SHOULD THEY REMAKE THE BAD BOND FILMS
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SHOULD THEY REMAKE THE BAD BOND FILMS?
I'm referring to
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
MOONRAKER
OCTUPUSSY
A VIEW TO A KILL
not the recent ones
I'm referring to
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
MOONRAKER
OCTUPUSSY
A VIEW TO A KILL
not the recent ones
Comments
What's done is done!
To correct the mistakes, and make a good film out of a bad one. thats what for.
I strongly disagree in remaking films.
Edit: PS- Opinions vary as to what are/were bad Bond films.
And do the films in book order
CR
LALD
MR
DAF
etc.....
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I think as long as the approach was similar to the one adopted for CR where the plot, characters, and motivations are easily recogniseable, but expanded would be ok. It's much more likely that this could be done on Television and in period rather than in the Cinema, although I'd love to see a Cinematic realisation of Blofields deadly Garden with the whole Bond in Japan shtick. A little artistic license with the timeline could combine Bonds attempt to kill M as a climax to YOLT which would set up the next movie nicely.
Alas I think that the chances of tis happening are slim-to none though as I fear that we are in for James Bourne again next time around.
I'd second that. My opinion on this subject is that the best way to shed new light onto Bond would be to develop a series of television movies / series based closer on the books. The books are almost period peices (ie 1950s) and an adaptation could be writen with this in mind, especially given the way they do stuff like Poirot, Life On Mars etc on the box these days. Be tricky adapting the short stories though.
One thing does stick in my mind and that is The Man with the Golden Gun.
The worlds greatest secret agent verus the worlds greatest professional assasin - should have been so good....
Octopussy? I love that film! (I love Moonraker as well but realise that's an unpopular opinion!)
Moonraker has in fact been remade anyway, as Die Another Day, and we all know what a success that was. Octopussy's an adaptation of two short stories, one of which isn't very good anyway (in fact, the film improves on the story), so the remade material would make up hardly anything onscreen. And A View To A Kill is already a remake of Goldfinger, and its plot (villain corners market in a precious resource by destroying competition) was sort of then used again in The World Is Not Enough, and then sort of used again in Quantum of Solace, so I think we've all seen quite enough of that.
So back to my original point. If you're remaking these films by adapting the Fleming again, then you're either going back to dodgy source material, or using reheated elements. And if you're not using the Fleming again, then you're using stuff that the film makers invented themselves, which makes you wonder - why ask the same people to make the same movie again when they didn't get it right the first time?
New, original films, using touches of Fleming where they can, is the way forward for Bond, just as it has been since about 1971. And anyway, I actually like some of those "bad" Bond films...
@merseytart
What I would suggest is filming the books that haven't been closely adapted under different titles, LALD, MR, DAF. Or at least using sections that have been ignored entirely in the film versions. Bond's underwater walk to Kananga's island in LALD and his run in with the octopus, the deserted town in DAF for example.
I don't think the current producers would ever allow remakes anyway.
The 'big three' (Connery, Moore and Brosnan) have all done the same film in their own different way (YOLT, TSWLM & TND) whilst AVTAK was pretty much GF but with microchips instead of gold.