Craig goes to Comic-Con with Harrison Ford and everybody goes nuts for Ford."Backstage, Ford was a major magnet."
From what I've read he seems long faced, said something about he is ready for Bond to start.
There was little time for questions from the audience, but Craig did respond to an inquiry into the next installment of the James Bond franchise that has been placed on hold because of the financial troubles surrounding studio MGM. Craig carefully said, "It is on hold, but all I can say is that I just want to get going on it as quickly as possible."
After Favreau promised a straight-forward, John Ford-esque Western that added the feel of the classic sci-fi he grew up with, he delivered fully on that promise.
The first scene shows Craig as the lonesome stranger coming into a seemingly empty town to wash up and check a gun shot wound. A shotgun is shoved into the back of his head courtesy of Clancy Brown and some gruff, bearded dialog commences.
In the second, we find Craig’s character in jail being taunted by fellow prisoner Paul Dano who wakes him up by spitting on him. This results in a sudden meeting between Dano’s face and the bars of the jail.
The two prisoners are being loaded into a horse-drawn paddy wagon when Harrison Ford’s character, Dano’s character’s father, rides in with a posse and demands his son and the stranger. The moments are tense. It’s a time for grown men with gun holsters to drawl out their disagreements. Then, everything goes quiet and the town looks to the sky. Three…bright…lights like something out of Close Encounters (except the townsfolk don’t have a giant Casio keyboard) float just overhead.
That’s when the explosions starts and all hell breaks loose.
The crew has been shooting for only a month, but Favreau demanded something big to bring to the Con. He definitely gave everyone a much needed jolt of excitement because the footage looks polished, reverant to the genre, and just damned wonderful.
The director also confirmed that, despite testing for it, they were not going to shoot the film in 3D because Favreau didn’t want to shoot digitally.
Two clips were featured, both of which are presumably from the beginning of the film.
The first was an atmospheric bit of old school western style, with Daniel Craig horseback riding alongside his dog through a barely populated town. He enters an empty home, and checks to see if anyone is there. It seems like nobody is, so he starts to wash his face, revealing a large metallic device on his wrist.
From behind him, a man rests the end of a rifle against his head.
The second sequence was far more elaborate, opening with Craig in prison in a cell opposite Paul Dano.
Dano makes sneering comments at Craig. Craig ignores them, but Dano keeps going. Finally, Craig reaches through the bars and slams Dano’s head against them, knocking him to the ground.
Dano and Craig are handcuffed in a carriage, and begin to be taken away. Harrison Ford, playing Dano’s father, halts the carriage.
After a brief quarrel, they’re interrupted by a fiery strip of light in the sky. It seems to be getting closer. Then, it vanishes. The townsfolk look puzzled. Suddenly, the light reappears and bursts into several UFOs, firing laser bolts into the town. The characters navigate the exploding buildings, while spotlights from the ships seem to be lifting and knocking people all over the place.
Craig arises from the overturned carriage. The device on his wrist has expanded, and is glowing with white lights all around it. He aims it toward a ship flying right at him, and it starts to power up. As the ship nears, the device lets out a powerful blast and annihilates the side of it. Craig drops to the ground as the ship collapses behind him.
The device closes shut, and Ford and the rest of the townsfolk stare at him.
Reactions:
It’s far too early to make any snap judgments about the film, but I certainly admire Favreau’s approach. The vibe I was getting from the footage was that it was like a dead serious western with Spielbergian flair, which matches Favreau’s own description of what he was going for to a tee. Some of the explosions looked a little cheesy and fake, drawing attention to the environment being very obviously a movie set, but that could easily change with some tweaking in the editing room. The shot that sold me the most was the one featured in the image above, with Craig utilizing his Iron Man-esque gadgetry to take down an alien ship.
My only hesitation to the material was, surprisingly, Harrison Ford. On top of looking so very old, he also came across far sillier than he should’ve, like he either wasn’t trying or didn’t know what he was doing. It was only one scene though, so I’ll reserve judgment until I see the finished film.
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