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Would Amazon's involvement impact in any way a need for a shell company? What if Amazon is the pocketbook?
Amazon/MGM will be the financiers, but EoN are the producers. So to keep the Bond productions neat, the film producers open up a shell company for each film they do (whether Bond, or not).
When they start spending money on a production it doesn’t come out of EoN proper, but instead, all expenditures are processed through the shell company that EoN owns. These shell companies are active as soon as they start spending…
I hope that makes sense? Film finance is definitely not my expertise (and is actually the wizardry of accountants (and magic, potions and spells that are cast, 😂! )).
Most definitely. Said this when the trailer was out. He looks like a mysterious character and has the eyes
A D&Dr film getting excellent reviews? The world has changed since 2001.
I like it. The voice is cool, too!
One to watch! 31st of March onwards the tables could turn.
And to add some speculation to @peter's excellent factual explanation, I suspect there's currently a lot of internal discussion about the current and future leadership at EON which is why they haven't incorporated the shell as far as we know. In the past, they just registered a "B22 Ltd." years before and then started using it, when they went into development. That they seem to have no shell at all, is unusual. My speculation is that they haven't finished deciding what MGW's level of involvement in the next one will be and accordingly whether to promote someone else to be an officer of this company and so on. They don't incorporate the company, because the officers are public and journalists will immediatly jump on it, if MGW was missing, or one of his sons was included or whatever. So they are in a tussle over this (again, this is purely my speculation). Once that's done, they'll either quietly get the company done if nothing changes or they do a big retirement, handing over the baton thing for MGW and then crack on with the bureaucracy.
As a little aside - and I hope this isn't seen as doxxing or in bad taste - there is in fact a B26 Ltd. and the owner happens to be called Barbora, but it looks like it has nothing at all to do with EON and Bond... Maybe Eon are currently trying to buy the name off her 😂
Is this the same hack who was claiming that ATJ had shot the gun barrel and would be announced in March, 😂…
How is Kevin Conroy connected to Bond? Did someone get their orphaned legacy franchise characters mixed up?
More nonsensical clickbait. Hurray for fandomwire 🎊
And yes, I know some people do not support any non-white actors as Bond. That's fine. We don't have to open that can of worms for the thousandth time, lol.
I'm just saying I don't think he's as bad of a candidate as some people on here make him out to be. In a recent interview he said he would be a more "mysterious" Bond. So take that for what it's worth...
Yeah, he’s been mentioned a bunch of times. Back in 2020 I said: Brideshead Revisited still has yet to arrive - I assume COVID screwed with it’s production, because I can’t see any sign of it being in production.
I think he’s building the right sort of cv for Eon, I’m sure he’ll be on their radar.
I must say, I think he looks promising! An actual realistic candidate. Brideshead was halted because the director couldn’t get the funding he felt was necessary to bring his vision to life. I really don’t se the need to make another adaptation, when the original TV series was so successful. I can’t imagine it being bettered, regardless of the budget.
For example: Aaron Taylor-Johnson may actually believe he will be the next Bond (let's say he did a positive screentest). Okay... so the producers said "well done, Aaron, we'll let you know" and the media run with it. Meanwhile, the producers haven't picked Johnson. They just thought he had potential. Just a name to keep on the list.
Johnson spends the next year thinking "I'm the next Bond. When I Google myself I see articles stating I'm going to be cast. I can't wait! Hooray!"
And then a year or so later Eon announce a different guy is Bond.
;))
And Aaron Taylor-Johnson thinks to himself "I feel a right idiot!"
Plus @bondywondy , to put an audition together it costs quite a bit of money: set, costume, make up, director, sets, schedules to get this small crew together.
They wouldn’t do this for just one person.
And there haven’t been auditions yet.
While watching making of Casino Royale, it was mentioned that several actors were brought in for screen tests ; it seemed like these tests were done during the same timeframe. It would make sense that once the resources are put in place, that a number of actors would be brought in .
It's the most important casting decision in every new era; the audition process, and call-backs (which by union rules, you pay the actor(s) for each recall they do-- so more development money being used), are the only chances that the producers have to see if their top candidates really have the juice, or not. It's a rigorous process (screw this up and you have egg on your face, your tent-pole IP goes down in value, poisonous press, and plenty of finger pointing will ensue).
I'm guessing you're trolling a bit with that reply but I'll take your bait. ;)
My point is ego can play a part. Some actors are a bit narcissistic/ego driven and want to believe unfounded rumour and hype. That's why Idris Elba made the cringe comment..
His comment was in reference to the media attention about him becoming the next Bond and the first black Bond.
Okay... he may have been exaggerating when he said he was "the most famous Bond" but I'm sure he enjoyed the media attention. Maybe his ego got the better of him. I got the impression he was actively pushing himself to be Bond. Example:
He was using reverse psychology to promote himself. He was pretending to be too unattractive to play the role in the hope of getting attention. He wanted his Twitter followers to say "you look perfect for Bond. Go for it."
He gets their validation so it becomes a narcissistic desire to play Bond.
I don't know if Aaron Taylor is narcissistic about wanting Bond. My point was an actor can foolishly believe the unfounded hype (such as Elba) and nothing comes of it. Anyway, some dude in the US called Jeff Sneider says ATJ is not a lock for the part. Not that he is any expert on Bond casting. ;))