"Friday 12 July press conference to present the organisational aspects for production"
It's not clear if this is simply local officials informing people of what is going to happen, what roads will be closed etc. or if anyone from EON or Universal Studios will be there.
Some good ideas, but I don't think they're going to kill all three women. One will definitely die, maybe two, but not three.
Good point. Historically, a good girl and a bad girl dies, and Bond ends the film with a third girl. DC's films haven't followed the three girl structure.
What I do see in DC's films is a female helper, Solange, Fields, Severin, dying at some point in the film. That is Paloma's role IMHO.
A second helper typically dies also. A third will live. So, in DC's films, in Skyfall, M dies but Kincaide lives; in Quantum, first Mathis dies, then Fields. Spectre is an anomaly, but Mr White dies after helping Bond, admittedly by his own hand.
The third helper who lives includes, Mathis at the end of Casino (Solange and Vesper being the other two helpers); Leiter in Quantum; Kincaide in Skyfall (Moneypenny on the Macao mission counts as a helper and she lives and this is an exception); Spectre is also an exception because bar Mr White all his others helpers, Mrs Sciarra, Madeleine, live. But, the other three films clearly show a pattern.
And at the end of the DC films, he's never alone. In Spectre he is with Madeleine; Skyfall, Kincaide/Moneypenny/M; Quantum, Camille/M and Bond stands over Mr White at the end of Casino. So, DC is likely to be with someone at the end of Bond25, whether it is with Leiter admidst the ruins of the lair, or like Skyfall back at Whitehall and with M or Moneypenny.
I recognise that killing off Madeleine is unusual, killing three women, and maybe Leiter will not be captured and will simply leave the story after Cuba, and Lashana won't die. I was thinking, why would Bond continue with the mission after Cuba? And how does Bond become 007 again?
DC's Bond has failed at his mission as often as he succeeds. M dies in Skyfall; Vesper dies and he loses the money in Casino (or is it in the briefcase Mr White has with him at the end?); he learns the truth about Quantum and Vesper in Quantum; he defeats C and Blofeld's plans in Spectre. So, I chose to kill off the scientist at the end of Bond25.
I don't believe #metoo means no women die. On that basis, Spectre was ahead of #metoo. I think #metoo means no silly names, no girls present only to be in bikins, no gratuitous cleavage shots, good female character development (but Bond girls have often had their own arcs, Camille, Tilly Masterson, M/Olivia Mansfield, and others); and remember, PWB said that Bond won't change, he is still a mysoginist who uses women to achieve the mission.
Let me tweak my text to say;
Madeleine dies after the wedding, Bond kills the attackers leaving no leads. Years later Bond is in Jamaica. Felix Leiter asks Bond to help him and his CIA colleague, played by Magnussen, to rescue a scientist. Bond 'goes rogue' with Leiter and they involve a young woman, Paloma. Magnussen betrays the mission, Paloma is killed along with Magnussen, while Lashana's 007 saves Bond, but the mission fails. Leiter returns to CIA, Bond and Lashana return to London. Moneypenny and Q analyse Bond and Lashana's Cuba evidence and send them off to find the scientist in Norway. They find the villain's lair, either in Norway or Scotland, where the scientist is found. They destroy the lair, but the scientist dies, while Lashana and Bond survive.
Some good ideas, but I don't think they're going to kill all three women. One will definitely die, maybe two, but not three.
Not in the era of #MeToo! "Phoebe, we've brought you in to write witty death scenes for the self-empowered female characters." )
#MeToo is mainly about sexual transgressions against women, so killing female characters as a part of the plot is normally irrelevant to that movement. The #Metoo movement disliked the scene in SP where 007 invites himself into the shower of Solange, a victim of sex trade when she was younger. I don't remember the movement having any problems with her getting klled later in the movie.
The #Metoo movement disliked the scene in SP where 007 invites himself into the shower of Solange, a victim of sex trade when she was younger.
I wasn't hugely keen on it myself: bit creepy, James!
Creepy? with respect that is bollox, political correctness gone mad!
"Can you kill him?" " someone usually Dies!" she then says where she will be at a specific time & leaves a chilled bottle of bubbly and two glasses so she and the audience is not expecting him to knock on the door & leave his shoes outside plus we've seen the same scene before in 1974 when Andrea Anders offers herself to Bond as payment for killing Scaramanga! "you can have me too if you like!
The #Metoo movement disliked the scene in SP where 007 invites himself into the shower of Solange, a victim of sex trade when she was younger.
I wasn't hugely keen on it myself: bit creepy, James!
Creepy? with respect that is bollox, political correctness gone mad!
"Can you kill him?" " someone usually Dies!" she then says where she will be at a specific time & leaves a chilled bottle of bubbly and two glasses so she and the audience is not expecting him to knock on the door & leave his shoes outside plus we've seen the same scene before in 1974 when Andrea Anders offers herself to Bond as payment for killing Scaramanga! "you can have me too if you like!
I think the fact that the scene resembles a movie from the early 70s was part of the problem
The #Metoo movement disliked the scene in SP where 007 invites himself into the shower of Solange, a victim of sex trade when she was younger.
I wasn't hugely keen on it myself: bit creepy, James!
Creepy? with respect that is bollox, political correctness gone mad!
"Can you kill him?" " someone usually Dies!" she then says where she will be at a specific time & leaves a chilled bottle of bubbly and two glasses
I see both sides here. I think, as Number 24 mentions, it was mainly her background in the sex trade that caused people to have some issues. But she was definitely expecting Bond and there is zero indication that his advances were unwelcome in any respect.
I was more unsettled by Bond’s rather aggressive seduction of Lucia in Spectre. Even Craig seemed uncomfortable in that scene.
I wasn't hugely keen on it myself: bit creepy, James!
Creepy? with respect that is bollox, political correctness gone mad!
"Can you kill him?" " someone usually Dies!" she then says where she will be at a specific time & leaves a chilled bottle of bubbly and two glasses
I see both sides here. I think, as Number 24 mentions, it was mainly her background in the sex trade that caused people to have some issues. But she was definitely expecting Bond and there is zero indication that his advances were unwelcome in any respect.
I was more unsettled by Bond’s rather aggressive seduction of Lucia in Spectre. Even Craig seemed uncomfortable in that scene.
Agreed
Starting with Sylvia Trench, the Bond films have definitely had their share of female characters that are completely in control of their own sexuality, and seem to enjoy casual sex as much as Bond. At least they've had no trouble showing the women enjoying sex. In that way, I think the franchise has actually been way ahead of the curve.
But they're usually minor characters. The other trope in the films is the one I think people have issues with: the tragic Bond girl. Bond has plenty of options when it comes to ways of interacting with these characters (including just simply helping them escape). But he almost always chooses to have sex with them when they're in a position of weakness and they end up dead.
In the movie Kingsman, I know a lot of people had issues with what the Swedish princess promised Eggsy if he accomplished his mission. I saw it as the film's biggest dig at the Bond films: take a (relatively) strong female character and reduce her to a sexual prize for the "hero". I mean, they did it in such a vulgar, obvious way, I thought the intent of the scene was pretty clear.
I wasn't hugely keen on it myself: bit creepy, James!
Creepy? with respect that is bollox, political correctness gone mad!
"Can you kill him?" " someone usually Dies!" she then says where she will be at a specific time & leaves a chilled bottle of bubbly and two glasses
I see both sides here. I think, as Number 24 mentions, it was mainly her background in the sex trade that caused people to have some issues. But she was definitely expecting Bond and there is zero indication that his advances were unwelcome in any respect.
I do agree: she was completely expecting him and had indeed invited him. But I do think there's a difference between someone expecting you to pop around for a visit and surprising them in the shower in the nuddy!
It's obviously all heightened style and all that, but the damaged sex slave thing does make it seem like Bond is taking massive advantage of a damaged person. Which is of course not entirely out of character for him, but still. A touch creepy! As you say, I can see both sides, but ultimately I think it comes down more on the 'creepy' side of the fence for me.
I enjoy Bond being a mysogynist bastard as much as the next person, but he was kind of forcing himself on someone he knew was sexually vulnerable a bit too much for my liking there. There was indeed zero indication that his advances were unwelcome in any respect, but then he knew that's rather how she'd been trained in years of being a sex slave: she was used to saying yes.
It's kind of Bond giving implicit approval of her being a sex slave and using it to his advantage. Problematic.
The #Metoo movement disliked the scene in SP where 007 invites himself into the shower of Solange, a victim of sex trade when she was younger. I don't remember the movement having any problems with her getting klled later in the movie.
Wasn't that SF (Skyfall) and Severine, not 'Casino's' Solange?
I think PWB was brought onboard to give the women good dialogue and arcs.
I could imagine Paloma's arc is a girl caught up in an evil organisation and sees Bond as her escape, in return for her help, but she never finds that escape, like Severine.
Madeleine's arc is clearly going to be non-existent, if she is killed in the PTS.
Moneypenny, I guess, will also not have an arc, as her role seems to be taking Bond to see Q.
Lashana however could have a substantial arc, but what it is is anyone's guess. Has she dealt with what was left of Spectre after Blofeld was locked up? Is she motivated to destroy Spectre? Is she resentful of Bond, the constant comparison and the fact that she has to rescue him and clean up the mess he and Leiter created? Does she blame Bond for Paloma's death?
It would be nice if the Bond women had their own plots which Bond sort of intersected with, rather than just being victims existing for him to bed.
I think one of the stronger Bond girls was probably Pam from LTK: she was in the middle of her own mission which Bond even manages to screw up at one point.
Instead of Blofeld and Bunt running the garden as husband and wife, maybe it's Blofeld and his son? (Rami Malek)?
One of them could still be using the alias Shatterhand, preferably Malek because Waltz already had an alternate alias as Oberhauser in SP (his real name but still).
Of course though, still no Japan announcement.... unless they do it in another country completely? I'd prefer Japan as it was intended, but if it was another country I would still be more than thrilled to see that truly bizarre garden finally on screen like it deserves.
The Garden Of Death is pretty much considered the 'big one' out of unused Fleming stuff. So what better way to end DC's tenure?
I hope Romer can work at speed because I think that Newman's Spectre suffered from a compressed post-production period. Newman's Los muertos vivos estan was great, but most of the soundtrack is a rehash of Skyfall's.
"Someone on the picture mentioned that Blofeld’s ‘pretty p***ed’ about what Bond and Madeleine Swann (played by Lea Seydoux) did to him in Spectre."
He didn't seem so pissed in the final scenes of Spectre. "My wounds will heal, will yours?"
I am guessing that his role will be smaller than in Spectre, that he's controlling Spectre from prison. Maybe he has scenes with Bond or Lashana or M, being questioned in some maximum security prison?
It's a shame Hinx isn't coming back too. It wasn't clear to me that he died in Spectre.
Read somewhere over at Mi6 that Dr Swann interrogates Blofeld from Prison
Getting a Hannibal Lecter Clarice Starling (and Lex Luthor! ) vibe from that, but we already had similar with M and Silva in SF. I'm not saying it wouldn't work and I'm not unhappy with Blofeld returning (if true), I love Waltz. Just hope it's done with some originality.
I get the feeling his scenes will be small but he was offered a tonne to return, so why wouldn't he.
If Rami Malek is his son, then we'll have another family reunion when he meets his 'Uncle' James..
They will start in the second half of August - and should last about a month - filming in Matera (European Capital of Culture 2019) of the new episode of the 007 saga James Bond, played by Daniel Craig that will move between the Sassi districts and the Parco delle Rock churches (UNESCO World Heritage since 1993). During the summer, production will also move for a few days to neighboring Apulia, to Gravina in Puglia (Bari), and to the Tyrrhenian coast of Maratea (Potenza): the world release is scheduled for April 2020 .
In total - according to what was announced in a press conference held this morning in the Municipality of Matera - the number of people arriving in Città dei Sassi for filming will be around 400. And in the next few days the casting will begin to recruit between 800 and 900 extras.
During the meeting with journalists - which was attended, among others, by the mayor, Raffaello De Ruggieri, the director of the Lucana film commission, Paride Leporace, and production representatives - it was pointed out that the shooting of the new 007 will have a impact on the economy of Basilicata by one percentage point of GDP. The production and the administrators have guaranteed that during the weeks of registration "the natural habitat of the Sassi and the Park of the Rock Churches will be respected".
This story has more details. Translation by Google. €12 million being spent. Filming starts 16 or 19 August in Matera for 4 weeks. Accommodation for 100 people needed, with 400 crew total - 300 Italian crew? Up to 1,200 extras needed. A cemetery is being built for the film - Vesper's resting place? - in Murgia url]https://www.marialauraberlinguer.com/en/matera-a-wolk-through-history/[/url. The script specified Italy, and more dubiously the story claims that it knows there will be a gun barrel at the start of the film and that Dua Lipa is in talks.
Countdown to Bond 25 the 25th film production dedicated to the most famous 007 in the world, the last probably with the actor Daniel Craig, which will be filmed from 16 August 2019 in the city of Matera. The organized aspects related to film production were illustrated this morning during a press conference.
The meeting with the journalists was attended by the mayor Raffaello De Ruggieri, the director of the Lucana Film Commission, Paride Leporace, the person responsible for the cinema office of the Municipality of Matera, Ivan Moliterni and for the production the producer Enzo Sisti, the location manager supervisor Robin Melville , the Location Department Coordinator, Serena Peleggi and the Unit Production Manager, Matt Jones and the UK production coordinator, Stefania Monetti.
12 million euros of investment in the city, about 100 accommodation facilities and 400 people working for the production that will be seen by over 150 million people in the world only in movie theaters, not counting the home cinema circuit and other distribution channels .
These are the numbers of Bond 25, the new 007 film that will be shot in Matera from mid-August for 4 weeks. Filming will involve almost all of the Sassi who will be the absolute and sole protagonists of the adventures of the most important secret cinema agent.
Enzo Sisti, to his ninth film production in the role of executive producer in the city of Matera, illustrates some numbers of the film. "" I found a grown city. Matera has reached a quality in taste and a cultural dimension that until a few years ago I saw only in very few Italian realities. We expect this film to have a terribly favorable impact on the city. Bond films are seen all over the world and the media showcase will be huge. The investment is between 10 and 12 million euros. The extras will be over a thousand, a number ranging from 1000 to 1200 people will be involved ".
What can you reveal about the locations? "The locations are in the Sassi and a couple of days we turn to the Murgia (where a cemetery is being built these days - ed).
When will the first take? "Between August 19 and 26 we start shooting, for four weeks."
For the work done in the city of the Sassi in the last twenty years would deserve honorary citizenship, what do you think? "I would be happy, among other things, they wanted to give me the previous mayors, Adduce and Porcari".
"We chose Matera because it is Matera," said Robin Melville. "The script called for shooting in Italy and we chose Matera because it is a unique city. If you know others like this, don't tell me, "he concluded ironically.
"I am appalled by what is about to happen," said the Mayor of Ruggieri. "It is an incredible opportunity for the city that will have an estimated economic impact in the order of a point of GDP of the entire Basilicata and difficult to calculate media value. 007 is the history of cinema. Few Italian cities have had the privilege of being immortalized in the films of this extraordinary saga of success and this testifies to the level of attractiveness and charm that Matera manages to exercise in the world ".
"Not only economic and media growth - underlined Paride Leporace - but for the whole film sector and for the creative scene in Basilicata".
"Being a large-scale production it is inevitable that it will not be invisible - highlighted Ivan Moliterni -. A process of participation and involvement of the community is in progress which will allow us to bring out above all the opportunities and values offered by this film ”.
"Such an opportunity - concluded the Mayor of Ruggieri - cannot be debased by controversy over the parking or temporary accessibility of some places. We need to be aware of the extent of what is happening in cultural, social and economic terms ".
The film number 25 dedicated to James Bond is entrusted to the director Cary Joji Fukunaga and involves the producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for Eon Production. The investment is 12 million euros, over a thousand will be involved, the recruitment methods will be announced in the coming weeks.
The script for the new James Bond film was signed by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Scott Z. Burns and Phoebe Waller Bridge.
With the protagonist Daniel Craig the actors Léa Seydoux, Daniel Craig, Jeffery Wright (Felix returns), Ana de Armes, already engaged in Blade Runner, Naomie Harris, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Ralph have been selected for the set. Fiennes, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Billy Magnussen.
The James Bond film 25 will be in theaters from April 20, 2020.
It is still a mystery about the final title of the film: it will be revealed immediately after the start of the gun barrel on Matera together with the soundtrack of the film.
The negotiations with the pop star Dua Lipa on the beautiful and wild beach of Riva dei Ginepri in Marina di Pisticci and Matera, where preparations and preparations are underway for a European Capital of Culture that is increasingly the world capital of international cinema, are confirmed. "Word of Bond, James Bond".
Christoph Walz was so intensely menacing as the Nazi officer in “Inglorious Basterds”, but we got absolutely no such feeling from him in “Spectre”. He seemed whimpy and dull. And the Austin Powers sibling rivalry storyline was, in my opinion, maybe the worst route they could have taken. So here’s to hoping Cary goes the JarJar Binks route and keeps his appearance in 25 to a cameo!
Skyfall was a car chase that becomes a train chase and that may be why it was 20-days, unlike Spectre where the action happens in and over one city square.
Bond25's PTS is said to be a car chase, so 20-days seems more likely and EON will want a few days in case there are delays, so you have a month.
I think that the Apulia and Tyrrhenian coast of Maratea locations mean that there will be filming after, or before, that month in Matera and the production will be in Italy for longer. During the Prince Charles video it is said, by Craig or Fukunaga, that they are filming until October (start or end?), so there is plenty of time after the mid-September finish to the month's filming in Matera to go elsewhere in Italy. Of course, Italy, like Jamaica, maybe also doubling for somewhere else.
Christoph Walz was so intensely menacing as the Nazi officer in “Inglorious Basterds”, but we got absolutely no such feeling from him in “Spectre”. He seemed whimpy and dull. And the Austin Powers sibling rivalry storyline was, in my opinion, maybe the worst route they could have taken. So here’s to hoping Cary goes the JarJar Binks route and keeps his appearance in 25 to a cameo!
And they also claim it's on London's 'famous Southbank'. Well, not really: the famous South bank bit is in central London- they're more in Hammersmith! On the south bank of the Thames, yeah; but not at the South bank!
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Not in the era of #MeToo! "Phoebe, we've brought you in to write witty death scenes for the self-empowered female characters."
https://www.materalife.it/notizie/james-bond-ciak-a-matera-anche-la-prima-scena-del-nuovo-film/
"Friday 12 July press conference to present the organisational aspects for production"
It's not clear if this is simply local officials informing people of what is going to happen, what roads will be closed etc. or if anyone from EON or Universal Studios will be there.
Good point. Historically, a good girl and a bad girl dies, and Bond ends the film with a third girl. DC's films haven't followed the three girl structure.
What I do see in DC's films is a female helper, Solange, Fields, Severin, dying at some point in the film. That is Paloma's role IMHO.
A second helper typically dies also. A third will live. So, in DC's films, in Skyfall, M dies but Kincaide lives; in Quantum, first Mathis dies, then Fields. Spectre is an anomaly, but Mr White dies after helping Bond, admittedly by his own hand.
The third helper who lives includes, Mathis at the end of Casino (Solange and Vesper being the other two helpers); Leiter in Quantum; Kincaide in Skyfall (Moneypenny on the Macao mission counts as a helper and she lives and this is an exception); Spectre is also an exception because bar Mr White all his others helpers, Mrs Sciarra, Madeleine, live. But, the other three films clearly show a pattern.
And at the end of the DC films, he's never alone. In Spectre he is with Madeleine; Skyfall, Kincaide/Moneypenny/M; Quantum, Camille/M and Bond stands over Mr White at the end of Casino. So, DC is likely to be with someone at the end of Bond25, whether it is with Leiter admidst the ruins of the lair, or like Skyfall back at Whitehall and with M or Moneypenny.
I recognise that killing off Madeleine is unusual, killing three women, and maybe Leiter will not be captured and will simply leave the story after Cuba, and Lashana won't die. I was thinking, why would Bond continue with the mission after Cuba? And how does Bond become 007 again?
DC's Bond has failed at his mission as often as he succeeds. M dies in Skyfall; Vesper dies and he loses the money in Casino (or is it in the briefcase Mr White has with him at the end?); he learns the truth about Quantum and Vesper in Quantum; he defeats C and Blofeld's plans in Spectre. So, I chose to kill off the scientist at the end of Bond25.
I don't believe #metoo means no women die. On that basis, Spectre was ahead of #metoo. I think #metoo means no silly names, no girls present only to be in bikins, no gratuitous cleavage shots, good female character development (but Bond girls have often had their own arcs, Camille, Tilly Masterson, M/Olivia Mansfield, and others); and remember, PWB said that Bond won't change, he is still a mysoginist who uses women to achieve the mission.
Let me tweak my text to say;
Madeleine dies after the wedding, Bond kills the attackers leaving no leads. Years later Bond is in Jamaica. Felix Leiter asks Bond to help him and his CIA colleague, played by Magnussen, to rescue a scientist. Bond 'goes rogue' with Leiter and they involve a young woman, Paloma. Magnussen betrays the mission, Paloma is killed along with Magnussen, while Lashana's 007 saves Bond, but the mission fails. Leiter returns to CIA, Bond and Lashana return to London. Moneypenny and Q analyse Bond and Lashana's Cuba evidence and send them off to find the scientist in Norway. They find the villain's lair, either in Norway or Scotland, where the scientist is found. They destroy the lair, but the scientist dies, while Lashana and Bond survive.
#MeToo is mainly about sexual transgressions against women, so killing female characters as a part of the plot is normally irrelevant to that movement. The #Metoo movement disliked the scene in SP where 007 invites himself into the shower of Solange, a victim of sex trade when she was younger. I don't remember the movement having any problems with her getting klled later in the movie.
I wasn't hugely keen on it myself: bit creepy, James!
Creepy? with respect that is bollox, political correctness gone mad!
"Can you kill him?" " someone usually Dies!" she then says where she will be at a specific time & leaves a chilled bottle of bubbly and two glasses so she and the audience is not expecting him to knock on the door & leave his shoes outside plus we've seen the same scene before in 1974 when Andrea Anders offers herself to Bond as payment for killing Scaramanga! "you can have me too if you like!
I think the fact that the scene resembles a movie from the early 70s was part of the problem
I see both sides here. I think, as Number 24 mentions, it was mainly her background in the sex trade that caused people to have some issues. But she was definitely expecting Bond and there is zero indication that his advances were unwelcome in any respect.
I was more unsettled by Bond’s rather aggressive seduction of Lucia in Spectre. Even Craig seemed uncomfortable in that scene.
Agreed
Starting with Sylvia Trench, the Bond films have definitely had their share of female characters that are completely in control of their own sexuality, and seem to enjoy casual sex as much as Bond. At least they've had no trouble showing the women enjoying sex. In that way, I think the franchise has actually been way ahead of the curve.
But they're usually minor characters. The other trope in the films is the one I think people have issues with: the tragic Bond girl. Bond has plenty of options when it comes to ways of interacting with these characters (including just simply helping them escape). But he almost always chooses to have sex with them when they're in a position of weakness and they end up dead.
In the movie Kingsman, I know a lot of people had issues with what the Swedish princess promised Eggsy if he accomplished his mission. I saw it as the film's biggest dig at the Bond films: take a (relatively) strong female character and reduce her to a sexual prize for the "hero". I mean, they did it in such a vulgar, obvious way, I thought the intent of the scene was pretty clear.
I do agree: she was completely expecting him and had indeed invited him. But I do think there's a difference between someone expecting you to pop around for a visit and surprising them in the shower in the nuddy!
It's obviously all heightened style and all that, but the damaged sex slave thing does make it seem like Bond is taking massive advantage of a damaged person. Which is of course not entirely out of character for him, but still. A touch creepy!
I enjoy Bond being a mysogynist bastard as much as the next person, but he was kind of forcing himself on someone he knew was sexually vulnerable a bit too much for my liking there. There was indeed zero indication that his advances were unwelcome in any respect, but then he knew that's rather how she'd been trained in years of being a sex slave: she was used to saying yes.
It's kind of Bond giving implicit approval of her being a sex slave and using it to his advantage. Problematic.
Wasn't that SF (Skyfall) and Severine, not 'Casino's' Solange?
I could imagine Paloma's arc is a girl caught up in an evil organisation and sees Bond as her escape, in return for her help, but she never finds that escape, like Severine.
Madeleine's arc is clearly going to be non-existent, if she is killed in the PTS.
Moneypenny, I guess, will also not have an arc, as her role seems to be taking Bond to see Q.
Lashana however could have a substantial arc, but what it is is anyone's guess. Has she dealt with what was left of Spectre after Blofeld was locked up? Is she motivated to destroy Spectre? Is she resentful of Bond, the constant comparison and the fact that she has to rescue him and clean up the mess he and Leiter created? Does she blame Bond for Paloma's death?
I think one of the stronger Bond girls was probably Pam from LTK: she was in the middle of her own mission which Bond even manages to screw up at one point.
This was to be expected, especially since Madeleine is back. But I think he'll have small role and Rami Malek will have a much larger role.
Instead of Blofeld and Bunt running the garden as husband and wife, maybe it's Blofeld and his son? (Rami Malek)?
One of them could still be using the alias Shatterhand, preferably Malek because Waltz already had an alternate alias as Oberhauser in SP (his real name but still).
Of course though, still no Japan announcement.... unless they do it in another country completely? I'd prefer Japan as it was intended, but if it was another country I would still be more than thrilled to see that truly bizarre garden finally on screen like it deserves.
The Garden Of Death is pretty much considered the 'big one' out of unused Fleming stuff. So what better way to end DC's tenure?
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7239089/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Hello-Mr-Waltz-weve-expecting-you.html
"Extra post-production technicians and other experts have been drafted in to ensure that Bond 25 makes its scheduled April 3 release date next year."
I hope Romer can work at speed because I think that Newman's Spectre suffered from a compressed post-production period. Newman's Los muertos vivos estan was great, but most of the soundtrack is a rehash of Skyfall's.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7239089/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Hello-Mr-Waltz-weve-expecting-you.html
"Someone on the picture mentioned that Blofeld’s ‘pretty p***ed’ about what Bond and Madeleine Swann (played by Lea Seydoux) did to him in Spectre."
He didn't seem so pissed in the final scenes of Spectre. "My wounds will heal, will yours?"
I am guessing that his role will be smaller than in Spectre, that he's controlling Spectre from prison. Maybe he has scenes with Bond or Lashana or M, being questioned in some maximum security prison?
It's a shame Hinx isn't coming back too. It wasn't clear to me that he died in Spectre.
I don't find him as reliable as other showbiz reporters though.
Getting a Hannibal Lecter Clarice Starling (and Lex Luthor!
I get the feeling his scenes will be small but he was offered a tonne to return, so why wouldn't he.
If Rami Malek is his son, then we'll have another family reunion when he meets his 'Uncle' James..
All conjecture of course.
https://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/news/matera/1157815/james-bond-ad-agosto-il-set-del-nuovo-film-arriva-a-matera.html
Some pictures of the Parco delle Rock churches
https://www.google.com/search?q=Parco+delle+Rock+churches&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj71bD4oq_jAhWvAGMBHZ0GDkQQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1920&bih=937#imgrc=LSMkJIddh5kIwM:
Tyrrhenian coast of Maratea
https://www.google.com/maps/place/85046+Maratea,+Province+of+Potenza,+Italy/@39.9770843,15.7017066,2066a,35y,38.88t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x133ed90ca39872af:0x9747760750a45356!8m2!3d39.9985224!4d15.7185109
It refers to Apulia, which is an hours drive from Gravina.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Gravina+in+Puglia,+70024+Metropolitan+City+of+Bari,+Italy/Apulia,+Italy/@40.7598244,16.178137,9z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x13387b3cb0d02e6b:0x40a72a4808e0660!2m2!1d16.3699271!2d40.8425376!1m5!1m1!1s0x1336e42b8db993dd:0x396fba70f8247c8f!2m2!1d17.1011931!2d40.7928393!3e0
http://www.sassilive.it/cultura-e-spettacoli/cinema-cultura-e-spettacoli/conto-alla-rovescia-per-bond-25-conferenza-stampa-al-comune-di-matera-sul-film-dedicato-allo-007-piu-famoso-del-mondo-sisti-primo-ciak-nei-sassi-tra-il-19-e-il-26-agosto/
With a month planned for the Matera filming, how does that reflect past PTS shooting periods? It does and it doesn't.
The Spectre PTS was filmed from 25-31 March, so just a week.
https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/spectre-filming-mexico
Mendes is quoted in this story saying they were in Istanbul for 20 days.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bond-back-to-istanbul-on-its-50th-anniversary-19623
Skyfall was a car chase that becomes a train chase and that may be why it was 20-days, unlike Spectre where the action happens in and over one city square.
Bond25's PTS is said to be a car chase, so 20-days seems more likely and EON will want a few days in case there are delays, so you have a month.
I think that the Apulia and Tyrrhenian coast of Maratea locations mean that there will be filming after, or before, that month in Matera and the production will be in Italy for longer. During the Prince Charles video it is said, by Craig or Fukunaga, that they are filming until October (start or end?), so there is plenty of time after the mid-September finish to the month's filming in Matera to go elsewhere in Italy. Of course, Italy, like Jamaica, maybe also doubling for somewhere else.
We can only hope...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7241385/Bond-25-Daniel-Craig-suited-booted-filming-resumes-setbacks.html
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'Filming resumes'! For heavens' sakes...
And they also claim it's on London's 'famous Southbank'. Well, not really: the famous South bank bit is in central London- they're more in Hammersmith! On the south bank of the Thames, yeah; but not at the South bank!
Thanks for the link though!