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I'm not so sure. I have a feeling they're writing for a young male actor in his late twenties or early thirties. Not much else.
Well, we'll see how it goes.
Can't imagine why.
Bond 26 title: Keeping The End Up
Perfect age to start.
Its just typical tabloid clickbait bollocks.
“James Bond fans in DESPAIR as new revelations come to light about the next instalment”.
etc…
By their logic, he should be writing every character with an actor in mind.
It’s just inane
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't DN and CR written without an actor in mind?
Just saying.
And how they turned a round.
Maybe they’ll throw is a small nugget to keep us happy.
For the time being I think we just have to wait for the next chapter of the James Bond journey to unfold. We have a writer and director. Along with a very competent set of producers.
We don’t know how far along with anything they’re doing, so before we worry let’s just wait and see what happens. It’s not like we can do anything about it either way.
Which feels doubly bad because in any other context, I'd be extremely excited to see a Villeneuve Bond film.
Strictly from a business standpoint, he wants to make as much money as possible; you don’t so that by wrecking an iconic, successful, enduring franchise.
As much as I dread a “dealbreaker” being cast, I’m excited…
Bezos and saints is a false dichotomy if I've ever heard one. But it's true, I am happy that they're incredibly rich. They're a lot more philanthropic than some. I guess I care at this point, but fair play to those who don't.
Good observation.
Then what exactly is the problem with Bezos? That one (likely false or joking) article about him wanting his wife in the movie? Otherwise he's clearly very hands off so far it seems, so there shouldn't be a problem. It will get a cinema release. There is literally nothing to worry about. It'd be like complaining that Bill Gates offered to fund your education.
I don't think only about Bond films, and I don't take Bezos in a vacuum. I just want to support him financially as little as possible. I just think he's unethical and his business is unethical, I'm disappointed in his methods in dispatching the Broccoli family whom were fantastic stewards of the franchise for sixty years.
I've no doubt the team behind Bond 26 can make a brilliant Bond film. I'm just disappointed it's Amazon and Bezos behind the whole thing, I don't think that's an extremely unreasonable position to take, and it's okay if we don't agree on it.
I guess it was the clause that Eon produced the Bond films they sold up on; still, quite a deal.
For what it's worth, I don't think it's a case of any one side winning here. I suspect if we knew more of the ins and outs of the deal it'd paint a more complex picture than Jeff Bezos pushing the little man aside. In practice it may have been unlikely that EON would still be making Bond past a certain point, regardless of who it was passed onto. We know it didn't seem to have a third generation able to continue (save for Gregg Wilson, who was seemingly not up to the task for whatever reason), and with one key figure retiring that doesn't paint a positive future for the franchise. Unfortunately, the circumstances for all this started in the mid-70s with Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli, and various incarnations of MGM have caused problems with Bond for years. It makes sense that the Amazon incarnation of it had a hand in this problem.
At any rate, EON got a billion dollars and still retain their share of the franchise. That's nothing to be sniffed at in any negotiation, especially when dealing with a major company like Amazon. Ultimately Bond as a franchise didn't die with EON, which is a factor I don't think any of us would truly understand. Not only that, but new key creatives who have been hired either have a previous association with EON's James Bond, or are top line talent. In terms of the PR wars in late 2024 (ie. the WSJ article coming out after Jennifer Salke's bizarre, passive aggressive public comments) EON I think came out top, and it could well be a case where that cemented certain clauses in this deal. In many ways it's quite condescending thinking of EON, MGW, and BB as 'the little guys' because these are savy, and even quite ruthless producers who've been around a while and have weathered so many other storms for this franchise over the years.
I'm not saying Amazon being the creative heirs of Bond is ideal in any way. In the long run without stewards like EON I think there's a risk of some very subpar instalments. In the short term they seem to have a good team though.
There's talk that they were starting to look at getting out after Spectre; which makes sense really- these things take a long time and Spectre does kind of work as an ending.
I suspect that half of Bond was perhaps quite a tricky thing to sell though, and MGM were in the doldrums before Amazon came along so might not have been able to afford it.
At the end of the day none of us live forever. And even if we did we wouldn't continue to work our whole lives. At some point Broccoli or Wilson were going to retire, and obviously they were thinking about the future of the franchise.
Would it have been ideal if a third generation of EON picked up the mantle? Yes, but only if they committed to it with the same dedication MGW and BB had. This seemingly wasn't the case (literally all of the other kids who'd worked at EON got out past a certain point). I suppose it was about making the best of the situation.
But what people are saying about their time coming to an end inevitably anyways also rings true. For reasons outside of Bond, I still do feel ethically opposed to Bezos and Amazon, and I agree that their being in creative control also doesn't feel like it bodes well for Bond long term (despite the great creative team on board for this outing), time will tell about that.