Isn’t Turner too old? He’s 36, which would normally be ideal, but I believe they’re skewing younger this time, late 20’s to early 30’s.
A dwarf and two women was probably the most revolutionaty choice.
You are no stranger to big IP. But when it comes to taking on something like James Bond, what are you most looking forward to as a producer, and what are you most nervous about?
I’m most afraid of fucking it up, because it’s really easy to do. It’s been done pretty damn well for many, many, many decades. I think you work really hard. That’s how you do it. You really get into the weeds of something and study it to understand what makes it great, and what Ian Fleming meant it to be. And try to learn from Barbara [Broccoli], who I watched produce a lot of Bond movies, and was lucky enough to be there for some of them.
Where are you all in the process right now? Is there a script?
We are really early on.
At least she seems have the right mind and spirit for it and want to make it realy good. That ís something, right?
The problem lies there…you should not try and learn from Barbara but from Cubby and Harry
She’s just showing respect to a woman she worked with. Odds of her doing the same are nil.
The basic PR-lines will all be the same drivel „respect what has come before so much“, „work so hard“, „Fleming Fleming Fleming“…
What else should they say anyway?
I think it hits a bit different when it’s coming from someone who actually was a part of what had come before and had a hand in a quite successful era of Bond films that started out by going back to Fleming’s original work.