Mostly stuff we've heard before, but I liked Jez Butterworth's line:
You know, like Bond doesn’t have scenes with other men. Bond shoots other men - he doesn’t sit around chatting to them. So you put a line through that.
If he did indeed work on the Skyfall script, it's a pity he couldn't have "put a line" through that wretched art gallery scene.
"He's the one that doesn't smile" - Queen Elizabeth II on Daniel Craig
Favorite Bond Movie: GoldenEye, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights, You Only Live Twice, The World is Not Enough, Casino Royale, For Your Eyes Only
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, V for Vendetta, Dredd, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Braveheart, Raimi Spider-Man Films, Man of Steel, Zulu, Indiana Jones, Road to Perdition, Enemy at the Gates
Edward Biddulph wrote:I’m looking forward to the Austrian scenes and the promise of some top skiing action, perhaps of the like we haven’t seen since For Your Eyes Only.
Pretty sure I remember some badass skiing scenes in The World is Not Enough, but maybe it's just my imagination.
"Dalton makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary" - Roger Ebert
Edward Biddulph wrote:I’m looking forward to the Austrian scenes and the promise of some top skiing action, perhaps of the like we haven’t seen since For Your Eyes Only.
Pretty sure I remember some badass skiing scenes in The World is Not Enough, but maybe it's just my imagination.
Some people find the skiing scene from The World Is Not Enough to be rather tame compared to other Bond ski scenes, but I don't mind it. I've always enjoyed the ski chases in Bond films, they never get old.
Favorite Bond Movie: Moonraker Goldfinger The Spy Who Loved Me
Favorite Movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Crazy For Christmas, The Empire Strikes Back, League of Gentlemen (1960's British film), Big Trouble in Little China, Police Academy 2, Carry On At Your Convenience, Commando, Halloween III: Season of the Witch,
Of course we are mere plebs Capt! We aren't "true" Bond fans because we don't genuflect and fawn all over EON begging for their approval! We have the audacity to question the quality of their product and the direction it's heading. The ironic thing is the so called "experts" he did interview A. held many of the same opinions we do, and B. couldn't get their facts straight about Bond!
The Rouge Warrior, On Hermaphrodite's Secret Service
Sony hack: Next Bond movie is WAY over budget
December 10 NEW YORK
The next James Bond movie, "Spectre," is massively over budget and on track to be one of the most expensive films ever made, costing more than $300 million.
That's according to internal memos from the president of MGM Studios, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures. CNNMoney is reviewing thousands of documents leaked online by hackers who broke into Sony.
MGM president Jonathan Glickman sent emails in early November explaining how the studio is scrambling to cut costs.
Sony hack: Next Bond movie is WAY over budget
December 10 NEW YORK
The next James Bond movie, "Spectre," is massively over budget and on track to be one of the most expensive films ever made, costing more than $300 million.
That's according to internal memos from the president of MGM Studios, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures. CNNMoney is reviewing thousands of documents leaked online by hackers who broke into Sony.
MGM president Jonathan Glickman sent emails in early November explaining how the studio is scrambling to cut costs.
He says the current budget "sits in the mid $300Ms," but the studio has to drastically cut back to $250 million. And the shooting period already costs $50 million more than the previous film, "Skyfall."
His suggestions show some Hollywood tricks:
Villa in Rome? It's a nighttime scene, so try doing it in London instead.
There's fighting on a train! Again! But use fewer carriages -- three instead of four.
Forget the dramatic finale in the rain. It'll lower the cost of visual/special effects.
Earn an extra $6 million by showing "the more modern aspects" of Mexico to maximize "the Mexican incentive." (The makers of Spectre are getting paid to film there.)
"We recognize that this movie needs to build on the past few films - and there are expectations we must meet for the audience. Still, we must find further cuts," Glickman says. "This is not about 'nickel and diming' the production."
Barbara Broccoli, the producer (and heiress to the Bond empire), fights back -- saying that she "cannot find the cemetery or villa in the UK" and refuses to cut down the number of trains.
Later, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal, looped in on all of this, sends a note directly to MGM's president, saying: "It's insane and you know with no script this movie is gonna go overbudget."
It's a rare look at the inner workings of
On the positive side for the studio, though, the major product placement deal struck with Heineken is helping reduce the budget, Glickman says.
The emails also show that director Sam Mendes wants to cast Andrew Scott (who plays villain Dr. Moriarty in the Sherlock TV show) as Bond's intelligence agency boss, "C." And MGM can afford it, because they can pay Scott $1 million less than they were going to pay Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave).
A few more tidbits: There's a "lesbian bad lady." And yes, we will meet Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the evil genius behind the creepy, secret transnational organization
"Those were the days when we still associated Bond with suave, old school actors such as Sean Connery and Roger Moore,"
"Daniel didn't have a hint of suave about him," - Patsy Palmer
How could the movie run over budget without a script?
"Those were the days when we still associated Bond with suave, old school actors such as Sean Connery and Roger Moore,"
"Daniel didn't have a hint of suave about him," - Patsy Palmer
Favorite Bond Movie: GoldenEye, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights, You Only Live Twice, The World is Not Enough, Casino Royale, For Your Eyes Only
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, V for Vendetta, Dredd, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Braveheart, Raimi Spider-Man Films, Man of Steel, Zulu, Indiana Jones, Road to Perdition, Enemy at the Gates
We have M and Q then, briefly R. Now there is a "C"! wtf?
"Dalton makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary" - Roger Ebert
Kiwichris wrote:We have M and Q then, briefly R. Now there is a "C"! wtf?
Apparently, the first head of MI6 was codenamed C (his surname was Cunningham, IIRC), which is where Fleming got M from. Dunno what his role in this is going to be, though.
"He's the one that doesn't smile" - Queen Elizabeth II on Daniel Craig
shooting a script half the Internet has read shooting in historically sensitive places. And they wonder why people say no. In their mind they can't imagine why anyone would it want to have their city in their historicity important action movie .
Mendes did the same thing last time upsetting people in Turkey. And India ? Where he wanted the trains stopped for two weeks or something. And the cut down old tress in Turkey and broke some very old buildings . What movie guys don't get if they often break things when they bring in hundreds of people , just because they film something historic doesn't mean they saved it for all time .
When they want to film out here in the west the BLM gets in the way. Like they did for the Lone Ranger.
Hollywood seems to think this location is nice why can't i film a transformers battle royal with explosion next to a sacred site.
I remember the Greek government refusing permission to film FYEO on the Acropolis for similar reasons. And wasn't Moonraker supposed to feature a fight on the statue of Christ the Redeemer? I don't know if it was religious objections or the heritage industry that killed that idea - probably a bit of both.
"He's the one that doesn't smile" - Queen Elizabeth II on Daniel Craig
Favorite Bond Movie: GoldenEye, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights, You Only Live Twice, The World is Not Enough, Casino Royale, For Your Eyes Only
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, V for Vendetta, Dredd, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Braveheart, Raimi Spider-Man Films, Man of Steel, Zulu, Indiana Jones, Road to Perdition, Enemy at the Gates
The thing I'm most worried about is the use of Oberhauser. Once again we'll see one of the last few remaining scraps of Fleming material yet to be filmed totally botched with no faithfulness to the source. Just another desperate attempt to validate that what they're making is "genuine Bond"...
"Dalton makes an effective Bond - lacking Sean Connery's grace and humor, and Roger Moore's suave self-mockery, but with a lean tension and a toughness that is possibly more contemporary" - Roger Ebert