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Where does Bond go after Craig?

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  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Never say never but Amazon would lose all sorts of product placement opportunities by setting Bond in the past.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
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    echo wrote: »
    Never say never but Amazon would lose all sorts of product placement opportunities by setting Bond in the past.

    Exactly.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    mtm wrote: »
    I didn’t know about them doing that, but yeah; it sounds rubbish. Putting Bond back in the 60s just isn’t something I’m interested in. I get the feeling some of these directors think it’s a really unique idea and will make Bond somehow automatically cool, but I bet the Broccolis were a bit sick of people saying they had this really original idea and they should do it in period.
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Period Bond is backwardness. I once looked at the idea as 'great'. But over time, looking at it profoundly, it just doesn't work.

    I agree. There are less creative risks when Bond goes period. Look at Devil May Care as a main example. While Solo and the Anthony Horowitz trilogy worked for the books, it's like spinoffs: it should be left in the literary world of Bond.
  • SeveSeve The island of Lemoy
    edited June 23 Posts: 630
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    007ClassicBondFan wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    I’ll never understand the weird obsession with big name writers/directors wanting to set a Bond film in the 60s. And then acting indignant when EON said no (even though it’s probably not the first time they heard said idea, and were generally clear Bond films should be contemporary).

    Anyway, it sounds rubbish.

    I think it comes from filmmakers being perhaps a bit too nostalgic for the Connery era - notice how it’s always the 60’s that filmmakers want to bring Bond back too - never the 50’s, 70’s, 80’s etc.

    Perhaps another aspect that could be viewed as a reason for this strange desire many have for a 60’s set Bond film is because aside from Quentin Tarantino - lots of filmmakers haven’t really explored 60’s nostalgia the way we see lots of 70’s and 80’s nostalgia.

    And Fleming.

    I don't think it's that strange. It's like Sherlock Holmes and the Victorian era.

    Interesting point, I guess by the time Holmes came to the screen he was forever trapped in his era. There was no TV or movies in Conan-Doyle's time, so he was never "contemporary" in that medium. Book Bond began in the 1950s, Movie Bond began in the 1960s, but was never set in the 1950s to match with the books, and Movie Bond continued to remain in the present.

    On the other hand there have been verisons of Sherlock Holmes in recent times set in the present, Benedict Cumberbatch's "Sherlock" and "Elementary" which seemed to be quite popular.

    Personally I don't think an entire period piece Bond would be a positive move at this point, however a reboot might be an appropriate time to use the flashback as a storytelling device.

    I guess that's what the black and white opening to CR was about, except they didn't follow through with it. It was only the veneer of flashback, which served as a brief intro gimmick, rather than being used to reveal insights on how the character came to be who he is in any depth, over the course of the entire film.

    The nostalgia market moves on in time, in order to cater to the highest spending demographic (a theory)

    E.g. In the 1970s "American Graffiti", "Happy Days" and "Sha-Na-Na" catered to the nostalgia of the 1950s teens who had become the wage and salary earners that were the engine of consumer culture.

    The 60s generation don't count any more financially
    70s nostalgia should be phasing out, and 90s nostalgia phasing in, about now
    That effect may be distortd by the Boomers being a more numerous generation, and therefore still retaining some infuence by sheer weight of numbers. Also there are still a few powerful movie execs out there who were young adults in the 1970s, to green light projects relating to that era.
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