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[MattofSteel]

The first teaser/soundtrack cover is pretty definitive and sick. But yeah, the lack of anything cool to follow it was pretty disappointing. The Sony poster people have to be some of the worst the Bond franchise has ever been overseen by.

[L4YRCAKE]

If a final poster doesn't show soon and the 'prom night tintin' (I love that!) turns out to be the final, it will truly defy all sense and logic. They better have a good reason why they're sitting on it still, if they are...

[Simon]

By the way, there are plenty of posters still coming up. Including the final one sheet.

Do we actually know this?

Yes.

Still got my fingers crossed. But are we still certain about this?

This was said on the 18th September.

Can the same be said as of 11th October?

[Shrublands]

By the way, there are plenty of posters still coming up. Including the final one sheet.

Do we actually know this?

Yes.

Still got my fingers crossed. But are we still certain about this?

This was said on the 18th September.

Can the same be said as of 11th October?

I fear not

[univex]

Damn...

[S K Y F A L L]

Double dang.

[x007AceOfSpades]

Guys!



(Sorry. I thought this was official. Still pretty damn good though!)

The body must be of Don Draper (Jon Hamm) from Mad Men)

It reminds me too much of Mad Men, great for a fan poster though!

[L4YRCAKE]

That's totally a nice poster for a fan poster but I'm relieved it's not real. And it's still better than the atrocious prom night Tintin...

[Messervy]

At this point, it looks like we've gotten all we're going to get. And that's ridiculous. None of these images qualifies as a movie poster, and the worst of them all - the Tintin prom night special - seems to be the one they're using most. I've moved on from hoping for a final poster to hoping that perhaps some negative feedback will reach the poobahs and persuade them to invest more time and effort in the Bond 24 posters. Considering how much these films cost and how much they earn, there's no excuse to be so cheap and perfunctory about the poster. Hell, if posters are so unimportant, why have them at all?

Very very true.

[marktmurphy]

That's totally a nice poster for a fan poster but I'm relieved it's not real. And it's still better than the atrocious prom night Tintin...

I don't like the gunbarrel poster but it does at least look like a Bond movie.

[HellIsHere]

I still don't believe that a MAJOR HOLLYWOOD movie does not have a FINAL POSTER. Specially a JAMES BOND movie!!!!! Did they run out of money to Design and Print a FINAL POSTER?

[x007AceOfSpades]

They ran out of Tintin-Prom Night photos.

[L4YRCAKE]

That's totally a nice poster for a fan poster but I'm relieved it's not real. And it's still better than the atrocious prom night Tintin...

I don't like the gunbarrel poster but it does at least look like a Bond movie.

The gun barrel poster is really great, but only as a teaser. Give us folks a good teaser, you better follow up with a comparable payoff.

[SecretAgentFan]

Well, folks...

... after having remained extremely optimistic, due to my source at a PR firm working on SKYFALL, today I got news that there will be no other poster.

The "prom night"-poster is the final one.

Yeah.

Disappointing for all those (like me) who were looking forward to a classic Bond poster, at least some version of it that features the Bond girls and the villain as well.

But the idea may be this: we are only selling Daniel Craig as Bond.

Pure and simple.

Therefore we got the teaser with Craig in the gun barrel. And the US poster with Bond falling and firing. And the European poster with Bond, the gun barrel and a bit of London.

The reason for that "spare" poster art might also be found in not giving away anything and making the film look a bit more serious. (Although the prancing prom night Bond might work against that for some of us...)


So, unless the marketing people will have a change of heart at the last minute - this is it.

[Hockey Mask]

What is the Prom Night poster? I know of the gunbarrel and the white/laying down poster. Are these the only two?

[SecretAgentFan]

Go to 007.com - it´s the one with Craig standing in front of the gun barrel (with the view of London in the background).

[Vauxhall]

What is the Prom Night poster? I know of the gunbarrel and the white/laying down poster. Are these the only two?

Prom Night Bond:

[Shrublands]

I knew it, I just bloody knew it!

Idiots!

[HellIsHere]

NO FINAL POSTER AT ALL!?!??!?! OMG! I'm gonna die.

[S K Y F A L L]

Disappointing news, THX for sharing SAF. Put the flag at half mass today.

[Simon]

So, here in the UK, only one of the character 1 sheets has been printed - that of Bond. Silva and the ladies have yet to be seen (on ebay).

No mention of Adele on any poster thus far.

Maybe in the States where they do get a different art to the UK sometimes, and bearing in mind they get the film later, possibly they will do something further?? But this is speculation on my part. SAF appears close to it all.

All in all though, a real hash up of a poster campaign.

[PPK_19]

ing waste of an opportunity. Its the 50th Anniversary for sake. Extremely disappointing.

Oh well it. We'll see the film in a couple of weeks anyway. the posters.

We'll just have to send a mass memo to Sony/whoever is responsible for such a lacklustre poster campaign saying 'must do better'.

[Messervy]

Not unexpected, but disappointing. It's a shame, really.
It's quite paradoxical to claim that you want to establish that "Bond is back" but not use a good old-fashioned Bond art.

[PeteNeon]

Well... it will certainly be interesting to see what they use for the DVD. The only one good enough is the first one.

[L4YRCAKE]

That sound is me smacking my forehead. Sorry it's so loud.

[Dustin]

Really most disappointing. I was hoping if the photographic path is unavoidable - supposedly a given today - they'd at least let Williams have a go at it. Or do something completely crazy, hire Leiboviz or Rankin and let them have a whole day with Craig as Bond, wherever they choose. I am in fact quite fond of the simplistic approach, but selling this result as the final product seems less than stellar, to put it mildly.

[Simon]

Looking forwards, six months forwards, if the returns are massive I guess it would bring into question the whole point of a poster campaign at all.

If advertising has now gone in wholly other directions of video blogs and youtube stuff, maybe the poster campaign is now fully redundant.

Imagine a blacksmiths upset of everyone locomoting around in cars; no more horse shoe-ing. We all perhaps, are in the middle of something moving on in an environment that has its heritage in 50 years of promoting.

That said, this year's Batman did have a superb poster campaign... As did Black Swan which was absolutely stunningly gorgeous.

I know nothing. But in terms of representing efforts in film making (Deakins) by a respective poster campaign, this has been below woeful.

[x007AceOfSpades]

I disagree with TDKR's posters. The teaser was great, the character posters we're underwhelming, the Bane/broken cowl mask poster was awesome, the theatrical poster was a bit sad. The IMAX poster was great.

[Dustin]

Looking forwards, six months forwards, if the returns are massive I guess it would bring into question the whole point of a poster campaign at all.

If advertising has now gone in wholly other directions of video blogs and youtube stuff, maybe the poster campaign is now fully redundant.

Imagine a blacksmiths upset of everyone locomoting around in cars; no more horse shoe-ing. We all perhaps, are in the middle of something moving on in an environment that has its heritage in 50 years of promoting.

That said, this year's Batman did have a superb poster campaign... As did Black Swan which was absolutely stunningly gorgeous.

I know nothing. But in terms of representing efforts in film making (Deakins) by a respective poster campaign, this has been below woeful.

Good example with the horseshoe. But I suspect our case here doesn't really fit. You mention it yourself, there is still demand for visually/cerebrally stimulating images, especially on web-based applications. What has changed is the half-life period of such efforts, not their overall impact. The growing pressure of ever-new images/news/fashions/memes that flood the media every hour makes investing into quality images a difficult - and perhaps uneconomical? - practice. What counts today is the new image, not the most artfully, notable or precious one.

[marktmurphy]

Or do something completely crazy, hire Leiboviz or Rankin and let them have a whole day with Craig as Bond, wherever they choose.

See, now that I'd be very happy with. And I think that'd be very Bond.
Remember that lovely photoshoot of Craig in the dark casino for CR? They were great shots: pretty much fashion quality and they could have been a poster on their own.

Even Dragon Tattoo:



That's a superb poster and purely photographic.

Sadly the Greg Williams shots just aren't high enough quality. They're rather flat.