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[Tybre]

Two words: Green Screen.

Watch any half decent US TV show out there and they're filmed in Hollywood. Alias managed to trot all over the planet, going no further than a soundstage!

Hell, Doctor Who did it back in the 60s with nothing but shoddy sets!

[marktmurphy]

What about YB TV, unlikely as both concepts are?

Well, it'd be fantastically expensive to make, which is the problem. A period action adventure show, which often makes wrecks out of vehicles worth hundreds of thousands of pounds now, set all around the world in locations like South America and starring kids (who have restrictions on how long they can work for: hence making filming even more expensive). I think it'd have to be a movie or perhaps animation, unless Higson wrote new adventures for TV.

Well yes it would be expensive, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a TV show in the normal sense either. They could make it like Marple or Poirot, a couple of telefilms of fair budget with seasons spaced a bit apart.

Yeah, but it'd still be more expensive than those, even, what with the action scenes etc. How would you do the hurricane flood sequence on a TV budget, for example? That would be hugely pricey to do, not even including the fact that a classic car would get totalled!

Two words: Green Screen.

Watch any half decent US TV show out there and they're filmed in Hollywood. Alias managed to trot all over the planet, going no further than a soundstage!

Alias did look like that's exactly how they did it, though! It was pretty obvious that they didn't film abroad. I don't think Bond should look cheap.

[Gabriel]

Alias did look like that's exactly how they did it, though! It was pretty obvious that they didn't film abroad. I don't think Bond should look cheap.

Yeah, but a film series would have a better FX budget. So would a TV film series.

Anyway, who are we kidding? Young Bond is not James Bond 007 and beyond using the name is a completely unrelated series of kids' sci-fi/fantasy novels. One might as well say The Adventures of James Bond Jr shouldn't look cheap!

Really, they're cash-in kids' books! Who gives a about them when there are proper adult novels out there?

[marktmurphy]

They're the closest any continuation novel has got to Ian Fleming. Seriously.

[zencat]

What MTM said. I take it you haven't read them, Gabriel?

[Tybre]

They're the closest any continuation novel has got to Ian Fleming. Seriously.

They are still cash-in though, as damn fine a book as SilverFin was.

[marktmurphy]

They're the closest any continuation novel has got to Ian Fleming. Seriously.

They are still cash-in though, as damn fine a book as SilverFin was.

SilverFin's the least of 'em. Not sure if you mean 'cash-in' as a negative phrase: somehow I doubt Fleming did all his books, not to mention working on 007 film and TV treatments for the art of it.
If a product is really high quality and people are willing to pay for it, why does it matter that there was an eye on making a business behind it?

[Tybre]

Not entirely negative, no, but one has to admit that every continuation novel is done predominantly for the simple fact that they will make money. And regarding SF, eh, it's the only one I've read so far. Will get round to reading the rest some day.

[Safari Suit]

I'm pretty sure every Bond thing ever has been made predominantly for the simple fact that they will make money.

[marktmurphy]

I'm pretty sure every Bond thing ever has been made predominantly for the simple fact that they will make money.

Quite: was Fleming purely an artist or did he want a retirement plan? Yeah, he wanted to write the spy novel to end all spy novels, but I'd hazard a guess that the cash wasn't unwelcome and prompted him to write a couple of sequels.

[Tybre]

I'm pretty sure every Bond thing ever has been made predominantly for the simple fact that they will make money.

Oh you know full well what I meant. They could easily have just left things at Fleming's books. You don't see people writing Narnia or Lord of the Rings continuations. Mind not that I'm complaining. The continuations are entertaining, but at the end of the day the whole continuation thing is just one big cash-in.

[marktmurphy]

I'm pretty sure every Bond thing ever has been made predominantly for the simple fact that they will make money.

Oh you know full well what I meant. They could easily have just left things at Fleming's books.

You mean not make the films? But I like the films. I bet you do too. They made them to make money.

[Tybre]

Alright, now you're just being difficult.

[marktmurphy]

Honestly, I don't know where you're coming from with this. Young Bond is a slightly more artistic endeavour than the previous continuation novels in that it has something original about it; it's definitely not a going-through-the-motions easy cash-in (despite the name making it appear that way at first glance).

[DominicGreene]

Perhaps David Henry?

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[elizabeth]

Perhaps David Henry?

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ew, no, not him. he's too old and too dark.

[talos7]

He is from the States, as am I, and this is not a recomendation but does anyone else see a resemlance to Timothy Dalton in this actor from the Vampire Diaries

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[elizabeth]

He is from the States, as am I, and this is not a recomendation but does anyone else see a resemlance to Timothy Dalton in this actor from the Vampire Diaries

ehhh not really.

[volante]

What about the guy from Twilight and New Moon?

[Hugh Belsize]

ASA BUTTERFIELD as Young James.
Asa. Definitely Asa & I'm all for it.

And for some of the other characters...
JASON CONNERY as Uncle Max (SilverFin)
JEREMY KEMP (whom I also imagine as Daniel Craig's Blofeld) as Cousin Victor (Blood Fever)

--- If Jeremy's alive, to him, playing Victor would be like seeing his reflection on a mirror. Victor devoted himself to art after his retirement, and Jeremy has been absent for a long time without the announcement of his retirement or deceasement.--
Russian baritone DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY making his acting debut as Count Ugo Carnifex (Blood Fever)
TIMOTHY DALTON as Sir John Charnage (Double or Die)

And don't you agree it'd be an unavoidable rendezvous for Asa -if he *is* to play James- to meet CHLOË GRACE “Hit-Girl” MORETZ again? There are 3 blonde Bond Girls in the novel series (Wilder Lawless, Amy Goodenough and Kelly Kelly), and it's proved that she can pull off accents (through ‘Hugo’, of course!). Whichever Bond Girl she chooses to play, she *will* be!

Edited by Hugh Belsize, 06 March 2013 - 11:36 AM.

[Odd Jobbies]

So long as he doesn't look like an over privileged inbreed Harry Potter reader... You need to see that bit of grit in his eye that'll turn him into such a hard case.

 

A face that has a plausible rebellious streak - a streak that will eventually be channelled in the cold blooded-killing-double-section.

Edited by Odd Jobbies, 06 March 2013 - 12:54 PM.

[TheSilhouette]

After seeing the final act of Skyfall, I felt it would be interesting to see a drama about a young Bond losing his parents, going to Eton and getting in fights and "trouble with the maid", events based on the Casino Royale website dossier/Skyfall so on and so forth.