Veronica wrote:
The difference is-Babs is absolutely crazy for Craig and she compares him to "husband" and something about "not thinking of the next husband while you are walking down the aisle".
So that means we have to go through the wedding ceremony and the party...
But what angers me most is the incredible amount of neprofessionalism that woman has.
I mean not only she hired Craig in spite of what everybody thought just because she got some crazy crush on him,she also fired the man AFTER TELLING HIM THAT IT'S SURE HE WILL GET ONE MORE MOVIE.And then,on top of it,she even didn't have a decency to call him herself. Now that's just low.
She said almost word for word the same about Pierce 2002 to 2003. I suppose she considers it appropriate for a female executive to act like a love struck bride.
John P. Drake wrote:
Well, according to the resources in France, a few months ago someone told me it was actually Sony who fired Pierce and EON were subject to listen to the 'superior company' who owned half the rights of the franchise.
I am not sure that is correct.
From the bits we put together it was something like this;
2004 Pierce is first informed he will not be coming back. This also coincides with Dana Broccoli passing and Barbara inheriting the franchise.
2004 MGM wanting to get the next movie rolling sends Barbara
"Layer Cake" to recommend the director Matthew Vaughn (Team EON spent the time trying to spin Jinx off) . Barbara sees Daniel and it's over. This is one part of it, Matthew Vaughn said he was contracted by MGM to direct Bond 21 then was fired nearly the next day by EON. He also said he recommended Daniel.
2004 November Martin Campbell singed on to direct Bond 21.
2005 April Sony and other investors take over
2005 Spring time Judy Dench attempts to allay fans fears about casting says very plainly Pierce will be back. Supposedly about this same time Barbara tells crew members in essence 'this is nothing you should have seen the contact arguments my father had with Roger.'
2005 October sea sick Daniel comes ashore as the new 007. A few weeks before this Pierce said he was asked by Sony to come back. EON supposedly had the final say because of an old contract where partners could have input on everything from directors to cast, except for the final say on Bond.
During all of this Daniel says went to the gym for a year when he was first approached. This differs from other stories because they were supposedly talking to Pierce about coming back at the same time, I think there was something about not dealing with one party behind anthers back, still I could be wrong.
Another part is Quentin Tarantino, he tried to buy the rights to
Casino Royal before they were turned over to MGM as settlement, see the MGM/EON Sony/Kevin McClory lawsuit. Apparently after DAD Tarantino and Pierce were talking which led to Pierce introducing him to Barbara and Michael. Tarantino says he pitched his idea for
Casino, which according to him they considered "unfilmable". He thinks his ideas were used to find a way to make
Casino. MGW claims this ins nonsense they had been working on
Casino script long before Tarantino. However I have my doubt because Martian Campbell said the next film was not originally going to be
Casino, it was an original script about a young more screwed up 007. Also MGW lied on the under oath when he was asked if there was any alive who knew of the McClory contract, he said there was not althou his mother (Dana) was alive and probably knew the details, she was also the head of EON at the time.
So Maybe late 2003, for sure early 2004 Tarantino was taking to and about the movie.
At some time in between the very first draft of what would become
Casino Royale was finished and it was written with Pierce in mind. Later this edition was leaked on-line, it has since vanished.
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.I forget what my point was. I guess it was a long winding road to the now mythologised Craig era.
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