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[Leon]

INTERVIEW with John Logan, talking about Skyfall.

Scroll down the linked page to the video. He does seem genuinely excited to be working with Bond.

“[Mendes] said there’s this great script by Purvis and Wade that existed, but he wanted me to come onboard and I did the ultimate thing you never do which is I said ‘Yes. I don’t care what you pay me, I don’t care what I have to do, yes,’ because I grew up—the first Bond movie I ever saw was Diamonds are Forever, I remember every moment of it.”

“It has nothing to do with being a standalone film, as far as I’m concerned, because I don’t think these films are standalone, I think they’re part of a legacy. When I was working on it I was deeply aware as much of Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale as I was of Thunderball, as I was of Ian Fleming in the 50’s writing it, you know you’re a float in a parade.”

“What was particularly thrilling about this is the freedom, because I had the fear that you would going into a franchise movie that you have to put all the toys back in the sandbox, but I’ve never felt anything but completely free as a writer to explore different material, to explore different ideas with these characters and this world. It’s been amongst the best experiences I’ve ever had on a movie.”

“It’s a very collaborative process, and Sam is front and center on everything. He’s got an amazingly exciting adventure mind, which not all filmmakers do…The important thing for me is making sure that the action belongs in that movie, cause there’s such a thing as a Bond kind of action, and then there’s a subset of that which is our Skyfall kind of action, they all have their own definitions.”

[Captain Tightpants]

I think the thing that I like best is the way Logan describes it as "intensely collaborative", because I feel that the main problem with QUANTUM OF SOLACE's script was it was very staggered. Michael G. Wilson came up with the original idea. Purvis and Wade wrote a story threatment. Paul Haggis wrote the script. Joshua Zetumer was script doctor. Each and every step of the writing process was compartmentalised, as if each person's involvement with the script ended when it was passed on to the next person in the chain. I can understand doing that with Zetumer (and with Haggis in CASINO ROYALE) because he is the script doctor, and the entire point of the script doctor is to independently tweak the script. But here, we've got Purvis, Wade, Logan and Mendes all talking to one another (even if Peter Morgan came up with the original idea on his own, though I get the sense that he worked with Purvis and Wade on the original treatment).

[SecretAgentFan]

INTERVIEW with John Logan, talking about Skyfall.

Scroll down the linked page to the video. He does seem genuinely excited to be working with Bond.

“[Mendes] said there’s this great script by Purvis and Wade that existed, but he wanted me to come onboard and I did the ultimate thing you never do which is I said ‘Yes. I don’t care what you pay me, I don’t care what I have to do, yes,’ because I grew up—the first Bond movie I ever saw was Diamonds are Forever, I remember every moment of it.”

“It has nothing to do with being a standalone film, as far as I’m concerned, because I don’t think these films are standalone, I think they’re part of a legacy. When I was working on it I was deeply aware as much of Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale as I was of Thunderball, as I was of Ian Fleming in the 50’s writing it, you know you’re a float in a parade.”

“What was particularly thrilling about this is the freedom, because I had the fear that you would going into a franchise movie that you have to put all the toys back in the sandbox, but I’ve never felt anything but completely free as a writer to explore different material, to explore different ideas with these characters and this world. It’s been amongst the best experiences I’ve ever had on a movie.”

“It’s a very collaborative process, and Sam is front and center on everything. He’s got an amazingly exciting adventure mind, which not all filmmakers do…The important thing for me is making sure that the action belongs in that movie, cause there’s such a thing as a Bond kind of action, and then there’s a subset of that which is our Skyfall kind of action, they all have their own definitions.”

"Our Skyfall kind of action"?

[Captain Tightpants]

I think you'll find he means that you cannot simply group all action together as "action"; the action depends on the film in question. For example, GLADIATOR does not have a car chase in it, because that would be inappropriate for the film. So I think John Logan means that the action in SKYFALL is born out of the script itself. They haven't taken the John Woo approach of writing a story around action sequences they wanted to include. It makes for scenes that are more natural than they would otherwise be, because they keep the story going (instead of stopping the story for the action to take place, and then restarting it once the sequence is over).

[SecretAgentFan]

It also could mean that SKYFALL will not feature over-the-top action but believable stuff.

Then again, what is believable in an action film? In real life, a fistfight would always end after a few seconds when hitter and hit-ee have suffered extreme pain. Nobody can outrun an explosion unharmed (or without bruised eardrums) etc.

I would be happy with action in a style of FRWL.

[univex]

GLADIATOR does not have a car chase in it, because that would be inappropriate for the film.

Why? One of the gladiators had a wristwatch Or so they say.

So I think John Logan means that the action in SKYFALL is born out of the script itself. They haven't taken the John Woo approach of writing a story around action sequences they wanted to include. It makes for scenes that are more natural than they would otherwise be, because they keep the story going (instead of stopping the story for the action to take place, and then restarting it once the sequence is over).

I guess we won´t have doves and slow mo then. GOOD!

I would be happy with action in a style of FRWL.

Edited by univex, 21 November 2011 - 01:28 PM.

[Captain Tightpants]

I guess we won´t have doves and slow mo then. GOOD!

What if the plot revolves around doves that are genetically engineered to fly slowly and ... no. I can't finish that sentence with a straight face.

[univex]

I guess we won´t have doves and slow mo then. GOOD!

What if the plot revolves around doves that are genetically engineered to fly slowly and ... no. I can't finish that sentence with a straight face.

Last "doves" extras were in St. Mark´s Square in Venice in CR, thank God they weren´t descendents of that moonraker pigeon. On another note, that´s why Bond hasn´t shave, he´s really Fiennes and Fiennes is Bond, they just had their faces swapped That would also account for the short hair. I think we´re getting somewhere here Cap.

Edited by univex, 21 November 2011 - 01:40 PM.

[Harmsway]

Purvis and Wade wrote a story threatment.

They wrote more than a treatment.

[The Shark]

Purvis and Wade wrote a story threatment.

They wrote more than a treatment.

Indeed, they wrote a threatment.

[d21089]

Threatment sounds like a movie... it would star The Rock

When the world is over run by a toxic disease,
Only one man can stop it destroying all mankind.
The Rock is The Doctoooor
and this summer, he's in charge of the THREATment

Cue explosions... (Directed by Michael Bay)

[Pussfeller]

I've always said that the Rock should play a Playdell-Smith type.

[Germanlady]

Interview with Fiennes

Can you tell us anything about your role in the "Bond" movie?
I can't, I'm not allowed to, except I've been seduced by ("Skyfall 007" writer) John Logan and (director) Sam Mendes into a very interesting little cameo.

It was interesting to hear Sam Mendes say it will focus a little bit more on the characters than the action.
I think the script — it has a lot to do with my friendship with John — the script is very cool and very smart. It's a brilliantly thought-through screenplay. I think it will surprise people with just what a good story it is.


source: http://www.nextmovie...iew-coriolanus/

[Skudor]

Interview with Fiennes

Can you tell us anything about your role in the "Bond" movie?
I can't, I'm not allowed to, except I've been seduced by ("Skyfall 007" writer) John Logan and (director) Sam Mendes into a very interesting little cameo.

It was interesting to hear Sam Mendes say it will focus a little bit more on the characters than the action.
I think the script — it has a lot to do with my friendship with John — the script is very cool and very smart. It's a brilliantly thought-through screenplay. I think it will surprise people with just what a good story it is.


source: http://www.nextmovie...iew-coriolanus/

An interesting little cameo. Clearly not a big part then.

Could fit the flash back PTS with Dench and Finney played by McCrory and Fiennes.

[TCK]

Interview with Fiennes

Can you tell us anything about your role in the "Bond" movie?
I can't, I'm not allowed to, except I've been seduced by ("Skyfall 007" writer) John Logan and (director) Sam Mendes into a very interesting little cameo.

It was interesting to hear Sam Mendes say it will focus a little bit more on the characters than the action.
I think the script — it has a lot to do with my friendship with John — the script is very cool and very smart. It's a brilliantly thought-through screenplay. I think it will surprise people with just what a good story it is.


source: http://www.nextmovie...iew-coriolanus/

An interesting little cameo. Clearly not a big part then.

Could fit the flash back PTS with Dench and Finney played by McCrory and Fiennes.

Really disappointed by that news. I was expecting so much about Ralph Fiennes' part in Skyfall. So we gonna have Q and Ralph Fiennes only for a cameo ? I'm beggining to fear the worst.

Edit : by the way, we don't have anything about Helen McCrory's character yet, do we ?

Edited by TCK, 01 December 2011 - 06:51 PM.

[Shrublands]

Could fit the flash back PTS with Dench and Finney played by McCrory and Fiennes.

Based on an extra's Twitter feed. This extra has filmed scenes with Craig and Fiennes.
It wouldn’t make sense to have Fiennes also in flashback with a younger M played by a different actress. I really can’t see any reason to think there are going to be elaborated flashbacks or indeed any flashbacks.

[Pussfeller]

Maybe we'll only see his hands.

[The Shark]

Hands, eyes, lips or back of head. Anything's possible.

[univex]

Hands, eyes, lips or back of head. Anything's possible.

Well, he said "little" cameo didn´t he? But I´m not judging anything

[Cody]

Little finger? We'll find out what Fiennes can do with his.

[Skudor]

Hmmm

That would be a rather ironic statement by Fiennes "a little cameo".... I didn't see that at first.

hmmmm

Gotta stop getting my hopes up!

[The Shark]

Fiennes will play Craig's little finger.

Mark my word.

[Shrublands]

Hands, eyes, lips or back of head. Anything's possible.

Other than his earlobes.

[Pussfeller]

As long as we see his pussy.

[Leon]

As long as we see his pussy.

Or his cock!..

[Skudor]

Oh dear

[Luigi Ferrari]

Skyfall James Bond Interview - Screen Writer John Logan

[MattofSteel]

Nice quick interview. John seems genuinely excited to be working on Skyfall - always a good sign.

[Luigi Ferrari]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-17026423

Oscars 2012: John Logan talks Hugo, Rango and 007

"I have yet to do an interview from the past year that doesn't mention Skyfall," laughs John Logan down the line from Los Angeles.
It's true. There is a question prepared about his work on the latest 007 adventure - currently shooting with Sam Mendes at the helm.
But more on that later.
...
And so to Skyfall - the new Bond film with Daniel Craig back as 007, and Fiennes and Javier Bardem in the cast. The film is currently in production, and Logan is still hands on.
"There's always tweaking to be done," he says, giving nothing away.
"I've been with Skyfall for over a year now. It's been the most fun experience I've ever had on a movie. It's like being part of a theatre company.
"I grew up on Bond and working with Sam [Mendes] is a dream because we're both theatre animals. We both speak the same language about story and character."

[Vauxhall]

Interesting, and encouraging, that John Logan is still available to make tweaks to SKYFALL's script if required.