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How would Cubby Broccoli have done Casino Royale differently
Cubby had wanted to do Casino Royale from the beginning, how would he have done it differently than babs did?
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Only because Fleming conceived Casino Royale as one of Bond's earlier missions.
I still think From Russia With Love should have been before Dr. No...
JW Pepper would have been one of the gamblers at the table
Connery yes. Brosnan doing CR woulnt have fared so well, with all kind regards to him.
He is dearly missed.
The argument about who would do better Babs or Cubby is a bit of a no-brainer as he trusted his daughter and stepson to continue the franchise instead of selling it to the highest bidder and so ensuring financial well-being for his family. He chose to entrust his family and in that I find prove that he darned well knew what he was doing.
Early Connery era would make the most sense. I doubt we would have had the torture scene though. I think Lazenby would have been adequate but I wouldn't trade it for OHMSS, that's for sure. Also, you can't follow OHMSS up with CR and have the Bond girl die at the end two films in a row.
Moore could have done it, yes, but it probably would have been markedly different from the novel and I don't think I like that trade off. Perhaps it would have worked perfectly for Dalton's first as TLD was kind of a soft reboot anyway. I'm not sure how much they would have changed.
True and Cubby was always against going back to a 're-boot'/ origin film. Wilson put this (an origin story) to him in 86 and it was rejected.
The one thing he did do right though, was hiring Dalton and attempting to go back to basics with Fleming, trying to adapt criminally unused Fleming scenes from the novels that he discarded during the Moore years.
Had CR been made in the 60's with Connery, it would probably have been very good, FRWL/OHMSS style, although probably wouldn't have featured the torture scene in quite the same way as we got it in 2006.
Had CR been made in the 70's with Moore, it would have been a disaster, with just about every scene discarded from the novel, with the exception of character names only.
Had CR been made in the late 80's with Dalton, it would probably have been excellent, maybe even better than what we had with Craig.
This is the post I agree the most with.
Roger Moore in Casino Royale would've been disguised as the cards dealer.
Why?
Yes yes yes.
I liked Goldfinger immensely, because it was big, bold, and colorful. But the realism we saw in the first two films begins slipping away in GF, until the series finally reaches a point of absurdity on so many levels. The producer(s) must take responsibility for the direction the series went. My enthusiasm for Broccoli began to diminish when it was clear the series was far more focused on stunts, big set pieces, and outlandish stories.
Young might have been a better producer. CR is up there among my favorite Bond films, but I find the Miami airport sequence tedious. For some reason, it always seems to pull me out of the film before getting back on track.
One could say this trajectory is commonplace with each era. I know people will defend the DC era as going against the grain, but for all the character work it does seem like the arc is similar. Doing it better, doesn't excuse it from doing 'the same'. Introducing more and more of what is expected, rather than stripping it away. I get the impression this will always happen.
CR is the perfect example of a near perfect modern 007 film though. For the most part the casino/ Vesper elements remain fairly faithful to the Fleming story. However, we also get stunning action set pieces such as the free running scene and more exotic locations and Bond girls such as the Bahama scenes.
Indeed. It hasn't been surpassed in the intervening decade.
I think you're probably right, the trajectory they're on suggests it won't be beaten.
Definitely not, but I think they choked to some extent after QoS and they'll be adding more of the familiar with SP. I reckon if they stripped all the nods and attempts at old-school humour out of SF it would be a much better film. Even the Brosnan films didn't stoop to including the GF DB5.