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RC7 wrote: As I said I don't want Spectre to return, I was merely using them as a yardstick. I just don't believe in the viability of such an organisation (Quantum, Spectre or otherwise) in the current iteration of the Bond films. I don't feel …
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Don't want to choose one over the other, both very good films. Not perfect, but as close as can be given the circumstances.
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NicNac wrote: Kennon wrote: Yep, as if anybody already owed him the gig, not really worthy of a cool cat. That said I think Tarantino will tackle spies in the end. There was talk about the Bernard Samson books back a few years and I could s…
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Yep, as if anybody already owed him the gig, not really worthy of a cool cat. That said I think Tarantino will tackle spies in the end. There was talk about the Bernard Samson books back a few years and I could see him doing one of the American s…
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Tarantino has created himself his own genre, that's for sure. And it is a cannibalistic one as Tarantino would be the first to admit. Mayhap that's what makes him an intriguing speculation for the Bond series which owes already a lot to (self-)canni…
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Seve wrote: Gerard wrote: Seve wrote: "Chief Winitou" indeed, you could count the number of German people in WW2 that would ever have heard of Chief Winitou on the fingers of one hand and still have four left over @-) You would be …
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If it could be from somebody not in the thriller genre per se I'd have Iain Banks or Bernard Cornwell. If it's got to be a thriller writer Rakin would still be amongst my favourites. If it has to be an American for reasons of market recognition Mich…
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Good call with Jackson for BIG. But I would actually prefer LALD as a faithful period adaption of the book rather than a remake of the film.
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Mach2Infinity wrote: Kennon wrote: I don't know about that. Quantum isn't really that hot a plot device IMO. If 'Skyfall' turns out to be the hit the cast and crew promise it will be, then people most likely won't spend a second thought about …
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Well, having thought about it I admit, if Quantum is dropped entirely now the whole show would look pointless to say the least. If it had been just CR there would have been that ominous guy with the money and a few goons in the background, some 'ter…
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Seve wrote: Kennon wrote: I don't know about that. Quantum isn't really that hot a plot device IMO. If 'Skyfall' turns out to be the hit the cast and crew promise it will be, then people most likely won't spend a second thought about Quantum. …
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Sorry, edit seems broken.
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Shark wrote: Amnesia, brainwashing, attempting to kill M etc. Isn't that basically the beginning of Fleming's TMWTGG? As great as it is, it's a little too close to Bourne right now, what with both franchises still going. actonsteve wrote: …
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Well, Fleming must have had the impression McClory was a useful contact or he wouldn't have pursued the 'Thunderball' project for so long, even going to the trouble to conceive an original story from scratch instead of trying to adapt his previous b…
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Comte_de_Bleuville wrote: McClory was not one of the producers of 'Around the World in 80 Days' - he was some sort of production assistant. Didn't know that, sorry. Rubin's THE JAMES BOND FILMS only mentions McClory was involved, specifica…
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IIRC those plans for a huge cast of top stars for the 'Thunderball' project were originally intended to attract (mainly American) audiences who didn't know 'James Bond' yet, or considered him a poor man's Mike Hammer. 'Around the World in 80 Days' f…
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I'm not sure if some of the examples of plagiarism we know about really match this AoS book. From what I've read this guy took literally his entire book. That's 1) a larger scale and 2) a different quality of plagiarism. Perhaps that got lost in …
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I don't know about that. Quantum isn't really that hot a plot device IMO. If 'Skyfall' turns out to be the hit the cast and crew promise it will be, then people most likely won't spend a second thought about Quantum. Lots of people didn't get the po…
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I seem to remember early stages of Fleming's 'Thunderball' were also supposed to feature a most illustrious cast and crew, something that was later decided as perhaps too expensive (before the project was dropped and Fleming used his work for the bo…
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Guy will have a hard time publishing anything (even self-publishing on Kindle) that doesn't pass the copy&paste test. I doubt any professional in the publishing business will even touch Rowan for the forseeable future. He may have had his 5 minu…
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Maybe we should ask 'Would Fleming have been able to stop writing Bond?' Look at it this way: he's always been more interested in earning money than in earning recognition of the serious intellectual circles. Make no mistake, he wanted that too, …
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Hello all, Kennon here. I'm a long-time Bond fan (close to 40 years). I particularly like the originals by Fleming but I'm not that averse to the films that I have to cry into my beer the whole day long. I LIKE Bond, but I do have a life outside, an…
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