The crew appear to be sitting on the rocks on the beach where we saw Nomi and Madeleine and we see a clapperboard and it has the scene number 243. There was a clapperboard with the scene 253 in a previous picture (https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/958543/#p958543).
That picture with scene 253 is just a clapperboard on a table and it was always possible that was a bit of mischief, but this scene 243 picture clearly links it with a location and crew. Scene 243 would be at 170 minutes, 2 hours 50 minutes. It gives credence that NTTD is going to be a very long Bond film.
Or, there are scenes 243 and 253 because Fukunaga deleted huge numbers of scenes. If you look through the leaked Spectre script there are page and pages of scenes there either were never filmed or were cut. I could imagine that Fukunaga and Scott Burns tore a lot out and and added additional scenes, so that would explain the high scene numbers.
Clapperboards with a letter before the number are second unit, clapperboards that begin with a number and end with a letter are first unit. They use different number systems to avoid confusion.
So scene X253B is second unit, the new clapperboard 243F is first unit.
The crew appear to be sitting on the rocks on the beach where we saw Nomi and Madeleine and we see a clapperboard and it has the scene number 243. There was a clapperboard with the scene 253 in a previous picture (https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/958543/#p958543).
That picture with scene 253 is just a clapperboard on a table and it was always possible that was a bit of mischief, but this scene 243 picture clearly links it with a location and crew. Scene 243 would be at 170 minutes, 2 hours 50 minutes. It gives credence that NTTD is going to be a very long Bond film.
Or, there are scenes 243 and 253 because Fukunaga deleted huge numbers of scenes. If you look through the leaked Spectre script there are page and pages of scenes there either were never filmed or were cut. I could imagine that Fukunaga and Scott Burns tore a lot out and and added additional scenes, so that would explain the high scene numbers.
Clapperboards with a letter before the number are second unit, clapperboards that begin with a number and end with a letter are first unit. They use different number systems to avoid confusion.
So scene X253B is second unit, the new clapperboard 243F is first unit.
As I show in the post linked to below, the letters before or after a scene number do not reflect some parallel scene numbering system, they are the same scene, first or second unit. Scene 243F is about 2hrs 50mins into a DC Bond movie and scene X253B is about seven minutes later. https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/957246/#p957246
Another clapperboard has surfaced, just moments ago on Fukunaga's Instagram account. He has posted two videos of filming, apparently taking place today, involving a camera helicopter, one in colour, the other B&W. https://www.instagram.com/stories/cary_fukunaga/
The clapperboard can be seen in this image I grabbed from the second video. The scene number is X252, take 1.
So, it is further evidence that this is either a very long Bond film or Fukunaga took an axe to the original 3rd act and wrote in a lot of new material.
In the first video an aerodrome hangar can be seen with the words Arena aerial photography on it. I think this is that firm. https://www.arena-aircraft.com/
They are based in Redhill, Surrey, England. Here is another picture of Redhill Aerodrome from Flickr, proving it is there. You can see the two large hangars seen in Cary's first video. https://www.flickr.com/photos/traumahawk/14873451948/
According to Google maps, the Aerodrome is a 50 minute drive from Swinley Forest, where they filmed scenes relating to the Scandinavian villa. A short trip for a chopper I'd imagine. https://goo.gl/maps/nmyQCX66s1fpZnas9
No Time to Die is a 1958 movie directed by Terrence Young and produced by Cubby Broccoli, released in the US as Tank Force.
No Time to Die is also a 2020 movie directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, released in the US as No Time to Die...I think this one might be a little more relevant to this thread, and this website
I think both are relevant, although the 1958 film has already been discussed somewhat extensively here, either in this thread or the spoiler free NTTD thread.
Missed or improved aerial shots - could even be weather related from prev shoot
I thought the same, probably just for the usual transition shots of London.
So, is DC's final film's final scene(s) going to be of London? Scene 252, about a minute before scene 253, which was filmed on the Italian coast, would suggest not, so what is there within flying distance of Redhill aerodrome that could be a final scene; about 5-10 minutes after scene 243 when Nomi, Madeleine, Bond and a possible clone child are escaping the rocky beach in a RIB boat?
Scene 253 being filmed in Italy doesn't make sense to me, but an aerial shot of Madeleine, Bond and a clone child, living the happily ever after at a restored 'Scandinavian villa' in Swinley Forest/Norway, makes sense to me as a farewell to DC's Bond.
Did I read that they have filmed several endings to the film.
Surely this would explain the high clapperboard numbers.
So instead of a 2:50 fim, it’s probably a 2 hours ish film ?
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Did I read that they have filmed several endings to the film.
Surely this would explain the high clapperboard numbers.
So instead of a 2:50 fim, it’s probably a 2 hours ish film ?
I remember reading to that three different endings were filmed. But I don't think it was mentioned how long each ending is, i.e. 5 minutes, 15 minutes etc..
Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
Did I read that they have filmed several endings to the film.
Surely this would explain the high clapperboard numbers.
So instead of a 2:50 fim, it’s probably a 2 hours ish film ?
I remember reading to that three different endings were filmed. But I don't think it was mentioned how long each ending is, i.e. 5 minutes, 15 minutes etc..
Third acts are typically 20-30 minutes long and I think that would be prohibitively expensive to film 90 minutes of third act material.
Bond films also have epilogues, for example, Bond being reinstated at the end of Skyfall and Bond leaving MI6 at the end of Spectre, or with Casino when he shoots Mr White at the villa.
I think it's more likely it's this epilogue that they will have re-shot 3 times and this could be Bond walking away permanently with Madeleine or going back to MI6, or Bond dying.
Article with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
This is interesting: "Purvis and Wade were tapped to write an entirely new script with Fukunaga"
So, Purvis & Wade have written two 'Bond25' scripts. Purvis & Wade were announced on 24 July 2017 with EON saying Bond25, "will be written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade." https://www.007.com/bond-25-announcement/
We know from what has been revealed about NTTD that early Spectre story ideas leaked in the Sony email hack have been used for NTTD. So, they appear to have gone back to Spectre and made B25 a sequel, while Boyle's Bond idea was supposed to have been original and involved the Russians as the villains and was about a new 'cold war'.
Fukunaga's joining was announced in September and filming started 28 April, and Boyle's departure was announced in late August, so if Fukunaga did join quickly as the Variety article suggests, they had 6-8 months to get the script in shape, which should be plenty of time.
Thanks for posting . The producers don't give interviews like this very often. There were several interesting bits in it.
"The film will tie up loose narrative threads left over from previous Craig outings"
I wonder what lose threads are they talking about? The fate of Quantum? Hinx? Madeleine's past, surely. I really don't know.
“We have come to an emotionally satisfying conclusion,” says Broccoli. I don't think they would have called the ending "emotionally satisfying" if Bond dies at the end. Emotional, but not satisfying. I could be wrong of cource.
About casting the next Bond actor: But they seem open to broadening the search beyond the usual suspects.
“You think of him as being from Britain or the Commonwealth, but Britain is a very diverse place,” Wilson says. “He can be of any color, but he is male,” says Broccoli. “I believe we should be creating new characters for women — strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.”
I certainly agree in what she says about women. The rest I may have to warm to.
This bit about Fukunaga is interesting and new to me:
" But he’d been on the producers’ radar for a long time. Broccoli initially had conversations with Fukunaga about directing “Spectre” before Sam Mendes, who had helmed “Skyfall,” came on board."
Thanks for posting . The producers don't give interviews like this very often. There were several interesting bits in it.
"The film will tie up loose narrative threads left over from previous Craig outings"
I wonder what lose threads are they talking about? The fate of Quantum? Hinx? Madeleine's past, surely. I really don't know.
“We have come to an emotionally satisfying conclusion,” says Broccoli. I don't think they would have called the ending "emotionally satisfying" if Bond dies at the end. Emotional, but not satisfying. I could be wrong of cource.
About casting the next Bond actor: But they seem open to broadening the search beyond the usual suspects.
“You think of him as being from Britain or the Commonwealth, but Britain is a very diverse place,” Wilson says. “He can be of any color, but he is male,” says Broccoli. “I believe we should be creating new characters for women — strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.”
I certainly agree in what she says about women. The rest I may have to warm to.
This bit about Fukunaga is interesting and new to me:
" But he’d been on the producers’ radar for a long time. Broccoli initially had conversations with Fukunaga about directing “Spectre” before Sam Mendes, who had helmed “Skyfall,” came on board."
About tying up the loose ends: I love TBE‘s theory that Madeleine was in fact the gorl that befriended and psychologically manipulated the women like Vesper for SPECTRE‘s purposes. That would be a great harkening back to CR.
What I don’t like is how they open up for Bond‘s heritage. Please don’t go there...
About tying up the loose ends: I love TBE‘s theory that Madeleine was in fact the gorl that befriended and psychologically manipulated the women like Vesper for SPECTRE‘s purposes. That would be a great harkening back to CR.
What I don’t like is how they open up for Bond‘s heritage. Please don’t go there...
I think that a very interesting idea that opens up for a lot of exiting possibilities.
Article with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
thats a good interview, well worth reading. Theres quite a few nuggets of information in there, some about Bond25, some about the behind-the-scenes history of the series.
Broccoli and Wilson say they’re thrilled with what Fukunaga delivered, calling it a visually arresting adventure that follows Bond from Jamaica to Norway, with a stop in the ancient Italian city of Matera.
unfortunately, nothing about Japan or any Russian islands near Japan. Norway will definitely be playing Norway. Nothing about Cuba either.
I liked this bit, I've had questions before about the division of labour:
People who have labored on the franchise say that Broccoli’s and Wilson’s abilities are complementary. “They both have strong points,” says Robert Wade, who has co-written seven Bond films, from “The World Is Not Enough” to “No Time to Die.” “Barbara is very much concerned with the emotional side of the story as well as the relevance of it to now. Michael’s got a very good story brain and has a macabre dimension that allows us to keep the Ian Fleming flavor of the thing.”
Privately, those who have worked with the pair describe Wilson as “cerebral” and keenly interested in exploring the inner workings of MI6. Broccoli is viewed as more finely attuned to what’s going on in the industry. She’s also willing to go toe-to-toe with studio heads, making it clear that she’s outlasted previous regimes and will still be standing when one film czar is deposed for another.
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We know from what has been revealed about NTTD that early Spectre story ideas leaked in the Sony email hack have been used for NTTD. So, they appear to have gone back to Spectre and made B25 a sequel, while Boyle's Bond idea was supposed to have been original and involved the Russians as the villains and was about a new 'cold war'.
Did I read somewhere that Danny Boyle wanted to kill of Bond and that was one of the reasons he left, because Craig was against the idea?
Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
We know from what has been revealed about NTTD that early Spectre story ideas leaked in the Sony email hack have been used for NTTD. So, they appear to have gone back to Spectre and made B25 a sequel, while Boyle's Bond idea was supposed to have been original and involved the Russians as the villains and was about a new 'cold war'.
Did I read somewhere that Danny Boyle wanted to kill of Bond and that was one of the reasons he left, because Craig was against the idea?
Safin is part of SPECTRE according to this NTTD Land Rover Defender display text; suggesting that he is not a leader of some new organisation as has been proposed because of the Cuban death party for SPECTRE operatives seen in the trailer. https://twitter.com/BerendKwant/status/1218444659049095168?s=20
Hakadal, Norway - 15K - 11:15
Port Antonio - 78 - 58:30
Cuba - 108H - 1:21:00
London - Bond pulls up in the Vantage - 139A - 1:44:15
London Horse Brigade - 152 - 1:54:00
London: Bond, M, Tanner on the riverfront - 155 - 1:56:15
I still think the film will begin in Norway and being the PTS it's unlikely to be longer than 15mins. Then we'll have Matera and we have ample clapperboards and BTS filming by locals and tourists, which shows that is certainly no more than about 20-25 minutes. The highest numbered clapperboard we saw for Matera was X54B (https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/958764/#p958764) which would be about 37 minutes into the film. Then we time jump to Jamaica, we think, but we only know we're in Jamaica by scene 78, 55-60 minutes into the film. So, something else is going on between the 37th minute and the 55th. Thirteen minutes, which could include M's "where's 007?" scene and the introduction of Jamaica. Scene 78 may not be the first scene in Jamaica.
So, so far, the timing and story seems to match. I am wondering if the first half of the film sees Bond and Madeline split at the beginning, then they meet again when Bond goes to visit Blofeld at Wakefield prison about 1h 45 to 1h 55 into the film. Casino Royale was a film of two very different halves, one in Jamaica and Miami and the second half in Montenegro and Venice.
So, the remaining hour of the film could be entirely about Bond and Madeleine and their mission against Safin. That could be half an hour for Bond and Madeleine to find Safin and get their arses kicked and another 30 minutes, with Nomi's help, and maybe Q's, to defeat Safin.
I reckon Madeleine will be pregnant and then get killed. They won't make Bond a father but surely can't resist a new twist.
Bond usually gets a PG-13 rating so I can't imagine they would kill a pregnant woman, not a heavily pregnant woman in a Bond film. The evidence we have from the rocky beach photos with Nomi, Bond and maybe a child, is that Madeleine survives, certainly to almost the very end, if not the end of the film, along with Nomi and maybe a child, who might be a clone of Madeleine.
I reckon Madeleine will be pregnant and then get killed. They won't make Bond a father but surely can't resist a new twist.
Bond usually gets a PG-13 rating so I can't imagine they would kill a pregnant woman, not a heavily pregnant woman in a Bond film. The evidence we have from the rocky beach photos with Nomi, Bond and maybe a child, is that Madeleine survives, certainly to almost the very end, if not the end of the film, along with Nomi and maybe a child, who might be a clone of Madeleine.
Definitely not heavily pregnant- maybe even trying for a baby prior to her being killed or it is discovered afterwards. It just seems like an obvious opportunity for drama, particularly with the soapy direction the films have been taking.
Wasn't License to Kill a PG-13 and Leiter's fiancee is murdered on her honeymoon (and strong implication she was raped)?
I reckon Madeleine will be pregnant and then get killed. They won't make Bond a father but surely can't resist a new twist.
Bond usually gets a PG-13 rating so I can't imagine they would kill a pregnant woman, not a heavily pregnant woman in a Bond film. The evidence we have from the rocky beach photos with Nomi, Bond and maybe a child, is that Madeleine survives, certainly to almost the very end, if not the end of the film, along with Nomi and maybe a child, who might be a clone of Madeleine.
Definitely not heavily pregnant- maybe even trying for a baby prior to her being killed or it is discovered afterwards. It just seems like an obvious opportunity for drama, particularly with the soapy direction the films have been taking.
Wasn't License to Kill a PG-13 and Leiter's fiancee is murdered on her honeymoon (and strong implication she was raped)?
I think it was PG-13, but she is just lying on the bed and there is no blood from what I can remember. I think you need blood to get to NC-17 or R.
Reflecting on the possible 2h 54min running time and the fact that the clapperboards we know about would suggest that after Bond visits Blofeld in prison there is another hour of the movie, it seems there must be more filming locations than we know of, or Pinewood has been heavily used.
The PTS was filmed in Norway, near Oslo. Matera was used from about 15 mins into the film until about 40 mins. Then the film likely has the raid on Portondown and the scientist kidnapping, both of which could be filmed at Pinewood. Next, by 54 minutes we're in Jamaica and that was filmed in Jamaica, maybe with some interior shots filmed at Pinewood. Then it is Cuba and that was filmed in Jamaica and at Pinewood.
After Cuba Bond goes to MI6 and visits Q at home and we know that is a mix of London and Pinewood. Bond's visit to Wakefield prison will also be Pinewood. Next is likely Russia or an island in Russian territory (which could have been established with filming of the Faroe islands, which saw aerial filming.) and a car chase which was filmed on Norway's Atlantic road and in Scotland. The latter part of this chase was also filmed in Swinley Forest, where we see Bond left behind by the departing helicopter. The interior of Safin's lair was no doubt Pinewood, and then Bond, Nomi and Madeleine's escape was filmed in part on the Italian coastline.
Looking at the end of the second act and the third act that will make up the story from 1h 54mins to 2h 54mins, there doesn't seem to be enough locations. Where do Bond and Madeleine go in the Vantage after London? OK, they end up in a car chase, but how much of the hour will that consume? The Spectre Austria plane/car chase lasted six minutes. Maybe it is a multiple vehicle chase, like Skyfall's PTS, which lasted about 12 minutes. Then we have Nomi finding Bond and Bond and Nomi in Safin's lair, and the rocky beach escape.
Skyfall's third act, from the end of the committe hearing attack to M's death, and excluding the epilogue, was about 30mins long, and Spectre's 3rd act was about 20 mins long, from the Tangier base explosion until Bond walks away with Madeleine. So, the Nomi, Bond Safin lair attack and escape is likely to be 20-30 minutes, long, plus a few minutes for an epilogue of somesort. So, we have about 60 minutes of movie, but we can only account for about 10 minutes of car and helicopter chase and that 30 minutes of the third act attack on Safin's lair and rocky beach escape.
Twenty minutes can't be accounted for, although the epilogue, and Nomi finding Bond and whatever Bond, Madeleine scenes link London with the Atlantic bridge filmed car chase, you're still looking at 10-15 minutes of unaccounted for screentime. Blofeld prison escape? Safin, and Blofeld, hosting a captive Madeleine and/or Q? The unused game of cards from the leaked Spectre script?
new stuff, haven't read it yet so I postet it in the spoiler-thread but I don't know if theres really something new in it
It confirms:
Blofeld is in contact with Spectre from his prison cell.
In Cuba, Bond is at a Havana hotel.
Bond and Paloma fight Spectre henchmen.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge rewrote scenes, not just dialogue.
David Dencik is the kidnapped scientist.
It quotes Barbara Broccoli as saying Blofeld is in Belmarsh prison but the trailer shows he is in Wakefield prison. In Skyfall, Silva is supposed to be going to Belmarsh. The article also says that Babs and Mike almost shut down production after Boyle quit.
In the video roundtable with DC, Lashana Lynch, Rami Malek and Lea Seydoux:
DC says NTTD is a continuation of the story in Casino and rounds up of everything.
DC also says that Safin is going to solve one of the world's problems, suggesting he has something that will reduce the population.
In the past DC has said of his Bond films, during the publicity, that they have created something 'special', but this time his wording is not as positive. "We did our best...It's as good as it is."
So far I've only seen the video of the roundtable talk so far. Thanks to Noi for finding this article :007)
The mood around the table is very good and lighthearted, I don't recall such good spirits during the interviews from Craig's earlier Bonds. We get some very good insights into Malek's and Lynch's characters. I too noticed what's said about Safin's intentions of solving one of the world's biggest problems. Overpopulation is an obvious posibility, but I think another posibility is food scarcity. Perhaps he set out producing more food, but something went wrong on a scientific and/or psycological level? Can it be Safin started out trying to produce lots of food in the oceans, but realised it woudn't be enough and decided to reduce the population instead? Maybe he wants to do it by using the tecnology designed to grow food to poison the oceans?
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Clapperboards with a letter before the number are second unit, clapperboards that begin with a number and end with a letter are first unit. They use different number systems to avoid confusion.
So scene X253B is second unit, the new clapperboard 243F is first unit.
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As I show in the post linked to below, the letters before or after a scene number do not reflect some parallel scene numbering system, they are the same scene, first or second unit. Scene 243F is about 2hrs 50mins into a DC Bond movie and scene X253B is about seven minutes later.
https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/957246/#p957246
https://www.instagram.com/stories/cary_fukunaga/
The camera helicopter is from Marzano Films, a UK based aerial filming firm.
https://www.marzanofilms.com/
Here is the company's press release about NTTD. They filmed in Jamaica, Norway and, oddly, IMHO, Pinewood Studios.
https://www.marzanofilms.com/blog/james-bond-25-production-begins/
The clapperboard can be seen in this image I grabbed from the second video. The scene number is X252, take 1.
So, it is further evidence that this is either a very long Bond film or Fukunaga took an axe to the original 3rd act and wrote in a lot of new material.
In the first video an aerodrome hangar can be seen with the words Arena aerial photography on it. I think this is that firm.
https://www.arena-aircraft.com/
They are based in Redhill, Surrey, England. Here is another picture of Redhill Aerodrome from Flickr, proving it is there. You can see the two large hangars seen in Cary's first video.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/traumahawk/14873451948/
According to Google maps, the Aerodrome is a 50 minute drive from Swinley Forest, where they filmed scenes relating to the Scandinavian villa. A short trip for a chopper I'd imagine.
https://goo.gl/maps/nmyQCX66s1fpZnas9
Missed or improved aerial shots - could even be weather related from prev shoot
I think both are relevant, although the 1958 film has already been discussed somewhat extensively here, either in this thread or the spoiler free NTTD thread.
So, is DC's final film's final scene(s) going to be of London? Scene 252, about a minute before scene 253, which was filmed on the Italian coast, would suggest not, so what is there within flying distance of Redhill aerodrome that could be a final scene; about 5-10 minutes after scene 243 when Nomi, Madeleine, Bond and a possible clone child are escaping the rocky beach in a RIB boat?
Scene 253 being filmed in Italy doesn't make sense to me, but an aerial shot of Madeleine, Bond and a clone child, living the happily ever after at a restored 'Scandinavian villa' in Swinley Forest/Norway, makes sense to me as a farewell to DC's Bond.
Surely this would explain the high clapperboard numbers.
So instead of a 2:50 fim, it’s probably a 2 hours ish film ?
I remember reading to that three different endings were filmed. But I don't think it was mentioned how long each ending is, i.e. 5 minutes, 15 minutes etc..
Third acts are typically 20-30 minutes long and I think that would be prohibitively expensive to film 90 minutes of third act material.
Bond films also have epilogues, for example, Bond being reinstated at the end of Skyfall and Bond leaving MI6 at the end of Spectre, or with Casino when he shoots Mr White at the villa.
I think it's more likely it's this epilogue that they will have re-shot 3 times and this could be Bond walking away permanently with Madeleine or going back to MI6, or Bond dying.
Article with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
This is interesting: "Purvis and Wade were tapped to write an entirely new script with Fukunaga"
So, Purvis & Wade have written two 'Bond25' scripts. Purvis & Wade were announced on 24 July 2017 with EON saying Bond25, "will be written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade."
https://www.007.com/bond-25-announcement/
We know from what has been revealed about NTTD that early Spectre story ideas leaked in the Sony email hack have been used for NTTD. So, they appear to have gone back to Spectre and made B25 a sequel, while Boyle's Bond idea was supposed to have been original and involved the Russians as the villains and was about a new 'cold war'.
Fukunaga's joining was announced in September and filming started 28 April, and Boyle's departure was announced in late August, so if Fukunaga did join quickly as the Variety article suggests, they had 6-8 months to get the script in shape, which should be plenty of time.
I've previously had thoughts about how many B25 scripts there have been.
https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/940172/#p940172
"The film will tie up loose narrative threads left over from previous Craig outings"
I wonder what lose threads are they talking about? The fate of Quantum? Hinx? Madeleine's past, surely. I really don't know.
“We have come to an emotionally satisfying conclusion,” says Broccoli. I don't think they would have called the ending "emotionally satisfying" if Bond dies at the end. Emotional, but not satisfying. I could be wrong of cource.
About casting the next Bond actor:
But they seem open to broadening the search beyond the usual suspects.
“You think of him as being from Britain or the Commonwealth, but Britain is a very diverse place,” Wilson says.
“He can be of any color, but he is male,” says Broccoli. “I believe we should be creating new characters for women — strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.”
I certainly agree in what she says about women. The rest I may have to warm to.
This bit about Fukunaga is interesting and new to me:
" But he’d been on the producers’ radar for a long time. Broccoli initially had conversations with Fukunaga about directing “Spectre” before Sam Mendes, who had helmed “Skyfall,” came on board."
About tying up the loose ends: I love TBE‘s theory that Madeleine was in fact the gorl that befriended and psychologically manipulated the women like Vesper for SPECTRE‘s purposes. That would be a great harkening back to CR.
What I don’t like is how they open up for Bond‘s heritage. Please don’t go there...
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I think that a very interesting idea that opens up for a lot of exiting possibilities.
I liked this bit, I've had questions before about the division of labour:
Did I read somewhere that Danny Boyle wanted to kill of Bond and that was one of the reasons he left, because Craig was against the idea?
I think that was just a rumour.
https://twitter.com/BerendKwant/status/1218444659049095168?s=20
Looking back at clapperboard numbers and when they should occur, Shatterfang had these estimates
https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/957887/#p957887
I still think the film will begin in Norway and being the PTS it's unlikely to be longer than 15mins. Then we'll have Matera and we have ample clapperboards and BTS filming by locals and tourists, which shows that is certainly no more than about 20-25 minutes. The highest numbered clapperboard we saw for Matera was X54B (https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/958764/#p958764) which would be about 37 minutes into the film. Then we time jump to Jamaica, we think, but we only know we're in Jamaica by scene 78, 55-60 minutes into the film. So, something else is going on between the 37th minute and the 55th. Thirteen minutes, which could include M's "where's 007?" scene and the introduction of Jamaica. Scene 78 may not be the first scene in Jamaica.
So, so far, the timing and story seems to match. I am wondering if the first half of the film sees Bond and Madeline split at the beginning, then they meet again when Bond goes to visit Blofeld at Wakefield prison about 1h 45 to 1h 55 into the film. Casino Royale was a film of two very different halves, one in Jamaica and Miami and the second half in Montenegro and Venice.
So, the remaining hour of the film could be entirely about Bond and Madeleine and their mission against Safin. That could be half an hour for Bond and Madeleine to find Safin and get their arses kicked and another 30 minutes, with Nomi's help, and maybe Q's, to defeat Safin.
Bond usually gets a PG-13 rating so I can't imagine they would kill a pregnant woman, not a heavily pregnant woman in a Bond film. The evidence we have from the rocky beach photos with Nomi, Bond and maybe a child, is that Madeleine survives, certainly to almost the very end, if not the end of the film, along with Nomi and maybe a child, who might be a clone of Madeleine.
Definitely not heavily pregnant- maybe even trying for a baby prior to her being killed or it is discovered afterwards. It just seems like an obvious opportunity for drama, particularly with the soapy direction the films have been taking.
Wasn't License to Kill a PG-13 and Leiter's fiancee is murdered on her honeymoon (and strong implication she was raped)?
I think it was PG-13, but she is just lying on the bed and there is no blood from what I can remember. I think you need blood to get to NC-17 or R.
The PTS was filmed in Norway, near Oslo. Matera was used from about 15 mins into the film until about 40 mins. Then the film likely has the raid on Portondown and the scientist kidnapping, both of which could be filmed at Pinewood. Next, by 54 minutes we're in Jamaica and that was filmed in Jamaica, maybe with some interior shots filmed at Pinewood. Then it is Cuba and that was filmed in Jamaica and at Pinewood.
After Cuba Bond goes to MI6 and visits Q at home and we know that is a mix of London and Pinewood. Bond's visit to Wakefield prison will also be Pinewood. Next is likely Russia or an island in Russian territory (which could have been established with filming of the Faroe islands, which saw aerial filming.) and a car chase which was filmed on Norway's Atlantic road and in Scotland. The latter part of this chase was also filmed in Swinley Forest, where we see Bond left behind by the departing helicopter. The interior of Safin's lair was no doubt Pinewood, and then Bond, Nomi and Madeleine's escape was filmed in part on the Italian coastline.
Looking at the end of the second act and the third act that will make up the story from 1h 54mins to 2h 54mins, there doesn't seem to be enough locations. Where do Bond and Madeleine go in the Vantage after London? OK, they end up in a car chase, but how much of the hour will that consume? The Spectre Austria plane/car chase lasted six minutes. Maybe it is a multiple vehicle chase, like Skyfall's PTS, which lasted about 12 minutes. Then we have Nomi finding Bond and Bond and Nomi in Safin's lair, and the rocky beach escape.
Skyfall's third act, from the end of the committe hearing attack to M's death, and excluding the epilogue, was about 30mins long, and Spectre's 3rd act was about 20 mins long, from the Tangier base explosion until Bond walks away with Madeleine. So, the Nomi, Bond Safin lair attack and escape is likely to be 20-30 minutes, long, plus a few minutes for an epilogue of somesort. So, we have about 60 minutes of movie, but we can only account for about 10 minutes of car and helicopter chase and that 30 minutes of the third act attack on Safin's lair and rocky beach escape.
Twenty minutes can't be accounted for, although the epilogue, and Nomi finding Bond and whatever Bond, Madeleine scenes link London with the Atlantic bridge filmed car chase, you're still looking at 10-15 minutes of unaccounted for screentime. Blofeld prison escape? Safin, and Blofeld, hosting a captive Madeleine and/or Q? The unused game of cards from the leaked Spectre script?
new stuff, haven't read it yet so I postet it in the spoiler-thread but I don't know if theres really something new in it
Pretty amazed, this photoshoot is quite reminiscent of the ones from the Brosnan-era. The lighting and Craig‘s relaxed posing anyway...
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It confirms:
Blofeld is in contact with Spectre from his prison cell.
In Cuba, Bond is at a Havana hotel.
Bond and Paloma fight Spectre henchmen.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge rewrote scenes, not just dialogue.
David Dencik is the kidnapped scientist.
It quotes Barbara Broccoli as saying Blofeld is in Belmarsh prison but the trailer shows he is in Wakefield prison. In Skyfall, Silva is supposed to be going to Belmarsh. The article also says that Babs and Mike almost shut down production after Boyle quit.
In the video roundtable with DC, Lashana Lynch, Rami Malek and Lea Seydoux:
DC says NTTD is a continuation of the story in Casino and rounds up of everything.
DC also says that Safin is going to solve one of the world's problems, suggesting he has something that will reduce the population.
In the past DC has said of his Bond films, during the publicity, that they have created something 'special', but this time his wording is not as positive. "We did our best...It's as good as it is."
The mood around the table is very good and lighthearted, I don't recall such good spirits during the interviews from Craig's earlier Bonds. We get some very good insights into Malek's and Lynch's characters. I too noticed what's said about Safin's intentions of solving one of the world's biggest problems. Overpopulation is an obvious posibility, but I think another posibility is food scarcity. Perhaps he set out producing more food, but something went wrong on a scientific and/or psycological level? Can it be Safin started out trying to produce lots of food in the oceans, but realised it woudn't be enough and decided to reduce the population instead? Maybe he wants to do it by using the tecnology designed to grow food to poison the oceans?