It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
She had the balls to fire Brosnan after his films made a lot of money for her. So she wasn't enamored with all her stars.
And she ran the Bonds for almost the same amount of time (both her and Wilson worked on them much longer- he's been a producer on them since 1984, 41 years ago, far longer than Cubby ever did it), and still retired while she's got plenty of life in her.
Look, they came up with their ultimate version of Bond, it was a huge global mega hit, and funnily enough when they hit 64 and 82 years old respectively, they didn't fancy starting from day one again yet another 15 year cycle of making blockbuster movies and thought they'd enjoy their millions -or billions, even. So sue them.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with what they did. I was just pointing out the difference between Cubby and Babs. It was obvious Cubby was only focused on Bond while Babs wanted to do Bond and other projects.
If in that position, I suspect Cubby would have done the same thing or would have gotten a much worse deal.
Cubby was happy to churn out the same stuff forever and was averse to being too creative with it, rejecting the idea of a younger Bond starting out, which later became such a massive hit for them with CR. He had a vision for Bond in 62, and then more or less stuck to that for 27 years (not 30+) with some gentle meanders in tone along the way; I'm not sure he had more than one, and didn't really have time between instalments for much creation of vision.
I love those films, they're all great. And the producers have been incredibly strong the whole way through. Maybe they'd make mistakes like not taking care of relationships well enough and holing the boat along the way (Connery, Saltzman) or hiring the wrong directors (Apted, Forster- both very good and interesting but for my money not suited to it) but all four of the main producers have done great jobs and made great movies.
Maybe I should have used my words more carefully. This is just my personal opinion but I felt that Babs run as Bond producer could have had more films under her belt. I always felt that Brosnan should have gotten a 5th film and that Craig should have had another Bond movie before NTTD.
I do want to know if Craig had finished up after Spectre. Would Babs have cast another Bond and go on another run with a new actor? or would she have sold sooner?
I would suggest one read Dick Van Dyke's memoir where he recounts the situation of filming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. During the shoot Dick needed to return to the USA for a family emergency. He asked Cubby if he would be allowed to leave without being docked pay. Cubby said not a problem. However later Dick learned he was docked for leaving the set for this emergency.
Cubby wasn't the kind teddy bear that has been portrayed. Connery gets lots of arrows for standing up and advocating for himself. Truth is anyone who amounts to anyone in a business is likely a bit ruthless and very much focused less on the art but the money one derives from it.