Blowfeld wrote:What's all this about then?
James Bond is in love with Crawfordand it has nothing to do with Cindy! Mumbai’s Crawford Market (officially called Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai) will be one of the locations that will feature in the next Bond film. Because of the busy nature of the location, it is going to be recreated in the large sprawling area of ND Studios belonging to Nitin Desai on the outskirts of Mumbai.
A two-km long set will be constructed at ND Studios for the big Hollywood production. A huge action sequence of the film will be shot there using a multitude of junior artistes and stuntmen. 007 will be seen chasing villains as they decamp with some goods amidst the hullabaloo of the buzzing metropolis.
Crawford Market, named after Arthur Crawford, was the first building in India to be electrified. The market covers a sprawling 22,471 sqm area, which means the art directors of the film need to do a pretty good job to make it look authentic. Two very expensive cars will be blown up on the sets, apart from a breathtaking train sequence. While one is not sure how well the Indian authorities will bond with the spy, they sure will be spying on Bond to see what the filmmakers are up to during their shoot in India.
They can very easily do this on a set. Make Los Angeles look like India. Ask Alias people, they did this the whole time and I promise you it looked absolutely authentic. Of course the difference is that Alias people were majorly competent and SUPER fast and efficient at getting things done, so that may be where the problem lies for Eon
Whatever it is, they're not filming the action sequence in India like they were meant to, and clearly they are not spending the supposed two months in India filming. Now the question is, since that was supposed to be the opening scene of the movie, what the HECK are they doing now? Replacing it with some other random Far East or Middle East country?
And, this comes as no surprise. Yet another halt for EON: We kept saying they were WAY too late with things, and consequences now are here... I have NO idea how they will get this done in time. By the way they said they would start filming THIS month, not November. Still have to read anything updated about it? Yeah, because it's not happening. It'll still be November... which means ridiculously late. I have no idea how they're gonna solve the problem of the opening scene now, but like I said, I guess we'll get cheap set stuff instead of actual location. How much this movie is effed up even before it's started is beyond me.
To make the scheduled they should already be shooting Bond 23, but the script was not even in the first draft this summer, and the casting is still to be announced. The logistics of foreign shooting and getting all of the elements in place is a tedious job, one that must be done right or else people will die. Besides they need to avoid another Panama at all costs.
Exactly. And yet here we are. I swear a bunch of monkeys are more efficient and organized than EON. Now the question is about the other part of the problem..
Some personal friction and general unpreparedness sneaking in slowly pushing off the start. The demand Craig get in shape, possibly a contract breaker if he is unprepared (depended on how it is worded).
I think this may leave room for the unexpected IF things go all wrong. New actor and stuff. I do believe it's EXTREMELY unlikely at this point but seen how effed up things are getting as time goes on, I also can't discard the option. Like we said many times, MGM needs the movie out at ALL costs, so this HAS TO be released by Oct next year in the UK like they announced... if that doesn't happen, MAJOR trouble will ensue, but it could be the way MGM and Sony force EON into doing things their way, depending on contract clauses.
I don't even know what to say at this point, so far not one thing about this movie is READY. And I mean not ONE. They have James Bond and M and that is IT. It's not nearly enough for casting. And let's not even get into the script, like Mazer said not even the first draft was ready this summer. Really?
