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#1 Tiin007

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 09:42 PM

Thoughts?

 

http://www.deadline....ames-bond-film/

 



#2 seawolfnyy

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 09:44 PM

How long will we be waiting?



#3 Matt_13

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 09:46 PM

My guess? 2016 we'll see the film.



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Posted 28 May 2013 - 09:46 PM

How long will we be waiting?

 

My thoughts exactly. As much as I love Skyfall, I don't feel like "waiting out" Mendes' other commitments. Especially if that would result in Bond 24 being Craig's final outing (despite his contract reportedly being for two more).



#5 seawolfnyy

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 09:57 PM

My guess? 2016 we'll see the film.

 

 

 

How long will we be waiting?

 

My thoughts exactly. As much as I love Skyfall, I don't feel like "waiting out" Mendes' other commitments. Especially if that would result in Bond 24 being Craig's final outing (despite his contract reportedly being for two more).

 

If it ends up that we have to wait until 2016, I would rather have someone else direct. Sam Mendes is committed to his stage projects, which is great for him. Let him do those, while Chris Nolan or someone else directs Bond 24. After all that, if Mendes wants to return for Bond 25 or 26 I will be waiting with open arms. But the last thing I want for the Bond franchise (aside from Lee Tamahori) is another 4 year gap between films.



#6 tdalton

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:02 PM

I had a feeling this was going to happen.  Now that we're going to be stuck with Skyfall 2, I at least hope that Logan is able to deliver a better script than Purvis and Wade.



#7 S K Y F A L L

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:04 PM

We need someone who loves film, not theater. If they decide to make a Bond musical then maybe Mendes could do it but lets move on and find someone who is available now. 



#8 Agent 76

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:11 PM

I'll believe it when I see an official press statement from Eon Productions.



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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:15 PM

2015 could still be possible, but only by a slim margin, and this if Mendes gets done with all of his theater work this year to begin pre-production next year to start filming and release in 2015.



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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:37 PM

Well, I guess the silver lining to this is that the article states that he's making a deal to start production on Bond 24 "probably next year", so that probably means that they won't miss the target of 2015 for the release.  



#11 The Shark

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:37 PM

I had a feeling this was going to happen.  Now that we're going to be stuck with Skyfall 2, I at least hope that Logan is able to deliver a better script than Purvis and Wade.


Um, who saId that this is going to be SKYFALL 2.0? The last thing Mendes wants to do is repeat himself. More likely than not, BOND 24 is going to swing in the opposite direction - and deliver what SKYFALL's final scene promised. No-strings-attached, pulpy, epic, larger than life fun.

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:41 PM

Eon and Sony do not want to wait another 4 years between movies anymore than we do; my guess is this will be delivered by Thanksgiving 2015 which probably works for all parties concerned.... 



#13 tdalton

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:42 PM

I'm sure that EON is going to order more of the same when it comes to Bond 24, with the idea being "if it aint broke, don't fix it".  

 

Hopefully they don't do Skyfall 2, as I think I'd ultimately have to pass on seeing that.  Even if they don't go for SF2, though, I doubt we'll see  a "no-strings-attached, pulpy, epic, larger than life" Bond film.  They haven't delivered us one of those since The Living Daylights back in 1987, and I don't see any reason why they'd opt to change course now, especially after making over a billion dollars on one of Bond's most personal missions yet.



#14 The Shark

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:48 PM

I'm sure that EON is going to order more of the same when it comes to Bond 24, with the idea being "if it aint broke, don't fix it".


That's Babs's personal agenda, but if Mendes wants otherwise, she'll defer to him to keep him happy.

#15 tdalton

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 10:53 PM

Or he might defer to the massive amount of money they're going to give him to return.   ;)  

 

At the end of the day, I'm sure that's all this negotiation was ever about, as is always the case.



#16 JimmyBond

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 11:03 PM

 

I had a feeling this was going to happen.  Now that we're going to be stuck with Skyfall 2, I at least hope that Logan is able to deliver a better script than Purvis and Wade.


Um, who saId that this is going to be SKYFALL 2.0? The last thing Mendes wants to do is repeat himself. More likely than not, BOND 24 is going to swing in the opposite direction - and deliver what SKYFALL's final scene promised. No-strings-attached, pulpy, epic, larger than life fun.

 

 

My thoughts exactly. Personally I think Mendes will opt for something more action oriented this time around. The few bursts of action we see in Skyfall are excellent, and I'd love to see that taken to the next level. 



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Posted 28 May 2013 - 11:43 PM

Honestly, I'm still preferring a different director. I want things to be shaken up and done by a different person this time around. 



#18 x007AceOfSpades

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 11:45 PM

Things can still get shaken up with the same director. Though it seems very unlikely, I think Bond 24 will be different than Skyfall.

 

Shark couldn't have said it any better.

 

The last thing Mendes wants to do is repeat himself. More likely than not, BOND 24 is going to swing in the opposite direction - and deliver what SKYFALL's final scene promised. No-strings-attached, pulpy, epic, larger than life fun.



#19 The Shark

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 11:52 PM

Things can still get shaken up with the same director.


Exactly. Mendes isn't John Glen.

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Posted 28 May 2013 - 11:58 PM

 

Things can still get shaken up with the same director. Though it seems very unlikely, I think Bond 24 will be different than Skyfall.

 

Shark couldn't have said it any better.

 

The last thing Mendes wants to do is repeat himself. More likely than not, BOND 24 is going to swing in the opposite direction - and deliver what SKYFALL's final scene promised. No-strings-attached, pulpy, epic, larger than life fun.

 

 

Yes, but it's not the same as a different director. Anyways, at least we'll get Bond 24 earlier. 



#21 x007AceOfSpades

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Posted 29 May 2013 - 12:05 AM

To each his own, as for the release date. Still hoping 2015 comes to fruition and not 2016.



#22 seawolfnyy

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Posted 29 May 2013 - 12:57 AM

To each his own, as for the release date. Still hoping 2015 comes to fruition and not 2016.

If it ends up being 2016, then something has got to give. Whether that be EON severing ties with MGM or allowing Babs or Michael to move on, they need to do something different to avoid all of these long lulls between films: 6 between LTK and GE, 3 between TWINE and DAD, 4 between DAD and CR, 4 between QoS and SF and probably 3-4 between SF and Bond 24.



#23 The Shark

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Posted 29 May 2013 - 01:09 AM

Things can still get shaken up with the same director. Though it seems very unlikely, I think Bond 24 will be different than Skyfall.
 
Shark couldn't have said it any better.
 

The last thing Mendes wants to do is repeat himself. More likely than not, BOND 24 is going to swing in the opposite direction - and deliver what SKYFALL's final scene promised. No-strings-attached, pulpy, epic, larger than life fun.

 
Yes, but it's not the same as a different director.


A different director would be more likely to give us SKYFALL 2.0. Mendes has been there, done that, and got the medal.

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Posted 29 May 2013 - 02:29 AM

Skyfall 2.0 would still be better and make a lot of money! Skyfall was real Bond so we should expect more or less the same 



#25 quantumofsolace

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Posted 29 May 2013 - 02:55 AM

Mendes is back: Sam dramatically decides to return as director for the next James Bond movie after initially refusing offerhttp://www.dailymail...sing-offer.html

Sam Mendes the Oscar winning director who turned Skyfall into one of cinema's biggest franchise hits in years has dramatically decided to return to make the next Bond film after initially withdrawing from contention.

After the phenomenal success of Skyfall the next 007 drama was his for the asking. But he turned it down.

Bond 24 as the untitled project is known had his name on it but he said he was too busy.

All kinds of names then came into the frame.

Just two weeks ago I was told Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson were in preliminary talks with Batman film-maker Chris Nolan.They well may have talked but he's not doing it. Mendes is.

Mendes was urged to reconsider, I'm told, by Broccoli, Wilson and Bond himself, Daniel Craig.

They told Mendes that he was the one that they wanted and Mendes went off and thought it through.

His reason for not doing it was the major theatre commitments of directing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory now in preview at the Theatre Royal ,Drury Lane and King Lear with Simon Russell Beale at the National Theatre.

When I spoke to him a few weeks ago during rehearsals for Chocolate Factory he told me that he couldn't work on his stage shows during the day and do pre-production on Bond at night.

'It's impossible to do and not fair to either party', Mendes told the Daily Mail.

He added that he would consider, however, doing 'a Bond in the future'.

Well, that future has come around pretty quickly.

The situation now is that the Bond family has told Mendes they will wait until all his theatre projects are out of the way and then he can commit to Bond 24 full-time. Mendes, unofficially, has agreed.

No word yet on whether he will do Bond 25 as well. Both are being written by John Logan who wrote Skyfall, the most successful 007 film in its 50-year history.

I was told Mendes was back in talks just as my friends at Deadline Hollywood broke the news tonight

Sources close to the 007 production confirmed to me tonight that 'talks have re-opened' with Mendes to make the next Bond picture.



#26 seawolfnyy

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Posted 29 May 2013 - 04:10 AM

I don't know if I believe that yet.



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Posted 29 May 2013 - 07:18 AM

There's too much up in the air about directors now - we seem to get this every new film, so I guess until anything official happens it's just speculation and wishful thinking.

 

Still a good batch of names though alongside Mendes.



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Posted 29 May 2013 - 08:16 AM

 

I had a feeling this was going to happen.  Now that we're going to be stuck with Skyfall 2, I at least hope that Logan is able to deliver a better script than Purvis and Wade.


Um, who saId that this is going to be SKYFALL 2.0? The last thing Mendes wants to do is repeat himself. More likely than not, BOND 24 is going to swing in the opposite direction - and deliver what SKYFALL's final scene promised. No-strings-attached, pulpy, epic, larger than life fun.

 

 

I find your abundance of faith disturbing.

 

Just saw this news on TotalFilm, popped straight over here to see what you guys had said. Great observations, as always!

 

But I think this sucks. As much as I like SkyFall, I wasn't enamoured enough to want Mendes back straight away. I don't want his take on Bond (especially as evidenced in SF) to define the franchise for the next two decades.* I'd welcome him back for 25, 26 or 27, but PLEASE let's have someone else do 24 to keep the fresh air blowing. 

 

 

*I assume there's only so long they can keep up the 'serious with emotional baggage' Bond, and am assuming a 'one every three to four years' delivery henceforth.



#29 jaguar007

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Posted 29 May 2013 - 08:48 AM

 

Things can still get shaken up with the same director.


Exactly. Mendes isn't John Glen.

 

Agreed. Terrence Young did not give us Dr No 2 with From Russia With Love or FRWL 2 with Thunderball. No reason to think Mendes would.



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Posted 29 May 2013 - 09:41 AM

Well... If I correctly understood, EON wants Mendes to be back for Bond 24 and producers are ready to wait that he finished his theater projects and start pre-production of Bond 24. But in this case, we have to wait 2015 or 2016 to see the next Bond movie.

 

I don't find this is the best decision. I prefer to see another director for Bond 24 and why not Mendes for the next after.