The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[dirtybenny]

As Babz is out in the cold nowadays, all the conventional casting wisdom can be thrown out the window.

[Kristatos]

Seth is out of his mind!

I think anyone who makes predictions with that much certainty is asking to be made a fool of.


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[kater23]

Josh is MUCH too bland(not blonde!) to be 007.

[James]

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/4 ... james-bond

Alfonso Cuaron Seemingly Confirms He’s Directing Next James Bond

The whispers we’ve been hearing might have had some merit to them. During a masterclass in Paris, Alfonso Cuarón implicitly confirmed discussions with Amazon/MGM to direct Bond 26.

There is indeed this project under discussion, and I have a desire — if it happens — to revisit this story in my own way.

Last month, a source inside of Amazon/MGM was telling Jeff Sneider that rumored Bond producer David Heyman was potentially eyeing Alfonso Cuarón to direct the next 007 instalment.

A few weeks later, Matt Belloni revealed that he’d also heard Cuarón could direct Bond 26, adding that the filmmaker had met with Amazon and has a new “take” for how the next one would look like.

Amazon wants to move quickly and have a team ready once the $1 billion rights deal is closed with Barbara Broccoli. Writers have already been hired for Bond 26; it makes sense that a director is now being eyed as well.

Back in the aughts, Cuarón had been offered to direct Bond, but the filmmaker was quickly turned off once he found out that there would be a separate Broccoli-approved team shooting the action.

[Kristatos]

Lots of weasel words like "seemingly" and "might" in there, but it looks like an announcement might not be too far off. No word on a script yet, though.

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[bjmdds]

Whenever it is stated a "new take" on this franchise, that is NOT what we want! Keep the character as he should be and do NOT reinvent him in their own image!

[dirtybenny]

Whenever it is stated a "new take" on this franchise, that is NOT what we want! Keep the character as he should be and do NOT reinvent him in their own image!

Agreed, unless that "new take" is moving away from whatever the hell Babz was doing these last 20 years. More troubling is this quote; "...revisit this story in my own way." That has the stink of remake written all over it.

[Kristatos]

Whenever it is stated a "new take" on this franchise, that is NOT what we want! Keep the character as he should be and do NOT reinvent him in their own image!

Cuaron did a pretty good job reinventing Harry Potter. Nobody ever said "they should go back to the style of the Chris Columbus films" after his entry in the series.

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[Omega]

What the hell is “ a separate broccoli approved team shooting the action”?


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[Omega]

Whenever it is stated a "new take" on this franchise, that is NOT what we want! Keep the character as he should be and do NOT reinvent him in their own image!

Agreed, unless that "new take" is moving away from whatever the hell Babz was doing these last 20 years. More troubling is this quote; "...revisit this story in my own way." That has the stink of remake written all over it.

I agree. I hope that’s what Amazon is trying to get the audience ready for is classic bond not Craig’s vanity project called bond. Best we can say is we got Babs bond not Ian Fleming’s

I kind of think revisit the story in my own way could mean remake or it could be the take on bond. Depending on what Amazon intent is.

1950-60s era correct would be hard to maintain .
Xmas first class series did ok, days of future past did ok. I like kingsman series modern take . Origins in ww1 was only so-so

What Amazon needs to learn from cubby is the the feel of his world , mi6, m, Moneypenny , Q, they have people with experience recreating fictional worlds. Others have recent success like X-men first class, the Mandalorian, but keeping world building constant in the movie universe is difficult. Babs couldn’t do it. Cubby managed it and we forgave him mediocre movies because we like his recipe.


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[kater23]

they killed off Craig’s Bond.(those b@stards!)Two words: Scorched earth

[Kristatos]

What the hell is “ a separate broccoli approved team shooting the action”?

I assume he means the action stuff would be handled by the second unit.

[Omega]

What the hell is “ a separate broccoli approved team shooting the action”?

I assume he means the action stuff would be handled by the second unit.

Yea but why do they have a “ broccoli approved” anything? I get eon has the history with bond but the action team being indispensable I don’t get. If anything I thought they brought down the last few movies being over polished and cgi corrected.


I kind of get the feeling there’s more details to their buyout like Babs having to say in some like Pascal and this production unit probably a few others.

George Lucas had a lot to say and what happened when Disneybought him out, Disney still did their own thing however, Kathleen Kennedy is poison to the brand and the series and they are stuck with her apparently

Pascal, I think is astute enough to let the experts do their work and take credit for it. so there’s a chance she doesn’t get in the way, there is there a chance she actually has something productive to add.

Heyman I hope can get the recipe similar to cubbys and keep it going. He has a track record of doing that so I think it’s possible.


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[quantex]

This Cuaron dude is all wrong for a Bond film. I looked into his bio/filmography and he rubs me the wrong way. Another Mendes/Marc Foster type, left-wing all the way, eager to criticize western imperialism, and wouldn't surprise me if added some virtue signaling like what Fukunaga did, trashing Connery's Bond stating the character was a rapist. Yeah man, thou art so noble in your BS, Mr. Fookin-nada, especially when you got slapped with allegations of sexual harassment after nttd's release. I noticed he hasn't been employed since then, and Heyman and Pascal hasn't been knocking on his door either to reprise his stint as a Bond director. But I can see Cuaron taking Fookin-nada's cue and criticize the series in some way to prop up his vision of Bond. His film Roma reeks of themes of reparations and exploitation of the working class, straight out of his Marxist roots. The guy grew up in that environment and is proud of his communist uncle.

Well, we'll just have to see what he does with Bond. It's not even clear if he's truly on board. He's being quoted with a vague line, "There is indeed this project under discussion, and I have a desire — if it happens — to revisit this story in my own way." What project? That can be any project that Amazon is developing.

[quantex]

More troubling is this quote; "...revisit this story in my own way." That has the stink of remake written all over it.

Yeah, that signals revisioning. If his comment really refers to the next bond film (the whole comment is so vague), then he's suggesting he's going to renovate, redo completely, the whole approach to Bond. One thing about the directors of the Brosnan films, despite whatever flaws you see in their works, they still had a reverence for the series. For example, my father has some magazines from the GoldenEye days. I was leafing through them and in one interview, Campbell said he looked at all the films, he wanted to see what exactly Terrence Young and Guy Hamilton did with Connery and Moore to make the character and those films work properly in that unique Bondian way. So far, Cuaron doesn't strike me as an admirer of the series. Instead, from that comment, he's eager to break away from it all.

[quantex]

Second was when the sequel to cr was being talked about, mgw had a script cubby canned because bond does not look back. Supposedly this early bond adventure type of scrip was going to be the basis for bond 22. That never happened .

Was this related to the early ideas about Bond discovering Vesper had given birth to his child? I also remember Broccoli saying they had briefly considered remaking OHMSS. Hard to believe they essentially ended up going back to both of those awful ideas for NTTD!

I consider QOS to be the worst Bond film simply because it fails at everything it sets out to do. It's the only Bond film that doesn't really stand on its own, and it's also a terrible attempt at a Bourne-style action film. Even though TND experienced similar production woes, it at least succeeds in being a competent action film with quality stunt work.

For the part about a child, I remember reading that it was Paul Haggis's idea to have Vesper as a single mother, she has this kid that Bond finds at the end of QOS but he leaves her behind. Michael Wilson didn't like the idea, said something about not being appropriate for Bond to do that because he knows what it's like to be an orphan. For the OHMSS remake, have a look at the book on the making of The World Is Not Enough. Dana Broccoli showed the movie to Purvis and Wade in MGM's private cinema so they can plunder it in some way for story elements. They ended up recreating something of that father-daughter triangle with Bond in OHMSS. But this time it's Elektra King as an oil heiress, her father Sir Robert King, and Brosnan's Bond.

[Omega]

Second was when the sequel to cr was being talked about, mgw had a script cubby canned because bond does not look back. Supposedly this early bond adventure type of scrip was going to be the basis for bond 22. That never happened .

Was this related to the early ideas about Bond discovering Vesper had given birth to his child? I also remember Broccoli saying they had briefly considered remaking OHMSS. Hard to believe they essentially ended up going back to both of those awful ideas for NTTD!

I consider QOS to be the worst Bond film simply because it fails at everything it sets out to do. It's the only Bond film that doesn't really stand on its own, and it's also a terrible attempt at a Bourne-style action film. Even though TND experienced similar production woes, it at least succeeds in being a competent action film with quality stunt work.

For the part about a child, I remember reading that it was Paul Haggis's idea to have Vesper as a single mother, she has this kid that Bond finds at the end of QOS but he leaves her behind. Michael Wilson didn't like the idea, said something about not being appropriate for Bond to do that because he knows what it's like to be an orphan. For the OHMSS remake, have a look at the book on the making of The World Is Not Enough. Dana Broccoli showed the movie to Purvis and Wade in MGM's private cinema so they can plunder it in some way for story elements. They ended up recreating something of that father-daughter triangle with Bond in OHMSS. But this time it's Elektra King as an oil heiress, her father Sir Robert King, and Brosnan's Bond.

Something odd about how Babs viewed bond, she would view him as someone who could abandon a child.
look at the literary character, he went out of his way to help someone he has no real obligation to. Honey Ryder is the first one who comes to mind I’m sure others more versed in the books can come up with better examples. My point is the character couldn’t abandon somebody like that. Mgw was right.

Babs had a very poor view of bond , daddy issues ?, the culture of the swinging 60s and 70s? Bad romance with Dalton? Something about bond she absolutely hated .


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[Jake]

I hope that’s what Amazon is trying to get the audience ready for is classic bond not Craig’s vanity project called bond. Best we can say is we got Babs bond not Ian Fleming’s

I kind of think revisit the story in my own way could mean remake or it could be the take on bond. Depending on what Amazon intent is.

1950-60s era correct would be hard to maintain .
Xmas first class series did ok, days of future past did ok. I like kingsman series modern take . Origins in ww1 was only so-so.

Yes, Cuaron's comment reminds me of the old rumor about Christopher Nolan having a unique take on the franchise he was interested in trying. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part but I interpret it as wanting to do a modern version of classic Bond. After all, at this point, the most radical thing anyone could do is...just send 007 on a normal spy mission!

I also agree about the limitations of a period setting. Much like attempting to duplicate OHMSS with a "serious" Bond film, you can do it once or twice before the novelty wears off and audiences start wanting to see a more traditional Bond once again.

[kater23]

Didn’tQuentin Tarantino want to do a retro CR at one point? I can’t recall details but it would have been bonkers.

[Omega]

Didn’tQuentin Tarantino want to do a retro CR at one point? I can’t recall details but it would have been bonkers.

I remember Tarantino talking about it. I don’t remember what the details were, but he thinks he showed Babs and MGW that you could make it into a movie.


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