My $0.02.

Of course the actors, Amazon and anyone with a financial stake is leaking this...the only question is how coordinated is the leaking?

Denis Villeneuve - good credits ... could be a good choice.

The actors...I'd just like someone who looks like Fleming's characterization of Bond ... "slim, ~ 6', man in his mid-to-late 30's, short black hair that falls in a comma over his right eyebrow, cold blue-grey eyes, a thin vertical scar on his right cheek, a rather cruel, thin-lipped mouth, piratical good looks of Hoagy Carmichael."

Where to place the movies and what direction? The novels ran from roughly "51 - '64. Prime Cold War era. SMERSH, other Soviet tied baddies and finally SPECTRE. I just don't see how you tackle these in a real new way ... tired of the Marvel or DC type super-villians. The whole Craig franchise basically turned it all into romance novella's... trauma, grief, and the search for feminine meaning ... no different than how Nolen screwed up The Odyssey.

I want the Fleming character...not some modern feminist reinterpretation from a Werewolf porn novel.

Maybe do a true origin story. Screw these guys already in their late 30's. Go with 17 year old Bond entering Naval service and bring him forward to the point where he is Commander Bond and has the "license to kill" . Start it in roughly 1938/1939 (would put Bond born in roughly 1920 in line with the books) and it gives you a hell of a decade and story lines to work with (events leading up to the War, the War, the start of the Cold War)... get someone fresh and bring them forward in time.

And oh, if they pick Turner, you do realize we will have to deal with the "Dua Lipa" as Bond girl frenzie that will result. You think Kelce and Swift ruined watching the NFL...hold on....

I've read many of the books (great reading for a teenager) and had an unbroken string of seeing Bond in theatres that ran from the time I was old enough to get in a theater alone (in ~9th grade) until the last couple of Craig films ruined it (and of course saw many of the older ones when they would be rerun in theaters)..Bond was always one thing you had to see in the theater...I'd like for that feeling to come back.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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japantiger said:

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My $0.02.

Of course the actors, Amazon and anyone with a financial stake is leaking this...the only question is how coordinated is the leaking?

Denis Villeneuve - good credits ... could be a good choice.

The actors...I'd just like someone who looks like Fleming's characterization of Bond ... "slim, ~ 6', man in his mid-to-late 30's, short black hair that falls in a comma over his right eyebrow, cold blue-grey eyes, a thin vertical scar on his right cheek, a rather cruel, thin-lipped mouth, piratical good looks of Hoagy Carmichael."

Where to place the movies and what direction? The novels ran from roughly "51 - '64. Prime Cold War era. SMERSH, other Soviet tied baddies and finally SPECTRE. I just don't see how you tackle these in a real new way ... tired of the Marvel or DC type super-villians. The whole Craig franchise basically turned it all into romance novella's... trauma, grief, and the search for feminine meaning ... no different than how Nolen screwed up The Odyssey.

I want the Fleming character...not some modern feminist reinterpretation from a Werewolf porn novel.

Maybe do a true origin story. Screw these guys already in their late 30's. Go with 17 year old Bond entering Naval service and bring him forward to the point where he is Commander Bond and has the "license to kill" . Start it in roughly 1938/1939 (would put Bond born in roughly 1920 in line with the books) and it gives you a hell of a decade and story lines to work with (events leading up to the War, the War, the start of the Cold War)... get someone fresh and bring them forward in time.

And oh, if they pick Turner, you do realize we will have to deal with the "Dua Lipa" as Bond girl frenzie that will result. You think Kelce and Swift ruined watching the NFL...hold on....

I've read many of the books (great reading for a teenager) and had an unbroken string of seeing Bond in theatres that ran from the time I was old enough to get in a theater alone (in ~9th grade) until the last couple of Craig films ruined it (and of course saw many of the older ones when they would be rerun in theaters)..Bond was always one thing you had to see in the theater...I'd like for that feeling to come back.

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I actually like this approach. I think it would probably not work. Audiences want 007 with his license to kill - starting him entering the Navy then WWII is likely to face the Prometheus problem ( an Alien movie with no Alien).

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I can think of several ways to tell the story...Fleming, and Bond, were prodigies...and a product of the old class. He was placed in the Special Branch at 17 after getting expelled from Eaton (over trouble with a maid!!!!) and then doing well at Fettes (student, boxer, wrestler). He lives across Europe, fluent in French and German, etc. The story alone of how an orphan winds up where he is trusted running espionage missions in early War Europe (and barely 17) would make a great story. He doesn't have to kill Blofeld in the first movie... it also has the advantage of not getting you tied to the source material near as much. You could even make him just a couple of years older and have him involved before the NAzi's invade Poland...Churchill involved, etc...

If Amazon is monitoring this conversation, I am happy to consult.