Classic Bond Forum

Baz Bamigboye used to have a terrible reputation. He was always reporting that each new Bond film would be called Avatar (before James Cameron finally beat them to it), that Anthony Hopkins was going to play the villain etc. But he scooped the story that Moneypenny would appear in Skyfall, and I th...

Martin Landau dies at 89. This post concentrates on Mission: Impossible with mention of other spy stories he participated in.

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// I mean were Keaton, Kilmer, and Clooney supposed to be the same Batmen? // Technically, yes because they all had the same Alfred (Michael Gough) and same Commissioner Gordon (Pat Hingle). Of course, there inconsistencies even there. Gordon wore suits in the first three movies but had a dress poli...

Some questions about the Mirror's story.

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Were the Fantastic Four movies Sony? I started to watch the first one on TV and had to turn it off, it was so bad (by "the first one", I don't mean the Roger Corman one, which was at least bad in an entertaining way). The sequels are apparently no better. That was 20th Century Fox. At one point, Fo...

The 1978 movie that foretold the future of 007 films

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Hooper, starring Burt Reynolds as an aging stuntman working on a James Bond-like movie being helmed by an "auteur" director, Roger Deal (Robert Klein). With Adam West as Adam, the star of the James Bond-like movie.

Fred Koenekamp, Oscar-winning director of photography, dies at 94

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Meanwhile, this trailer for Logan Lucky has gone online.

Roger Moore, an appreciation.

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"As late as 1972, people could ask in all seriousness whether Bond could survive Connery’s departure. After Moore’s 12 years as Bond, that wasn’t a question anymore."

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//I don't recall who the distributors are being a big deal before Sony get involved. Maybe it was because MGM could distribute themselves, dunno.// Sony was part of a group that bought MGM. That's how Sony became involved with Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. MGM then went bankrupt, reorganized ...

"Little things" that are bothersome about the New York Post 007 story. http://bit.ly/2o8taAj good break down of actual facts. Trying to follow the updates what was the bond rumor the guy was trying to quash ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro I think he was trying quash the idea that Hiddlesto...

Bond 25 script writing update.

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"Little things" that are bothersome about the New York Post 007 story.

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It's official: Time for Bond fans to cool off about Bond 25

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From above article:However, when I was in Los Angeles, an executive at a studio close to the Bond franchise told me that while Broccoli is keen on Huston, she is also 'absolutely keen on having a black actor playing Bond'. 'It's just finding the actor,' I was told, and then: 'In fact, she doesn't c...

re: MGM At this point, the company is mostly a producer of reality or other "unscripted" television shows. Page 5 of this release from earlier this week lists its movie and TV productions fro 2017. http://s3.amazonaws.com/mgm-assets/assets/pdfs/investor-relations/YE%202016%20Financial%20Report.pdf B...

Modest proposals to tweak the Oscars telecast. http://bit.ly/2mE0vPS

Why nobody should be surprised that "nothing is happening."

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From the news stories, it sounds like it is Sony, rather than EON, who are desperate to have Craig back, and making it a condition of their putting the money up for it. Back in September, Radar Online ran the story where Craig supposedly was being offered $150 million to do two more Bond movies. Th...