This.
So Eon didn’t watch (listen to) Maniac!
‘Too out there’ sounds great to me 
Maybe I’ll just play Barry’s OHMSS on the earphones while I watch NTTD. It’s wonderfully ‘out there’.
They took a chance on Romer and it did not work out. Better than not trying at all.
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Still hoping David Arnold comes back to bring CraigBond full circle.
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This. Exactly. I am stoked to see EON trying new things. The very nature of that approach carries with it the possibility of not hitting the mark hoped for. Sometimes not getting what you wanted also helps you to understand exactly what is wanted and, more importantly, needed.
Don’t want an Eric Serra repeat.
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After Disney’s rather lackluster run with Star Wars, I don’t have high hopes for the potential Indy 5.
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Indy 4 wasn’t the first red flag?
Imo Temple of Doom was the first red flag. I love it ‘cos it’s Indy in his prime and still better than 95% of adventure movies, but Raiders and LasT Crusade it ain’t.
Indy 4 had the right ambitions, it was just too interested in passing on the hat to a progeny to carry on making the $$$, and way too over reliant on CGI. The latter was a function of trying to do traditional Indy with a guy in his 70s.
How they fix that is a tough one, but it needs to involve far less cgi and more honesty about his age. Maybe that’s just not an Indy movie, so it’s an impossible problem. Either way I’ll still pay to see it.
Lucas wanted aliens. They got aliens. Lucas wanted cgi. They got cgi.
Star Wars under Disney may not have reached the critical heights of Lucas’ prequels bu…oh…yeah.
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Surely they knew the ball park of what they’d get from Romer. It’s nice to frame it as ‘at least they tried’, but is it noble to be naive?
I don’t see BB as particularly naive. To the contrary, being a canny operator I imagine she expected
Romer’s cues would be more Serra than Newman. It makes one suspect that giving Romer the chance was a CJF caveat. So they conceded in the short term in order to score a respected director to replace Boyle and kill the very bad press they were getting.
In which case you’d think that Eon had a plan B (which they knew was actually their plan A). So, hopefully the radio silence on a composer is just that and it was actually sorted (off the record) some time ago.
But if they really did commit to Romer, hoping he’d deliver something that’s not Romer, with no plan B, then maybe Eon really do need a major studio to put on the captain’s cap to stop them playing chicken with icebergs.
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I like the aliens, hate the omnipresent cgi. Aliens; Roswell; Area 51 and South American crystal skulls fit perfectly in to the Indy playbook.
20 years earlier it would’ve been a great ride, but with an ageing cast and crew the kind of kaleidoscopic globe trotting fandango that worked in the 80s (and would’ve worked in the 90s) fell on its cgi’d Septuagenarian arse.
With a time machine I’d swap the Temple of Doom and Crystal Skull scripts. This old adventurer saving children from doom and finding a young successor among them in the process wouldn’t have been a bad way to sign off.
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They have seemingly given CJF the same as Boyle and Mendes; Carte Blanche on crew choices, but they have people ready for each position, should the directors choice not work out or be available. Seemingly was something Boyle was not ok with.
That’s a relief, maybe someone needs to let all the forums know 
They told Mendes that before Skyfall - it’s in Empire’s major feature on it, he only had 3 choices he wanted, but as Eon already had names for every position, one of whom was who Mendes wanted anyway, so it wasn’t a problem.
CJF kept the people Boyle hired, by and large.
It will all turn out just fine.
Now that shooting is done the score seems to be the last chance to stir up panic about the film.
Well, wait for the first test screenings and twitter reactions… 
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I’m actually excited by a composer change, as it gives me an opportunity I don’t usually get again until the song is announced; going through the newbies CV.
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Well, as you suggest they already had a composer before they gave Romer a shot, or they’re flying blind.
Me too!
I think that was CJF not wanting to waste work Boyle’s choices (costume design, cinematography and production design) had done already. Put his own for composer, took Eon go-to for the rest.
“The first thing you should know is… we have people everywhere”
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Also, I will point out David Arnold is music supervisor on The Rhythm Section, in case people were wondering who Eon’s music standby is…
Though, if they are playing a long game of a Nolan led first film for Bond 7, Zimmer may have already been inquired about, to go with the editor and DOP they brought to Spectre…
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