I respectfully agree! Craig has been exactly like Moore , graceful and a fantastic ambassador in the role.
Depends what you use as a start date doesnāt it? 1912/2015 (the first dominos) or 1914/2018 (the āofficialā start)
Well, itāll all be over by Christmasā¦
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In this case letās hope not.
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Given everything thatās happened with the production, any sort of projected timeline is likely out the window, but how far in advance of the start of filming have we gotten title announcements? I feel like itās usually only a few days before. The reason I ask is because āGlobal James Bond Dayā (10/5) is right around the corner so Iām hoping for something, however unlikely it is. Part of me is surprised they didnāt hold the director announcement until then.
Does anyone know anything about how connected this writer is? Iād love to know how much of this is the result of investigative reporting and how much is pure speculation and conjecture. Interesting if true.
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I remember Michael Wilson saying also he wants Daniel Craig to do seven filmsā¦so maybe we can at least have six?
Let the speculation begin! Is Fukunagaās Bond 25 gonna be Spectre 2, a version of Boyleās treatment, some combination of the 2, or something completely different? Personally, Iām still hoping for the modern Cold War story.
When old timers like myself hear āCraig wants his own From Russia With Loveā that is music to our ears, but I wonder how younger fans react to that?
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Iāve been wanting them to end a movie like FRWL, with a dead bond? cliffhanger.
Wasnāt there a rumoured alternate ending of QoS in which heās shot by mr white as he walks away in the snow?
What if eon deciding to drop that was what made craig demand a producer role? Maybe that was something heād engineered.
Perhaps the B25 FRWL rumour is fantasy but it certainly makes me happy to think they may after all be going back to the books in a substantial way.
Though ironically FRWL (along with OHMSS & CR) are the only novels to have been done real justice. Iād prefer an authentic YOLT adaptation, but Iām happy nonetheless 
there was a cut ending of QOS where he went to Mr Whiteās house and killed him (which ended up in the QOS videogame, which was made before the scene got cut from the film)
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Considering that none of the Hollywood trade papers even had a whiff of the Danny Boyle departure or the Fukunaga hiring tells me we should take any rumor, scoop, or opinion piece they publish with a grain of salt.
I love that EON has been able to keep everything top secret until they were ready to announce it. After the Sony hack I see that theyāre keeping things very close to the chest.
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Sorry to rain, but:
The twenty-teens end on the last day of 2020.
Agree. Gossip and clickbait. Opinion pieces presented as fact most of the time.
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So Iāve been dipping a little into Fukunagaās Maniac (since I loved True Detective like everybody else) - frankly, with all due limitations since I only started, I think it wants to be too many things at once, is too undecided about its tone and makes it difficult to care for its characters. Canāt say Iām blown away yet.
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Thanks for the early (spoiler free) review. Looking forward to having a dip myself.
I suppose the question now is, who is in each position? Dan Romer (Composer) is the only person I can find to have been a recurring presence, and that was just featuring twice. Fukunaga doesnāt seem to be a director who has a regular pool he goes back in the way his 2 (3 if we count Boyle) predecessors where. So whatās the consensus - Boyleās choices staying? Fukunaga shopping out? EON regulars?
My feeling is, If they have actually scrapped Hodgeās script and returned to what they had before, I would suspect theyād do that across the board, Dennis Gassner in particular Iām thinking will return, given he had already started work on that script before the Boyle experiment.
Iād be fine with David Arnold again, if Iām being honest. Newman on Skyfall was a breath of fresh air, but his Spectre score was very uninspired. Arnold has been consistently great with all of his Bond scores.
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It seems practical to use talent that has worked on a Bond film before. But it also is practical to let the director work with people he has worked before and feels comfortable with.
Probably it will be a mixture of both. I imagine Thomas Newman will be out for good. But Arnold might be invited back with no complaint from Fukunaga since Arnold has proven to be a team player. Also, he has the bigger, more established name than Dan Romer.
But nothingās set in stone. I believe EON will want to prove now that it is not their fault that Boyle had quit. So if Fukunaga demands anything he probably will get it.
And if this is CraigĀ“s last Bond EON can allow for a director to have more influence than ever. The important thing is Craig is happy with him.
I would agree, but this is where Iām not sure - Fukunaga doesnāt seem to have go to people, seemingly preferring to do as much himself as possible, so Iām wondering if this counts for or against EON go to people.
On the one hand, as you say, they will want to demonstrate they arnāt being controlling and their regular people filling the jobs could count against that. On the other hand EONās lot have shown they can work a varied range of directors and make the film they want, rather than having a go-to style.
The use the composers to illustrate, there is no typical David Arnold score - Quantum of Solace sounds nothing like Independence Day to such an extent you would never guess itās the same composer, whilst you can instantly recognise a Thomas Newman score regardless if it was for Road To Perdition or Wall-E.
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