Is Q going to be in the next movie?
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I really missed Q and all his rants on certain gizmos and gadgets is he going to be back next film? Also if john Cleese doesn't Come back who do you think should play Q?
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We'll just hafta wait and see.
Never Say Feather Again....
Roger Moore 1927-2017
But still, the gadgets will be more realistic than in the other movies, I hope...
If Q is reintroduced -- and since I personally don't really miss him or his gadgets I'm sorta hoping he won't -- would he dislike Bond? Since Bond is a new 00, what reason would he have? The old "Try to show some respect for Her Majesty's property for once, 007," shtick wouldn't really work, would it?
I think he could always sneer at Bond's youth, relative to his own, or bemoan 007's lack of attention during the equipment briefings*...whatever they choose to do with him, I think it will be understated---particularly compared to Cleese's "There's always an excuse with you, isn't there, Double-Oh-Zero?"
*"I do hope I'm not boring you, Double-Oh-Seven."
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
That is an interesting theory indeed....I like it but it would surely place a thorn in the side of the purists.
I don't know about 007, but by Bond 17 or 18, he was killing me.
I guess my biggest fear is that by the time we bring back Q, the gadgets, Moneypenny, a male M, the gun barrel sequence exactly like it was before, etc ... Just add a madman bent on world domination, and voila -- meet the new Bond, same as the old Bond.
I like surprises at the movies, even in genre pictures. If they could present these characters in a natural way (instead of - "OK, Bond's left M's office. Cue Q scene.") like the humor in CR , that would be OK. But to bring them back just to shoehorn Bond cliches back into the movies would be a mistake in my opinion, and a step backward.
If we have to have a Q, why not make him different in some way? How about really, really young? You look at the people in high-tech today, they look like they're barely old enough to shave. Maybe he gets calls from his mom, who has no idea he works for MI6, interrupting his briefings to Bond's annoyance. His age is classified. Make him so much smarter than Bond that it's Bond who's the exasperated one, having to deal with this young smart-ass.
Edit: How about if Q is a WOMAN who's absolutely brilliant which bugs Bond, while "Moneypenney," as someone else suggested in another thread, is a guy?
I don't know -- anything, just not the old stock character.
I'm not shure I agree, but the idea is intriguing.
Nor did Roger Moore's first Bond film.
So why all the fuss that he wasn't in Daniel Craig's James Bond film?
I'm sure Q/R/P etc will return...
Q was in Connery's first one... just not known as Q but Major Boothroyd which is the same character as far as I'm aware
I know that, but people here are asking for a Q as in Q. For that matter we could say the man who puts the bug in JB's arm in CR was also a Q or from the Quartemaster's Office. But I think people want an old codger that Bond can bounce off...
As for Moneypenny, I don't think Craig's Bond is quite at the level of meaningless flirting, just yet. He's had is heart broken, and he's driven by vengeance. I think he will use women for release, or he will use them for information in the next film, but I doubt he will have much use for friendly banter with the secretary, yet.
Q'ute idea, but it's John Gardner's!
That's MISTER Gardner to you, pal ...
Is it really? Well, great minds do think alike. What about Q as a young whippersnapper? I'll bet he's not that bright.
Owing to EON holding the rights to the character of Q, MISTER Gardner (working for what was then called Glidrose Publications but is now Ian Fleming Publications) was obliged to call the head of Q Branch Major Boothroyd (except when novelising films- then he could call him Q). He therefore created a character working under said Boothroyd by the name of Ann Reilly, who being rather better looking than John Cleese is immediately dubbed Q'ute. Boothroyd is then faded into the background and she more or less takes over Q's functions- plus some other ones, too...
No sign of a young whippersnapper, though.
That's interesting. I've never read any of the post-Fleming novels. The whole Bond universe is a regular Rubik's Cube of legalisms, though, isn't it?
Very true! The Q/Boothroyd legality isn't much in the great scheme of things compared to some of the others (McClory and TB, Feldman/Sony/CR, Norman/Barry and the Theme... and those are just, er, the tip of the tentacle).
Out of interest, hopeful one, is there a specific reason why you've not read the post-Fleming books, or have you merely not got round to that yet?
Just haven't gotten around to it, I guess. I know they're out there, but I find myself re-reading a Fleming book instead when I'm in the mood for a Bond story. I'll have to check it out, though. People say they're pretty good, and in some cases better than IF's.
What?
Generally TMWTGG is regarded as IF's weakest (and there are reasons for that) and CS as the best of the continuations- but what this has to do with Q I can't figure. Guilty of wandering off-topic, your honour.
Anyway, I'm one who hopes a traditional Q is in Bond 22.
That's a very good point, (although in this particular case, I had heard about the defillibrator in reviews). I too would just as soon move on. There are a lot of "Bond film traditions" that, if all of them were brought back, might hamstring the scriptwriters. I think they earned our trust with CR and we should trust them to come up with a winning script for Bond 22 -- with or without the traditional trimmings.
I agree. One thing that struck me about CR was how swiftly the film moved into its storyline. A pause to visit the Q-lab would have messed up the momentum.