Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
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It’s funny... the more people speculate about who’s going to play James Bond now that Brosnan is gone, the less I find I give a shit. Ultimately, it’s not the actor who determines how those films are made or what direction the series is headed. As always, that decision is still in the hands of Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, which means it’s going to remain business as usual. I can’t imagine them discarding the formula they cling to so desperately in order to really shake things up. That’s why you’re never going to see a Quentin Tarantino CASINO ROYALE adapted faithfully from the book. It just doesn’t make sense in EON’s world view of what a “James Bond movie” should be. Instead, we’re going to get a Martin Campbell CASINO ROYALE that will bear a passing resemblance to the novel at best.
One of the directors who was discussing taking over as director for the next James Bond film was Matthew Vaughn, who appears to be a big raving Ian Fleming fan. He wants to make a real, no-shit gritty spy film, and I think he realized early on that he was never going to get that chance if he was working on a 007 film. Instead, he has moved over to Warner Bros., where he has been handed a property that he can shape any way he chooses. Right now, he’s making his deal (it’s not quite finalized yet) to direct THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., and it sounds like he wants to make something tense and brutal and balls-to-the-wall. Vaughn’s LAYER CAKE was a promising directorial debut, and it sounds like the next few projects he’s planning to make could be really exciting.
On some level, I hope he hands Bond his ass. The BOURNE films are already clearly better than Bond, and if this franchise can render it even more obsolete, that’s a good thing. Maybe someday someone will be able to go back to Bond and finally make some good movies again, since it won’t be happening any time soon.
"Moriarty" out.
