this news article from @marketto007, and I am starting to, reluctantly, think that it could make sense:
    ‪http://origin.007.com redirects to the official Bond website. Does this mean anything?‬

    And guess what? Searching the WHOIS and looking for the domain owner, we can see FOX FILM is somehow connected to the 007.com URL.

    https://www.whois.com/whois/007.com

    I mean, the word "origin" is already referring to another reboot if I'm not mistaken. I am actually very much against the idea of a "007 extended cinematic universe", but my worries are furthermore enhanced by the Dynamite Comic Book series. We all know that this 'comic book universe' is already extended by separate Moneypenny and Felix Leiter comic book series. The new comic book series could give EON Productions plentiful source material and it could enlighten pre-production work for EON, since they only have to adapt these comic books.
    Don't you worry. The "expansions" have been done long before Dynamite, with Moneypenny's comic being nothing more than a one-shot. As much as I liked Felix Leiter, it didn't have enough legs to stand on its own with almost every issue, the character keeps referencing Bond in name and direct manner. Expanded spin-offs work for comics, even when they're adapting minor characters that support the heroes.

    The film business is dimensions, galaxies and outer spaces beyond larger than the comic book and literature industry. They won't take risks by injecting characters like Tanner or Moneypenny or Q or Leiter into getting their own flicks. These characters aren't developed to be protagonists and even thinking about giving them their own movies will be a business suicide. A spin-off in "the Bond film universe" is out of the question. Won't happen and will never happen. It works in the comics industry. It doesn't in the film industry unless you have a solid protagonist colorful enough that isn't Bond. And right now, there isn't one.

    If that was the case, Marvel would have given Pepper Potts (Gwenyth Paltrow) her own movie, labeling it as an Iron Man spin-off. Or perhaps giving Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) a chance to "shine" on her own without needing Peter Parker to be present in the film. See where I'm going?
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I'm not sure if this origin.007.com means anything really. After all origin007.com directs to some Chinese site.
  • marketto007marketto007 Brazil
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    bondjames wrote: »
    I'm not sure if this origin.007.com means anything really. After all origin007.com directs to some Chinese site.

    But http://origin.007.com redirects to the official Bond site.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited July 2017 Posts: 23,883
    bondjames wrote: »
    I'm not sure if this origin.007.com means anything really. After all origin007.com directs to some Chinese site.

    But http://origin.007.com redirects to the official Bond site.
    True, but couldn't they have just taken control of this url to protect themselves from someone else using it for something 007 related? Also, it would depend on when the url was registered and redirected to 007.com. The 007.com site was last updated on 2017-03-05 as per whois.
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    bondjames wrote: »
    I'm not sure if this origin.007.com means anything really. After all origin007.com directs to some Chinese site.

    But http://origin.007.com redirects to the official Bond site.

    You're all readin way too much into this

    The URL .origin read-only property returns a USVString containing the Unicode serialization of the origin of the represented URL, that is:

    - for URL using the http or https, the scheme followed by '://', followed by the domain, followed by ':', followed by the port (the default port, 80 and 443 respectively, if explicitely specified);
    - for URL using file: scheme, the value is browser dependant;
    - for URL using the blob: scheme, the origin of the URL following blob:. E.g "blob:https://mozilla.org"; will have "https://mozilla.org".
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    They won't take risks by injecting characters like Tanner

    Thats a crying shame.

    I'd pay good money to watch a film where Tanner is strapped to the gurney in Utah State Penitentiary.
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    They won't take risks by injecting characters like Tanner

    Thats a crying shame.

    I'd pay good money to watch a film where Tanner is strapped to the gurney in Utah State Penitentiary.

    Once again with that puzzled and 'have I just shit myself ?' expression,of course.

  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    They won't take risks by injecting characters like Tanner

    Thats a crying shame.

    I'd pay good money to watch a film where Tanner is strapped to the gurney in Utah State Penitentiary.
    :))

    Maybe they'll make a ten minute soap opera about how Tanner got into where he is, in the first place, and release it as a web movie sponsored by YouTube while promoting the said untitled B25.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    They won't take risks by injecting characters like Tanner

    Thats a crying shame.

    I'd pay good money to watch a film where Tanner is strapped to the gurney in Utah State Penitentiary.

    Once again with that puzzled and 'have I just shit myself ?' expression,of course.

    Well naturally. People say Roger was limited but at least he had left eyebrow/right eyebrow. All Rory's got in his repertoire is his 'Oops followed through again' look.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Pushing the Right Buttons with Luigi Ferrara.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Who else wants to see Inspector Clouseau as a Bond ally? Ferrara was pretty close.
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    Well, we've already seen Bond as Chief Inspector Clouseau, so....
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    We already have. And it's Bond, under a placeholder name, making cameo appearance in The Pink Panther alongside Steve Martin's Clouseau.
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    No. I'm thinking of Roger Moore in The Curse of the Pink Panther. Yes, really, with Joanna Lumley to boot (in a different role than the one she played in Trail of the Pink Panther).
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    Diary of a Winty Kidd
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    They should do a 30 minute sitcom with Blofeld and Oddjob; Oddfeld. There's another possible name combo here that definitely wouldn't get past the censors...
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Ben-Whishaw-Q.jpg

    Ben Wishaw in I, Q.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Haha, you witty old lad. :))
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Miss Moneypenny presents Barry Manilow.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    I have just the thing. ;)
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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    ^ Sounds like Spectre.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    ^ Sounds like Spectre.

    That was actually the final theatrical poster they released for the film.
  • JamesBondKenyaJamesBondKenya Danny Boyle laughs to himself
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    The only spin off that could make sense would be centered around a villain. I think a mr white spin off would be really cool for example
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    It would be. But, the audience are as familiar with post-Connery era villains as they are familiar with any pedestrian in a Bond film. So, I don't think anybody outside the Bond fandom would be interested. Spin-offs for the James Bond franchise won't work.
  • The "keen to get home" couple would have made a bomb spinoff, just offering their little witticisms on all the zany things that happen around them each day.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    The "keen to get home" couple would have made a bomb spinoff, just offering their little witticisms on all the zany things that happen around them each day.

    A lot of people seemed to enjoy that bit, surprised they didn't pull a Tourjansky and have them return in another London scene in SP.
  • Creasy47 wrote: »
    The "keen to get home" couple would have made a bomb spinoff, just offering their little witticisms on all the zany things that happen around them each day.

    A lot of people seemed to enjoy that bit, surprised they didn't pull a Tourjansky and have them return in another London scene in SP.

    I think they tried to duplicate their success with the oblivious opera-loving driver in SP, but he didn't do it for me.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    So maybe the disappointed old Italian lady who dropped the cherries in QUANTUM OF SOLACE was more to your tastes. Something in a simpler vein.
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