I think the job’s his and it’s only a matter of time for an announcement.
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This excites me a lot
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They really have a pace going now they’ve started!
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Dare I say it ,
This is the benefit of having Amazon at the helm over EON.
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Hold your horses, young man. This is a rumour, and even having a director attached won‘t mean everything is going swiftly from now on, and only the mean grouches at EON delayed everything.
Expect the biggest in-house pressure falling on everyone who signs up for Bond 26, with many quietly or not so quietly quitting Boyle-style.
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Well , let’s see how it pans out.
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He’ll be an intriguing choice for sure.
That’s the difference when the people involved actually want to make a Bond film.
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That’s the difference when the people involved actually want to make a good Bond film.
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Honestly, this Eon vs. Amazon discourse is going to make the wait for Bond 26 (and let’s face it, pretty much everything the series does going forward) pretty much insufferable.
Eon wanted to make good Bond films, Amazon I am certain want to make good Bond films. I’m sure an absurdly low number of films are made without the intent to make a good film.
Eon is out, Amazon is in. I’m a James Bond fan; frankly, I could give a damn at this point if it’s Eon or Amazon or whoever making them, as long as I find some enjoyment in the finished product.
I’m pretty sure since the Eon/Amazon partnership was first announced every pro and con of Amazon vs Eon’s approach has been discussed ad nauseam.
It seems inevitable that every single aspect of the series going forward (and the litterary side of things too) is going to have the spectre (yes, pun intended) of Eon or Amazon (depending on your “side”) casting a shadow over any discussion.
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The idea that long waits equate to good films is flawed and certainly isn’t true for this series. In the Craig era, Eon would often wait a while before production started.The amount of time spent on actually making the film will likely be the same as the time Amazon is taking.
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That is an assumption based on personal preference and no knowledge of the inner workings of film production.
To also assume that EON took too long to make Bond films you did not really like is also not based on hard facts.
But be my guest: celebrate Amazon and their hopefully quick process of bringing us better Bond films than EON could.
You could also say: TMWTGG they made too fast after LALD, having more time maybe it would have been a better movie, but we just don’t know this for sure, ofcourse.
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It isn’t personal preference; I thought the last couple were fine. I was going by the general consensus and SP’s troubled production. I may be remembering wrongly, but I thought it was reasonably well established that over the last decade Barbara preferred to focus on other things too (focus on Bond, then focus on other things, focus on Bond again etc).
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None of that has anything to do with the duration of the development and crafting a Bond movie.
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Okay, but I’m pretty sure it’s been said on here somewhere too. I didn’t think it was controversial. There’s nothing wrong, after all, with Eon not wanting to make yet another Bond film.
It’s a shame our interactions, SecretAgentFan, have again taken a turn. Since I started posting here a few weeks ago, you have been passive-aggressive at best and bullying at worst. You seemed to have draw a line under it last time, but now it continues.
I’m sure that, after presumably three decades of posting here almost every day, you’ve accrued a certain amount of status with the other few regular posters and also as a moderator. But I’m going to speak truth to power, like so many brave people do today, and say it’s not nice.
You may not even be aware of the tone of your posts and how each pessimistic and cynical assertion can only be read with a brooding growl, or how regularly you find fault with almost everything I say. Or maybe you welcome the persona of the hard-to-please patriarch yet are unaware of its effects.
I’ve even tried to adapt that same tone myself at times as a form of appeasement. Like any target of a bully, I either try not to get noticed or seek approval for the relief that brings.
When I see your pseudonym and that it means you have posted a reply to me, my stomach twists apprehensively and there comes a bitter tang at the edge of my tongue. Already, it’s begun to imbue the Bond series with negative connotations.
For my own mental health, I’d like to avoid this site in future, though I wish you no ill will and hope you regularly post for decades to come.
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What is this “general consensus”? Is it the “everyone I know” consensus? Or the “people whose opinion I value” consensus? There is no such thing as general consensus, otherwise we wouldn’t be discussing.
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Do we think that Amazon could plan to film two movies back to back? Even EON always got a Bond actor’s second movie within two years of their first. Amazon does have the money and resources to possibly make it happen.
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This site is better than this.
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Exactly. Alain Resnais once said that a filmmaker did not make the films he wanted to make; he made the films he was allowed to make.
Time, circumstances, talent, funding, and other ingredients come together, and, possibly, a movie gets made. Look at the recent incident where Todd Haynes was all set to shoot a movie, and his star pulled out. No movie.
In Bond world, John Gavin was to be the third Bond. David Picker said no–get Connery back whatever the costs. As a result, the sublime DAF exists (soon to be released in 4K).
Harry Saltzman needed money, so TMWTGG was put into production. Guy Hamilton didn’t want to do it–he felt rushed, and liked time between his Bonds. His good working relationship with Tom Mankiewicz blew up. But circumstances are circumstances, and they sometimes dictate things more than is acknowledged. People then search in retrospect for some act of human autonomy to assign the result to, e.g., X made the movie too quickly/too slowly. But in all cases, the movie was made when it could occur.
I do not think Orson Welles wanted it to take more than 40 years for THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND to be released, but try as he might, it was only decades after his death that it happened.
Bonds 1-25 were made by a family concern with funding from a conglomerate. Bond 26 will be both made and funded by a conglomerate. New circumstances. We will see what happens.
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