That’s what I like to hear on a Sunday evening - a happy ending 
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That contemporary take by Anthony Sinclair on a safari suit jacket actually looks to me to borrow heavily from an infantry-style field jacket - I’m thinking more M-36 than the better known (and much copied) M-65.
Great news that we have a kick off date of December 3rd.
So, how about this time Bond goes rogue?
Maybe make it a revenge-based story?
How about a female partner who is Bond’s equal?
Thoughts?
All good ideas. But as well as that I’d like to see a lot of references to the prior films. The story should also definitely be personal. I don’t want a Bond who is just doing his job.
See, irony on the internet does work!
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We must not forget the long awaited return of a Bond/M relationship riddled with trust and parental issues.
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I sure hope the villain turns out to be Bond’s 3rd grade math teacher.
Or Sean Connery, as the architect of all his pain
To be played by George Lazenby, of course, with Pierce Brosnan appearing as the math teacher’s accomplice, Bond’s junior high gym teacher. Timothy Dalton appears later in the film as the headmaster of Bond’s private high school, who turns out to be the one behind it all.
And people say the bad ideas only come from P&W… 
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Now you’re just ripping off Hot Fuzz…
Honestly, never seen it so I had no idea. 
Sadly, there’s probably someone out there who thinks it would be a good idea.
Actually just saw a video with Joseph Sargent, the director of JAWS: THE REVENGE about how the creative powers behind a film can become seduced by a bad idea and see it through to completion. Fairly interesting interview with him, I must say.
Probably could be applied to Spectre. Did they really think they were being clever?
Sargent was a “Jaws”-veteran, so it is all the more disappointing that he delivered that awful film.
Nothing in that film reminds me of something that anyone could have considered a worthy idea.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but at the same time, I at least applaud their effort to try to do something different with it. The biggest problem, aside from the concept itself, is that they cut a lot of material from the script that explained the main concept of the film and gave it some context within the course of the film.
He was also given a terribly tight window in which to deliver the film, if I remember the stories I’ve read about it correctly.
Good find!
I just cannot wrap my head around the premise: a shark that wants to take revenge on human beings. Also, to have the shark swim from Amity to the Bahamas (or was it Jamaica?) to follow the Brodys…
I would have loved to see Brody´s widow and children on holiday right from the start - with another shark threatening and decimating the family. As if they really are doomed to be confronted by this beast, generation after generation. And maybe Ellen Brody should have finally sacrificed herself in order to save her son. That would have been interesting for me.
In theory Franz Oberhauser, Bond’s adoptive brother, could have made for an interesting antagonist. The problem was that they gave him the worst conceivable motivation and the Blofeld reveal was ultimately meaningless, twist for the sake of a twist. With a different approach it might have worked.
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I’m more offended that they rewrote Fleming. In the books Oberhauser and Blofeld were two different characters…
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They are still two different characters since Bloferhauser is supposedly the son of Oberhauser. What they actually changed was turning Blofeld into a traumatised juvenile and melting him with Dexter Smythe. It would have been more convincing if Bond had investigated Oberhauser’s death and then met Blofeld.
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What I’m saying though is in the books you had 3 different people - Hannes Oberhauser, Franz Oberhauser, and Blofeld. The movie combined Franz and Blofeld into the same person.
Unless I misread what you were saying?