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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In the latest Bond movie, he is gone and presumed dead.
When he returns, the black woman is 007. She already has his 00 status, and it makes for some uncomfortable dialogs.
I did like Daniel Craig and his version of 007.
James Rollins. James Patterson. Douglas Preston. Dean Koontz's "Jane Hawk" series was pretty good, even though the protagonist is a female in a "The Fugitive" type of scenario, at least it was realistic in the sense that she wasn't drop kicking 300lb thugs, just using her wits to get the drop on them with a gun or chloroform.
“When I sat in the theater for the new movie Goldfinger I paid 50 cents.”
Saw it in Buffalo at a matinee double feature with “A Hard Day’s Night” for 50 cents. The North Park on Hertel Avenue. I looked it. They renovated it and it’s still operating as a single screen theatre.
Well, 50 cents was a lot so I hope those were worth it.
I heard the Beatles had a good career after that. Wonder if somebody made any James Bond sequels.😊
4 years on and no Bond, James Bond.
May be best to not film a new movie till the woke people are banned from Hollywood and Pinewood Studios.
Craig said he likes going to gay bars.... If they film a new movie now you just know he will like guys, gay guys.
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