No Time To Die: Production Diary

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  • HMBFFHMBFF Lisboa, Portugal
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    @HMBFF
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    Had to do this one
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    That’s priceless :))
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
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    HMBFF wrote: »
    @HMBFF
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    Had to do this one
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    That’s priceless :))

    Haha fantastic. :D
  • edited April 2019 Posts: 4,400
    What's most curious is the tweet says Thursday and Friday.....

    If the presser is on Thursday.........the live broadcast of the GMA airs in sync with the Eastern Time Zone (ET) between 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

    Jamaica is an hour behind of ET. Therefore, if the press conference starts at 9:00 local time in Jamaica, you miss the Thursday broadcast of GMA.

    Therefore, if GMA wish to air segments on BOTH Thursday and Friday, the press conferences has to take place on Wednesday 24th April 2019.

    Which is tomorrow.......

    (However, there is a chance they start the conference before 9:00 am on Thursday and narrowly make the broadcast on Thursday)
  • edited April 2019 Posts: 820
    What's most curious is the tweet says Thursday and Friday.....

    If the presser is on Thursday.........the live broadcast of the GMA airs in sync with the Eastern Time Zone (ET) between 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

    Jamaica is an hour ahead of ET. Therefore, if the press conference starts at 9:00 local time in Jamaica, you miss the Thursday broadcast of GMA.

    Therefore, if GMA wish to air segments on BOTH Thursday and Friday, the press conferences has to take place on Wednesday 24th April 2019.

    Which is tomorrow.......

    (However, there is a chance they start the conference at 8:00 am on Thursday)

    If Jamaica's an hour ahead, doesn't that make 9am (local time) 8am EST? So wouldn't that be right in the middle of GMA's window?
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    AgentM72 wrote: »
    What's most curious is the tweet says Thursday and Friday.....

    If the presser is on Thursday.........the live broadcast of the GMA airs in sync with the Eastern Time Zone (ET) between 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

    Jamaica is an hour ahead of ET. Therefore, if the press conference starts at 9:00 local time in Jamaica, you miss the Thursday broadcast of GMA.

    Therefore, if GMA wish to air segments on BOTH Thursday and Friday, the press conferences has to take place on Wednesday 24th April 2019.

    Which is tomorrow.......

    (However, there is a chance they start the conference at 8:00 am on Thursday)

    If Jamaica's an hour ahead, doesn't that make 9am (local time) 8am EST? So wouldn't that be right in the middle of GMA's window?

    My bad. I meant behind. Edited the post above.
  • DeerAtTheGatesDeerAtTheGates Belgium
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    Do we think the official 007 social media accounts will actually announce the press conference tomorrow or Thursday morning (UK time), or will things just unfold on Thursday without any official build-up?
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    Why on Earth are the official 007 social media sites not teasing the event yet?
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Or, is the press conference on Friday with Thursday being a lead-in. Is Thursday confirmed?
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    Why on Earth are the official 007 social media sites not teasing the event yet?

    Good question. One up your alley, I must admit ;), but a very good one at that.
  • edited April 2019 Posts: 4,400
    talos7 wrote: »
    Or, is the press conference on Friday with Thursday being a lead-in. Is Thursday confirmed?

    Surely sooner is better?

    Especially if the cast is full of unknown European actors that no one can care about. This move is about to get drowned by Endgame coverage. It needs to get out pronto

    I don't think Rami Malek's name is enough to generate too much excitement prior to the Captain America/Iron Man-fest. Though he is cute.

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    fanbond123 wrote: »
    If Craig's Bond is retired at the start of Bond 25... the title could reflect that. How about:

    A RETURN TO DUTY
    Or 'Once Upon a Male 007' :-)
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    AgentM72 wrote: »
    What's most curious is the tweet says Thursday and Friday.....

    If the presser is on Thursday.........the live broadcast of the GMA airs in sync with the Eastern Time Zone (ET) between 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

    Jamaica is an hour ahead of ET. Therefore, if the press conference starts at 9:00 local time in Jamaica, you miss the Thursday broadcast of GMA.

    Therefore, if GMA wish to air segments on BOTH Thursday and Friday, the press conferences has to take place on Wednesday 24th April 2019.

    Which is tomorrow.......

    (However, there is a chance they start the conference at 8:00 am on Thursday)

    If Jamaica's an hour ahead, doesn't that make 9am (local time) 8am EST? So wouldn't that be right in the middle of GMA's window?

    My bad. I meant behind. Edited the post above.

    No worries. You're right. Suggests that a PC livestream certainly isn't a possibility for GMA -- makes me think perhaps "Thursday" is more of a warmup with a reveal of Jamaica as a location (exclusive?).

    Very interesting situation unfolding, indeed.
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    ColonelSun wrote: »
    fanbond123 wrote: »
    ColonelSun wrote: »
    Or "Return to Service" - the title we used on a 35mm title sequence test we shot for Eon and screened for Cubby and BB and the team in Theatre 7 at Pinewood not long before GE started production. I remember Eon rather liked the title.

    Return to Service is similar to my suggestion Return to Duty.

    That's cool to know! Thanks for the information.

    Yes, we used it as the title on the test sequence because we thought Dalton would be back, i.e. returning to service after the events of LTK. ( In fact we hired a Dalton look alike for our re-worked GB opening, entering the gun as the chamber was rolled up in to the gun and then, aiming at Bond, BANG! And shooting down the GB, spinning with the bullet as it sped down the barrel towards Bond, and then seeing the bullet shoot out of the front of the barrel and hitting a reflection of Bond and the mirror glass exploding - check GE titles which closely follow what we did with spinning down the GB and seeing the bullet exit it, but we did our version with specifically constructed large scale models and not using CGI.) Anyway, back to Bond 25.

    That's a great story, @ColonelSun Thanks for that!
  • Blofeld0064Blofeld0064 Milford, Michigan
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    You know I have to agree this time with @Pierce2Daniel and @PanchitoPistoles it's time the official 007 website get this out in the open now!
  • edited April 2019 Posts: 125
    TripAces wrote: »
    HMBFF wrote: »
    A quick title treatment.

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    Quote nice. But there is an opportunity here to diagonally line up the "O" on Once and Upon to create the 007.

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    Like this??

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    ;)
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    talos7 wrote: »
    Or, is the press conference on Friday with Thursday being a lead-in. Is Thursday confirmed?

    Surely sooner is better?


    Possibly, but how much difference does a day make? I could see where Thursday would be a retrospective of Bond, with the focus on Craig's tenure. This would be a tease for the press conference on Friday. It would give them a huge ratings boost.

    Also , on a worldwide scale, announcing the press conference on Thursday would create a explosion of coverage; it would be everywhere.


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    talos7 wrote: »
    talos7 wrote: »
    Or, is the press conference on Friday with Thursday being a lead-in. Is Thursday confirmed?

    Surely sooner is better?


    Possibly, but how much difference does a day make? I could see where Thursday would be a retrospective of Bond, with the focus on Craig's tenure. This would be a tease for the press conference on Friday. It would give them a huge ratings boost.

    Also , on a worldwide scale, announcing the press conference on Thursday would create a explosion of coverage; it would be everywhere.


    I think you have to 'read the room'. The GMA tweet hasn't garnered a huge amount of attention on that platform.....we all care, but entertainment journalists are spending the week reporting on Endgame. After all, it's a genuine candidate at making $300m this week and beating Avatar.

    The Bond announcement should ht before the first wave of reviews tomorrow night UK time.

    Anyway.............................................one thing that has become very very very clear: we should not look at past press conferences for clues for the next one. Just because Eon tweeted with two days notice before the Spectre reveal, does NOT mean they will do the same here.
  • Those articles are the worst, just nonsense.
  • 007Blofeld007Blofeld In the freedom of the West.
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    Those articles are the worst, just nonsense.

    "A Bond studyer" what a joke maybe he should learn that Bond has been doubted 3 times before and he's always come back.
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    Jack_Wade wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    HMBFF wrote: »
    A quick title treatment.

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    Quote nice. But there is an opportunity here to diagonally line up the "O" on Once and Upon to create the 007.

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    Like this??

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    ;)

    Yes, it does work rather nicely. Let's bring it to the titles thread ;)
  • 007Blofeld007Blofeld In the freedom of the West.
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    When does GMA start?
  • NS_writingsNS_writings Buenos Aires
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    007Blofeld wrote: »

    Another one that says Bond is over, now under the guise of a "Bond expert".

    Are these the same analysts who said GoldenEye couldn’t exist, who said the helicopter posed no immediate threat, and wasn’t worth following?!



  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    Jack_Wade wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    HMBFF wrote: »
    A quick title treatment.

    EF7ds6m.jpg

    Quote nice. But there is an opportunity here to diagonally line up the "O" on Once and Upon to create the 007.

    300?cb=20110225165955

    080124-QOS-logo.jpg

    Like this??

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    ;)

    Me likey
  • 007Blofeld007Blofeld In the freedom of the West.
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    Red_Snow wrote: »

    I wonder what they are teasing hmmm.....
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    007Blofeld wrote: »

    I have worked with Kinane in the past, and I think people are missing his point. He's merely pointing some things we have been discussing on these boards for a long time. And upon careful reading, one sees that he isn't really predicting the end of Bond.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Those articles are the worst, just nonsense.

    You're right, @ShakenNotStirred.
    James Bond 25 to be last 007 movie EVER? 'Fleming's spy PAST his sell-by-date' says expert.

    JAMES BOND 25, starring Daniel Craig, could be the last 007 movie as Ian Fleming’s spy is past his sell-by-date for the modern world, argues a franchise expert.

    Haven't they been saying this since the late '60s? Hasn't Bond always proven them wrong?

    I'd say the brilliance of Fleming is that he created a character not tied to a fixed point in time. The brilliance of Broccoli, Saltzman and others is that they added adaptability and flexibility to the Bond formula. The world continues to produce new villains, new conflicts and new complications. Even in a "modern world", traditional symbols of hope, security and testosterone-charged persistence are needed. Bond has been doing his part for over five decades, despite the world turning "modern" in the '70s, then again in the '80s, and once more in the '90s beyond the Iron Curtain. No-one thought it possible that Bond could survive into the 2000s but lo and behold, CR smashed every bit of criticism with a post 9/11 Bond that worked the Fleming magic and felt very modern at the same time.
    Following several delays, Daniel Craig’s fifth and final James Bond movie will be released in April next year. But after 57 years of the MI6 agent on the big screen, the iconic character is constantly facing an ever-changing world from the geopolitical landscape to attitudes towards sex and gender. Can Bond survive by evolving and adapting in an age of #MeToo and Britain’s declining influence on the world stage, or should the “misogynist dinosaur” as M calls him in Goldeneye be relegated to the past?

    But the world has been "ever-changing" since the early '60s. Cinema has been changing since the early '60s. As for #MeToo, that thing is almost dead and buried again. Even then, Bond doesn't have to smack a girl on the bottom to give us a fun ride. A good Bond film can been perfectly "safe-for-work". But that doesn't mean that art should be politically correct; in fact, I'd argue it shouldn't be. Bond can cross the line a bit here and there; he always has. We can take it. Those who crusade for #MeToo aren't going to make much of a difference BO wise anyways and they will find insult in everything, from Disney's princesses to Marvel's superheroes. James Bond films don't conform and we love them for that. In fact, that's one of many things that guarantee continued interest in them.

    The geopolitical position of Britain surely isn't too big a deal either. Whatever Britain's real power, Bond films are part fantasy. Spies are still needed. And this one particular spy can still be a cool dude to follow around. Also, it's not like Britain has no influence at all anymore...
    Dr Ian Kinane, the editor of the International Journal of James Bond Studies and a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton reckons Bond 25 could very well be the final 007 movie. He claims the secret agent is well past his sell-by-date and attempting to update him to meet modern standards isn’t just futile, but an impossible to reconcile paradox.

    Speaking exclusively with Express.co.uk, Kinane said: “Bond is well past his sell-by-date; I think as a character he’s a total anarchism.

    “All of the attempts ostensibly made in the Daniel Craig era to ‘modernise’ this character, to ‘modernise the treatment of women and updating gender relations’, has seen very little actually done. When you look at the films, the politics of gender are just as disgraceful as they’ve always been since the 60s.

    “So I see no reason why James Bond should survive Bond 25 because he is a man of the 50s and 60s. There’s a reason why the novels are so enjoyable; because they’re time capsules. They allow you to enter into this phase when ‘the good ol’ British Empire’ is still going strong.

    “It’s a total fantasy and anyone who takes that seriously is completely deluded. They’re very well written books; Fleming displays such amazing grasp and cultural insight into Britain at the time.

    “But in terms of the modern films, I do not buy this attempt by each and every iteration to attach Bond’s significance to another geopolitical or globally significant event. Be it technocracy in Spectre, be it global terrorist financing in Casino Royale, be it control over the water supply in Quantum of Solace.

    That's a personal comment made by this "expert". Many people obviously feel that those things work, judging by the recent films' popularity and BO performances. In fact, if the films decide to return to some of the crazier plots from long ago, the "expert" might get his wish. I do, however, have serious doubts that those would sit well with the majority of fans. That said, good screenwriters may be able to squeeze out something that's as innocent as the '60s' plots but also credible in today's world.
    “Britain is a laughing stock in terms of its position in the world today and so I think having this agent who traverses the world with no diplomatic issues, no problems at customs: I think it will be laughed off the screen.”

    Wow, this is quite the acerbic comment and I resent it. I'm beginning to sense that this man is just a Fleming purist. He simply wants faithful Fleming adaptions, nothing too loose.
    Kinane pointed out how normally a tonal shift in the Bond franchise changes between incarnation. The most obvious example is when the dark and gritty Timothy Dalton took over from the light-hearted and silly Roger Moore.

    However, he argues that we’ve seen a “total shift within the context of one’s turn in Craig”.

    The incumbent Bond’s era began with that Dalton-esque seriousness in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, before experimenting with more outlandish comedy in Spectre – the kind that hasn’t been seen since Pierce Brosnan’s Die Another Day.

    There’s now even a rumour that Craig has hired Phoebe Waller-Bridge to work on Bond 25’s script in an attempt to make it funnier. But with the ever quickening pace of attempts to keep in sync with the modern world’s “woke” sensibilities, can the latest outing please everyone? Kinane believes this is impossible and such a dilemma could in fact spell the end of Bond franchise in the near future.

    Hold on, now. Have we forgotten the constant tonal shifts in the '80s? From FYEO to OP to AVTAK to TLD and then to LTK... How about from FRWL to GF? Furthermore, I fail to see how attempts at "keeping in sync with the modern world's "woke" sensibilities" must lead to the franchise's impending demise. Once again, Bond was always as much "of the times" as he was "off the times". A balanced mix-up of old and new is what guarantees our enjoyment. Furthermore, the Bond films have always had a talent for self-correction. After MR, we got FYEO. After DAD came CR. Should B25 upset people for whatever reason, the next actor in the next Bond film will take a different turn with it. I'm still not convinced this must be the end of the story.
    The Bond expert continued: “I can’t see how the latest film is going to live up to the stellar performance of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, because there are too many cooks involved.”

    Bond 25 has been through two directors and multiple script rewrites, so it’s unclear just what the story is going to look like now, with filming already having begun.

    The stellar performances of CR, QOS and SF?

    Too many cooks involved and somehow that means the series will end?

    Clearly, this expert is not expert enough to realise that troubled productions have plagued the series since the '60s.
    Kinane, exposing the apparent three-way paradox added: “It’s simultaneously going to be a meta-textual swan song for Daniel Craig because it’s very evident the producers adore him and will do anything to please his demands.

    “Secondly, it’s going to be a rightful capitulation to the issues raised by #MeToo, but also one to the nostalgia; to the fans who go to see specific things.

    “But those three things just don’t work together; Bond is not a meta-piece. Those three different universes cannot exist simultaneously.

    This I can somewhat agree with, except that I don't know where the second accusation comes from. A capitulation to the issues raised by #MeToo? Granted, the film will be careful with certain things and daring with others, but so was SF. To appease the #MeToo crowd isn't the same as to add previously unseen elements to the formula; rather it's about avoiding perhaps a naughty line or two. But I'm beginning to think that the power of #MeToo over movies is a little exaggerated here.
    So I wouldn’t be surprised, at all, if this was the last Bond ever.”

    Once again, this is the one conclusion I fail to draw myself. Even if, in a worst-case scenario, the film flops and is buried under heavy criticism from whatever side, there's always that next film to set things right.
    Bold words, but perhaps the first trailer for Bond 25 later this year will give fans a feeling of whether Craig will go out on high or follow his predecessors with the so-called curse of the final Bond movie.

    Anyone living by a "rule" of film curses is, to borrow a phrase, completely deluded.
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    Bond is to be viewed with a huge dollop of Escapism.
    Escape from political correctness and Me-too
    Bring on Bond 25 and let’s have some fun.

    I reckon a few Phoebe WB lines should serve us very well indeed. We should laugh with, and not at Bond, in this strange new world.
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