The farce that is the Production of the Bond franchise continues. After dumping Pierce Brosnan so abruptly, and ignoring one of the best offers there could be in the guise of Quentin Tarantino offering to direct possibly the best Bond novel around, Casino Royale, you decide to do the most intelligent thing. Make the movie yourselves.
IMDB carry the story:
On the heels of recent speculation that Quentin Tarantino was considering the possibility of remaking the James Bond thriller Casino Royale with Pierce Brosnan in the starring role, published reports in the U.K. now indicate that Eon Productions, which has produced the Bond films for MGM, has decided to make Casino Royale on its own — without the involvement of either Tarantino or Brosnan.
I can’t help but think they’ve really missed a trick here, pulling Tarantino in to direct the next Bond flick with a brand new Bond, might just swing public opinion towards the new actor as he’ll be dropped in the middle of a fantastic movie and just can’t help but shine. Right now I think most people are wondering why in the hell they let Brosnan go when he’s willing to keep going and is superb!
There are downsides though, after Tarantino you couldn’t go back to the standard franchise could you? You really would have to start using cool Directors after that and taking the films in different directions, there goes your merchandising, etc. I don’t know, still sounds like a cracking idea to me. However, that’s why I’m sitting here with a headache and typing on my computer and not directing a film with millions of dollars as a budget.
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It would have been completely appropriate for Tarantino to direct the new Bond film… I mean he’s been stealing, sorry “appropriating”, from other films for every film he’s ever made…
Personally I’d rather see the Bond franchise die out completely before Tarantino took over a film. He may as well just attempt to create his own franchise series with a new character because he would completely rape Bond of its charm. I don’t just have a beef against Tarantino helming the film, but any other director who is referred to as “cool” before “original” or “talented”.
Of course they wouldn’t use Tarantino… it is too perfect of an idea.
Bond is a dead franchise… at least for me.
It hurts to watch a Bond film and realize that pretty much every film, including many back in the 60s, are more or less regurgitated over and over again.
Adding anything truly fresh to a franchise is anathema to studios.
Hell… same applies to comic book characters like Batman and Superman who’ve been around for 60+ years now.
The “brands” are so resistant to change that the same old stories are regurgitated, though by different authors, over and over and over again without any ability to grow or change the characters.
I think Bond is in the same boat.