Fleming never gave Moneypenny a first name. But in The Moneyoenny Diaries, he first name is indeed Jane.
Ralph Fiennes has said he would absolutely keep it going into Bond #7
Whishaw doesnât expect to be asked back.
No it would not. In actuality, it would be retrograde and demeaning.
Seeing women as equals is boring? The oppositeâseeing women as submissive, compliant, and availableâis worse than boringâin fact, downright dangerous.
It is not only a question of objectification, but of autonomy as well. It certainly is pleasant to watch beautiful bodies on screen, but beautiful bodies denied the power of choice are as dull as can be, e.g., a beautiful woman who submits to a beuatiful man because he is a beautiful man, and it is what sheâas a womanâis intrinsically meant to do. Bond as irresistible, not-to-be-denied sexual force is a concept well discarded.
1962: civil rights legislation has yet to be enacted; Stonewall has yet to occur; the first decade of the Vietnam War; apartheid in full force in South Africa.
The good old days?
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Women are equal to men and should be treated as such. Actually no, they deserve better treatment than men. Women are the ones who are forced to carry a child to term. Making stronger and better female characters should be a priority. And no they donât need to be mindless sex objects. Paloma is arguably one of the greatest characters in the Bond canon and there was nothing to suggest anything romantic between her and Bond. They had excellent chemistry born out of camaraderie and professionalism. In fact, I believe only 4 of the Fleming novels ended with Bond bedding a woman. That was something invented for the films and not something that will be missed.
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Iâm good with it. If CJF is on board, lock it down now and begin production on Bond 26 now. Maybe itâll be out relatively soon.
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Iâd be thrilled if Cary came back. Martin Campbell coming back would also be thrilling.
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Martin Campbell is nearly 80. Unlikely he returns.
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Yes unlikely but Ridley Scott is 83 and has two months coming out this year. So never say never.
But yeah it probably wonât happen.
Wow. Didnât realize that about Ridley.
I think I remember reading somewhere that Martin Campbell is retired. But if he were to ever come back, the first film for Bond 7 would be the time for it.
Just looked it up. Martin Campbell is 77 and he just had a film come out, âThe ProtĂ©gĂ©â and he has another film called âMemoryâ in postproduction.
The Protege has gotten a good audience score on review aggregators, âmehâ at best from criticsâŠso the same as anything outside Casino Royale
Ah, ok so I must have been misremembering.
Iâm all for a continuation based on the story that occurred between YOLT and TMWTGG: Bond found unconscious on the beach with amnesia.
The Russians / Chinese / whoever clear him of nanobots and send him after M, which fails and heâs deprogrammed and sent back after his handlers (no point in reminding him of Madeline).
Probably wonât happen. I wonât know whether I like NTTD until after I see the next one.
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I think the difference is that in none of those examples, Spider-Man, Batman, et al, did the character actually die.
Perhaps your right, audiences today wonât mind. But I think there will be a healthy number that says, wait, didnât Bond die in the last one.
Some effort should be made to bridge the gap in a clever way.
Agree with @secretagentfan that Eon knows what it is doing. After we doubted Craig and they proved us wrong⊠they wonât dork this up. Just acknowledging that it will be a challenge.
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If true thatâs very good news!
Supposedly Eon asked back all the directors since - and including - DIE ANOTHER DAY. So if Fukunagaâs pitch is any good we should actually see him return in BOND 26. Fingers crossed.
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Thereâs a great moment in the original Taking of Pelham 123, where Walter Matthau figures out how Robert Shaw, Balsam and co are planning to get away. He doesnât know exactly what theyâre doing, but he knows the one thing that they planned before deciding to even attempt the heist.
âThatâs what they started with! Thatâs their planâ or words to that effect (actually think heâs talking to the actor who was TeeHee in LALD)
EON figured the âoutâ before embarking on this course. The notion that the future of the most valuable cinematic IP out there was left to the whims of a director, star, improv session, or some grip yelling âwhy donât we just end it this wayâ after a late night out is frankly, asinine.
The only person on the planet who did it without a plan, is the author himselfâŠIâm convinced of that (as was Raymond Chandler, it says on the internetâŠ).
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Thatâs probably true, @plankattack. Would love to have been a fly on the wall during that strategy session.
On the other hand, it could have been just them trying to find the most impactful send-off for Craig. âFor now letâs just find the best ending for Daniel, weâll figure out the plan going forward over the next couple of years.â
Either way itâs fascinating.
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This, I can see. Iâd love to know how long the behind-the-scenes conversations have been going on with MGM, Amazon, whoever. If that stuff has been bubbling away since 2016 or so, in the exclusive cocktail parties of the rich and famous, then itâs worthy of a Le Carre thriller.
Is the IP suddenly worth more, or less? To MGM, to Amazon. Do EON have extra hand in their next round of talks with whoever? Did they have to talk to the foundation, or Glidrose, or whoever.
We constantly discuss what Babs and Mike do when it comes to front-of-house decisions (why do they keep bringing back P&W?! If they want to do other stuff they should just sell up! etc etc).
But the business, their family business, no, I never question their sense for those affairs. This isnât Disney buying Star Wars. Fans, the viewers, we see a creative decision only through the prism of the product we ingest. EON on the other hand, theyâve got a plan. That, Iâm sure of.
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