[Perdogg]

This has nothing to do with homosexuality or Daniel Craig. This has to do with the novel. If you are not interested, please respect others.

[Perdogg]

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[molson209]

Obama will be the Villain ?

[Tax-chick]

Anthony Horowitz originated and wrote much of the “Foyle’s War” BBC-tv series. He knows his historical stuff and can really put together a plot.

That is to say, there’s the potential for him to produce an awfully good novel using the Bond oeuvre.

[Billthedrill]

I feel for the feller and wish him luck. Let's face it, you can't get much more formulaic than Bond has become since Ursula Andress...Ursula Andress...uh, what were we talking about?

The thing is that Fleming started off with real-world bad guys. You can't get much worse than SMERSH. SPECTRE was a fantasy and off we go to a series of comic-book supervillains that became increasingly divorced from credibility; nothing wrong with that for entertainment purposes but it loses a lot of the original edge, IMHO.

But the makings are there if the producer is willing to gamble. Drug cartels? Overdone. Terrorist bands plotting the Big Blast? Let's face it, nobody is interested in phony South African Nazis and nobody has the guts to do the real thing because it might offend somebody with a tablecloth on his head. Well, not since True Lies, anyway.

And so it isn't really Bond, the unchangeable and rather unbelievable free-world (if that term has any meaning in the days of 0bama) superhero, no, he'll be pretty much the same thing. It's all about the villains. And God forbid they should be gay (done that), black (done that), disabled (done that), or any other politically protected class in these days of a truly decadent, frightened, constipated, and unoriginal popular culture. You couldn't make Blazing Saddles anymore for the same reason that much of the Bond arc, pedestrian though it actually is, would be impossible to remake. Show me another Pussy Galore and prove me wrong.

[Ciexyz]

Cool!