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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Laverne Cox as James Bond with Rachel Levine as Money Penny. Of course they will have to have MAGA villains vanquished by Bond.
The next Bond film should open with Bond Sitting straight up in bed out of a dead sleep saying “What a nighmare, my own Navy killed me and I was a leftist fag!”
The need Bond filled was for a toxically male, un politically correct, strong white male with class, presence, humor and confidence who women threw themselves at. A hired killer, and at the same time, a patriot. A bad boy good guy we could all cheer for and wish to be in every red blooded male’s fantasies.
It will never happen in this country again, and there will never be another Sean Connery.
Tangerine?
“Like the fruit?”
“Who’s writing good action thrillers these days?”
The difficulty is figuring out who the good guys are. The establishment money has one idea, the audience, another.
Yeah, well, we thought Spock was dead, too.
I read about E. Howard Hunt today. “Implicated” in regime change abroad, the JFK assassination (regime change), and Watergate (regime change). He seemed to have seen himself as Bond, before there was Bond.
My first Bond movie was From Russia with Love. To me it was the best one.
James Coburn was surprisingly entertaining in Our Man Flint.
Patrick McGoohan maintained the suspense in the series Secret Agent. In included a great song by Johnny Rivers.
Thanks for the author recommendations.
“has one idea, the audience, another.”
Let’s say the audience, if a movie is to be based on it.
Peter Falk called Patrick McGoohan, “Most underrated and under-appreciated talent on the planet”.
The best thing they could do for the franchise right now would be two or three prequel films showing Bond in the lead up to attaining his double-O position, perhaps as a naval intel officer or SBS operative in WWII, and immediate post-war Europe and/or Asia.
The could even do it to stage subsequent contemporary films by having Ralph Fiennes as M looking for the next 007 and reviewing the history of the position and namesake by poring through old dusty records and dispatches and flashing back to the events.
Turning Phelps into a traitor was unforgiveable.
A long time ago I had an idea for a movie called "James Bond at 7" where he helped take down a group of bullies at a boys school in Britain.
From Russia with Love was Connery’s favorite Bond film. He thought it was the only one he did with a real plot.
You’re welcome. Hope you like them.
That could work, but I still think they should just let it go and actually create something for a change.
I agree with that. Big McGoohan fan. The Prisoner was genius. I used to say he invented the red pill.
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