Bond 23: Skyfall

You realize what was being referred to, right?
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Fuck yes @ Daniel Craig :D


And I liked Quantum better than Casino, which I found rather slow.
 
hiimandy1 said:
I never understood why they didn't start production as soon as they were done with Quantum. Surely, if your company is in financial trouble, you'd want to get a movie that will bring in ~$500mm as quickly as possible. It would be out, or nearly so, by this point if they had.
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Backdraft said:
I think it was because MGM was in truly bad shape. They were millions in the red, no upfront finance to back a significant investment like Bond, basically all they had were the copyrights they owned for their properties. They were desperately looking for a buyer or financier. No director/producer is going to step into a production like that.
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The pre-production of a Bond-scale movie takes some time. As far as i understood, they started pre-production after finishing up on Quantum (one post-production is done and the film is released, the production team still has lots of paperworks, accounting, etc to wrap up) in late 2009, until MGM had to pull the plug in mid-2010 due to lack of funds/perspective.

Good to see the project's on again.
 
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I am with Viper - Daniel Craig FTW. But hey that is just me. My favourite Bond films are Gold finger and Goldeneye but hey that is just me.
 
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Cobol74 said:
My favourite Bond files are Gold finger and Goldeneye but hey that is just me.
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Mine was The Living Daylights, but thats mostly because it was the first Bond film i had seen at the cinema. Before that i had only seen them on the tv or on video.
 
A year to produce a Bond film? That's a bit ambitious isn't it?

I personally preferred Quantum, because as Viper said Casino seemed to go on forever to me, I would've been quite happy if the Venice part didn't exist.
 
So... any bets on locations, chicks or gadgets? I'm hoping for NYC, Southeast Asia and a One-77. We all know that the One-77 is perfect here.
 
This had better work, They are counting on this and the Hobbit movie to single (double?) handledly save the studios. "All in", and all that...
 
Matt2000 said:
A year to produce a Bond film? That's a bit ambitious isn't it?

I personally preferred Quantum, because as Viper said Casino seemed to go on forever to me, I would've been quite happy if the Venice part didn't exist.
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Nearer to two years - slated for release Nov 2012 to coincide with the 50th anniversary.

I'm the opposite on the two most recent. I thought Casino was excellent as a reboot, and the whole Vesper/Venice thing was essential to explain and set out why Bind is who he is ie a borderline alcoholic/mysogenist psychopath which is the actual character Fleming created. The movies have always been about him being a smooth and capable hero with few if any flaws.

Quantum on the other hand while necessary suffered from the same problem as Goldeneye. A stack of set pieces then suddenly you're at the end where everything explodes. It was too short, poorly directed and the story just didn't hang together.

Let's just hope Craig's third outing is the one where he gets to realise his and the revamped franchise's potential. If not I fear for Bond's future in the cinema.
 
Mineworksfine said:
Nearer to two years - slated for release Nov 2012 to coincide with the 50th anniversary.

I'm the opposite on the two most recent. I thought Casino was excellent as a reboot, and the whole Vesper/Venice thing was essential to explain and set out why Bind is who he is ie a borderline alcoholic/mysogenist psychopath which is the actual character Fleming created. The movies have always been about him being a smooth and capable hero with few if any flaws.

Quantum on the other hand while necessary suffered from the same problem as Goldeneye. A stack of set pieces then suddenly you're at the end where everything explodes. It was too short, poorly directed and the story just didn't hang together.

Let's just hope Craig's third outing is the one where he gets to realise his and the revamped franchise's potential. If not I fear for Bond's future in the cinema.
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No that was the N64 game you are thinking of.
 
laxmax613 said:
So... any bets on locations, chicks or gadgets? I'm hoping for NYC, Southeast Asia and a One-77. We all know that the One-77 is perfect here.
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Well i assume the girl is going to be Olivia Wilde since she was attached to the produciton before they shut it down. There were also rumors of Freida Pinto (slumdog millionaire girl) but i think those were unsubstantiated. Unless of course this is going to be an all new production and the work put into the previous bond 23 is just being scrapped in which case who the hell knows.
 
Olivia Wilde? Time was when a Bond movie could launch an actress's career. Now it seems they need a well established actress to launch a Bond movie!
 
No? Olga Kurylenko wasn't that well established when Quantum came out - she had only ever appeared in bad game adaptations - and Eva Green didn't have a huge number of screen credits before Casino Royale either - Kingdom of Heaven and some stuff I'd never heard of.

Maybe they're casting actresses based on who is the most appropriate for the part! Gasp!
 
I was thinking more of future Bonds rather than recent ones, with tongue in cheek too! :p
 
Matt2000 said:
A year to produce a Bond film? That's a bit ambitious isn't it?

I personally preferred Quantum, because as Viper said Casino seemed to go on forever to me, I would've been quite happy if the Venice part didn't exist.
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they did a lot of the pre production stuff before MGM had to shut it down.
 
jedd_kenobi said:
Mine was The Living Daylights, but thats mostly because it was the first Bond film i had seen at the cinema. Before that i had only seen them on the tv or on video.
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I'm with you buddy, lots of people don't like it because it's not camp but I reckon it's the best
 
The_Finn said:
Well i assume the girl is going to be Olivia Wilde since she was attached to the produciton before they shut it down. There were also rumors of Freida Pinto (slumdog millionaire girl) but i think those were unsubstantiated. Unless of course this is going to be an all new production and the work put into the previous bond 23 is just being scrapped in which case who the hell knows.
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They won't scrap the work that got into it - but as A-List actresses like Olivia Wilde and Freida Pinto tend to have quite full schedules, a severe delay in the shooting schedule (as in this case because the studio shut them down for almost a year) may revise all and any casting descisions.

I just read "My Word is my Bond", the brilliant autobiography by Roger Moore, it's surprising how many casting decisions are down to scheduling, even when it comes to Bond films.
 
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