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Where Is James Bond? Trapped in an Ugly Stalemate With Amazon

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Says the woman who didn't want Christopher Nolan to make a James Bond movie. Broccoli is a fucking moron.

Is that what happened? I thought the rumor was they were in talks, but simply couldn't agree on a way forward to take the franchise.

Very different from her not wanting to work with Nolan.

These stealth 'Amazon are always terrible and everyone else is marvellous' threads are getting very tiresome.

I never said anything like that.
 

FunkMiller

Member
Is that what happened? I thought the rumor was they were in talks, but simply couldn't agree on a way forward to take the franchise.

Very different from her not wanting to work with Nolan.

I never said anything like that.
Never meant to imply you did, mate.

Nolan wanted to do it. She turned him down. Idiocy. This whole situation is clowns in a fight with other clowns.
 
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kruis

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I read about that and props to Barbara Broccoli for standing up for the IP and not tolerating shenanigans from Amazon. We'd probably already have a gay, black and female James Bond if it wasn't for her.

Well, the last Bond movie was already moving in that direction with the introduction of a black female MI5 partner for Bond. It was almost as if the film's producers were setting up a female James Bond to take over from the real one.
 

Tams

Member
They need to reassess, Kingsman was more Bond than the Daniel Craig era. We need more of those.

It was. And was successful as a result.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. though, was pretty much a retro Bond with a star lead who almost anyone sane has been saying should be Bond for years. And yet, they've somehow managed to go from a point where he was possibly a little too young to a point where he's verging on too old.
 
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FunkMiller

Member
Well, the last Bond movie was already moving in that direction with the introduction of a black female MI5 partner for Bond. It was almost as if the film's producers were setting up a female James Bond to take over from the real one.

I do have to laugh at people siding with Barbara Broccoli against the hideous woke Amazon bastards... when she was the one that had a black woman take on the 007 mantle in the last Bond film, and has stated that Bond could absolutely be a man of any colour.

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Jinzo Prime

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I do have to laugh at people siding with Barbara Broccoli against the hideous woke Amazon bastards... when she was the one that had a black woman take on the 007 mantle in the last Bond film, and has stated that Bond could absolutely be a man of any colour.

Season 9 Lol GIF by The Office


Shame Idris is a hundred and fifty five years old now.

I want to see this guy in a Bond movie:

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He can be Bond or 00-whatever, but he's got "it".
 

Mr Reasonable

Completely Unreasonable
Amazon needs Broccoli to furnish them with ideas for a new Bond movie.
Broccoli was irked in one early meeting when Salke referred to James Bond by a dreaded word: “content.” Using such a sterile term, one friend reflected, was like a “death knell” to Broccoli.
It was also antithetical to Broccoli’s approach, which she has said mixes gut instinct with a healthy amount of risk—with no decision more critical than determining who will play Bond. Daniel Craig, for instance, was a relative unknown when he got the part, starting with 2006’s “Casino Royale.” The decision, she has said, is as serious as choosing one’s spouse.

This sounds like nonsense, tbh. The people Amazon have hired will be from the same pool that all people making the biggest films in the world are drawing from.

The idea that Broccoli can inherit the franchise and by that right be the only one who has the power to divine what is correct for the franchise seems like it could be a difficult situation to navigate when she becomes unmanageably offended if someone says "content."

It sounds a bit like the system might have been that Broccoli glides in being flattered for her brilliance and once she's been massaged enough, she finally greenlights things so that people can get on with doing the work.

That's what it sounds like.

But, in her defence, she has credits on other films, so presumably is actually a real producer, and Bond has had a pretty good run during the Craig era, which since she's apparently the road block here, she should get credit for steering in recent years. Perhaps there were some terrible ideas that she vetoed in the past. We didn't hear about it because there perhaps were fewer of them or because she knows what to do with the franchise and steered them correctly.

What I'm saying is that it sounds like you could possibly end up thinking she's a diva who doesn't really do anything but like being in the middle of things and getting paid. But perhaps the success of the franchise under her stewardship ought to be applauded.

Perhaps Amazon ARE fucking idiots.
 
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Tams

Member
This sounds like nonsense, tbh. The people Amazon have hired will be from the same pool that all people making the biggest films in the world are drawing from.

The idea that Broccoli can inherit the franchise and by that right be the only one who has the power to divine what is correct for the franchise seems like it could be a difficult situation to navigate when she becomes unmanageably offended if someone says "content."

It sounds a bit like the system might have been that Broccoli glides in being flattered for her brilliance and once she's been massaged enough, she finally greenlights things so that people can get on with doing the work.

That's what it sounds like.

But, in her defence, she has credits on other films, so presumably is actually a real producer, and Bond has had a pretty good run during the Craig era, which since she's apparently the road block here, she should get credit for steering in recent years. Perhaps there were some terrible ideas that she vetoed in the past. We didn't hear about it because there perhaps were fewer of them or because she knows what to do with the franchise and steered them correctly.

What I'm saying is that it sounds like you could possibly end up thinking she's a diva who doesn't really do anything but like being in the middle of things and getting paid. But perhaps the success of the franchise under her stewardship ought to be applauded.

Perhaps Amazon ARE fucking idiots.

Has it crossed your mind that perhaps they are both idiots?
 

jason10mm

Gold Member
They need to reassess, Kingsman was more Bond than the Daniel Craig era. We need more of those.
That's part of the problem. Austin powers took all of the piss out of the campy bond formula, then stuff like mission impossible beat them at the stunt spectacular game. They have no where else to go
 

thefool

Member
That's part of the problem. Austin powers took all of the piss out of the campy bond formula, then stuff like mission impossible beat them at the stunt spectacular game. They have no where else to go

They can go even grittier (hopefully not) or actually embrace some of the espionage/thriller roots instead of the action-set piece formula.
 
I’ve been a Bond fan since I was a kid.

No Time to Die was 100% garbage and everyone involved should be fired into the sun.
Hard disagree. Best Bond film of Daniel Craig's career. Casino Royale is boring. Quantum of Solace is a Tom Clancy film. Skyfall is a Die Hard film. Spectre is plain dumb. In contrast, No Time To Die nails Bond as a character and adds the mystery aspect necessary in a good spy film.
 
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Madonis

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It sounds like they've basically given up on working together. Well, I guess a new Bond movie will happen later rather than sooner.
 
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