Quantum of Solace is very underrated. The soundtrack, the mentality of Bond's inner turmoil are shown throughout the film. The realistic Bond movies age better often.
Really enjoyed hearing your Bond thoughts. My guess is that we won’t be hearing any news about Bond 26 for quite awhile. It’s definitely going to be a brand new Bond era, not only in regards to a new actor and the films and what they’ll do with them, but also the core Bond team. This might be the time Wilson might step down, perhaps his son Gregg will take a bigger role. Will Barbara want to continue to devote her time to Bond or focus on other projects. I think they have a lot to sort out, so I’d bet it will be a wait for any news for the next Bond film. I also sometimes suspected they might be waiting for the Mission: Impossible series to end, so they can get back to being the only big spy action blockbusters around. But that’s just a random thought. Who knows what they might be thinking.
I think covid and the endless delays of NTTD may have taken their toil on Broccoli and Wilson. Maybe they're not that keen to get back on the long Bond production cycle. Maybe they should consider selling their stake of the franchise to Amazon?
@@YTguySmithy-lk6go in my opinion it needs to go to Paramount not to Amazon. I do not trust them to do a good product after what they did to lord of the rings they need to find a buyer that knows what the hell they’re doing maybe they need to contact Elon musk because I think he could do it proud other than that it should be stripped from this family because they do not know what they’re doing, and if you do not have passion for the franchise that you were running in respect the makers work, then you do not need to be running the franchise because in my opinion, they ran it literally into the ground with Daniel Craig. Give me a break bad casting you shouldn’t have been there in the first place and if you read the novels, watched the movies and was a fan then he would’ve said I cannot sign this contract because those are some massive shoes to fill and he did not feel them worth a damn it’s like he didn’t even care. He just wanted to put it in his résumé, make a lot of money off of it and get his bottom kissed
I really loved two of the Daniel Craig Bond movies: Casino Royale and Skyfall… but I wish they could have better weaved in the overall Spectre story. It just felt forced and almost tacked on.
I get the sense that they started the Craig era with the intention of telling a larger more interconnected story involving a SPECTRE-like entity, then abandoned that plan after Quantum of Solace didn’t pan out well, only to clumsily try fit it all into an actual SPECTRE story after sorting out the rights issues. Although for me personally, as flawed as they are I prefer both SPECTRE and QoS over Skyfall, and I dont like No Time to Die at all.
It was very pleasent listening to you and I can't say that I have any major disagreements with your points. So there's nothing to comment on, other than: I'm impressed that you could talk about this so cohesively, without any major cuts or editing. Just nice. Excited to watch your Craig retrospective now!^^
I really hated depressed doomer Bond, which was Craig in every film after Casino Royale. Even if he gets hurt, betrayed and abandoned in the plot, Bond ALWAYS has to have a positive self image, unflappability, internal invulnerability, and HUMOR in the face of impending doom. Also, Craig never looked confident and seductive with women, and that has nothing to do with the actor's physical attractiveness. The stories can be realistic and modern, but Bond has to retain the super powers of his strength, charisma and cavalier demeanor or he just isn't James Bond. And PLEASE...no more "Bond with family problems".
For your sake, I hope the next Bond is less doom-laden. (I'm not a hardliner on this. Fleming's Bond had his bouts of melancholy, self-doubt, and tragedy, and accordingly I think it has its place in the series. But it's a time for a pivot back to the escapist side of Bond.)
I am TOTALLY with you on that one... When NTTD came out I was right in the middle of a personal tragedy and I desperately needed something to uplift my spirits... My father became a Bond fan when he saw Dr.No in the movie theater back in 1962, then he married my mom and going to see the new Bond movie had been a family tradition ever since... My father passed away in 2016 and I am at least glad he didn't get to see the untimely end of his favorite character...Like I said earlier I was going through a very hard time but I thought going to see NTTD with my mom would give some relief from all the grieving I was going through back then... I don't know whose decision it was to kill James Bond, whether it was Daniel Craig or Barbara Broccoli or Michael G.Wilson but you should have seen the looks on the faces of everyone in the movie theater when Bond dies, it was a mix of shock, disbelief and the unspeakable pain you feel when you've just lost a loved one... I know James Bond is a fictional character but he's been with us for so long he feels like a family member at this point... Had the circumstances been different I would have been pissed to say the least but because I was completely crushed already Bond's death ( which was totally unjustified and unnecessary ) hit me a 1000 times harder...
In my opinion, the ending of no Time to die was a complete utter crap and trash. I was in the theater when this happened and everybody in the theater was like what the hell did we just watch because at the end of the day it is a tradition that James Bond always lives, and he does not die in the whole movie is a complete letdown of what James Bond is, and when I left the theater, I was not happy. I was actually sad and very mad actually to the point of being and it is very disrespectful to Ian Fleming’s work so now the franchise is in turmoil they don’t know what they’re going to do to bring bond back in my opinion this is what they need to do. They need to put him on the shelf for at least as long as the Wolk era last, and then pull him off the shelf, and the franchise needs to be rebooted and the timeline needs to go somewhere else. Pull out the eon Fleming novels and have a good storytellers study who James Bond truly is start working on Scripps and when you go into casting look for somebody who looks like a who James Bond is not Daniel, Craig and I have no idea who you decided to kill off bond it might be Barbara broccoli or it might be Daniel Craig and they do not have the right to kill all font in that manner in my opinion the way they killed off bond I see a man who needs to be in care in a mental institution, not running around with a license to kill with a gun if I was m I would’ve stripped him of his license to kill status. I would’ve taken his gun and then I would’ve called 911 to have him take him to a mental institution to have him evaluated he looks like at any moment that he can take his life. I look at a man who is to the point where he’s at his end of his rope, and that is not a good sign for a secret service agent, and with other things that were wrong with us movie but I’m not going to get into details with but as I say, the franchise needs to sit for a while, and when they go into doing a new James Bond trilogy, then they need to do it right and not do what they did because as I say there’s a whole lot of incompetence going on with that studio and that is my thoughts on this. What do you think?
Totally agree! Do you think that Nolan would want to do a period piece, set in the fifties..? I think that would be amazing - take the character back to his roots and have that old Soviet Union vs the west spy noir. But I worry that the producers have gotten too far into bed with brands like omega and n peal, and well they can’t sell us fifties watches or sweaters. What are your thoughts..?
Firstly, the prospect of Bond 26 being released in 2026 is now an impossibility. It would take 3 years from the point the writers are put to work, before it’s done and ready to release to theaters. So far we’ve had no announcement that anyone has been hired to write a script for Bond 26. Presumably, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade would be the people who get hired. It would take a year for them to write a decent enough script that could then be shown to prospective directors. If we’re lucky, development of Bond 26 might begin before the end of next year, whereby a late 2027 release date might be possible. If not, then it’s going to roll in to 2028 or 2029. To date, the franchise has seen a hiatus of 6 years on two occasions. However, there is no reason why that record can’t be broken. A 7 or 8 year hiatus is hardly beyond the realms of possibility. Gregg Wilson gave an exclusive interview to a British newspaper (Daily Express) in early November. He said: “No plans on making the next Bond at this stage. There will be another Bond someday, but we’re not actively developing it.” That would suggest to me that Bond 26 is nothing more than a vague idea at the moment and that the next film probably won’t be with us until the end of this decade. As for the 4K Blu-ray discs, I don’t think we’ll be getting them for a long time either. My prediction would be that MGM and EON would hold them back until the 65th anniversary (2027), even if Bond 26 can’t be released that year, whereby the ‘Bond on 4K discs for the first time’ slogan would have been used as a promotional tie in for it. The Lowry masters for the old films were produced in the mid 2000s. They do not have HDR. It’s possible that MGM and EON would decide to remaster the films again, bringing them up to a modern standard in preparation for a 4K disc release. If they were to just remaster the first 20 films, that would take the best part of 2 years to do it. At present, there has been no announcement that is currently happening. So, the Bond 4K discs are pretty much on the back burner like the next film is. I wouldn’t expect any wonderful things to happen for ‘Global James Bond Day’ next year if I was you.
New 4K versions of the films already exist and are available for streaming on Apple and Amazon (yes, they're different from the transfers already on Blu, and were actually tweaked in between the Apple and Amazon releases. (They're seemingly just upscaled versions of the Lowry masters, but they're an improvement on the Blu releases.) As far as the script development goes, they can write the script over 2024 with refinements over the first part of 2025, cast the film in mid-'25, shoot in late '25 for a winter '26 release. That's relatively consistent with EON's past methodology.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond Those 4K digital versions aren’t new masters. ‘Tweaked’ is the word we’ll use. Someone on RUclips has done a presentation on the differences, using DR. NO as the example. ruclips.net/video/PqX-TDYjy6Y/видео.htmlsi=lIGGYa7TNu9DAv7D In the scenes of the film where the picture is dark, the digital 4K version is TOO dark. This is noticeable when Bond arrives at the dock in his car to meet Leiter and Quarrel to travel to Crab Key. All the way through to where Bond and Quarrel arrive on the beach (until daylight) looks absolutely dreadful. Same applies to when Bond, Quarrel and Honey Ryder in the swamp at night with the ‘dragon’. It looks to me like a darker tint has been applied to the picture. Otherwise, it’s the same source material as what is presented on the standard Blu-ray. Oh, and the MGM logo at the beginning is the latest version (has been since 2012). The Lowry version of THUNDERBALL has been widely complained about. That’s a whole new conversation though. The point is, these films need a proper remastering treatment again. I’m certain that the 4K Blu-ray disc will be the last form of physical media for movie collectors. I’m sure you’ll agree therefore, that an effort should be made to make the Bond films look as good as possible for what will be their final appearance on physical media. As for Bond 26, you appear to be believe that EON intend to fire the starting gun and put it into fast track development in the next couple of months. If you take Barbara Broccoli’s word for what she has told us over the last month or so, as well as what Gregg Wilson has also said, there is no intention whatsoever on developing Bond 26 anytime soon. I think it’s going to be the end of the decade when we see James Bond return. Maybe 2026 will be the year the script begins to be written for it.
4K transfers always looks darker in side-by-side comparisons to Blu because it's calibrated to use different TV settings (so how it appears on a RUclips video is not how it looks when streamed and your 4K TV adapts to the color profile). It's why the RUclips comparisons are often a bit unhelpful. Some of the films were more than merely tweaked. GE got a substantial upgrade in the shift to 4K. And, yes, I do believe that EON is going to hit the ground running on BOND 26 after the holidays. I may be wrong, but I predict we'll get some proper news in the first 3-4 months of the new year.
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on my theory about why EON/Craig really wanted to kill Bond. I was very disturbed not so much because Daniel Craig's Bond died on screen, but more because I interpreted it as a symbolic nod to the crowd who despises Bond's inherent nature...it all having much more to do with catering to the perceived preferences of "modern audiences," many of whom are not and have never been Bond fans to begin with because of the many Bond traits they find "troubling" (and the same traits many long time Bond fans revel in). This most easily clears a path for EON to "redefine" Bond in their own image. I, for one, fear future announcements which I believe will stray further than ever from the source material, abandoning all that made Bond unique, escapist fun for the demographic he was intended for. I hope I'm wrong about all this, but for the time being...I look at it as "no news" equals "no bad news." PS...love your "Touch of Evil" poster, as a huge fan of classic noir!
You can watch my Unified Theory of the Craig Era series for my thoughts on that! (The Spectre and NTTD vids will be up this weekend, but all the videos feed into one another.)
Naomie Harris, Ben Wishaw, Ralph Fiennes and Rory kinnear should reprise their roles in Bond 26. I'm also looking forward to the new James Bond game, I think Project 007 will be set in the 50s/60s.I think that Bond 26 will still be set in modern day but more light hearted like the Connery,Moore and Brosnan era but keep the fight scenes gritty like the Craig era.
Perhaps No Time to Die will change everything. I wondered how much change during a rewatch and saw how Bond deliberately allowed the gunmen to fire at the windscreen in front of Madeleine. Was it the callousness and needlessness of the action that was so upsetting, or the fact that this scene read as an unpleasant inversion of the ending of OHMSS? I don't know, but as a viewer I was quite disturbed by that. If Eon have undercut the foundations of their enterprise with such severity in that film, then I see no reason for Eon to exercise restraint concerning the Bond legacy in future. I hope to be wrong, but I am compelled to quote a heroic character from far far away, 'I have a bad feeling about this'
Post No Time To Die we're arguably at the most significant/precarious point in the history of the James Bond franchise. The character killed off in Bond 25 (in my opinion a terrible decision) and Eon and new co-owner Amazon having to do a complete reboot in Bond 26. That's never happened before. How do you bring a dead James Bond back to the big screen? Amazon are so wealthy they don't need Bond 26 a.s.a.p which will give Eon a convenient excuse to drag things out at a snail's pace so it may be a long time before James Bond returns...
Fleming's novels start to enter the public domain in roughly a decade, which means we'll start to see other, non-EON takes on Bond start to crop up. Amazon won't let EON wait too long.
For me, I think the Bond series should end with No Time To Die. I don't think there's any point in making more Bond movies when you've gone so far as to kill the main character. It feels too much like a series finale and for the film to have any significance in the franchise, it should be the series finale. Another reboot would just say "We can do this again. Every Bond era will be it's own continuity." And that will make these films less appealing.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond What would a true series finale to Bond look like? Because NTTD breaks every rule in Bond story telling. I don't know of any other action-adventure series that kills of it's main character and brings him back in a reboot.
No Time to Die is one of my least favorite Bond films, but I don’t have any problem with the decision to kill that iteration of the character. I’m more mad about Felix actually. But most of my problems are with the script, especially the parts that seem designed to lure Craig back into the role with more of an acting challenge at what I feel is at the expense of the Bond character’s core essence.
At this point, in the long run it would be better to hand off the franchise to Edgar Wright or Quentin Tarantino. Nolan would just continue the doomy and soapy slide.
Tarantino is getting ready to retire after his next feature, so he's out of pocket. Wright was in the running to take over from Boyle on NO TIME TO DIE, so EON has at least thought about pulling him in.
Quantum of Solace is very underrated. The soundtrack, the mentality of Bond's inner turmoil are shown throughout the film. The realistic Bond movies age better often.
Really enjoyed hearing your Bond thoughts. My guess is that we won’t be hearing any news about Bond 26 for quite awhile. It’s definitely going to be a brand new Bond era, not only in regards to a new actor and the films and what they’ll do with them, but also the core Bond team. This might be the time Wilson might step down, perhaps his son Gregg will take a bigger role. Will Barbara want to continue to devote her time to Bond or focus on other projects. I think they have a lot to sort out, so I’d bet it will be a wait for any news for the next Bond film.
I also sometimes suspected they might be waiting for the Mission: Impossible series to end, so they can get back to being the only big spy action blockbusters around. But that’s just a random thought. Who knows what they might be thinking.
I think we won't get an official announcement for a good bit, but I think the (legitimate) rumors will pick up in February or so.
I concur she's terrible, a cancer on Bond!@krazykajeevie
I think covid and the endless delays of NTTD may have taken their toil on Broccoli and Wilson. Maybe they're not that keen to get back on the long Bond production cycle. Maybe they should consider selling their stake of the franchise to Amazon?
@@YTguySmithy-lk6go in my opinion it needs to go to Paramount not to Amazon. I do not trust them to do a good product after what they did to lord of the rings they need to find a buyer that knows what the hell they’re doing maybe they need to contact Elon musk because I think he could do it proud other than that it should be stripped from this family because they do not know what they’re doing, and if you do not have passion for the franchise that you were running in respect the makers work, then you do not need to be running the franchise because in my opinion, they ran it literally into the ground with Daniel Craig. Give me a break bad casting you shouldn’t have been there in the first place and if you read the novels, watched the movies and was a fan then he would’ve said I cannot sign this contract because those are some massive shoes to fill and he did not feel them worth a damn it’s like he didn’t even care. He just wanted to put it in his résumé, make a lot of money off of it and get his bottom kissed
I really loved two of the Daniel Craig Bond movies: Casino Royale and Skyfall… but I wish they could have better weaved in the overall Spectre story. It just felt forced and almost tacked on.
It was improvised, and it shows.
I get the sense that they started the Craig era with the intention of telling a larger more interconnected story involving a SPECTRE-like entity, then abandoned that plan after Quantum of Solace didn’t pan out well, only to clumsily try fit it all into an actual SPECTRE story after sorting out the rights issues.
Although for me personally, as flawed as they are I prefer both SPECTRE and QoS over Skyfall, and I dont like No Time to Die at all.
It was very pleasent listening to you and I can't say that I have any major disagreements with your points. So there's nothing to comment on, other than: I'm impressed that you could talk about this so cohesively, without any major cuts or editing. Just nice. Excited to watch your Craig retrospective now!^^
Thank you, Lucas!
Hey man. Truly a pleasure to watch your video. You make good points it has to be said. I look forward to more of your content
Cheers, Vinnie!
Great first video, Ryan. Loved hearing your point of view. Looking forward to hearing more.
Thanks, Justin!
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond You’re welcome!
Great video. Thanks.
Cheers!
I really hated depressed doomer Bond, which was Craig in every film after Casino Royale. Even if he gets hurt, betrayed and abandoned in the plot, Bond ALWAYS has to have a positive self image, unflappability, internal invulnerability, and HUMOR in the face of impending doom. Also, Craig never looked confident and seductive with women, and that has nothing to do with the actor's physical attractiveness. The stories can be realistic and modern, but Bond has to retain the super powers of his strength, charisma and cavalier demeanor or he just isn't James Bond. And PLEASE...no more "Bond with family problems".
For your sake, I hope the next Bond is less doom-laden.
(I'm not a hardliner on this. Fleming's Bond had his bouts of melancholy, self-doubt, and tragedy, and accordingly I think it has its place in the series. But it's a time for a pivot back to the escapist side of Bond.)
It just came out today that Mission: Impossible 8 is getting delayed almost a year into 2025 (likely because of the actor strike).
I would like to unsubscribe from the TRAUMA of NO TIME TO DIE!!!!
I need my heroes INVINCIBLE
Craig's Bond tried to unsubscribe from his trauma and look where it got him
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond craigbond earned an eternity in 007heaven with the other holders of his CODENAME
I am TOTALLY with you on that one...
When NTTD came out I was right in the middle of a personal tragedy and I desperately needed something to uplift my spirits...
My father became a Bond fan when he saw Dr.No in the movie theater back in 1962, then he married my mom and going to see the new Bond movie had been a family tradition ever since...
My father passed away in 2016 and I am at least glad he didn't get to see the untimely end of his favorite character...Like I said earlier I was going through a very hard time but I thought going to see NTTD with my mom would give some relief from all the grieving I was going through back then...
I don't know whose decision it was to kill James Bond, whether it was Daniel Craig or Barbara Broccoli or Michael G.Wilson but you should have seen the looks on the faces of everyone in the movie theater when Bond dies, it was a mix of shock, disbelief and the unspeakable pain you feel when you've just lost a loved one...
I know James Bond is a fictional character but he's been with us for so long he feels like a family member at this point...
Had the circumstances been different I would have been pissed to say the least but because I was completely crushed already Bond's death ( which was totally unjustified and unnecessary ) hit me a 1000 times harder...
In my opinion, the ending of no Time to die was a complete utter crap and trash. I was in the theater when this happened and everybody in the theater was like what the hell did we just watch because at the end of the day it is a tradition that James Bond always lives, and he does not die in the whole movie is a complete letdown of what James Bond is, and when I left the theater, I was not happy. I was actually sad and very mad actually to the point of being and it is very disrespectful to Ian Fleming’s work so now the franchise is in turmoil they don’t know what they’re going to do to bring bond back in my opinion this is what they need to do. They need to put him on the shelf for at least as long as the Wolk era last, and then pull him off the shelf, and the franchise needs to be rebooted and the timeline needs to go somewhere else. Pull out the eon Fleming novels and have a good storytellers study who James Bond truly is start working on Scripps and when you go into casting look for somebody who looks like a who James Bond is not Daniel, Craig and I have no idea who you decided to kill off bond it might be Barbara broccoli or it might be Daniel Craig and they do not have the right to kill all font in that manner in my opinion the way they killed off bond I see a man who needs to be in care in a mental institution, not running around with a license to kill with a gun if I was m I would’ve stripped him of his license to kill status. I would’ve taken his gun and then I would’ve called 911 to have him take him to a mental institution to have him evaluated he looks like at any moment that he can take his life. I look at a man who is to the point where he’s at his end of his rope, and that is not a good sign for a secret service agent, and with other things that were wrong with us movie but I’m not going to get into details with but as I say, the franchise needs to sit for a while, and when they go into doing a new James Bond trilogy, then they need to do it right and not do what they did because as I say there’s a whole lot of incompetence going on with that studio and that is my thoughts on this. What do you think?
If the producers are truly burned out than there’s no more perfect time to give it to Nolan for a time! 😁
Yeah, that's why I think the Nolan thing is very possible (maybe even likely).
Totally agree! Do you think that Nolan would want to do a period piece, set in the fifties..? I think that would be amazing - take the character back to his roots and have that old Soviet Union vs the west spy noir. But I worry that the producers have gotten too far into bed with brands like omega and n peal, and well they can’t sell us fifties watches or sweaters. What are your thoughts..?
Firstly, the prospect of Bond 26 being released in 2026 is now an impossibility. It would take 3 years from the point the writers are put to work, before it’s done and ready to release to theaters. So far we’ve had no announcement that anyone has been hired to write a script for Bond 26. Presumably, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade would be the people who get hired. It would take a year for them to write a decent enough script that could then be shown to prospective directors.
If we’re lucky, development of Bond 26 might begin before the end of next year, whereby a late 2027 release date might be possible. If not, then it’s going to roll in to 2028 or 2029.
To date, the franchise has seen a hiatus of 6 years on two occasions. However, there is no reason why that record can’t be broken. A 7 or 8 year hiatus is hardly beyond the realms of possibility.
Gregg Wilson gave an exclusive interview to a British newspaper (Daily Express) in early November. He said: “No plans on making the next Bond at this stage. There will be another Bond someday, but we’re not actively developing it.”
That would suggest to me that Bond 26 is nothing more than a vague idea at the moment and that the next film probably won’t be with us until the end of this decade.
As for the 4K Blu-ray discs, I don’t think we’ll be getting them for a long time either. My prediction would be that MGM and EON would hold them back until the 65th anniversary (2027), even if Bond 26 can’t be released that year, whereby the ‘Bond on 4K discs for the first time’ slogan would have been used as a promotional tie in for it.
The Lowry masters for the old films were produced in the mid 2000s. They do not have HDR. It’s possible that MGM and EON would decide to remaster the films again, bringing them up to a modern standard in preparation for a 4K disc release. If they were to just remaster the first 20 films, that would take the best part of 2 years to do it. At present, there has been no announcement that is currently happening. So, the Bond 4K discs are pretty much on the back burner like the next film is.
I wouldn’t expect any wonderful things to happen for ‘Global James Bond Day’ next year if I was you.
New 4K versions of the films already exist and are available for streaming on Apple and Amazon (yes, they're different from the transfers already on Blu, and were actually tweaked in between the Apple and Amazon releases. (They're seemingly just upscaled versions of the Lowry masters, but they're an improvement on the Blu releases.)
As far as the script development goes, they can write the script over 2024 with refinements over the first part of 2025, cast the film in mid-'25, shoot in late '25 for a winter '26 release. That's relatively consistent with EON's past methodology.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond Those 4K digital versions aren’t new masters. ‘Tweaked’ is the word we’ll use. Someone on RUclips has done a presentation on the differences, using DR. NO as the example. ruclips.net/video/PqX-TDYjy6Y/видео.htmlsi=lIGGYa7TNu9DAv7D
In the scenes of the film where the picture is dark, the digital 4K version is TOO dark. This is noticeable when Bond arrives at the dock in his car to meet Leiter and Quarrel to travel to Crab Key. All the way through to where Bond and Quarrel arrive on the beach (until daylight) looks absolutely dreadful. Same applies to when Bond, Quarrel and Honey Ryder in the swamp at night with the ‘dragon’.
It looks to me like a darker tint has been applied to the picture. Otherwise, it’s the same source material as what is presented on the standard Blu-ray. Oh, and the MGM logo at the beginning is the latest version (has been since 2012).
The Lowry version of THUNDERBALL has been widely complained about. That’s a whole new conversation though. The point is, these films need a proper remastering treatment again. I’m certain that the 4K Blu-ray disc will be the last form of physical media for movie collectors. I’m sure you’ll agree therefore, that an effort should be made to make the Bond films look as good as possible for what will be their final appearance on physical media.
As for Bond 26, you appear to be believe that EON intend to fire the starting gun and put it into fast track development in the next couple of months.
If you take Barbara Broccoli’s word for what she has told us over the last month or so, as well as what Gregg Wilson has also said, there is no intention whatsoever on developing Bond 26 anytime soon. I think it’s going to be the end of the decade when we see James Bond return.
Maybe 2026 will be the year the script begins to be written for it.
4K transfers always looks darker in side-by-side comparisons to Blu because it's calibrated to use different TV settings (so how it appears on a RUclips video is not how it looks when streamed and your 4K TV adapts to the color profile). It's why the RUclips comparisons are often a bit unhelpful.
Some of the films were more than merely tweaked. GE got a substantial upgrade in the shift to 4K.
And, yes, I do believe that EON is going to hit the ground running on BOND 26 after the holidays. I may be wrong, but I predict we'll get some proper news in the first 3-4 months of the new year.
Amazon wants return on investment. With Nolan directing, Cavill as the star and set in the 60’s, it would certainly put the butts in the seats.
Nolan definitely would be attention-grabbing. (I'm not keen on Cavill as Bond, though.)
I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on my theory about why EON/Craig really wanted to kill Bond. I was very disturbed not so much because Daniel Craig's Bond died on screen, but more because I interpreted it as a symbolic nod to the crowd who despises Bond's inherent nature...it all having much more to do with catering to the perceived preferences of "modern audiences," many of whom are not and have never been Bond fans to begin with because of the many Bond traits they find "troubling" (and the same traits many long time Bond fans revel in). This most easily clears a path for EON to "redefine" Bond in their own image. I, for one, fear future announcements which I believe will stray further than ever from the source material, abandoning all that made Bond unique, escapist fun for the demographic he was intended for. I hope I'm wrong about all this, but for the time being...I look at it as "no news" equals "no bad news." PS...love your "Touch of Evil" poster, as a huge fan of classic noir!
You can watch my Unified Theory of the Craig Era series for my thoughts on that! (The Spectre and NTTD vids will be up this weekend, but all the videos feed into one another.)
I will certainly do that! Apologies if I jumped the gun! :)@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond
Naomie Harris, Ben Wishaw, Ralph Fiennes and Rory kinnear should reprise their roles in Bond 26. I'm also looking forward to the new James Bond game, I think Project 007 will be set in the 50s/60s.I think that Bond 26 will still be set in modern day but more light hearted like the Connery,Moore and Brosnan era but keep the fight scenes gritty like the Craig era.
Yeah, I think they'll start fresh.
Perhaps No Time to Die will change everything. I wondered how much change during a rewatch and saw how Bond deliberately allowed the gunmen to fire at the windscreen in front of Madeleine. Was it the callousness and needlessness of the action that was so upsetting, or the fact that this scene read as an unpleasant inversion of the ending of OHMSS? I don't know, but as a viewer I was quite disturbed by that. If Eon have undercut the foundations of their enterprise with such severity in that film, then I see no reason for Eon to exercise restraint concerning the Bond legacy in future. I hope to be wrong, but I am compelled to quote a heroic character from far far away, 'I have a bad feeling about this'
However you feel about it, that moment feels very consistent with the way Craig's Bond behaves in the 2006 version of CASINO ROYALE.
Yes, another film that has big script and directing problems for me @@AnalyzeThisMisterBond
Post No Time To Die we're arguably at the most significant/precarious point in the history of the James Bond franchise. The character killed off in Bond 25 (in my opinion a terrible decision) and Eon and new co-owner Amazon having to do a complete reboot in Bond 26. That's never happened before. How do you bring a dead James Bond back to the big screen?
Amazon are so wealthy they don't need Bond 26 a.s.a.p which will give Eon a convenient excuse to drag things out at a snail's pace so it may be a long time before James Bond returns...
Fleming's novels start to enter the public domain in roughly a decade, which means we'll start to see other, non-EON takes on Bond start to crop up.
Amazon won't let EON wait too long.
For me, I think the Bond series should end with No Time To Die. I don't think there's any point in making more Bond movies when you've gone so far as to kill the main character. It feels too much like a series finale and for the film to have any significance in the franchise, it should be the series finale. Another reboot would just say "We can do this again. Every Bond era will be it's own continuity." And that will make these films less appealing.
To me, it only feels like a "series finale" for the Craig era. It doesn't feel to me like a finale to the series as a whole.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond What would a true series finale to Bond look like? Because NTTD breaks every rule in Bond story telling. I don't know of any other action-adventure series that kills of it's main character and brings him back in a reboot.
No Time to Die is one of my least favorite Bond films, but I don’t have any problem with the decision to kill that iteration of the character. I’m more mad about Felix actually.
But most of my problems are with the script, especially the parts that seem designed to lure Craig back into the role with more of an acting challenge at what I feel is at the expense of the Bond character’s core essence.
@@mysteryroach42 Which parts are you thinking of, in particular?
At this point, in the long run it would be better to hand off the franchise to Edgar Wright or Quentin Tarantino. Nolan would just continue the doomy and soapy slide.
Tarantino is getting ready to retire after his next feature, so he's out of pocket. Wright was in the running to take over from Boyle on NO TIME TO DIE, so EON has at least thought about pulling him in.