Bond 24 draft nearly done.
Kent007
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http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=40356
According to John Logan the first draft of the script for Bond 24 is almost done.
Unsurprisingly, he doesn't give much away: "Will we see the return of Quantum? “No comment.” Will we see Blofeld in Bond 24? “No comment.” Will there be any other Double-0 agents? A pause, which gave us a quantum of hope. “Ah... no comment!”
Sort of confirms shooting will begin in October as well.
Very excited by his enthusiasm for it.
According to John Logan the first draft of the script for Bond 24 is almost done.
Unsurprisingly, he doesn't give much away: "Will we see the return of Quantum? “No comment.” Will we see Blofeld in Bond 24? “No comment.” Will there be any other Double-0 agents? A pause, which gave us a quantum of hope. “Ah... no comment!”
Sort of confirms shooting will begin in October as well.
Very excited by his enthusiasm for it.
"You are about to wake when you dream that you are dreaming"
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I trust Logan. Skyfall's script was fantastic and working with Mendes, this is going to be something special.
This line gives me chills.
I'm glad that he's giving nothing away. Right, that's the last I'm going to read about the next film (inserts fingers in ears). Avoiding spoilers, etc. Mind you, I've said that before.... 8-)
Was that your Bond/Hangover cross over? haha
I read the article where he says some the characters and themes will continue -- what does that mean? The only new characters that survived from Skyfall are staples M, Moneypenny, and Q . . . and what theme did Skyfall have except, yet again, starting things over? Terrorism? We had that in the other two. After three films, can we move forward now?
Yes, I found my old post. "Headhunters" director Morten Tyldum was shown a script in late May. Surely it must be beyond the draft stage now?
I had the same thought. It seems unlikely that Mendes would've signed up for Bond 24 without seeing at least a draft script.
Bond is framed for the Murder of a top Foreign Official, and the Service has got 48 Hours to hand him over to the Governmental Authorities of that Country. In that Time, Bond must fight to clear his Name, find out who is really responsible for the Murder and stop a devious Plot that would have catastrophic Proportions for the whole World.
Sad really
Started with word processors. They just don't feel right.
I plead guilty, GM, and I also confess to using a great deal of satire in what I'm saying. I may be confusing you with someone else, but it seems earlier we heard some bashing of Logan on the basis of Star Trek: Nemesis, a film he wrote more than a decade ago (and which wasn't that bad, in my opinion). This discounts what I think is an impressive body of work: Gladiator, Aviator, Hugo, and even little ol' Skyfall--movies that have proven popular and which have been acclaimed. There's a cliche in show bizniss that you're only as good as your last picture--and Logan's last picture was pretty good. So why the skepticism?
yes theres something magical about tap tap ching sound of a good type writer ,
there was 3 of us boys to about 20 girls , but we (the boys) all intended to join the police ,so typing would be handy
I have fond images of Dave Starsky huddled over his type writer pencil behind ear , that's who I wanted to be
You mean the double-take pigeon ?
The problem, I guess, is that I want someone more like Maibaum. I realize that in part it isn't fair to be skeptical of the screenwriter(s), as what they draft doesn't always make it to the screen, and that Maibaum and his writing partners had Fleming to crib from, but Logan just seems too generic somehow by comparison. His style lacks gravitas -- he gets big budget pictures, but more often, his screenplay is the weakest element, as least to me. Even in Skyfall, which was good but not as good as Casino Royale, there were moments that I thought were nice -- the poem and Bond run, for instance -- but nothing felt truly weighty to me, despite the fact that obviously I was supposed to think so. He seemed like he was borrowing a lot from other recent movies, such as The Dark Knight, in the same way Nemesis seemed to borrow too much from The Wrath of Khan.
The humor lacked the same level of wit and creativity that Maibaum and his co-writers might have applied. For instance, the only exchange I really laughed at was "You going to complain the whole way?"/"Go ahead, eject me then." The rest just seemed jokey rather than witty. I'm more of the "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." sort. Heck, even the exchange in the Mustang in Thunderball was more witty. "Fly here often?" and "No, some men don't want to be taken for a ride." What I like about these lines is they sound plausible as speech but at the same time are still rather clever, especially with Connery's delivery.
Logan's plots often leave me feeling like something's missing. I still, for instance, don't know if Bond actually got M killed by bringing her to his home or not.
These are the sorts of things that underwhelm me about Logan. I can't deny his success, but if I have a choice between Gladiator or Spartacus, Nemesis or Wrath of Khan, The Last Samurai or Dances with Wolves, or Any Given Sunday or North Dallas Forty, it's not the Logan version I'm going to go with.
Both my grandfather and father died young, so that's me sorted in a few years.
am well insured and the house is paid for, so she'll be able to get a toy-boy in.
As long as it's not a Bondtoy-boy...