So are we chopped liver then?

Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
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On the BBC News it mentions how Bond fans from the UK's top Bond websites (it says) are petitioning to delay the opening of the new film, due to the coronavirus.

Neither are AJB007. They are MI6 Confidential and the James Bond Dossier.

Pah! X-(

BTW move to another forum if necessary. No spoilers - that includes mentioning the name of the film and the actor playing James Bond.
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

Roger Moore 1927-2017
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  • clublosclublos Jacksonville, FLPosts: 193MI6 Agent
    Victims of fearmongering, it seems.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    They should release the BluRay on 2nd April and I‘d be happy.

    Screaming kids, munching and chatting neighbors, smartphone users the annoyances are plenty.
    And don‘t get me started if the moron ASP9mm is sitting next to me X-(
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:

    Screaming kids, munching and chatting neighbors, smartphone users the annoyances are plenty.

    I said no spoilers, Higgins! I don't want to know what you see in the trailer.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    If I must die, I want it in a movie theatre watching Bond and giving my
    commentary on it while ..... screaming, munching and chatting with
    neighbours and using my Smartphone.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • James SuzukiJames Suzuki New ZealandPosts: 2,406MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    They should release the BluRay on 2nd April and I‘d be happy.

    Screaming kids, munching and chatting neighbors, smartphone users the annoyances are plenty.
    And don‘t get me started if the moron ASP9mm is sitting next to me X-(

    Is this you suggesting a movie night, Higgi baby?
    “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. "
    -Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    On the BBC News it mentions how Bond fans from the UK's top Bond websites (it says) are petitioning to delay the opening of the new film, due to the coronavirus.

    Neither are AJB007. They are MI6 Confidential and the James Bond Dossier.

    Pah! X-(

    :)) Don't worry about it, NP. I'm certainly not. The BBC lost its once glittering reputation for accuracy years ago.

    I know about the MI6 forum, of course, but (not joking) I've never even looked at this Dossier mentioned above. If anyone would like to tell me more about it (PM if necessary) please do.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Instead of " Keep Calm and carry on " the BBC have
    " We're ALL Going to DIE !!!!! " :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • bosoxfanbosoxfan Posts: 611MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    If I must die, I want it in a movie theatre watching Bond and giving my
    commentary on it while ..... screaming, munching and chatting with
    neighbours and using my Smartphone.

    Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!
  • JET007JET007 Austin, TXPosts: 184MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    On the BBC News it mentions how Bond fans from the UK's top Bond websites (it says) are petitioning to delay the opening of the new film, due to the coronavirus.

    Neither are AJB007. They are MI6 Confidential and the James Bond Dossier.

    Pah! X-(

    :)) Don't worry about it, NP. I'm certainly not. The BBC lost its once glittering reputation for accuracy years ago.

    I know about the MI6 forum, of course, but (not joking) I've never even looked at this Dossier mentioned above. If anyone would like to tell me more about it (PM if necessary) please do.

    https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com

    Call me biased as I occasionally contribute, but David Leigh has been running that site since 2002 and is also a contributor to MI6-HQ, often appearing on the James Bond & Friends podcast.

    https://youtu.be/SPZULHWOoRA He's also appeared on David's YouTube channel!
    @JaviTru on Twitter and @TheBondIsNotEnough on Instagram. Occasional contributor to thejamesbonddossier.com
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Thank you! Will have a look.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    That was interesting. I'll go back and read some more, another time.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    maxresdefault.jpg

    "Of course, if the coronavirus reaches Scotland, it might be several months before anyone hears about it..."

    Spice drug outbreak
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    :)) Especially since I'm in its target demographic....
  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,253MI6 Agent
    edited March 2020
    Saw this article today and I knew that I had to share it:https://deadline.com/2020/03/no-time-to-die-release-date-moved-coronavirus-mgm-1202873876/

    I must admit, I am not too surprised that MGM choose to move NTTD to the fall. Given the effect that Coronavirus is taking on the world at large, it is for the best. In the mean time, I will be defiantly be watching the pervious James Bond movies on DVD/ Blu Ray to keep me happy until November. Also I have the Dynamite comic book series to enjoy, their is a new story coming out in hardcover later in March and I just got the graphic novel adaptation of Live And Let Die to read.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    By then we could have Coronavirus 2 or some other virus etc :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,330MI6 Agent
    edited March 2020
    (sneaky plan to spread my views twarted by Higgins :v )
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Wrong forum, N24 :p
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • JET007JET007 Austin, TXPosts: 184MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    That was interesting. I'll go back and read some more, another time.

    Quite welcome!
    @JaviTru on Twitter and @TheBondIsNotEnough on Instagram. Occasional contributor to thejamesbonddossier.com
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,330MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Wrong forum, N24 :p

    No it wasn't. I was just trying to force my political views on people who aren't really interested :))
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Pah! I blame MI6 Confidential and Mr James Bond Dossier for this! X-(

    We should start a petition to ensure they get to see the film in April - April 2021! :D
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Ha! :# Given the above remarks, who's gonna listen to us?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I'm guessing this will also delay the
    Next Bond film in 2026 ?
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Oh crap, you're right.

    Unless they use the next 7 months to start preparing... No, that would be what Cubby would have done. Not MGW + BB. :(

    They have all the time in the....
  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,336MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Oh crap, you're right.

    Unless they use the next 7 months to start preparing... No, that would be what Cubby would have done. Not MGW + BB. :(

    They have all the time in the....

    Exactly. Nothing stopping (you'd have thought) a Bond26 release in 2023. Will it happen? No chance :# Wouldn't be surprised if MGW&BB decide enough's enough and sell up in 2021.
    "Any of the opposition around..?"
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    If Cubby was still with us-

    MGW- Sorry, Cubby, but we're gonna have to delay the premiere.
    Cubby- Shoot, that's a pain after all the trouble we've had with this one. Whaddya think, a couple of weeks?
    BB- No, Dad, about 7 months.
    Cubby- 7 months???? You have to be kidding me.
    MGW- No, it's definitely 7 months.
    Cubby- Right, tell ya what we're gonna do. Michael, ring up Purvis & Wade and tell them to get working on a new script. Barbara, start looking at locations, preferably ones we haven't been to before.
    BB- But Dad-
    Cubby- No "buts", we ain't gonna sit on our asses for 7 months. Oh, and see if we still have the phone number of that Aiden Turner fella.
    MGW- Well, I'll try.
    Cubby- You'll succeed- this is no time to try....
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) :)) :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Barbel speaks in jest but of course has more than a point.

    I've been reading the detailed and excellent Some Kind of Hero by Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury which I picked up for a fiver at a discount book store. It goes behind the scenes of the films like I've never read before.
    You sense they have to keep on the right side of EON ie Barbs and Mickey but really, you do sometimes get the idea that in some ways the pair are rubbish producers. The number of times they hire a director who is wholly wrong for an action movie, or a writer who faffs about for an inordinate amount of time only for his draft to be ditched after airing a clearly inappropriate idea, and the film pushed back, or the director quits in the run-up, or doesn't really get on with the leading man, or there's a rushed release date so no time to finesse the final product in the editing studio... this happens on a great many of them: TND, DAD, QoS and now NTTD. Even films that do well, such as GE, CR and SF have a heck of a lot of last-minute rewrites so there are gaping plotholes to contend with.

    Of course, you had Danny Boyle walking, so the film got put back, now it's been put back again. This film should have been out, what, at least five months ago? Think of the money they'd have made just before the virus took hold...
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,253MI6 Agent
    edited March 2020
    Looking back, I am a little surprised that MGM, Universal and Eon productions decided to push back the film from its original date in February. I know that February is usually not a strong month for movie releases, but I believe that they could have pulled it off.
    Apart from the hold over of Sony Pictures Bad Boys For Life (which was a January release), there were not any other major action movies for NTTD to contend with.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Would it not be overshadowed by Oscar?

    Know what? I think we should petition EON to show the film to a select few of us Bond fans - and next month!
    Then they should take on board all the criticism we usually dish out to these films - and go ahead and redo it ready for the November release! :D
    Let's be fair - usually there's some crap in every Bond movie that could easily be ironed out with a bit more time.
    That even applied to the classic Goldfinger - according to Choudhury and Field's great new book on the series, Some Kind of Hero. It certainly applied to films like TND and QoS.
    Put the film to the select critics - see what can be honed.
    Then get Daniel 'Slit My Wrists' Craig back in for reshoots! :D
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,253MI6 Agent
    @ Napoleon Plural, Good point, however I seem to recall NTTD was set to be released on February 14 and the Oscars were at the beginning of the month. Still with the serious of the Corona Virus, I understand why MGM decided to hold off the films release.
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