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[007jamesbond]

We won't know the official date of the movie until we have a press conference whether that is.....could be sometime near the end of the year at the earliest.......or maybe january 2014 

[seawolfnyy]

Based on their previous history, if the film is released in 2014, we will know the release date and title in November of this year. If it gets pushed to 2015, then I think we'll learn the title in November 2014.

[Germanlady]

During a french interview while promoting, DC himself mentioned a 2013 end of the year start. This might change, but he should know. At least, this suggests, that they are trying to make it a 201 release.

[Shrublands]

During a french interview while promoting, DC himself mentioned a 2013 end of the year start. This might change, but he should know. At least, this suggests, that they are trying to make it a 201 release.

 

I think this is part of what Baz is saying in the Mail - That the original intention was to start in late 2013, but if it means getting Mendes back, Eon will delay until the end of 2014.

[Berni99]

Is a start at the End of 2013 with Mendes not possible?

[Vauxhall]

Is a start at the End of 2013 with Mendes not possible?

Mendes has theatre commitments until early 2014 - namely CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and KING LEAR.

Starting to look like the thread title may need a change.

[Iceskater101]

 

What not starting till 2014.. :/ i thought it was going to be out by then. :'(

 

I don't think that it was ever actually confirmed that BOND 24 would be a 2014 release.  The executives at Sony announced it would be a part of their 2014 slate, but Wilson and Broccoli have been, to the best of my knowledge anyway, non-committal about when the film would be released. 

 

They've only got Craig for two more films, so I wouldn't be surprised if they took their time with both of them to make them the absolute best that they can be.  2014 is a possibility for BOND 24, as they can have it out in November or December if they start in January of the same year, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a 2015 release.

I agree. I would rather have it release in 2015 with more polish, than in 2014 and be sub-par.

 

 

 I would rather have it release in 2015 with more polish, than in 2014 and be sub-par.

My thoughts exactly. My current gut feeling is that we'll get 2 more Craig films, Bond 24 in 2015 and Bond 25 in 2018. Then there will be 4 year wait until Actor number 7 debuts in 2022 on the 60th anniversary.

 

Well yeah true I would rather have that too, but still that makes me sad that I have to wait longer.

[Berni99]

I think 2015 was not a good year for a Bond Release, 2014 (Winter) is much better.

 

2014: Transformers 4, Hobbit 3 (both in the Summer)

 

2015: Star Wars 7, Avengers 2, Avatar 2, Justice League, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantastic Four, M:I-5 ...

 

So that would be a huge Problem for a Bond Release in 2015

[Walecs]

I think 2015 was not a good year for a Bond Release, 2014 (Winter) is much better.

 

2014: Transformers 4, Hobbit 3 (both in the Summer)

 

2015: Star Wars 7, Avengers 2, Avatar 2, Justice League, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantastic Four, M:I-5 ...

 

So that would be a huge Problem for a Bond Release in 2015

 

Star Wars 7 and Avatar 2 don't represent anything for me. The first one because the saga ended with Anakin's sacrifice in Episode 6. He was the main character, he died, no point in making a sequel. George Lucas did write 9 episodes (some even say 12), but then he shortened the saga to six. He made the six movies, stop.

The second one because Avatar is one of the most awful movie ideas ever made, it's just a copy of Pocahontas, Halo and Star Wars.

 

On another hand, I'm very excited for Pirates of the Caribbean 5.

[Germanlady]

I think, you are all a bit too fast. Nothing AT ALL in either way has been said for a while now by a reliable source. Its just all a guessing game on all sides, including the media. Mendes can come back for 25, there is no absolute reason to wait for him. Mark my words, the last word an't spoken yet and nothing is confirmed.

Also - if Babs has the choice between working with Daniel again soon or delaying that for Mendes. What will be her choice you think?

[QOS4EVER]

I think 2015 was not a good year for a Bond Release, 2014 (Winter) is much better.

 

2014: Transformers 4, Hobbit 3 (both in the Summer)

 

2015: Star Wars 7, Avengers 2, Avatar 2, Justice League, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantastic Four, M:I-5 ...

 

So that would be a huge Problem for a Bond Release in 2015

 

Most is unconfirmed , Especially Justice Jeague ,Mi5

[Shrublands]

I think, you are all a bit too fast. Nothing AT ALL in either way has been said for a while now by a reliable source. Its just all a guessing game on all sides, including the media. Mendes can come back for 25, there is no absolute reason to wait for him. Mark my words, the last word an't spoken yet and nothing is confirmed.

Also - if Babs has the choice between working with Daniel again soon or delaying that for Mendes. What will be her choice you think?

 

I think her choice will be to keep Dan happy with a quality script and a directer he loves working with   

Oh, and another film made to the standard of Skyfall, with a similar finical reward, might keep everyone else who matters happy too.

[lechero]

I think 2015 was not a good year for a Bond Release, 2014 (Winter) is much better.

 

2014: Transformers 4, Hobbit 3 (both in the Summer)

 

2015: Star Wars 7, Avengers 2, Avatar 2, Justice League, Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantastic Four, M:I-5 ...

 

So that would be a huge Problem for a Bond Release in 2015

 

Most is unconfirmed , Especially Justice Jeague ,Mi5

Star Wars is also looking like it may not be released until 2016.

[Iceskater101]

I think James Bond will be okay, I mean skyfall did excellent, so a lot of people will see the new James Bond film.

[Shrublands]

Is a start at the End of 2013 with Mendes not possible?

Mendes has theatre commitments until early 2014 - namely CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and KING LEAR.

Starting to look like the thread title may need a change.

 

Agreed, with this information about Mendes from Baz and Garry Barber saying that the film may be released in 2015 - 2014 is not exactly confirmed anymore.

[Berni99]

My suggestion:

Bond 24 - 2014 (with another Director, Christopher Nolan or Martin Campbell?)

Bond 25 - 2016 or 2017 (Return of Mendes)

Bond 26 - 2019 or 2020 (last Film with Craig)

Edited by Berni99, 04 February 2013 - 06:14 PM.

[Iceskater101]

To be honest, the more I think of it I would not want Christopher Nolan to be the director.

[L4YRCAKE]

To be honest, the more I think of it I would not want Christopher Nolan to be the director.

 

Why not, Iceskater?  Because you'd rather see Mendes return, or is it because you think Nolan would make a bad film, or some other reason...?

[Iceskater101]

I want James Bond to have a lighter setting in the next film. The last one was very dark and I feel like Christopher Nolan would take the Bond film and make it even darker like he did for Batman.

[PPK_19]

I want James Bond to have a lighter setting in the next film. The last one was very dark and I feel like Christopher Nolan would take the Bond film and make it even darker like he did for Batman.

 

Indeed. While i like the Nolan Batman trilogy and Inception, i think he'd turn Bond darker than a black hole. 

Mendes is definitely coming back for Bond 24 so i'm not too worried anyway. 

[L4YRCAKE]

I want James Bond to have a lighter setting in the next film. The last one was very dark and I feel like Christopher Nolan would take the Bond film and make it even darker like he did for Batman.

 

Indeed. While i like the Nolan Batman trilogy and Inception, i think he'd turn Bond darker than a black hole. 

Mendes is definitely coming back for Bond 24 so i'm not too worried anyway. 

 

It hasn't been announced that Mendes will be back, but I'd be pretty shocked if he isn't.  (then again, I stood indignant every time anyone even suggested that JJ Abrams would even think about going and doing Star Wars...  )

 

Anyways, frankly if John Logan is writing both Bond 24 & 25, wouldn't it make sense they'd hire the same director for both of them?  Plus all the money Skyfall's made, they're going to try and hang on to as much of that crew as possible I bet.  I also think that if Mendes has at least privately in his own mind agreed to be on board, both he, Logan, and Craig are thinking, 'Skyfall barely scratches the surface of what we can do and where we can go with Bond.'  

 

I don't know what to think of the Nolan thing though.  Bond's definitely not Batman, and he's not going to be crying and throwing fits like DeCaprio in Inception, much as I like those films.  On the other hand, Bond has a pendulum, where his films are either a little too serious or a little too glib or a little too camp, and while I agree that 'going darker' isn't right for the character, he shouldn't become a kid's character or have the violence be too cartoony.   I like the way the violence in Casino plays for keeps without losing the spectacle, and people have human reactions to it, as well as a fear of Bond's ruthlessness, even if he's a hero.  Frankly, I feel his line about a waste of scotch after Severine was murdered in Skyfall was pretty out of line, I think what they were going for and what ended up on the screen really failed because they couldn't decide what type of Bond film they were in.  Bond should definitely have lines like, 'shocking' after he electrocutes Odd Job or whomever, but Severine was scared and Bond promised to save her and she still ended up getting murdered just as she feared in cold blood, and it was directly a result of Bond's actions.  I think that's the wrong place for them to insert a joke about scotch and that fine line between funny, romantic, epic, dark and violent just ran right off the road and crashed into a tree.   

 

My point being that I think Nolan could make a great Bond, but it all boils down to whether he has a great story in mind for the character, not a new direction or just, 'let's make him darker cuz that's what I do'.  I think he could make a grand visual spectacle, but then Sam Mendes already did that, and he probably came a lot cheaper than Nolan would these days...

[Shrublands]

At the Evening Standard Film Awards, Barbara Broccoli let's it be known that they hope to get Mendes back.

 

They hope to lure back director Sam Mendes for the next instalment, Broccoli revealed. “I hope he will but it’s too early to tell,” she said.

http://www.standard....ds-8480605.html

 

To me, it sounds very like her "it's too early to tell, I hope so..." etc, etc... that she gave about Adele during the filming of Skyfall. We now know that Adele was definitely doing it all along and had started work months before Broccoli's remarks.

 

I bet Mendes is signed up already and they are waiting for the best moment to release it to the press. I understand that a public stock offering in MGM was delayed to capitalise on the success of Skyfall and The Hobbit, a press release that another Bond film is on the way from the same team headed by the same director could be being timed to coincide with the stock offering. 

[plankattack]

I think Mendes would be fine, and I'm not opposed to Nolan. Sure the Batman trilogy is "dark" but that's not an indication that a Nolan Bond would be. But what I would take if Nolan were to hired, is that we're going to get a Bond that's seriously (and intelligently to the extent that any movie is) plotted. At the age that I'm at, I'm more than happy to sit through an "adult" Bond film that asks me to think a bit and even leave the cinema with some opinions. While it didn't go anywhere near the whole way, SF (as an example) had us think, at least for a minute, about M in a way that the series had never really asked us before. It's not often that Bond is not sure about his boss.

 

Back to the director thing - I'm still of the position that the crux of it is the script that Logan produces. I don't think Campbell is half the director some people do but everyone gives him credit for CR. IMHO, the success of that film was as much down to the source material and the script that P&W, Haggis etc came up with.

[Shrublands]

I don't think a director like Nolan is likely to join a project that already has Sam Mendes's choice of screenwriter (i.e. John Logan) at work on the screenplay. In fact, most self-respecting directors would find that difficult and would soon get their own choice as a replacement. 

 

It's my belief that Mendes, Craig and Logan have been cooking this up for sometime. 

[QOS4EVER]

With Mendes semi confirmed, I guess we can pretty much say good bye to the good looking,classy, well dressed suave Bond .

[007jamesbond]

Mendes if he come back guarantee another Classic movie!!!!!  

Edited by 007jamesbond, 08 February 2013 - 07:39 AM.

[Shrublands]

Baz Bamigboye does seem convinced by the information he's been given, he mentions it again in an article about Craig in negotiations to appear in Pinter’s Betrayal on Broadway.

 

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are in closely guarded negotiations to heat up Broadway in a play about a wife cuckolding her husband.

The talks centre on the couple appearing together this autumn in Betrayal, Harold Pinter’s 1978 cool dissection of deceit.

If it all comes together, it would be for a limited run because Craig has to begin pre-production on Bond 24 next year. 

Mendes is considering directing that after he completes working with Simon Russell Beale (go see him in Privates On Parade at the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End!) in King Lear, opening early in 2014 at the National Theatre.

 

http://www.dailymail...l#axzz2KIcjYvfa

[Pussfeller]

2014 seems like a much better environment for success. In 2015 they'll have way more competition. 

[S K Y F A L L]

If Mendes is officially announced for Bond 24 I would think the rest would fall like domino's, Deakins and Newman. I hope they can keep the 2014 release date. 

[Vauxhall]

Sam Mendes, speaking at the Baftas this evening: "I've had a great time, it's been a huge learning curve and we would want to make a better movie next time around, and if we thought we do that they might let me have another go again."

 

Interesting changed in tone with some of the things he's previously said. It seems that now he's shifted the emphasis onto the producers to give him the gig if they think he could do a good job again. Reading between the lines, as others have also suggested, I think he's probably already a done deal for BOND 24.