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[tdalton]

If we're going to have Bond visiting someone's grave, they should save that for Vesper. 

 

I can't say I'd be shocked by it, though.  They over-involved M every step of the way, so I can't say I'd be surprised for her to make a post-mortem appearance. 

[Hansen]

Stop that. M is gone and it's a good thing. I always thought it made Bond childish. Let's have him become an adult again.

[007jamesbond]

It would just be much easier to have a portrait of M in Malloy office  just as a reminder of his predecessor 

[S K Y F A L L]

With any luck we'll start hear about location scouting.

The big things I'm sure we'd all like to know is who will replace Roger Deakins and who will be composing.

[Turn]

I wouldn't mind Bond visiting M's grave, but not in the precredits. Especially if they think about sending a helicopter to pick him up there. A quick thing and nothing to dwell on and get down to business.

 

I do think a visit to Vesper's grave would be a good thing, but in Craig's final Bond film. After all, references to Bond visiting it were in either Fleming or Gardner's books, if not both. That would give his successor less baggage and you may feel some closure, something other Bond actors hadn't really done. If we do get back to more mission-centered rather than personal stories I just hope he doesn't go out on "That is not the soap." 

[S K Y F A L L]

I was thinking Bond visiting M's grave wouldn't work anyway cause we wouldn't know the name on the grave stone unless it had 'Head of MI6' on it.

 

As for a teaser trailer I think it's interesting though.

 

I don't think they should be adding to many more grave stones anyway. We have Tracey's and Bond's parents. The memento we have for M is the bulldog anyway and if they didn't put her picture in Mallory's office where the one of the old MI6 building is then it may not happen. 

 

I do like the idea of having a painting of her somewhere in MI6 however not any time soon. Perhaps if Dench ever dies they could do it as a dedication to her.

[Pushkin]

A bit of tangent - Back in the Brosnan era, I had hoped that they would work something into the film, whether a funeral or perhaps a visit to grave, to mark the passing of Q.

[S K Y F A L L]

A bit of tangent - Back in the Brosnan era, I had hoped that they would work something into the film, whether a funeral or perhaps a visit to grave, to mark the passing of Q.

 

I don't think Desmond Llewelyn died until one month after TWINE was released so it would have had to have been DAD however they did do that tribute video to him on the TWINE VHS.

 

Now that I think about it I'm surprised they didn't discuses the old Q in DAD when Bond was toying with the old gadgets...just a one liner. I miss the old Q...

[FlemingBond]

Having Bond visiting a grave doesn't make much sense to me. Perhaps at the very end of Craig's last movie, but I'm not really for that either. He already spent a lot of time grieving Vesper. Bond movies just aren't the type to show a character doing that sort of thing. We havn't even seen Bond's home since LALD.

At the beginning of the OHMSS novel Bond is back at the same casino and it's mentioned he visits her grave every year, which was really the first time there's any sense that he had any lasting remorse about her.

[Pushkin]

At the beginning of the OHMSS novel Bond is back at the same casino and it's mentioned he visits her grave every year, which was really the first time there's any sense that he had any lasting remorse about her.

 

If they ever were to work in his romance/marriage to Tracy such a visit to a grave could work. Set it up, perhaps even verbally acknowledged, that Bond had not been able to get past Vesper, and her betrayal, and have  a real relationship with a woman... to then launch into his romance with Tracy. Part of me would like to see the Bond films close with a two part Bloefeld/Tracy arc (not an OHMSS/Bloefeld remake but inspired by those characters and biggest plot points). My sole concern is that I don't want Craig's Bond to be forever down. I do want to see him on a mission (not simply personal revenge) and also having fun being Bond throughout the vast majority of a film and not always being dark and filled with remorse. I think it could be done but it would be a very delicate balance.

[hoagy]

new Aston in the next film ?  Great !

 

But how about THIS bad boy ?  The new Lotus C-01 !  At www.lotus-motorcycles.com

[Walecs]

new Aston in the next film ?  Great !

 

But how about THIS bad boy ?  The new Lotus C-01 !  At www.lotus-motorcycles.com

 

I'm all for it.

[Zen Razor]

Looking forward to the new Aston Martin it surely is my favorite car very classic. It sounds like they are going well with the filming of Bond 24

[007jamesbond]

well hopefully the new car is not damage by Bond 

[S K Y F A L L]

They may save damaging it for Bond 25. Come to think of it doesn't Bond's car's normally last about 2 films...

[tdalton]

They may save damaging it for Bond 25. Come to think of it doesn't Bond's car's normally last about 2 films...

 

Not in the past three decades.  In the post-Moore era, Bond's cars have been destroyed more often than not.  Only Licence to Kill (in which I don't believe he had a designated car per se), GoldenEye, and Die Another Day see the car make it to the end of the film.  Bond has destroyed his vehicles in every other film:  TLD- self destructed; TND-drove off a roof; TWINE-sawed in half; CR-wrecked; QOS-heavily damaged; SF-blown up. 

[007jamesbond]

They may save damaging it for Bond 25. Come to think of it doesn't Bond's car's normally last about 2 films...

 

more like loss one car per movie.....CR car is wrecked QOS car is wrecked SF car is blown up Bond 24 ??? 

[RMc2]

Bond 24, The Tragedy Continues: 

 

MI6 lands Bond with a new car, Aston Martin, who resists 007's early advances but soon forms a strong bond as they make it through thick and thin - explosions, gunfire, chases, long drops - and abscond to Italy together, only for the car to reveal itself as an undercover agent and throw itself into Lake Garda.

 

Bond is heartbroken.

[jmarks4life]

Can't wait to see the new Aston Martin.

[DavidJones]

I always get the feeling that it's Barbara Broccoli who wears 'the pants' in the producting partnership with Wilson. He seems like a nice guy, but rather diffident, while she often makes very declarative comments (about Craig, for example, she said, "I'm not going to let him go").

[Orion]

I always get the feeling that it's Barbara Broccoli who wears 'the pants' in the producting partnership with Wilson. He seems like a nice guy, but rather diffident, while she often makes very declarative comments (about Craig, for example, she said, "I'm not going to let him go").

I get the impression it was MGW as lead producer for Brosnan' s era, then Barbara in charge of Craig's, but that's only an impression I've got rather than being based on anything concrete. 

[RMc2]

 

I always get the feeling that it's Barbara Broccoli who wears 'the pants' in the producting partnership with Wilson. He seems like a nice guy, but rather diffident, while she often makes very declarative comments (about Craig, for example, she said, "I'm not going to let him go").

I get the impression it was MGW as lead producer for Brosnan' s era, then Barbara in charge of Craig's, but that's only an impression I've got rather than being based on anything concrete. 

 

 

Yeah, all the public announcements and behind-the-scenes stories from the Craig films suggest BB runs the show. Not surprising, given MGW's age and how exhausted he always says it makes him feel.

[DavidJones]

MGW is 72 now, so he may be retiring soon...

[SecretAgentFan]

With Gregg Wilson already working within the EON family.  I guess he will succeed MGW, instead of Barbara Broccoli going at it alone.

[x007AceOfSpades]

With Gregg Wilson already working within the EON family.  I guess he will succeed MGW, instead of Barbara Broccoli going at it alone.

I too, had a feeling that he was MGW's successor.

[Turn]

If he's anything like Cubby, MGW will likely keep on going and then take a more limited role as time goes on.