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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    What are your thoughts about Chris Corbould's comments about Bond 25?

    He said: "[It’s] very exciting. I’m not going to talk about it, but I can’t remember being so excited about going on to a Bond. It’s going to be very, very special.”

    He was also asked at a roundtable interview if there would be a similar focus on realism with Bond 25.
    He added: “I wouldn’t be doing it otherwise. Think the Olympics.”

    The "very special" line couold of cource be the usual hypeing of the next movie, but it could also mean something.
    But what about the Olympics comment? I agree with Jamesbondradio that the only really special thing about the Bond segment at the Olympics ceremony was the royal connection. So will there be some royal connection to Bond25? (perhaps a Casino? :)) )

    I can't imagine anyone playing a member of the royal family in a Bond movie, and them playing themselves is even more riddiculus.
    Having a plot revolving around the royal family is far too old fashioned. Perhaps Bond stops an attack on the Buckingham or Windsor Palace in the PTS? Perhaps as a start of a terror campaign too free Blofeld?
  • superdaddysuperdaddy englandPosts: 917MI6 Agent
    Bond has a fling with Megan and Harry orders a kill order on Bond? :))
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    I forgot there is an actresses in the British royal family now.
    The campaign for Meghan Markle as Bond girl starts here! :))
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    You forget Prince Edward :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    How so?
    Do you think he'd be willling to be the chairman of the campaign?
    Or perhaps you consider him to be an actor too, based on a liftime of public appearances of a theatrical nature?
    :D :007)
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    He'd be happy to be the leading lady :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • SomeoneSomeone Posts: 1,543MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I can't imagine anyone playing a member of the royal family in a Bond movie, and them playing themselves is even more ridiculous. Having a plot revolving around the royal family is far too old fashioned. Perhaps Bond stops an attack on the Buckingham or Windsor Palace in the PTS? Perhaps as a start of a terror campaign too free Blofeld?

    They filmed outside Buck Palace for DAD. They could recreate the Palace's interior at Pinewood, or Windsor Castle, which might be equally famous now after the Harry/Megan wedding.

    Maybe a "White House Down" like sequence for Bond25?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    Yes. But I don't think the royal family should be the main goal of the villan, and the attack shouldn't be the main action sequence. It would be good for the PTS.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Anyone remember the crap FYEO got for having Margaret Thatcher in it ? ....... can't help but feel if this rumour
    is true, Bond 25 will be in line for similar criticism, ....... eventually :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,292MI6 Agent
    Anyone remember the crap FYEO got for having Margaret Thatcher in it ? ....... can't help but feel if this rumour
    is true, Bond 25 will be in line for similar criticism, ....... eventually :D

    Rumour? Isnt it Number24 speculating
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Whatever Number24 want's to do in his private life is fine with me. ;) ..... but yes, sorry should have
    been speculating.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    It's me speculating based on speculations on Jamesbondradio based on Chris Corbould's "Think the Olympics" comment. :s
  • SomeoneSomeone Posts: 1,543MI6 Agent
    I'm all for speculating, so here is my speculation based on the speculation so far and the titbits from the likes of Corbould and Callow.

    In the PTS, Bond, no longer with MI6, is at Buck Palace to receive a medal for his services to the Empire, and his wife, Madeleine Swann, is with him. 'Terrorists' attack Buck Palace before the Royals arrive for the ceremony (just to keep them out of the picture), and Bond thwarts their attack and the 'terrorists' are captured/killed and one of the 'terrorists' captured/killed is connected with the [see Bond 25 SPOILER news thread] and they find out Bond was the one that did it. The first act and part of the second act is Bond and Swann on the run from said terrorists who have tracked them down to the USA where they are visiting Felix Leiter and Mrs Sciarra. In the middle of Act II Madeleine is killed. Bond, still retired from MI6, joins Leiter's CIA mission - the scene at CIA HQ - to go after the 'terrorists' who are actually [See Bond 25 SPOILER news thread] and have other goals related to world domination/extortion/annihilation [delete as applicable] and the rest of the film is [See Bond 25 SPOILER news thread]/the usual Bond stuff, hopefully with a villain's lair being stormed at the end with the help of the US Marines.
  • HowardBHowardB USAPosts: 2,743MI6 Agent
    All these speculative narratives are interesting to say the least but I have my own speculative theory: Swann, for better or worse could be no more than a footnote in Bond 25. Buckingham Palace and the Royals could be another story. I will say, people over here in the USA eat up anything with the Royal Family. I just wouldn't want a "Buckingham Palace Down" derivative film. I would like to believe that Hodge and Boyle would have come up with something more original or at least derivative of something Fleming.
  • zaphod99zaphod99 Posts: 1,415MI6 Agent
    HowardB wrote:
    All these speculative narratives are interesting to say the least but I have my own speculative theory: Swann, for better or worse could be no more than a footnote in Bond 25. Buckingham Palace and the Royals could be another story. I will say, people over here in the USA eat up anything with the Royal Family. I just wouldn't want a "Buckingham Palace Down" derivative film. I would like to believe that Hodge and Boyle would have come up with something more original or at least derivative of something Fleming.

    We live in hope. Personally I'd also be surprised if Boyle does anything so cheesy and crass. This news vacuum and intolerable wait is driving us all nuts. B-) Stay Frosty, I'm sure that we'll have more to go on soonish...
    Of that of which we cannot speak we must pass over in silence- Ludwig Wittgenstein.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    A film where the royal family/palace is at the center of the plot would be wrong, but I don't think that will happen. But it might be involved in a sequence, such as the PTS.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    A stealth helicopter sits above Buckingham palace, several
    Assailants descend on ropes . Only to be confronted by
    Her Majesty herself, in a fantastic display of combined
    Martial arts and are soon quickly dispatched as from her
    Private quarters holding his weapon stands Bond.
    " would seem your foster brother is sending a message "
    " yes mam. "
    " as if I didn't have enough problems with my own family !
    Deal with this James "
    "Is that an order mam? "
    " more, a Royal Command "
    Smiling she points at the crest on Bond's underpants which
    Reads ( by appointment to her majesty )
    " Now James, let one help you look for that stationery "
    " How apt, from Royal Command, to command performance "

    Titles begin with Gary Barlow warbling over the imagery
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,292MI6 Agent
    A stealth helicopter sits above Buckingham palace, several
    Assailants descend on ropes . Only to be confronted by
    Her Majesty herself, in a fantastic display of combined
    Martial arts and are soon quickly dispatched as from her
    Private quarters holding his weapon stands Bond.
    " would seem your foster brother is sending a message "
    " yes mam. "
    " as if I didn't have enough problems with my own family !
    Deal with this James "
    "Is that an order mam? "
    " more, a Royal Command "
    Smiling she points at the crest on Bond's underpants which
    Reads ( by appointment to her majesty )
    " Now James, let one help you look for that stationery "
    " How apt, from Royal Command, to command performance "

    Titles begin with Gary Barlow warbling over the imagery

    lol - Gary Barlow
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    Finally someone who understood what I ment :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,224Chief of Staff
    A stealth helicopter sits above Buckingham palace, several
    Assailants descend on ropes . Only to be confronted by
    Her Majesty herself, in a fantastic display of combined
    Martial arts and are soon quickly dispatched as from her
    Private quarters holding his weapon stands Bond.
    " would seem your foster brother is sending a message "
    " yes mam. "
    " as if I didn't have enough problems with my own family !
    Deal with this James "
    "Is that an order mam? "
    " more, a Royal Command "
    Smiling she points at the crest on Bond's underpants which
    Reads ( by appointment to her majesty )
    " Now James, let one help you look for that stationery "
    " How apt, from Royal Command, to command performance "

    Titles begin with Gary Barlow warbling over the imagery

    Mind if I steal this, TP......? AA_OLD_MAN_3.jpg And use it ...er... in a different context.
  • Westward_DriftWestward_Drift Posts: 3,091MI6 Agent
    Which Shakespearean parody/pastiche will it be?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,224Chief of Staff
    Who, me....? Would I do a thing like that? B-)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,224Chief of Staff
    I'm terribly disappointed that no-one came up with the obvious answer to the question above- here's a clue:

    AA_OLD_MAN_3.jpg

    However, in answer to Westward Drift's question.... https://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/925606/#p925606
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    edited July 2018
    Camilla Stephenson is reported to be the new supervising location manager for Bond25 by Jamesbond Denmark and IMDB. Stephenson is currently working on the movie Boyle is making now with Richard Curtis. Stephenson has worked on some really good movies such as "The king's speech" and "Eastern Promises".
    She has worked mainly in Britain, but she also worked on Jo Nesbø's The Snowman. Location work was one of the few positives of that movie, but I suspect local location people helped her out.
    Let's hope this addition to the crew isn't a sign that much of Bond25 will be set in Britain.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    edited July 2018
    Outside of the British Isles Camilla Stephenson has worked in the Netherlands, Norway, Paris, Spain, Egypt, NY and New England in six movies (I think) . That's six movies out of 45 movies where she has worked outside Britain. She lists the London as her area of expertise.
    This may mean nothing, of course.
  • SomeoneSomeone Posts: 1,543MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Outside of the British Isles Camilla Stephenson has worked in the Netherlands, Norway, Paris, Spain, Egypt, NY and New England in six movies (I think) . That's six movies out of 45 movies where she has worked outside Britain. She lists the London as her area of expertise.
    This may mean nothing, of course.

    Here's the Tweet that announced her involvement.
    https://twitter.com/JamesBondde/status/1021362228770082816

    James Bond Brasil found Camilla Stephenson's webpage and Spain is one of her areas of exeprtise.
    https://www.jamesbondbrasil.com/2018/07/location-manager-bond-25/

    DC was filming in Spain earlier this year for a Heineken advert, allegedly. Coincidence?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    Bond has barely filmed in Spain before (TWINE PTS), so I'd welcome that.
  • SomeoneSomeone Posts: 1,543MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Camilla Stephenson...lists the London as her area of expertise. This may mean nothing, of course.

    This story says that Centre Point tower in London was being considered for Bond25 with 007 landing on its roof by parachute or helicopter.
    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/08/high-life-student-becomes-one-of-centre-point-first-residents
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,766MI6 Agent
    I wonder if it will "play" it self or some other, foreign tower?
    If the report is true, of course.
  • Miles MesservyMiles Messervy Posts: 1,758MI6 Agent
    edited July 2018
    I just don’t want to see Bond parodying itself like it did whenever Spectre attempted humor or nostalgia. If Bond is going to parachute onto a building from a helicopter, that’s great as long as it’s real and CGI isn’t used. But please don’t throw in a Union Jack parachute or Bond changing into a dinner jacket. It just doesn’t work with Craig’s Bond. Just keep the gun barrel at the beginning and use Bond theme gratuitously and most everyone (even the anti-Craig nostalgia junkies) will be satisfied that they are watching a Bond film.
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