A period film would be a great way to make sure their new Bond franchise is a failure before it even reaches cinemas.
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After reading the article that point is just guesswork on behalf of the author. Iām fine with casting getting done sooner rather than later, though. What will be will be.
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āYuck, what did I get involved with?ā
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By the way, the German streaming charts for Amazon this week lists five Bond movies in the top 10.
All are Craigās Bond films.
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World of Reel are famously unreliable so probbaly buy shares in a salt mine before reading.
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Not surprised. Recency bias is strong and I can almost guarantee modern audiences (as in younger audiences) would not have the patience for the slow burn of Dr. No or From Russia with Love.
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They seem to have been right on a lot of things Bond.
Especially around the Alfonso Cuaron saga.
For this year, so donāt expect anything Bond-related.
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Every day is a day closer. Even without a clue about casting Iām ready for it. I feel like nothing has happened before today with Bond. Itās a blank slate - back to 2006 all over again and I donāt think thatās a bad thing at all.
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Letās hope!
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I doubt it, with the full likely penciled in for 2028, but who knows? Maybe theyāll announce the next Bond.
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Iāve heard that, after her recent Amazon box office triumph, Melania is a dead cert for the Bond girl part.
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Oh god, Trump is going to name himself James Bond isnāt he?
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And say how Sean āCanneryā gave it him. āSirā¦you need to be James Band!!!ā
Heās not a subtle orange man
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Itās the Super Bowl weekend, traditionally slow at the box office. Every movie will perform worse.
Yet Amazon explicitly puts out a press release telling the world that this documentary is already a huge success and will continue to delight audiences.
Yeah, that company now owns our guy.
Owns.
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This movie is an abysmal bomb and has played to mostly empty theaters outside of the most die hard major MAGA centers. Amazon has to ājustifyā its $75 million bribe to the current American administration somehow. They do scare me for Bond, but Iām still willing to give them the benefit of the doubtā¦.one timeā¦.
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An updateā¦
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Subtitle: āWe have no clue, have not come to any decision, but look at the people we have bought to make you think it will be absolutely terrific! And if they fail itās them! We want this to work, we need this to work, but we just canāt decide who is going to be Bond, soā¦ again, they will be responsible.ā
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I suppose the first real acid test will be the projected production budget. How much money does Amazon feel comfortable with investing? The entire industry will watch closely how BOND 26 will shape up and how much - if at all - it will differ from the Eon customary approach.
One thing Eon used to be good at was to make even lesser budgets look splendid. That would be a welcome return of a classic filmmaking quality.
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I suspect the first one will get a huge budget. For one thing, inflation and the crazy world right now. And second, they want to show: we are the biggest and donāt care.
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