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Movies: Amazon says next Bond movie end of 2027. NO star, NO Director and NO script.

Seattle King said:
Amazon Prime had a 24/7 Bond channel going for a while and it was great but it suddenly disappeared without warning a few weeks ago. Would like to see that return now that the Broccoli/Bezos conflict appears to have subsided for now. I want to be optimistic here, but the chances of total Bond Enshittification under Amazon are very high.
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As someone whose first exposure to the old Bond movies was on TBS' annual holiday marathon weekends that was a major nostalgia hit for me. Sure, I own them all on DVD or blu ray and could put them in at any time but it just hits different when I can turn on the TV and it's in the middle of The Spy Who Loved Me just decide to let it roll. (Also, they stretch them out to like 3 hours with commercials which also brings back memories). I don't need it to always exist, but if they want to pop it back up on holiday weeks/weekends I'm probably going to throw it on.
 
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KallioWeHardlyKnewYe said:
As someone whose first exposure to the old Bond movies was on TBS' annual holiday marathon weekends that was a major nostalgia hit for me. Sure, I own them all on DVD or blu ray and could put them in at any time but it just hits different when I can turn on the TV and it's in the middle of The Spy Who Loved Me just decide to let it roll. (Also, they stretch them out to like 3 hours with commercials which also brings back memories). I don't need it to always exist, but if they want to pop it back up on holiday weeks/weekends I'm probably going to throw it on.
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15 Days of 007 on TBS was a great time.
 
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Can’t wait for the R rated streaming series with graphic sex scenes and violence.

I’m only being half sarcastic.
 
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Cloned said:
Not gonna be PG anymore I think.
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They haven't been PG since 1987. Licence to Kill was PG-13 (I remember a little bit of controversy over that at the time) and every iteration since has been the same. I don't see that changing. They're not going to go R and risk losing out on a lot of box office revenue.
 
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Osprey said:
They haven't been PG since 1987. Licence to Kill was PG-13 (I remember a little bit of controversy over that at the time) and every iteration since has been the same. I don't see that changing. They're not going to go R and risk losing out on a lot of box office revenue.
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I meant the streaming series that’s sure to be coming.
 
I mean, Licence to Kill had one of the most gruesome death scenes of a Bond villain I can remember. Can't believe that wasn't R-rated.

But as we know excessive violence is rarely what the MPAA takes issue with.
 
Jumptheshark said:
One name that has been in circulation is Jack O'Connell

HE played Paddy is SAS Rogue heroes, 2022 version of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and is an accomplished stage actor,
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I don't know this guy at all but he looks nothing like how I think James Bond should look.
 
Jumptheshark said:
He is able to change how he looks




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He doesn't look very tall. There is a photo of him with Angelina Jolie and he's shorter than she is. Jolie is at a good height for a female, but she's no Kidman/Thurman tall at 5'10 plus.
Certain actors will end up dropping out the longer it takes to finalize the script. A young 007 is early 30's at the youngest. Between graduation, British Navy (to obtain rank of Commander), and training as a 00.

So, target age of actor is at the youngest is roughly 30 to close to Craig's age of 37 when he got the role.
 
StreetHawk said:
He doesn't look very tall. There is a photo of him with Angelina Jolie and he's shorter than she is. Jolie is at a good height for a female, but she's no Kidman/Thurman tall at 5'10 plus.
Certain actors will end up dropping out the longer it takes to finalize the script. A young 007 is early 30's at the youngest. Between graduation, British Navy (to obtain rank of Commander), and training as a 00.

So, target age of actor is at the youngest is roughly 30 to close to Craig's age of 37 when he got the role.
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He played Bobby Charlton in the 2011 BBC film "United" about the 1958 Münich air disaster and seemed a bit too short for that role already. He was good though.
 
Those picks don't inspire much confidence. I see nothing in either of their filmographies that makes them seem like good picks to produce a spy thriller, especially James Bond. Instead, I see a bunch of Spider-Man and Harry Potter movies and a slew of chick flicks (Little Women, the 2016 Ghostbusters, Barbie, Testament of Youth and The Secret Garden). At least they both have a long history of projects that we've heard of, but it still reminds me a little of how Amazon hired two guys without any experience to shepherd their Lord of the Rings series. Couldn't they have gotten someone who produced one of the Mission: Impossible or Bourne movies? Speaking of which, I just noticed that Tony Gilroy (creator of Andor) wrote the screenplays for most of the Bourne movies. I would've loved for Amazon to have hired him, instead.
 
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Seems weird to reboot after the way the last one ended. Are we just supposed to forget the ending or Madeline lol
 
John Price said:
Seems weird to reboot after the way the last one ended. Are we just supposed to forget the ending or Madeline lol
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Part of the reason I really thought that ending (and the kid) was garbage is because it was always going to be balled up and thrown in the trash. Total capitulation to Craig who only wanted to come back if they did exactly what they did.

I really hate the push to put serious continuity onto James Bond. Just let him do his thing.
 
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