One have to assume that you would just have to redress the 007 franchise on that same base, add all the 007 landmarks and hang it on the skeleton of a Fleming 007 novel to make a good Bond film. That's what CR did.
The problem with QOS is that it drops it all. No more gunbarrel (until the end and it's trown off like a bone to a dog), no more 1964 Aston Martin, no more iconisation of gaining the tux, the Vesper cocktail reference is trown off also like a bone, no more fetichism about the weapons Bond will use including is Walther etc, but most importantly, no more Fleming. Bourne are doing it the right way, by using other Ludlum books for the next few, because they are done with the original Bournes.
I understand there's no more Fleming novels around to play with. But tons of them haven't been adapted properly. One could rewrite LALD and update it for today, eliminating the "negro" angle and substituting something else, to have a much more exciting movie than QOS, without it being the remake of the Moore entry. In fact, one could probably take QOS premise, and fuse it with the LALD novel, and have a perfect movie entry, but that is another discussion.
The problem with QOS is that it is a step back to what dragged the old Bond series, with Craig acting as a fish out of water in it, he is like playing in another movie. Thought I don't say it as a negative, the movie he seems to play in looks more exciting to me than the one he is actually in. QOS uses tons of dialogue and action recycled from past entries, just like DAD did, only DAD at least use some originality in it, even if it was bad.
I don't think anyway that the producers are capable of doing anything else than this kind of movie, whatever they may say. I'm sure the next will be full of gadgets and a trowback to SPY, "the best one yet !".
No Fleming = No Bond. "Go back to Fleming" used to say Brocolli ? Listen to the voice.
My opinion about the "production team" after QOS is that director Martin Campbell seems to have much more affinity about how to make a good, Flemingian Bond movie, than the actual team who just trew here Bourne action, 24 set ups, LTK and past films references into a blender, hoping it would stick. I prefer solid movies using all the Bond ingredients even if they play with them, like CR did.
