What will A Bond Movie Be Like In Forty Years Time?

chrisisall

Last time I watched DAD, I was wondering this (all the DNA, laser & Robosuit stuff). Bond movies have a history of being sort of technology saavy/predictive (A LASER in 1964?!), and I was wondering just how long it would be before Bond is firing a Walther energy PPK-L? Chasing maladjusted robots? Investigating murders & mutants on Moonbase?
Or will Bond movies go retro, and become something like what Indiana Jones was to us as kids? In the middle of this Century the latter 20th will be pretty frickin' ancient, & ripe for period-piece storytelling.

Thoughts?

Brosnan_fan

Well, let's look at the legacy of Bond films over 50 years.

Bond has:

-Fought all manner of enemies (a man with metal hands, a homicidal gay couple, a midget, an invincible giant with metal teeth, a cruel and sadistic drug lord, a megalomaniacal media magnate, a military strongman who can change his race/ethnicity with the aid of a machine etc. etc. )

-Used all sorts of gadgets (including a jet pack, underwater car and crocodile - which doubles as a submarine!)

-Performed all manner of unbelievable escapes from danger, or displayed the physical attributes one would normally witness from an Olympic athlete

-Driven a Moon Buggy and A FRIGGIN' INVISIBLE CAR, fought with LASER GUNS, and gone into OUTER SPACE!!!!!


To sum up my thoughts ( :v ):

It shouldn't surprise me if, down the future, EON makes more silly Bond entries, particularly with successors of Daniel Craig. I think it would only be natural that if a Bond actor changes, EON makes changes too.

Number24

I'm not sure at all. A part of me would like to see James Bond turn into a Indiana Jones/Sherlock Holmes-type hero, set in the past. On the other hand, as Brosnan_fan pointed out, Bond has often had an element of Sci-fi in him. Perhaps it depends on how the world changes in the next 40 years? In the 1960's many imagined 2014 with flying cars, laser guns and colonies on other planets. In such a world I think Bond would be out of place (yes, we have MR. But Bond looked out of place in MR). Instead we have a world with the internet, smartphones and the war against terror. Skyfall was a movie that was very much about today. At the same time it feels and looks more like a 60's Bond movie than the series has done in a very long time. I guess we have to wait and see.

Sir Hillary Bray

Statistics say I will not be here in 40 years, so I don't care!

Smiert-Spionam

Yeah but in 20 years time we'll have found the elixir of life so you'll have no choice but to watch another updated version of MR 40 years into the future :v

chrisisall

Well, the last two books were retro, I see no reason why EON might not set a reboot back then as well. It WOULD be a novel approach for cinematic Bond, and the fresh approach would definitely be potentially big box office. -{

Thunderpussy

They'll be in Imax+ and super 4D. ) with the ability to see which ever actor as Bond
Due to interactive emotional " mist " eye glasses.

chrisisall

Thunderpussy wrote:

interactive emotional " mist " eye glasses.

You just can't resist, can you? )

always shaken

I think we will be watching Bond in a hologram form ,like they have on star trek you will be right in the film itself

Thunderpussy

) so whenever a fight breaks out, I'll be the one cowering under a table ! )

AlphaOmegaSin

Maybe we will be able to select which Bond we would like to see in the Film? One click of a button and you can chance Dalton to Moore, or Connery to Brosnan.

Blackleiter

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

Maybe we will be able to select which Bond we would like to see in the Film? One click of a button and you can chance Dalton to Moore, or Connery to Brosnan.

Now that would be something! I could finally realize my fondest dream and see Connery starring in every Bond movie! )

chrisisall

SELECT MOVIE OHMSS
SELECT BOND Timothy Dalton
REPLACE NON-BARRY MUSIC W/BARRY? n/a
PLAY yes

always shaken

In Disney they have shows where you watch a short film , (ok nothing new in that) but then its in 3D (yeah ok I hear you say)
then they use air /water guns to spray you, and things are built into the seats that stab you in the back, and they pipe smells into your face,So if it was a Bond film
I suppose you could have bullets whizzing past your face ,feel the force of an explosion , smell the cordite /burning tyres/ perfume ect,and feel the shrapnel ,ect ?

chrisisall

always shaken wrote:

I suppose you could have bullets whizzing past your face ,feel the force of an explosion , smell the cordite /burning tyres/ perfume ect,and feel the shrapnel ,ect ?

"Many elements of the Delos Resort are potentially dangerous.
That's part of the appeal. But if they become truly dangerous ..."
-Westworld

always shaken

chrisisall wrote:

always shaken wrote:

I suppose you could have bullets whizzing past your face ,feel the force of an explosion , smell the cordite /burning tyres/ perfume ect,and feel the shrapnel ,ect ?

"Many elements of the Delos Resort are potentially dangerous.
That's part of the appeal. But if they become truly dangerous ..."
-Westworld

now that's a good film

Thunderpussy

A few robots escaped but kept part of the name, hence, ...... West life. )

chrisisall

I just can't imagine a Bond with like, a bionic arm & a tracer implant & a cochlea interface, never disconnected from M, being used like a chess piece...
I DEFINITELY think that newer 'agent' movies will handle all that whilst Bond will be telling 20th Century stories. Tell ya, I'm already bored with the whole ubiquitous earpiece thing creeping in. 8-)

AlphaOmegaSin

Go to see a Bond Film in Cinemas, die in your Seat )

Thunderpussy

When you realise how much the popcorn cost you. )

AlphaOmegaSin

Especially in an Odeon Cinema

Thunderbird 2

always shaken wrote:

I think we will be watching Bond in a hologram form ,like they have on star trek you will be right in the film itself

Oooh! I'd love that! "Computer, access library entertainment files. James Bond Franchise, feature film Casino Royale. Full 3D holographic resolution, 3rd person perspective please."

Computer: "Please specify CR-67 or CR-06."

Me: "Don't be silly! - CR-06, Daniel Craig, Eva Green etc."

Computer: "Programme Complete, enter simulation when ready..."


Chrisisall, - don't worry. Bond doesn't like the earpiece either! Remember in Skyfall at the floating dragon, he turns it into the raspberry in Eve's glass of Bubbly!

chrisisall

Thunderbird 2 wrote:

Chrisisall, - don't worry. Bond doesn't like the earpiece either! Remember in Skyfall at the floating dragon, he turns it into the raspberry in Eve's glass of Bubbly!

That was a great touch. Makes me hopeful for a running gag.

"And Bond..."
"Yes sir?"
"Do not lose your earpiece this time."
"You have my word."
Bond leaves and M looks down to see it on the seat where Bond had been briefly sitting.