The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[FormerBondFan]

Karate Kid remake? Anyone think it grosses over $30 million opening weekend in the USA?

It'll have a certain appeal. Though it's not one that I'd rush out to see.
It'll probably do well in the USA, you guys'll watch any rubbish.

I'm getting really retired of remakes.

[Captain Nash]

"I just think he'll go on from strength to strength," "He's a fantastically good actor."

Gold Judi, Gold.

[Omega]

For her part, Dench can't wait for the chance to reunite with Craig. "I just think he'll go on from strength to strength," she said. "He's a fantastically good actor."

So how do comments like this go down with the good folk around here?
Dench a highly respected actress gives Craig a massive thumbs up. Must hurt.

Or you can post it twice. Deja view Ask Dench about Pierce she'll blush like a school girl and gush about him as well. Does Harvey have any recent news? I know it was a happier time 8 months ago months before MGM dragged Bond 23 down with it You know the new Red Dawn was postponed indefinitely too bad I thought it might be good.



I like this poster using the Chinese makes it cutting edge in its own way.

[katied]

British Baddie Mark Strong puts his name in the James Bond villain’s hat

The London-born actor that has shot to stardom playing villains in recent times has suggested he would be willing to take on James Bond next – possibly in the new James Bond movie, the yet-titled Bond 23.


Famed for the recent Hollywood revival of Sherlock Holmes, Strong has worked with current 007 actor, Daniel Craig, before on the BBC drama Our Friends in the North.

According to the Aces Showbiz blog, Strong has said that he “would like to be a Bond villain if it was interesting. I choose every part according to whether I respond to the character. I love the fact that playing the villain is such an honorable profession and it’s been elevated to a particular title in those movies – there’s the Bond girl and the Bond villain.”

He's got a serious case of fug.. for him to be the typical Bond villain they won't have to do much. Bald guys don't do it for me(as I've said on other threads ). He even was in a adaptation of one of the Jane Austen books as the love interest . Give me a Colin Firth or Jeremy Northam in the Austen movies...at least they're good looking!

[Harvey danish]

Nash stop being a butt munch...........

[Harvey danish]

I don't care for DC as Bond-a-sun... just plugging in what came across the screen.......

[carl stromberg]

I think Nash is a bit desperate if he is posting a Dame Judi quote praising Daniel Craig!

What do you expect her to say: "I can't stand that dreadful man, but I am looking forward to topping up my pension fund with yet another cameo appearance as M."

[Harvey danish]

She’s back in the spotlight again!

This time the English paper the Mirror has an “insider” source that tells us that Freida Pinto, Slumdog Millionaire star has won a role in James Bond 23. Not even Pinto and her agent can deter the presses from “confirming” her as a James Bond girl. An insider reportedly says:

“Sam has been talking about Bond for months now and is so excited about it.

“The project has been in the pipeline for months and Freida was always the dream Bond girl, but initially she was nervous about accepting it. This is going to be the most ambitious 007 yet. Sam plans to reinvent the genre.

“Peter Morgan, who wrote The Queen, has penned the first draft of the script and it promises to be visually stunning.

“It will be a typically glamorous and raunchy role and Dev has been joking to friends he is cool with seeing Freida rolling around with 007.”

Bond23.net can’t find a second source to corroborate.

Would Pinto take the James Bong girl anyway? Readers will recall her voicing her thoughts about being ‘too young’ for any Bond girl role.

The article in question also says that the new James Bond movie is likely to shoot in “the Afghan capital Kabul” – at least the rumors are consistent.

[Harvey danish]

almost as important as Bond himself for each individual film................the girl........... we know he gets to kiss the girl but which one??? Megan Fox??? Pinto??......................first a new Bond needs to be selected...

[Harvey danish]

Jeanie Sims, former assistant to Peter Hunt, has died

Bond News - 11-06-10

BondStars are sorry to report that Jeanie Sims, former assistant to director Peter Hunt, passed away last weekend after a long illness.

Jeanie was Peter Hunt's right hand on the majority of his productions including "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and joined the O.H.M.S.S. reunion on 11th June 2005 at Pinewood Studios. It was the only James Bond film directed by Hunt, who had introduced a unique style to the series in his role as editor on previous 007 pictures.

Jeanie revealed she had worked on the script, uncredited, and was responsible for writing the dialogue of the proposal sequence in the movie.

[Harvey danish]

Debt holders seek leader to run MGM, Bond makers back Warner Bros

Bond News - 03-06-10

An unusual casting call has attracted some of Hollywood's biggest moguls. The role: rescuer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film studio struggling under $3.7 billion in debt left over from a 2005 buyout - reports target="_blank">Business Week.

Former News Corp. President Peter Chernin and Jonathan Dolgen, Viacom's onetime Hollywood chief, recently auditioned for the job. The decision makers will be MGM's creditors, who must figure out whether it makes more financial sense to sell to Time Warner, the high bidder in a March auction, or to run the studio themselves. MGM, owner of franchises that include James Bond and Pink Panther, is suffering from a lack of hits and the industrywide slump in DVD sales.

The lenders, which include Highland Capital Management and Anchorage Advisors, already have learned one of Hollywood's first lessons: Never bet your own money on the movie business. Loans that traded at 65 percent of face value in January changed hands for as little as 43 percent in late May—valuing the company at $1.6 billion. That's close to Time Warner's $1.5 billion high bid, according to people with knowledge of the auction. If the creditors decide to turn it down and go into show business themselves, they may have to put up some $500 million to jump-start production.

"They're trying to understand how they do it," says Clark Hallren, managing partner of the Los Angeles-based entertainment advisory Clear Scope Partners. "Do we need to keep domestic theatrical distribution? Do we continue to outsource home-video distribution? What kind of movies should we make?"

Delays in resolving MGM's fate have further clouded its outlook. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, who co-own the lucrative 007 brand with MGM, suspended production on the 23rd Bond film in April, citing "uncertainty"about the studio's future. On May 30, director Guillermo del Toro bailed from MGM's upcoming The Hobbit, a J.R.R. Tolkien movie. MGM shares the rights to The Hobbit with Warner Bros. "The film business can be awfully seductive," said former Universal Studios Chairman Frank Biondi, who advised some of the private equity investors who bought MGM for $5 billion in 2005. "I told them then that they had a melting ice cube."

The Broccoli family has urged Warner Bros. to stay in the bidding, said three people with knowledge of the situation
With new management, the creditors hope to boost production, cut costs, and eventually seek a price of more than $2 billion for the studio, said two people who have discussed the plan with them. Finding ways to maximize MGM's value won't be easy, says Mark Patricof, managing partner of investment bank MESA. "There are not that many new faces out there with a lot of new ideas for MGM to consider," he says.

Patricof says the creditors should instead sell off MGM's assets, including its rights to the Stargate TV series. The Bond franchise could fetch $750 million alone, according to Douglas Lowell, who advises independent film companies on film financing. Its last five installments averaged $461 million in worldwide ticket sales. Whatever the outcome, the creditors aren't the only ones looking to get paid. Actor Tom Cruise, who signed on with MGM in 2006 and helped raise $500 million to produce films, owns a 30 percent stake of MGM's United Artists film unit, according to one former MGM executive. "Tom is protected and will be fine," says Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields.

[Harvey danish]

Portrayed by Official:
Sean Connery
(1962–1967, 1971)
George Lazenby (1969)
Roger Moore (1973–1985)
Timothy Dalton (1987–1989)
Pierce Brosnan (1995–2002)
Daniel Craig (2006–Present)

Unofficial:
Barry Nelson (1954)
David Niven (1967)
Sean Connery (1983

[katied]

I think Nash is a bit desperate if he is posting a Dame Judi quote praising Daniel Craig!

What do you expect her to say: "I can't stand that dreadful man, but I am looking forward to topping up my pension fund with yet another cameo appearance as M."

She says that about all the boys(EON company poilicy, you know!)

[bjmdds]

Danish, you are the Jimmy Olsen of this forum, the cub "reporter" who lets us know the news out there.

[katied]

Danish, you are the Jimmy Olsen of this forum, the cub "reporter" who lets us know the news out there.

Indeed. It's good to have people who are "in the know", as they say.

[Lord Shark]

bjmdds - May we make amends? I know we've had pretty turbulent arguments back at MI6, but I hope you can let bygones be bygones, and Craigons be Craigons.

[Harvey danish]

The new Bond movie will star Daniel Craig and Judi Dench, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, with music by 5-time Bond composer David Arnold. The 007 screenplay will be written by Peter Morgan (“The Queen”, “Frost/Nixon”) and regular James Bond scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. Director of American Beauty and Road To Perdition, Sam Mendes is in talks to direct the new James Bond movie. The 23rd James Bond movie is due for release in 2011 with shooting expected to commence in the latter half of 2010.


oh well it's going to take place justa matter of time.........

[Harvey danish]

katied / bjmdds........ thank you so much. I enjoy being here ........

[Harvey danish]

Jeffery Deaver Biography
11th June 2010

Jeffery Deaver was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois on May 6th, 1950. Best known as the creator of the American detective Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver in the past has held jobs as a lawyer and a journalist.

At the young age of 8, Deaver read his first Ian Fleming Bond novel, "Casino Royale" and has been hooked ever since. "Being a kid on an allowance of $1 a week, I couldn't afford the hardcovers when they came out," says Deaver, "but my parents used to slip me some extra money so I could get them." He proudly told the UK presses that he read every Fleming novel the week it came out.

The entrepreneurial author first published in 1988. The novel was "Manhattan Is My Beat", and introduced the street-smart New Yorker, Rune. In 1990, the author made the decision to quit his job and write novels full time. He followed up his debut with "Death of a Blue Movie Star" (1990) and "Hard News" (1991) which completed the Rune trilogy.

Following on from this trilogy, Deaver penned a number of stand alone works, before creating a new series of novels, of which the lead character was John Pellam - a location scout. The most recent and memorable of these was "Hell's Kitchen" (2001).

Deaver's work first hit the screen in 1997 when his novel, "A Maiden's Grave" (1995) was adapted in the form of a made-for-TV movie: "Dead Silence".


Datastream
Name: Jeffery Deaver
Date of Birth: 6th May 1950
Bond Novels: 1
Famous For: Accaimed thriller writer of Lincoln Rhyme novels.


By 1997 Deaver was making a steady living from his fiction writing and began to pride himself on fast-paced story telling, in-depth research and various twists and turns in the plot. "The Bone Collector" was the introduction of Jeffry's most famous character, Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic criminalist. The book was met with marked success and two years later made into a film (of the same name), starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.


To date, Deaver has penned nine novels featuring Rhyme, the latest, The Burning Wire was released earlier this year. Of the most recent book Jeffery says "the point is to - if I may borrow from Stephen King - throw all my characters in a pressure cooker and turn the heat up as high as it will go."

Deaver is particularly proud of the villains, and the shady nemesis, The Watchmaker, is such a character. In a recent interview the author noted, "I can't tell you how much fan mail I get about [The Watchmaker]. Everybody wants to know if Lincoln's finally going to get him, or the other way around! I think every Sherlock Holmes needs a Professor Moriarty, James Bond needs his Blofeld."

Today, Jeffery Deaver's novels are translated into 25 languages and sold in over 150 countries.

He has written award winning short stories, appearing in the anthologies "Twisted" and "More Twisted". He has even been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association.


The newest character in his repertoire is Kathryn Dance, an agent for the California Bureau of Investigation, who made her debut in "The Sleeping Doll" (2007). Deaver has since stated that he will be alternating Rhyme and Dance novels yearly.

Regardless of if he ever thinks his books will be made into films, Deaver says that he aims to craft each novel so that it feels as filmic as possible. Jeffery prides himself on his specificity, detail and realism.

On May 28th 2010 it was announced by Ian Fleming Publications that Jeffery Deaver would take on the mantle of Ian Fleming and those continuation novelists that have come before him. Deaver has already begun writing the newest James Bond novel - currently dubbed Project X - for release on Fleming's birthday in 2011, published by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and by Simon & Schuster in the US. Deaver described being selected as 007's continuation author as an "incredible honour". Corinne Turner, Managing Director of Ian Fleming Publications was inspired to hire Deaver based on his novel, "Garden of Beasts", in part because of its European setting.



Deaver, like 007, professes to enjoy the thrill of a fast car - when at home the author drives a BMW M3 or Infiniti G37. He has experienced and enjoyed skiing and scuba diving and so should be well-placed to put James Bond into some fantastic locations and scenarios with this experience behind him.

Deaver is currently writing a stand alone novel. The thriller is entitled "Edge" and will be released in the USA and UK in November 2010.

[Harvey danish]

Has MGM's crappy luck spared us all a Sam Mendes–directed James Bond movie? EON Productions' Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today that all development on the23rd 007 film is on hold for now pending some resolution to MGM's hilarious money problems (the studio, currently weighed down by a $4 billion debt, is inexplicably having trouble finding a buyer):

Due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding the future of MGM and the failure to close a sale of the studio, we have suspended development on 'Bond 23' indefinitely. We do not know when development will resume and do not have a date for the release of Bond 23.


The followup to 2008's Quantum of Solace had been tentatively scheduled for a 2011 release, but now who knows! In the interim, Mendes is free to find other work, and Daniel Craig can put on as much weight as he likes.

Bond 23 Delayed Indefinitely