The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

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A new report from Radar Online alleges that Amazon executives are struggling to come up with a new onboarding point for the next James Bond movie, from director Denis Villeneuve and writer Steven Knight, partially because they believe that a new film will have to explain why James Bond is up and about doing spyfi things after he got blown up by missiles in No Time to Die. “The last time we saw Bond, he was poisoned and blown to smithereens—how will they get past the fact he is dead with a capital D?”

If they really are insisting on taking that nonsense seriously then they have other problems. Blofeld is dead. Leiter is dead. Even when alive "Bond" was retirement age.

I think their best option is to just pretend it never happened, but failing that drop in some reference to imply the new film is years earlier than those events. Either that or go for the totally outlandish YOLT style introduction, making out it was all part of the plan in the most spectacular way possible.

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There was a rumour that the next film would start with Bond still a naval commander, being recruited by MI6. I'm not keen on the idea, but it would make it explicit that this was not a direct sequel to NTTD.

Yeah, not keen on that either. It could be interesting but I would say there is more chance the concept will come across badly. They already did the origin thing once with Craig and then having him ready for retirement just a few missions later.

If there is any truth to the rumor it could be an indication they want to cast a very young actor, a bit like Chris Pine as Captain Kirk. I think that would be an awful idea.

Then of course it raises that question again of whether the events of all our favorite Bond films would actually happen to this new Bond or not, and yeah, the codename gang would just love that.

[Kristatos]

If there is any truth to the rumor it could be an indication they want to cast a very young actor, a bit like Chris Pine as Captain Kirk. I think that would be an awful idea.

Well, they've been saying for a while now that they want to cast someone aged around 30, so I think you're just going to have to resign yourself to it. Personally, I'm not opposed, Bond was in his mid-thirties in the novels, IIRC.

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Well, they've been saying for a while now that they want to cast someone aged around 30, so I think you're just going to have to resign yourself to it. Personally, I'm not opposed, Bond was in his mid-thirties in the novels, IIRC.

I'll reserve judgment until I see who they cast, what happens in the film and how well they do in the role. Around 30 could be OK, so long as we're not talking about a 27 year old who looks about 21!

[Kristatos]

Well, they've been saying for a while now that they want to cast someone aged around 30, so I think you're just going to have to resign yourself to it. Personally, I'm not opposed, Bond was in his mid-thirties in the novels, IIRC.

I'll reserve judgment until I see who they cast, what happens in the film and how well they do in the role. Around 30 could be OK, so long as we're not talking about a 27 year old who looks about 21!

Yeah, I'm glad Tom Holland has been pretty much ruled out. I don't dislike the guy, but he's not Bond.

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[bjmdds]

Holland would be a laughing stock as Bond and anyone even entertaining such a thought at Amazon should be fired!-----Comicbook.com: We’re already four years removed from No Time To Die, and while Bond 26 has a director in Denis Villeneuve, plus a writer in Stephen Knight, there’s no sign of production beginning anytime soon. It doesn’t have a finished script, nor is there a new 007 actor in place (despite a lot of scuttlebutt). That means it’s all but guaranteed to have the longest gap between movies in Bond history, which is currently the six years, four months from Licence to Kill to GoldenEye. The gap from Spectre to No Time To Die comes close, at just under six years.

[Kristatos]

No, production won't begin until Dune Messiah is in the can, and that's not out until the end of next year.

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[bjmdds]

The log in did not recognize me now. I had to do an additional step to log in. WHAT?--------Pierce Brosnan has hinted he could “entertain” returning to the James Bond film franchise as a retired agent. The 72-year-old Irish actor, who played 007 in four films from 1995-2002, ruled out returning to the role of the active secret agent, but said he was open to appearing in a project related to the franchise. In an interview with British GQ, Brosnan said: “Of course, people ask about Bond – ‘would you?’ and whatever – but that’s another man’s job. But the possibilities of working within that film, entertaining....“So it’s going to be exciting to see what happens. I think everything changes, everything falls apart, so you just sit back and enjoy it all.”

[kater23]

That’s weird.. *touches wood*.

It was behind a paywall so I couldn’t read it but there was a GQ article about the best Bonds,rated. Might try to find ther non paywall version of the story.

[Kristatos]

That’s weird.. *touches wood*.

It was behind a paywall so I couldn’t read it but there was a GQ article about the best Bonds,rated. Might try to find ther non paywall version of the story.

I'm sure it'll just be the same old conventional wisdom, with Craig (or Connery if we're lucky) at the top and Dalton at the bottom

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[kater23]

Exactly.Probably Craig with Connery and Moore second and third, and Lazeby,Brosnan and Dalton afterthoughts.

[Omega]

RIP Lee Tamahori. It's considered bad form to speak ill of the recently deceased, so all I will say is that he directed Die Another Day, which is a film that was made.

https://deadline.com/2025/11/lee-tamaho ... 236610773/

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Hey, he directed the last true Bond film, for all it's faults, Bond was still Bond and wasn't pissing and moaning about some bird he hung out with for a couple of weeks once. Nor was Blofeld his foster brother or was he getting felt up by the villain and liking it!

So saying that rest in piece legend!

Agreed, he tried to make something close to a Bond movie. I liked the first half of DAD

First half was on the money. But they , Babs and Mgw, wanted to copy the matrix and have an anniversary movie , which we didn’t need over the previous 39 years but what do I know.


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[Omega]

She's already said that she doesn't want to do it. Anyway, they're not going to cast the Bond girl before they've cast Bond.

I don’t think she too big for Bond , it’s just that bond has a bad track record for female leads/ Bond girls.

If they can work out how to bring her on board they will. She’d be a good get if they can get a decent story .


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[Omega]

A new report from Radar Online alleges that Amazon executives are struggling to come up with a new onboarding point for the next James Bond movie, from director Denis Villeneuve and writer Steven Knight, partially because they believe that a new film will have to explain why James Bond is up and about doing spyfi things after he got blown up by missiles in No Time to Die. “The last time we saw Bond, he was poisoned and blown to smithereens—how will they get past the fact he is dead with a capital D?” Author Anthony Horowitz, who has penned several Bond books for the estate of Ian Fleming, told Radar Online, commenting on insider sources declaring the decision to kill Bond in No Time to Die “a massive mistake” that is proving “almost impossible” to undo. “I think that was a mistake, because Bond is a legend. He belongs to everybody, he is eternal—except in that film. If I was asked tomorrow to write the script, I wouldn’t be able to do it. Where would you start? You can’t have him waking up in the shower and saying it was all a dream.” (reference to Dallas bringing back Bobby Ewing)

Proves that Anthony Horowitz is a hack. He’s either lying, completely incompetent , or just plain unimaginative


How do you explain the reboot? They didn’t they just did it, then tried to cash in on the image of the legacy each movie.

It’s not hard to get bond going again. The only question is do you want to reboot again or just make a movie.

If thunderball and casino royale rights (Warner Brothers, and Sony tried ) were their own, separate from DANJAQ rights, were used to make another series the studios involved weren’t planning on doing an origin story or explaining where it fits. They’re just gonna make the movies.

In the age of multiverse over use in plot development I don’t think you’d have much resistance to just bond being bond doing the job.

Get a solid movie that sparks a fire out of the embers Babs left behind , then worry about where it fits in the franchise or story arcs .


Unless they reboot from day one. Which I’d think would be a mistake.


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[Omega]

Well, they've been saying for a while now that they want to cast someone aged around 30, so I think you're just going to have to resign yourself to it. Personally, I'm not opposed, Bond was in his mid-thirties in the novels, IIRC.

I'll reserve judgment until I see who they cast, what happens in the film and how well they do in the role. Around 30 could be OK, so long as we're not talking about a 27 year old who looks about 21!

Yeah, I'm glad Tom Holland has been pretty much ruled out. I don't dislike the guy, but he's not Bond.

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He’s no Nathan Drake. He’d be a miserable Pascal toady choice.


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Pierce Brosnan has hinted he could “entertain” returning to the James Bond film franchise as a retired agent. The 72-year-old Irish actor, who played 007 in four films from 1995-2002, ruled out returning to the role of the active secret agent, but said he was open to appearing in a project related to the franchise. In an interview with British GQ, Brosnan said: “Of course, people ask about Bond – ‘would you?’ and whatever – but that’s another man’s job. But the possibilities of working within that film, entertaining....“So it’s going to be exciting to see what happens. I think everything changes, everything falls apart, so you just sit back and enjoy it all.”

I've got mixed feelings really about Pierce playing someone other than Bond in the films. I would prefer if it was some kind of flash forward to show an older Bond but then that would be an unusual thing to have in this franchise for no good reason.

I think just having him do a cameo could be a bit gimmicky and if he plays a retired agent, that is more fodder for the codename theory lovers, which wouldn't be great.

If he has a decent role with a decent bit of action, then go for it, though. It's all very much up to him of course though and good if he is being offered involvement.

[kater23]

Yeah..better to avoid anything that smacks of fan service .Give them an inch.. but if they could find a role for him that works-without working fanboys up in a later-sure!