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[blueman]

Crossing Guard Bond?

DJ Bond?

Old Guy Bond? (wait, we've had that one, a lot...)


If this is the direction, prefer "007" over "Bond."

[MattofSteel]

With respect to something like "007" being the title...can't see it ever happening.

[blueman]

With respect to something like "007" being the title...can't see it ever happening.

Me either, but of the two - Bond or 007 - I prefer 007. I don't ever expect to see "Bond" in a Bond film title.

[sharpshooter]

Neither. Can't really see anything like No Deals, Mr Bond happening. If it came down between the name and the number for the title, it's the number for me. 007 is the legend that resonates deeper. Throw it on a poster and the iconography sells the message immediately.

[MattofSteel]

Agreed. But it won't come down to it.

[DaveBond21]

"Bond" will be the title at some point, I am fairly sure.

But it will be because someone has decided to make a re-boot prequel, which will tell "the real beginning of how James Bond became the character we know so well". And it will be in the form of a "gritty, stripped-down adventure" that will "make Casino Royale look like Octopussy". I expect this after a gap of 4 years between 2018 and 2022.

Some fans on here now will be cynical, but the new fans of the time (some of whom are only 5 years old right now) will say it's the darkest, best Bond ever and that it's much better than Daniel Craig's so-called darker take on the character.

[MattofSteel]

That's quite a specific vision of the future you have there.

[DaveBond21]

That's quite a specific vision of the future you have there.

Is that a compliment? If so, thanks.

But what I basically mean is that Bond will be rebooted again and someone will say they've made the darkest Bond yet. A darker Bond than CR & QOS will be made, in my opinion.

Everything gets the stripped down treatment these days (even Robin Hood) and the trend will come around again.

[SecretAgentFan]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

[Trident]

Erm... as seriousness goes, the red parts of my previous posts were meant not overly so. But I agree that rebooting will come up again somewhere down the road. And 'strip it, baby' would also seem to have a decent future, one thinks. I'm waiting for the film that will peel back the layers of seriousness to reveal the humorous side of Bond...

[DaveBond21]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Yeah, I agree, me too. Hence the 2022 date for seriousness to return.

[JimmyBond]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Yeah, I agree, me too. Hence the 2022 date for seriousness to return.

Let's see, I'll be turning 41 in that year. Yeah, I'd probably be ready for the self-parody Bond films to run there course making way for more serious films again. Plus I'd be President of the World, so the stress of the universal economy would make me want to watch a Bond film that reflects my mood.

[zencat]

My interest in Bond 23 is now delayed indefinitely.

[DamnCoffee]

I pretty much agree with you, Zencat. I'm beginning to rapidly lose interest, as well.

[sharpshooter]

My interest in Bond 23 is now delayed indefinitely.

I'm with you. Craig's getting older and I want progress, but I find myself indifferent about all this MGM nonsense. I’ve got other things to do and watch while they stuff around.

[volante]

Soon all this unpleasentness will be gone.
Someone will be scouting locations; and casting rumours will abound.
Then there will be a "Start of filming date"
and the whole world will be watching

Bond makes too much money to waste the franchise

LET'S HOPE

[SecretAgentFan]

My interest in Bond 23 is now delayed indefinitely.

I pretty much agree with you, Zencat. I'm beginning to rapidly lose interest, as well.

Ah, c´mon guys! It´s just been a few months. Granted, it´ll be a few more. But let´s keep holding out for No.23. All good things to those who wait!

[Quantumofsolace007]

I just am so annoyed with it all I mean we have an amazing bond and just when the rumors were starting to get me really excited (Mendes, Rachel Weisz, and the whole Property of a lady fiasco) it get delayed indefinitly and now we may never see craig back...


Sorry but even I am finding it hard to stay excited about a film I fail to see happening any time soon.

[Dell Deaton]

My interest in Bond 23 is now delayed indefinitely.

I'm with you. Craig's getting older and I want progress, but I find myself indifferent about all this MGM nonsense. I’ve got other things to do and watch while they stuff around.

I just am so annoyed with it all I mean we have an amazing bond and just when the rumors were starting to get me really excited (Mendes, Rachel Weisz, and the whole Property of a lady fiasco) it get delayed indefinitly and now we may never see craig back...


Sorry but even I am finding it hard to stay excited about a film I fail to see happening any time soon.

And yet this Thread is likely to hit 20,000 views, 20 pages, and pass 550 replies before month-end. From a marketing perspective, one might well argue that things are going well here.

You know: In an "Elliot Carver" sorta way.

[DR76]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Then its over for me. I just can't go down that route again.


Craig just turned 42 this year. That's all. Moore was 45 years old, when he was chosen to portray Bond. Dalton was at least 41 when THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS came out. And Brosnan was at least 42 years old when GOLDEN EYE was released. Craig is not that old.

[elizabeth]

Everyone needs to calm down. A delay. Oh, no. The world is ending. The sky is falling. I hate to be rude, but get a life. It'll come out, sooner or later. And when it does, all the pieces will fall into place.

Edited by elizabeth, 22 May 2010 - 05:54 PM.

[Quantumofsolace007]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Then its over for me. I just can't go down that route again.


Craig just turned 42 this year. That's all. Moore was 45 years old, when he was chosen to portray Bond. Dalton was at least 41 when THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS came out. And Brosnan was at least 42 years old when GOLDEN EYE was released. Craig is not that old.

I am being impatient aren't I but can you blame me Casino Royale and Quantum of solace were awesome

[Guy Haines]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Yeah, I agree, me too. Hence the 2022 date for seriousness to return.

The films from the so called classic "golden era" of Bond - the 1960s - were never too serious, although they were not broad farce. If I had been reading Bond in the 1950s and had then watched, say, "Dr No" or "Goldfinger" on screen, I might well have come away from the cinema thinking that the film makers had been taking the Michael with a favourite literary character and his adventures.

But I watched the 1960s films first before reading Fleming, so I suppose my view of Bond and use of humour is fixed around that period. I would have no problem with Craig, or a successor, adopting Connery's deadpan, morbid, "graveyard" humour, provided the screenwriters could properly deliver it, and it didn't distract from the main story and action.

On the other hand, if we had an abrupt return to the sight gags of the 1970s - pigeon double takes and the like - well, it would be back to the Bond books and the classic films for me (including CR and QoS) until this temporary trend had disappated!

[JimmyBond]

Everyone needs to calm down. A delay. Oh, no. The world is ending. The sky is falling. I hate to be rude, but get a life. It'll come out, sooner or later. And when it does, all the pieces will fall into place.

Exactly. Not sure I'd be quite as curt as you, but yeah, there will be another Bond film. Maybe not for a while, but there will be another one down the line. And I'm content with that knowledge.

[Loomis]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Then its over for me. I just can't go down that route again.

I've no desire to go down the serious route again. I'm really hoping for BOND 23 to take the fun path.

[tdalton]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Then its over for me. I just can't go down that route again.

Same for me. Once they go back to the laid back, Brosnan/Moore-era style of Bond filmmaking, then the franchise will basically be over for me as well. Hopefully that won't be the case, and when they relaunch the franchise at some point this decade, they keep going in the gritty direction that Craig's tenure paved the way for them to go in.

[The Shark]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Then its over for me. I just can't go down that route again.

Same for me. Once they go back to the laid back, Brosnan/Moore-era style of Bond filmmaking, then the franchise will basically be over for me as well. Hopefully that won't be the case, and when they relaunch the franchise at some point this decade, they keep going in the gritty direction that Craig's tenure paved the way for them to go in.

Why do people strictly associate the "fun" aspect of the franchise with the most harmless and lighthearted romps of the Brosnan and Moore era?

"Having more fun" could also equate to them going down a From Russia With Love, Thunderball, OHMSS, DAF, TMWTGG, AVTAK and TLD approach. A mix of both worlds.

[Lachesis]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Then its over for me. I just can't go down that route again.

Same for me. Once they go back to the laid back, Brosnan/Moore-era style of Bond filmmaking, then the franchise will basically be over for me as well. Hopefully that won't be the case, and when they relaunch the franchise at some point this decade, they keep going in the gritty direction that Craig's tenure paved the way for them to go in.

Why do people strictly associate the "fun" aspect of the franchise with the most harmless and lighthearted romps of the Brosnan and Moore era?

"Having more fun" could also equate to them going down a From Russia With Love, Thunderball, OHMSS, DAF, TMWTGG, AVTAK and TLD approach. A mix of both worlds.

Its the internet, gross exageration and total intransigence are the norm. In some ways its ironic that history is repeating, the criticism the former era of Bond cinema is getting is much like Flemings works had in the 50's/60's from some of his contemporaries and literary reviewers....'this is not how you write spy stories they have to be gritty and downbeat' Flemings work transcended the spy thriller genre and many of the other pigeon holes that people wanted to file it in.

[byline]

Don´t know. Somehow I have the feeling that the next Bond films will not be as serious anymore. The new trend is to have fun again.

Then its over for me. I just can't go down that route again.

Same for me. Once they go back to the laid back, Brosnan/Moore-era style of Bond filmmaking, then the franchise will basically be over for me as well. Hopefully that won't be the case, and when they relaunch the franchise at some point this decade, they keep going in the gritty direction that Craig's tenure paved the way for them to go in.

Why do people strictly associate the "fun" aspect of the franchise with the most harmless and lighthearted romps of the Brosnan and Moore era?

"Having more fun" could also equate to them going down a From Russia With Love, Thunderball, OHMSS, DAF, TMWTGG, AVTAK and TLD approach. A mix of both worlds.

I could go for that, but not the smarmy humor of the Moore and Brosnan eras.

[Sigma7]

Yay its delayed, it will give them lots of time to sit in a corner and think about the hash they made of QOS , and where they can improve for the next one