Next Bond Film Will be ‘Complete Re-invention’ but Won’t Shoot for ‘at Least Two Years

The Guardian.com ^ | Unknown more than 7 months | Betsy Reed Editor Guardian US

[coalminersson]

The 26th official James Bond film is unlikely to be in cinemas before 2025, according to the series’ producer, Barbara Broccoli.

Speaking at a dinner to honor Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G Wilson after the presentation of their BFI Fellowships, the gatekeeper of all things 007 (and daughter of Cubby Broccoli) said they had not yet cast the actor who will replace Daniel Craig in the tux.

“Nobody’s in the running,” she said in a speech first reported by Deadline. “We’re working out where to go with him, we’re talking that through. There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at least two years away.”Craig departed the series after five films, bowing out with last year’s No Time to Die. That film concluded Craig’s run with a finality unusual for the film, something which fueled speculation over the likely future of the franchise, with some suspecting the films would have to return to Bond’s childhood or early spy years for more stories.

The sale of studio MGM to Amazon has also meant the intellectual property rights over Ian Fleming’s character exert a looser grip than in previous years. Broccoli and Wilson are producing a new reality series, 007’s Road to a Million, which will be Amazon Prime Video’s debut TV show.

Broccoli has previously confirmed that the new Bond will be male, after calls for the character to undergo a Doctor Who-style reinvention. Key runners and riders remain Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page and Richard Madden..........

[Nextrush]

James Bond becomes Pussy Galore...LMAO

[coalminersson]

you left out tricked out cars

[coalminersson]

These Are the Highest-Grossing Movie Franchises of All Time

1 Marvel Cinematic Universe — $27.98B. Marvel Studios / Disney.
2 Star Wars — $10.31B. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. ...
3 Spider-Man — $9.8B. ...
4 Wizarding World — $9.66B. ...
5 James Bond — $7.83B. ...
6 The Avengers — $7.76B. ...
7 Batman — $6.84B. ...
8 Fast and Furious — $6.62B. ...

[scrabblehack]

I’m pretty sure they have even those now. Kevin McClory died, no? Either he or his family sold the rights to Thunderball/Never Say Never Again/Warhead 2000, 2001, etc. (that one never got made).

Then they reacquired the rights to Casino Royale and made a serious movie out of it.

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with some suspecting the films would have to return to Bond’s childhood

Way back when there was a cartoon called “James Bond Jr.” — something like an early version of “Spy Kids.”

I don’t think it would satisfy most Bond fans but it would be preferable to some of the other crap I’ve heard.

[noiseman]

James Bond becomes Pussy Galore...LMAO

LOL…perfection!

[coalminersson]

I think there’s a series of Bond comics including Jr.

[logi_cal869]

Trans or gay.

Betcha.

[Impy]

They’ll want the picture to make money so I doubt it.

[Impy]

I’d be ok OK with a black Bond if it was Elba (yes come kill me), after seeing “Luther” I thought he was perfect for the role but unfortunately he’s too old to be believable in more than 1 and they want like a 10 year deal to do 3 films.

[dfwgator]

Time for Bond to retire, like Tom Brady. It had a nice run, but it’s over.

[BillyBoy]

I agree. I thought Craig was a terrible choice for Bond in 2006 (and I STILL think he was miscast!) but whoever they cast to replace him in the current climate will be 10X worse. I never thought it would be possible, but by the time the next film rolls around, they’ll have me begging Craig to come back.

[TBP]

Nobody wants a revinvented Bond. We want the guy Ian Fleming created and Sean Connery defined.

If some people wnat a female Bond, there is a simple way to do that. Create a character who is, say, 007’s niece (or something.) Name her Jane Bond. Have her work with James in one movie, then spin her off into her own franchise.

[TBP]

No, maybe Lizzo. Stacey Brams would spend the entire movie claiming to the duly-electd M.

[TBP]

Roger Moore was pretty good, but it went downhill after that.

[TBP]

How do you have Ana de Armas in a Bond movie and not have her be the “Bond girl”?

[TBP]

Not quite. Do what Star Trek did. Remember Generations, where the Kirk crew essentially handed off to the Picsrd crew? Remember that one scene where Picard does something for Kirk and when Kirk thanks him, he sayd, "The lest I could do for hte captain of the Enterprise."

If they wanted to retire Bond but keep the franchise alive, they could do something similar.

[BillyBoy]

Black Bond? HELL no. As Rush Limbaugh used to point out, Bond is described in the books as having Swiss and Scottish ancestry, that ain't Idris. As you also noted, he's way too old to be STARTING a career as Bond anyway. I don't see what's with Hollywood's obsession with race and gender swapping every iconic character these days.

It works both ways too. Taking a character who has always been non-white and "updating" them by casting a white guy is a clusterf**k too. Benedict Cumberbatch is a talented guy, but he sure as hell is NOT 'Khan Noonien Singh'.

The problem is also the double standard in Hollywood. For example, Mr. T's character on the 80s TV show The A-Team was a muscular, badass, no-nonsense ex-military, tough guy. There are tons of white actors who could pull that off. But they wouldn't DARE remake The A-Team, have Liam Hemsworth grow a beard and mohawk, and cast him as "B.A. Baracus". Liam Hemsworth would get crucified if he took on an iconic role played by a black dude and started doing his trademark "I Pity the Fool!"

[BillyBoy]

Post #54 makes a good point, too. The producers announcing they will cast a male actor is essentially meaningless in today's warped society, because the mindset of modern Hollywood is anyone who 'identifies' as male IS one. They could cast 'Elliot' Page and these producers would be jizzing themselves about how they kept Bond's "traditional masculinity intact" but "modernized" the role with the "first transgender Bond"

[BillyBoy]

Heh. Apparently Babylon Bee beat me to it:

https://babylonbee.com/news/james-bond-to-stay-male-will-be-played-by-elliot-page

[BillyBoy]

She's already busy in her role as Jabba the Hutt.... oops, I mean "President of Earth" in Alex Kurtzman's Faux Trek: Dysentery