- It will be a man.
- He will likely be in his 30s.
- Whoever says yes is doing so with the expectation of at least a decade’s worth of films.
- “Whiteness is not a given”.
Not exactly a massive revaluation but I hope they’re bold enough to be different.
Not a huge amount of room to be different, but not sure I’d expect much more either.
I’m not sure it makes much sense to gender swap, feels like it would be hard without changing the character significantly. Happy to be proven wrong though.
A new character in the same universe would be easier. It’s a shame they never spun off Hallie Berry’s character, that could have been interesting.
The Jinx film almost happened. There was a script, a director in Stephen Frears but apparently MGM got cold feet spending $80m on the film.
Berry said,
“It was very disappointing. It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren’t sure of its value. That’s where we were then.”
Aww, I never heard of that, shame.
Modesty Blaise was supposed to be a ‘refugee’ raised in ‘the Middle East.’ She could be Kashmiri, Afghan, or Iraqi.
I’d do it with two actresses; a fifty-something Modesty narrating her life story and a younger actress for the early years.
- Whoever says yes is doing so with the expectation of at least a decade’s worth of films.
There was six years between Spectre and No Time to Die, so… two films?
Wasn’t No Time to Die delayed due to Covid?
I think the bigger question is which tone the new films will be in. Are they going to continue on the more grounded tone they’ve been doing recently, or will they do some campy nostalgia bait?
god i hope they go back to being campy. the austin powers franchise inflicted generational trauma on bond that they should really deal with.
I believe it was more the success of the Bourne movies that set the tone of the Craig era.
definitely that too, but the franchise owners and Craig have called out austin powers as a catalyst in the past.
[The pivot] had to happen the way it did. I can’t see it happening any other way. We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us - I am a huge Mike Myers fan, so don’t get me wrong - but he kind of fucked us; made it impossible to do the gags.
– Daniel Craig, 2012
I’m not a fan of campy, I love the gritty haunted bond we had with Craig.
Austin powers is fun but it’s not interesting (to me).
I grew up starting with GoldenEye which was a strange movie, a little corniness but serious stuff too. I enjoyed the transition to a more serious bond from Brosnans.
Quentin Tarantino and I [and probably a lot of other folks] came up with the idea of setting the next Bond back in the 1960s.
They should do a faithful-to-the-book adaptation of Moonraker!
Straight out of the mid-50s, an ICBM pointing at London and in a countdown. A race against time! (and Hugo Drax)
Can he be Spanish or Latin? Korean would be nice as well.
