What the hell US studio MGM and the mystery international distributor *cough*Sony*cough* will think is another thing.
A key figure in the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal changed his name to "Dr. Spectre."
Life imitates art.
"Dr Kogan – who later changed his name to Dr Spectre, but has subsequently changed it back to Dr Kogan – is still a faculty member at Cambridge University, a senior research associate."
At least MGM isn't going bankrupt this time. Apparently they are doing quite well financially, which is always good for Bond.
I guess this change in leadership could effect ongoing negotiations with a new Bond distributor. It also does not look like MGM has any interest in selling off their interest in Bond either. Probably business will go on as usual.
Let’s not forget that the earliest Bond films came out yearly, and featured tighter plots and better dialogue than the series has consistently seen in a long time. Modern productions of Bond and other films tend to be bloated and overlong. Spectre certainly didn’t benefit from its long, expensive production.
There is one long missing irreplaceable factor that would explain why those first four movies came out on an annual basis and featured tighter plots and better dialog.
I agree that Fleming is the missing ingredient. But his guiding principle is the one that has been lost: Bond is an uninteresting man to whom interesting things happen. While the swagger invented by Connery was a necessary and welcome addition to the cinematic Bond, the error of the past few films has been the obsessive need to make Bond’s character, rather than his actions, compelling. Shedding Purvis and Wade might go a long way to correcting this misdirection.
If Bond were an "uninteresting man" people wouldn't still be making Bond films almost seventy years after the character was first introduced.
At least MGM isn't going bankrupt this time. Apparently they are doing quite well financially, which is always good for Bond.
I guess this change in leadership could effect ongoing negotiations with a new Bond distributor. It also does not look like MGM has any interest in selling off their interest in Bond either. Probably business will go on as usual.
If the US domestic and international distributor deals have been done then we are just waiting for whatever announcement timing EON/DC want. BUT, if those deals have not been done then who do the candidate studios talk too?
And how long will it be before someone else is in post?
As Sony's distribution deal was also about funding production I can't see how they can move ahead with pre-production if the distributor and money are not agreed.
Is the Bond situation why Barber got pushed out? In May 2017 his contract was extended to 2022. Why the sudden departure?
Did Barber let all things Bond25 things drift too much because after Skyfall and Spectre he was too ready to wait for Barbara and her beloved Daniel, while the MGM board have simply got fed up with a lead actor who said he'd rather slit his wrists and whose script and director demands may have delayed everything to this degree?
At least MGM isn't going bankrupt this time. Apparently they are doing quite well financially, which is always good for Bond.
I guess this change in leadership could effect ongoing negotiations with a new Bond distributor. It also does not look like MGM has any interest in selling off their interest in Bond either. Probably business will go on as usual.
If the US domestic and international distributor deals have been done then we are just waiting for whatever announcement timing EON/DC want. BUT, if those deals have not been done then who do the candidate studios talk too?
And how long will it be before someone else is in post?
As Sony's distribution deal was also about funding production I can't see how they can move ahead with pre-production if the distributor and money are not agreed.
Is the Bond situation why Barber got pushed out? In May 2017 his contract was extended to 2022. Why the sudden departure?
Did Barber let all things Bond25 things drift too much because after Skyfall and Spectre he was too ready to wait for Barbara and her beloved Daniel, while the MGM board have simply got fed up with a lead actor who said he'd rather slit his wrists and whose script and director demands may have delayed everything to this degree?
You’re not making even an ounce of sense. Barber would most likely not have been on the front lines of negotiations for a distributor or decision making related to Bond. Barber could’ve been pushed out for any number of reasons, some of them trivial, but I can’t imagine Bond - which was hugely successful during his tenure - being one of them.
There is one long missing irreplaceable factor that would explain why those first four movies came out on an annual basis and featured tighter plots and better dialog.
I agree that Fleming is the missing ingredient. But his guiding principle is the one that has been lost: Bond is an uninteresting man to whom interesting things happen. While the swagger invented by Connery was a necessary and welcome addition to the cinematic Bond, the error of the past few films has been the obsessive need to make Bond’s character, rather than his actions, compelling. Shedding Purvis and Wade might go a long way to correcting this misdirection.
That's right. Before Craig it was never about Bond, even with Connery's swagger. The film character needed personality to guide along the films, which isn't as necessary in books. But the stories were never about the character, and that's what needs to come back. Many people have it in their heads that a plot-based story is inferior to a character-based story. Trying to make Bond films based on the character is what has weakened the stories in the Craig films. Fleming did develop Bond's character through the events of Casino Royale, but in the film they added additional layers to the character development to make the story make less sense.
The Bond films have never been character-driven, not even with Craig. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Five Easy Pieces, and There Will be Blood are character-driven films. Bonds have always been plot driven.
I'd argue the Craig films are no more character-driven than the Connery ones, and certainly no more so than Lazenby's effort. What's happened in more recent years is that action, plot-driven films have taken it upon themselves to muddle the hero with a "dark" past and personal angst. Essentially, they reversed the definition of character in the Connery age, when the hero was meant to be someone who met the challenges of life with verve and humor because the alternative was to be dragged down by darkness and angst. After all, they were made when millions of veterans of World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam were part of the audience, people who faced en masse great tragedies like polio, the Great Depression, and the constant threat of annihilation from the Cold War. In this sense, the Connery films are as "character-driven' as the Craig ones. Connery's Bond typified a hero from a time when people didn't have a lot of patience for someone who might be considered a "cry baby" for wallowing in self-pity, or at least they didn't want to go to the movies to watch it.
Today, your average movie-goer will face such insufferable crises as a slow Internet connection, a double mocha latte with too much foam, having to wait in line for hours to get the latest iPhone, and country and western music. They can tolerate a lot more "fantasy suffering" because their own lives are relatively free of the same level of tribulation as previous generations. Throw in a lot of minutiae about the character -- little bits of offscreen trivia regarding where they were born, what childhood traumas they faced, who they broke up with, etc. -- and the illusion of character is established. But the Craig films have actually shown very little we haven't seen before, the best of the lot easily being Casino Royale.
A while back, I posted a thread asking who the most famous bond director was, and most people said Sam Mendes without hesitation.
Debatable I guess. They've both won Oscars but somehow I feel like Mendes is better-known for winning one... without looking at IMDB I feel like Boyle has made more films but they're perhaps so diverse in style that I'm not sure everyone knows he made them. So I guess I'd go for Mendes on the fame count, but I don't know if it'd be actually justified.
I would wager Danny Boyle is more famous because his filmography has more movies that people actually seem to recognize like 28 days later and Slumdog millionaire. Besides Skyfall and Spectre of course most people don't appear to be too familiar with Mendes filmography.
I'd think to the average movie-goer in the States, neither Mendes or Boyle is particularly recognizable outside of cinemaphiles. They'd recognize the film before the director attached to it.
The Bond films have never been character-driven, not even with Craig. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Five Easy Pieces, and There Will be Blood are character-driven films. Bonds have always been plot driven.
I'd argue the Craig films are no more character-driven than the Connery ones, and certainly no more so than Lazenby's effort. What's happened in more recent years is that action, plot-driven films have taken it upon themselves to muddle the hero with a "dark" past and personal angst. Essentially, they reversed the definition of character in the Connery age, when the hero was meant to be someone who met the challenges of life with verve and humor because the alternative was to be dragged down by darkness and angst. After all, they were made when millions of veterans of World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam were part of the audience, people who faced en masse great tragedies like polio, the Great Depression, and the constant threat of annihilation from the Cold War. In this sense, the Connery films are as "character-driven' as the Craig ones. Connery's Bond typified a hero from a time when people didn't have a lot of patience for someone who might be considered a "cry baby" for wallowing in self-pity, or at least they didn't want to go to the movies to watch it.
Today, your average movie-goer will face such insufferable crises as a slow Internet connection, a double mocha latte with too much foam, having to wait in line for hours to get the latest iPhone, and country and western music. They can tolerate a lot more "fantasy suffering" because their own lives are relatively free of the same level of tribulation as previous generations. Throw in a lot of minutiae about the character -- little bits of offscreen trivia regarding where they were born, what childhood traumas they faced, who they broke up with, etc. -- and the illusion of character is established. But the Craig films have actually shown very little we haven't seen before, the best of the lot easily being Casino Royale.
Today, your average movie-goer will face such insufferable crises as a slow Internet connection, a double mocha latte with too much foam, having to wait in line for hours to get the latest iPhone, and country and western music.
Debatable I guess. They've both won Oscars but somehow I feel like Mendes is better-known for winning one... without looking at IMDB I feel like Boyle has made more films but they're perhaps so diverse in style that I'm not sure everyone knows he made them. So I guess I'd go for Mendes on the fame count, but I don't know if it'd be actually justified.
I would wager Danny Boyle is more famous because his filmography has more movies that people actually seem to recognize like 28 days later and Slumdog millionaire. Besides Skyfall and Spectre of course most people don't appear to be too familiar with Mendes filmography.
I'd think to the average movie-goer in the States, neither Mendes or Boyle is particularly recognizable outside of cinemaphiles. They'd recognize the film before the director attached to it.
That's probably true, at least not like Spielberg, Tarantino or Nolan are.
"And even though Barber had hits with Bond outings Spectre and Skyfall, insiders say a rift had also developed between him and 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. “There was a revolt,” says an insider who claims the Broccoli camp ultimately refused to work with Barber. A new entry in the spy franchise, Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig, has been set up by MGM and Eon Productions for a Nov. 8, 2019 release."
"And even though Barber had hits with Bond outings Spectre and Skyfall, insiders say a rift had also developed between him and 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. “There was a revolt,” says an insider who claims the Broccoli camp ultimately refused to work with Barber. A new entry in the spy franchise, Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig, has been set up by MGM and Eon Productions for a Nov. 8, 2019 release."
If this is to be believed, his firing is a good thing for Bond.
...an unbridgeable gap had grown between Barber and board chairman Kevin Ulrich, whose Anchorage Capital Group is MGM's largest investor. When Barber was hired to run the then-struggling home of the James Bond franchise in 2010, it was on the assumption he'd whip the studio into shape, then sell it. But eight years later, Ulrich has had a change of heart, while Barber still believes a sale is in the best interest of shareholders, which include himself, Highland Capital Management and Solus Alternative Asset Management.
so his job was not to make good films, but to make the company more attractive for re-sale. Perhaps that would be why the last few Bond-films increasingly looked more like competing hit action films and less like Bond-films?
Yes please: get the interfering corporate bean-counters out of the way, and let the film-makers do their job.
It's gotta be hard to get the boss fired, but maybe in this case the proven success of a 55 year old franchise gave them Broccolis some leverage.
Did Barber let all things Bond25 things drift too much because after Skyfall and Spectre he was too ready to wait for Barbara and her beloved Daniel, while the MGM board have simply got fed up with a lead actor who said he'd rather slit his wrists and whose script and director demands may have delayed everything to this degree?
You’re not making even an ounce of sense. Barber would most likely not have been on the front lines of negotiations for a distributor or decision making related to Bond. Barber could’ve been pushed out for any number of reasons, some of them trivial, but I can’t imagine Bond - which was hugely successful during his tenure - being one of them.
"And even though Barber had hits with Bond outings Spectre and Skyfall, insiders say a rift had also developed between him and 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. “There was a revolt,” says an insider who claims the Broccoli camp ultimately refused to work with Barber. A new entry in the spy franchise, Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig, has been set up by MGM and Eon Productions for a Nov. 8, 2019 release."
I may simple have it back to front, and Barber didn't want to wait for 2019 and/or he didn't like the apparent director/script fiasco that seems to be playing out a la Quantum of Solace.
Did Barber let all things Bond25 things drift too much because after Skyfall and Spectre he was too ready to wait for Barbara and her beloved Daniel, while the MGM board have simply got fed up with a lead actor who said he'd rather slit his wrists and whose script and director demands may have delayed everything to this degree?
You’re not making even an ounce of sense. Barber would most likely not have been on the front lines of negotiations for a distributor or decision making related to Bond. Barber could’ve been pushed out for any number of reasons, some of them trivial, but I can’t imagine Bond - which was hugely successful during his tenure - being one of them.
"And even though Barber had hits with Bond outings Spectre and Skyfall, insiders say a rift had also developed between him and 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. “There was a revolt,” says an insider who claims the Broccoli camp ultimately refused to work with Barber. A new entry in the spy franchise, Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig, has been set up by MGM and Eon Productions for a Nov. 8, 2019 release."
I may simple have it back to front, and Barber didn't want to wait for 2019 and/or he didn't like the apparent director/script fiasco that seems to be playing out a la Quantum of Solace.
You have a really interesting way of "interpreting" things in a way that support your theories which generally position EON as incompetent.
From my perspective, if it is really true that EON and Barber clashed and had a very difficult relationship, then I guess it's a good thing for EON. How this will ultimately effect Bond 25 I have no idea.
Did Barber let all things Bond25 things drift too much because after Skyfall and Spectre he was too ready to wait for Barbara and her beloved Daniel, while the MGM board have simply got fed up with a lead actor who said he'd rather slit his wrists and whose script and director demands may have delayed everything to this degree?
You’re not making even an ounce of sense. Barber would most likely not have been on the front lines of negotiations for a distributor or decision making related to Bond. Barber could’ve been pushed out for any number of reasons, some of them trivial, but I can’t imagine Bond - which was hugely successful during his tenure - being one of them.
"And even though Barber had hits with Bond outings Spectre and Skyfall, insiders say a rift had also developed between him and 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. “There was a revolt,” says an insider who claims the Broccoli camp ultimately refused to work with Barber. A new entry in the spy franchise, Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig, has been set up by MGM and Eon Productions for a Nov. 8, 2019 release."
I may simple have it back to front, and Barber didn't want to wait for 2019 and/or he didn't like the apparent director/script fiasco that seems to be playing out a la Quantum of Solace.
Nope. Most of the article is devoted to other factors - primarily a clash between the chairman of the board and Barber - that led to Barber’s dismissal. It’s low hanging fruit to throw in a reference to EON from a “source.” Maybe there’s something to it, but it doesn’t confirm any of the wild postulations you have been making.
Update: the Wall Street Journal just ran an article stating that the impetus for the firing was Barber’s lack of strategy related to digital media (streaming service). No mention of a dispute with EON.
"Choose life. Choose Oddjob. Choose a mission. Choose M, Q, Moneypenny. Choose widescreen. Choose Little Nelly, a Lotus, a magnetic watch. Choose a Vodka Martini. Choose Felix. Choose a golden bullet. Choose a golden girl, Domino, Plenty O'Toole. Don't choose Madonna. Choose diving, skiing, parachutes. Choose voodoo. Choose the Bahamas, Switzerland, Japan... outer space! Choose a bloody big volcano. Choose sharks, crocodiles, piranhas. Choose a big adrenaline rush. Choose MI6. Choose Bond. Choose life!"
How long do the film makers wait until Daniel Craig is really too old to play James Bond?
There seems to be a consensus not least of which coming from Daniel that after 25 he is (really) done so it looks like a non question to me (unless I have missed something) B-)
Of that of which we cannot speak we must pass over in silence- Ludwig Wittgenstein.
How long do the film makers wait until Daniel Craig is really too old to play James Bond?
There seems to be a consensus not least of which coming from Daniel that after 25 he is (really) done so it looks like a non question to me (unless I have missed something) B-)
Yeah I think its pretty obvious Craig's hanging up the PPK after Bond 25. He said "I think this is it, I wanna go out on a high note" to Colbert. So his age is a bit of a non-issue now.
There should be more interviews with her about her film with Dwayne Johnson, RAMPAGE, popping up about now for that movies' publicity. It's release date is 13 April.
A Reddit user called "CahleyPersia" has posted about Bond25. I don't know anythging about this peron, but MI6Community seems to find him believable enough to quote him in their production diary.
Here is the post. Discuss:
I've gained some more clarity on the situation:
Boyle will film the Richard Curtis comedy this summer. Then he will immediately begin pre-production on Bond 25. He will then shoot that film throughout 2019 and it will arrive in cinemas in November that year.
The release of the Richard Curtis comedy hasn't been set. The deal between Eon and Working Title allows for Boyle to edit the films concurrently. So when Bond 25 stops shooting, Danny will edit both films at the same time.
Despite being filmed first, you likely won't see the Richard Curtis comedy before you see Danny's Bond film.
Boyle is said to have a female villain at the centre of his Bond film and he is actively casting the role now. They want an A-list actress for the role. I've heard the usual suspects of A-listers who have supposedly met with Boyle or will meet with him. I have a friend at CAA and the part is billed as someone with a "personal connection" to Bond.
There is also a role of a young female MI6 agent who Bond is said to mentor. This role may even be informally cast already.
John Hodge has finished his draft. He will likely remain the sole writer of the project. Despite internet gossip, Danny Boyle is not officially writing the script.
A Reddit user called "CahleyPersia" has posted about Bond25. I don't know anythging about this peron, but MI6Community seems to find him believable enough to quote him in their production diary.
Here is the post. Discuss:
I've gained some more clarity on the situation:
Boyle will film the Richard Curtis comedy this summer. Then he will immediately begin pre-production on Bond 25. He will then shoot that film throughout 2019 and it will arrive in cinemas in November that year.
The release of the Richard Curtis comedy hasn't been set. The deal between Eon and Working Title allows for Boyle to edit the films concurrently. So when Bond 25 stops shooting, Danny will edit both films at the same time.
Despite being filmed first, you likely won't see the Richard Curtis comedy before you see Danny's Bond film.
Boyle is said to have a female villain at the centre of his Bond film and he is actively casting the role now. They want an A-list actress for the role. I've heard the usual suspects of A-listers who have supposedly met with Boyle or will meet with him. I have a friend at CAA and the part is billed as someone with a "personal connection" to Bond.
There is also a role of a young female MI6 agent who Bond is said to mentor. This role may even be informally cast already.
John Hodge has finished his draft. He will likely remain the sole writer of the project. Despite internet gossip, Danny Boyle is not officially writing the script.
Sounds great apart from the "personal connection" part 8-) Maybe it's Penny )
Comments
"Dr Kogan – who later changed his name to Dr Spectre, but has subsequently changed it back to Dr Kogan – is still a faculty member at Cambridge University, a senior research associate."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
Wow. You can't pretend you think you're doing good when you opt for that name!
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/gary-barber-leaving-mgm-chairman-1202731059/
At least MGM isn't going bankrupt this time. Apparently they are doing quite well financially, which is always good for Bond.
I guess this change in leadership could effect ongoing negotiations with a new Bond distributor. It also does not look like MGM has any interest in selling off their interest in Bond either. Probably business will go on as usual.
If Bond were an "uninteresting man" people wouldn't still be making Bond films almost seventy years after the character was first introduced.
If the US domestic and international distributor deals have been done then we are just waiting for whatever announcement timing EON/DC want. BUT, if those deals have not been done then who do the candidate studios talk too?
And how long will it be before someone else is in post?
As Sony's distribution deal was also about funding production I can't see how they can move ahead with pre-production if the distributor and money are not agreed.
Is the Bond situation why Barber got pushed out? In May 2017 his contract was extended to 2022. Why the sudden departure?
Did Barber let all things Bond25 things drift too much because after Skyfall and Spectre he was too ready to wait for Barbara and her beloved Daniel, while the MGM board have simply got fed up with a lead actor who said he'd rather slit his wrists and whose script and director demands may have delayed everything to this degree?
You’re not making even an ounce of sense. Barber would most likely not have been on the front lines of negotiations for a distributor or decision making related to Bond. Barber could’ve been pushed out for any number of reasons, some of them trivial, but I can’t imagine Bond - which was hugely successful during his tenure - being one of them.
I'd argue the Craig films are no more character-driven than the Connery ones, and certainly no more so than Lazenby's effort. What's happened in more recent years is that action, plot-driven films have taken it upon themselves to muddle the hero with a "dark" past and personal angst. Essentially, they reversed the definition of character in the Connery age, when the hero was meant to be someone who met the challenges of life with verve and humor because the alternative was to be dragged down by darkness and angst. After all, they were made when millions of veterans of World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam were part of the audience, people who faced en masse great tragedies like polio, the Great Depression, and the constant threat of annihilation from the Cold War. In this sense, the Connery films are as "character-driven' as the Craig ones. Connery's Bond typified a hero from a time when people didn't have a lot of patience for someone who might be considered a "cry baby" for wallowing in self-pity, or at least they didn't want to go to the movies to watch it.
Today, your average movie-goer will face such insufferable crises as a slow Internet connection, a double mocha latte with too much foam, having to wait in line for hours to get the latest iPhone, and country and western music. They can tolerate a lot more "fantasy suffering" because their own lives are relatively free of the same level of tribulation as previous generations. Throw in a lot of minutiae about the character -- little bits of offscreen trivia regarding where they were born, what childhood traumas they faced, who they broke up with, etc. -- and the illusion of character is established. But the Craig films have actually shown very little we haven't seen before, the best of the lot easily being Casino Royale.
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"And even though Barber had hits with Bond outings Spectre and Skyfall, insiders say a rift had also developed between him and 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. “There was a revolt,” says an insider who claims the Broccoli camp ultimately refused to work with Barber. A new entry in the spy franchise, Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig, has been set up by MGM and Eon Productions for a Nov. 8, 2019 release."
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If this is to be believed, his firing is a good thing for Bond.
Yes please: get the interfering corporate bean-counters out of the way, and let the film-makers do their job.
It's gotta be hard to get the boss fired, but maybe in this case the proven success of a 55 year old franchise gave them Broccolis some leverage.
Au contraire... ;-)
"He Is Not Creative": Behind MGM's Abrupt Firing of CEO Gary Barber - The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gary-barber-why-mgm-ceo-was-fired-1096079
"And even though Barber had hits with Bond outings Spectre and Skyfall, insiders say a rift had also developed between him and 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. “There was a revolt,” says an insider who claims the Broccoli camp ultimately refused to work with Barber. A new entry in the spy franchise, Bond 25, starring Daniel Craig, has been set up by MGM and Eon Productions for a Nov. 8, 2019 release."
I may simple have it back to front, and Barber didn't want to wait for 2019 and/or he didn't like the apparent director/script fiasco that seems to be playing out a la Quantum of Solace.
Barber didn't want to wait for 2019 (the officially agreed-upon and announced release date)...so he was fired?
You have a really interesting way of "interpreting" things in a way that support your theories which generally position EON as incompetent.
From my perspective, if it is really true that EON and Barber clashed and had a very difficult relationship, then I guess it's a good thing for EON. How this will ultimately effect Bond 25 I have no idea.
Is that Craig and his wife?
Nope. Most of the article is devoted to other factors - primarily a clash between the chairman of the board and Barber - that led to Barber’s dismissal. It’s low hanging fruit to throw in a reference to EON from a “source.” Maybe there’s something to it, but it doesn’t confirm any of the wild postulations you have been making.
Update: the Wall Street Journal just ran an article stating that the impetus for the firing was Barber’s lack of strategy related to digital media (streaming service). No mention of a dispute with EON.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iICd6fAR4Rk
Brilliant send-up. Loved it.
With apologies to Messrs Boyle, Hodge & Welsh:-
"Choose life. Choose Oddjob. Choose a mission. Choose M, Q, Moneypenny. Choose widescreen. Choose Little Nelly, a Lotus, a magnetic watch. Choose a Vodka Martini. Choose Felix. Choose a golden bullet. Choose a golden girl, Domino, Plenty O'Toole. Don't choose Madonna. Choose diving, skiing, parachutes. Choose voodoo. Choose the Bahamas, Switzerland, Japan... outer space! Choose a bloody big volcano. Choose sharks, crocodiles, piranhas. Choose a big adrenaline rush. Choose MI6. Choose Bond. Choose life!"
There seems to be a consensus not least of which coming from Daniel that after 25 he is (really) done so it looks like a non question to me (unless I have missed something) B-)
https://www.gamesradar.com/totalfilm/
(Alas I can't find a link to the Total Film story, so here it is reported second hand...
https://www.list.co.uk/article/99966-naomi-harris-backs-danny-boyle-for-james-bond/)
There should be more interviews with her about her film with Dwayne Johnson, RAMPAGE, popping up about now for that movies' publicity. It's release date is 13 April.
And Naomi is going to be on the Graham Norton show on Friday 13 April, Rampage's release date. I'd imagine Norton will ask a Bond related question.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/graham-norton-show/news/a853380/graham-norton-show-books-dwayne-johnson-martin-freeman-more/
Maybe we'll get confirmation she is in Bond25?
Naomi confirmed she was in Spectre while doing publicity for another movie in November 2013 - a whole 13 months before Spectre's production began.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/naomie-harris-finds-role-career-mandela-article-1.1524883
Here is the post. Discuss:
I've gained some more clarity on the situation:
Boyle will film the Richard Curtis comedy this summer. Then he will immediately begin pre-production on Bond 25. He will then shoot that film throughout 2019 and it will arrive in cinemas in November that year.
The release of the Richard Curtis comedy hasn't been set. The deal between Eon and Working Title allows for Boyle to edit the films concurrently. So when Bond 25 stops shooting, Danny will edit both films at the same time.
Despite being filmed first, you likely won't see the Richard Curtis comedy before you see Danny's Bond film.
Boyle is said to have a female villain at the centre of his Bond film and he is actively casting the role now. They want an A-list actress for the role. I've heard the usual suspects of A-listers who have supposedly met with Boyle or will meet with him. I have a friend at CAA and the part is billed as someone with a "personal connection" to Bond.
There is also a role of a young female MI6 agent who Bond is said to mentor. This role may even be informally cast already.
John Hodge has finished his draft. He will likely remain the sole writer of the project. Despite internet gossip, Danny Boyle is not officially writing the script.
Sounds great apart from the "personal connection" part 8-) Maybe it's Penny
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby