Posted on 06/08/2024 4:28:07 PM PDT by Twotone
For the first time in a long time we are living in a world without James Bond. Despite having been promised that Agent 007 would Live and Let Die and Die Another Day, when the last film in the Bond series was released in 2021 and despite telling us that it was No Time to Die, Daniel Craig's 007 perished in the villain's lair at the end of the film, under a salvo of missiles fired by his own Royal Navy.
The only people who seem to have found this satisfying were Daniel Craig and producer Michael G. Wilson, and it didn't go over well with fans. (It's still the only Bond film I haven't seen.) But it's not the end of Bond; as one of the most successful movie franchises in history, there's no way it was the last we'll see of Agent 007.
Esquire UK recently published an article running the odds on all the contenders for the inevitable Bond reboot. It's a long and fascinating list of likely lads (Henry Cavill, Tom Hardy, Idris Elba), interesting suggestions (Barry Keoghan, Andrew Garfield, Chiwetel Ejiofor) and absolute improbabilities (Harry Styles). But whoever gets picked we've been assured repeatedly by everyone with a say in the matter that it will be a new Bond for a new era, with everything that implies.
Which is why, in these troubling times, I find it comforting to go back to a very early Bond, when the man and his movies were still struggling to find their form. From Russia with Love was the second film in the 007 series, released in the UK almost exactly a year after Dr. No had been the huge hit producers Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman needed to fulfill their promise of a Bond a year.
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There has been no “Bond” since Sean Connery...
Only “wannabes”......
The writer hasn’t done his homework. He left out who’s most likely going to be picked as OO7, Aaron Johnson.
They killed Bond so they could replace him with the black woman. Because, equity, don’t you know. And we will all be damned as racist for not watching her movies with the same fervor we watched Daniel Crag.
Bond ALWAYS landed the hottest babes. Very rare in that business, but he was the best at it.
Leave Bond dead and think up something new. Ian Fleming’s been gone for nearly 60 years.
How Commie of them. They had to completely destroy him so they could create him in their image!
Craig wanted out. He wouldn’t do another one unless they killing him off.
RE:....it will be a new Bond for a new era, with everything that implies.
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RIP Paul Reubens, dead in 2023 at age 70.
“He will forever live in the comedy Pantheon. And in our hearts as a treasured friend.”
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“Ian Fleming’s been gone for nearly 60 years.”
Who’s writing good action thrillers these days?
Who’d want to serve Britain these days, anyway?
IMHO they killed Bond to start the story over, whether or not it’s woke. Much like they did with Daniel Craig. I believe the era is over of Bond movies having a serial storyline across six actors.
When I sat in the theater for the new movie Goldfinger I paid 50 cents. The earlier tier of theaters charge 70 cents.
And yes, about 20% of the audience gasped and giggled when they first heard “Pussy Galore” spoken as film history books say. No one had heard the fresh, line “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.” All new. Theaters had one movie screen. No multiplex ones yet. But there were lots of choices around.
I first went to the Bond films and read the Signet paperbacks when I read in Time that the new President John F. Kennedy liked Ian Fleming. Popularity of Goldfinger meant you could see a return double feature of the earlier Dr.No and From Russia With Love for a cheap combined ticket price. Those were the days.
Astrology footnote: Geminis——Ian Fleming, John F. Kennedy,
Roger Moore, Paul McCartney (theme of Live and Let Die) and Me.
Don’t forget Gemini Donald Trump’s birthday on June 14th.
Well, I certainly see the logic in that. If he didn’t, the rest of his career would be like that of Sean Connery’s.
People would constantly be asking him if he was going to come back and play Bond again, so I get that.
Figs...Yogurt...and coffee very black. Bond’s breakfast order in the hotel in Istanbul in From Russia With Love.
At least they didn’t do a Jim Phelps on him.
Lately I’ve been reading some of the Gray Man series by Mark Greaney, and Stephen Hunter writes some pretty good stuff. And then there’s always Matt Bracken.
I like Adam Hall and Donald Hamilton, too, but they’re not exactly new.
These days, probably nobody. James Bond was a WWII veteran, though, before becoming a double-naught spy. Great Britain was different then.
So was the US
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