In the end, it probably will depend on BOND 23´s box office, I´m afraid. If it is not outperforming QOS and CR, this could be the end of Craig´s tenure.
Quite, that's pretty much all it's gonna depend on.
#23 fulfills it's potential and is a huge box office hit and MGM/EON'll cross Dan'd palm with so much silver it'll make going to the gym worthwhile. Any desire to return to obscure, indie films will instantly evaporate with it.
#23 turns out to be an incomprehensible, pretentious mess to mainstream movie goers and a poor box office return as a consequence, and Dan'll be Three and Out.
Babs will have to tear her gaze away and start fawning over the fresh young face of James Bond #7, or 007th! But then, so will many CBNers. W
Which really makes it win-win, doesn't it?
Not quite. How can No 2 and 3 be a win win? Not for those, who want to see a great Bond film and not to those, who want DC to stick around.
Well, I think most of us want to see a great film regardless of who's in it.
If #23 is a great film and a box office success, wonderful.
But if #23 doesn't do particularly well because EON, Craig and Mendes have taken it down a route not-popular with the mass box office (remember OHMSS? remember LTK? both noble efforts but largely disappointing at the box office), then replacement and repositioning is surely win-win?
As I said, we are James Bond fans here not Daniel Craig fans, surely?
You are again forgetting that to get you replacement and your win win situation, you have to go through a bad film first and since, as you put it so wonderfully, all are JB fans first and foremost, this cannot be a good thing to happen ever. Don't you think? Plus without the actor portraying him, he is just a character in a book, so it does matter, who is playing him and a replacement might not work out, while the current one has proven, that he can do the character justice - at least for a majority of people. Its ok, if you are not among them, but don't let this fool you into believing, that your scenario is a good option. 2 and 3 ARE a possibility, of course, but it aint anything good about it, because..see above...
Edited by Germanlady, 28 September 2011 - 03:08 PM.