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It also means that success would constantly fluctuate, and not to mention that if people really like one actor, it doesn't really matter cause they're probably gonna recast anyway.
And I understand you could argue that occasionally someone plays him for one film... but then to me that's just wasting time and money until someone properly commits to it.
If they are going to aim for a 2023, 2025, 2027 release schedule then I agree with you. If they are going to piss about like they have done then it doesn't make a difference and they may as well just do one-offs.
Either way, unless they try to get back to making something both children and adults can get into there's little future for the franchise anyway. Not sure how many 8 year olds loved the Craig films, or how many younger fans are coming through. The MI films and the F&F franchise has over taken Bond as the go-to PG level action franchise over the last few years.
+1.
I prefer the idea of an ‘era’ with an actor. It’s commercially sensible too, as Eon clearly realise.
But personally, I would prefer Standalone adventures....Possibly focusing more on Bond's Naval status, Military escapades with suspense and showing us his espionage side again. But if they ignore this and decide to continue with serializing the films, let it be handled properly from the actor's very first film.
Craig’s era was stellar from 2006 - 2012 IMO.
Connery’s first 5 films were loose sequels and that worked very well. But ‘shoe horning’ the Craig era together within SPECTRE was too much serialisation for me.....and unfortunately NTTD looks set to do the same to ‘conclude the arc.’
The tone of SP doesn’t sit well against CR either.
So, what I am saying is, I’d want loose sequels or ‘stand alone’ films. Not direct sequels.
But either way....the same actor for at least 3 films is needed.
Sure. My rant wasn't a dig at the individual films. But I know from my own family that young lads who are fans of MI and F&F and who in the past would have been the core audience for Bond simply don't care about it. No momentum has been built up between films. The films themselves lack interesting action (it's fine, but the set pieces don't compete in terms of their core elements with what MI is doing), and are conspicuously aimed at an older audience. Fine for me. But the problem is twofold; they aren't making enough of them, and it has lost its relevance for younger people. This is a problem when it comes to the future of the franchise.
And the worst thing is that they have done this to themselves. I personally can't see a way out of it. If I am being pessimistic, I think the franchise as we know it is dead. NTTD is likely to change things irrevocably. There's as good a likelihood as there has even been that it will never come back.
going back to the old school way the titles would be announced at the end of each film and given fleming titles
The property of a lady in 2022
The Diamond Smugglers in 2024
The Hildebrand Rarity 2026
sigh
No reason other than a lack of desire that they couldn't still do that. Push back the first one a year till 2023 to allow for industry changes and it's all there for them. Studios and Audiences would lap it up.
They won't though.
+1.
But I’d prefer ‘Risico’ in 2024!
Yeah, Good points. True, SP just feels odd....albeit, not enough to ruin Craig's magnificent run.
I like A World Without Want, which is if I recall correctly, a pub in Moonraker the novel.
He is also very short…
5ft 7in....very short indeed.
Keep in mind that he's only 25 I think in the first two pictures and 24 in the third picture. I wonder how good of an actor he is though. I've never watched one second of a Harry Potter movie, which is what he's mainly known for, and he hasn't seem to have gotten any leading roles since then.
Yes he has time on his side, but without a career to build on, it's unlikely he'd even be on the radar.
Also remember the good old days where Risico and The Property of a lady were rumored for each bond film I think they sadly stopped around no time to die (when everyone and their brother was saying how it would be Shatterhand)
Craig’s era splits into 2 era for me
Pre Mendes era (casino royalE and Quantum of solace) which are 2 of my favorite Bond films
Then mendes era Skyfall and Spectre... gone is the dark flemingesque bond from the last two movies and we almost wind up in Roger Moore territory with the jokes except Moore could make a flat line dance Daniel Craig can’t.
No time to die looks to be more in the Casino Royale Quantum of Solace range which is why I am slightly pissed it doesn’t have a Fleming title but oh well
Off topic, but on the third picture he really looks like my brother. Not sure I can see him as Bond based on these pics alone, maybe because I cannot imagine my brother as Bond.
Any Fleming Bond title is good with me mate.
I agree with your points, but I fear that NTTD will just be a direct SP sequel with some ‘Marvel style’ humour.
+1.
one of these days I feel Like I should watch all 4 craig films again because at least with Skyfall I geneuinely feel like I am missing something because everyone says its so fantastic and I just dont see it
also minor thing but I want to see if there is anything redeeming about Spectre... besides Monica Bellucci in that outfit lmao
ALSO Also
if they did one film every other year Fassbender could do at the very least a duology if not a trilogy of films not saying it will happen or even if it should as once they "ran out" of fleming ideas it became hard to do one film every other year (even though Me and various others proved with the right imagination throwaway sentences from fleming can turn into full 2.5 hour films that will excite and entertain audiences)
Personally, I don't think you should have to wait longer for the next Bond film than you do for the World Cup. And even that is tempered by the Euros coming in between.
a large reason for the gap was trying to persuade Craig to come back which only time will tell if that was the right call or not then of course there was Covid 19
oh trust me I am thinking the same thing had it reached it's intial release dat of Febuary 14th it would of been out
You can't do that with James Bond. Star Wars rushed everything and created low quality films, and is actually now gonna be taking a break because it wasn't successful as they would've liked, and LOTR is irrelevant because they were trilogies based on books. Pretty easy to get those out quick.
James Bond is one character. One timeline, with a commitment to making each film as good as possible - which means taking your time. They also don't really have anymore material to adapt, which is why it was originally so easy to create these stories so quickly.
No Time to Die has some unique problems, but all them worthwhile imo. Any film that has had the problems they had would be in the same position.
Once you've seen the film, none of this will matter.
I know. And by sticking to this, they still managed to produce SP. So it's not as if it's a full proof scheme.
And as for it taking so long because they wanted to persuade Craig to stay...well, it wasn't worth it in my opinion. No actor should be bigger than the franchise.
It still would have been 5 years without Covid.
No actor is worth waiting that long for. Especially not in a franchise that has changed lead multiple times successfully.