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Title: Spectre (2015)

Tagline: A Plan No One Escapes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Sam Mendes

Cast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Monica Bellucci, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott, Rory Kinnear, Jesper Christensen, Alessandro Cremona, Stephanie Sigman, Tenoch Huerta, Adriana Paz, Domenico Fortunato, Marco Zingaro, Stefano Elfi DiClaudia, Ian Bonar, Tam Williams, Richard Banham, Pip Carter, Simon Lenagan, Alessandro Bressanello, Marc Zinga, Brigitte Millar, Adel Bencherif, Gediminas Adomaitis, Peppe Lanzetta, Francesco Arca, Matteo Taranto, Emilio Aniba, Benito Sagredo, Dai Tabuchi, George Lasha, Sargon Yelda, Andy Cheung, Erick Hayden, Oleg Mirochnikov, Antonio Salines, Miloud Mourad Benamara, Gido Schimanski, Nigel Barber, Patrice Naiambana, Stephane Cornicard, Gary Fannin, Sadao Ueda, Phillip Law, Wai Wong, Joseph Balderrama, Eiji Mihara, Junichi Kajioka, Victor Schefé, Harald Windisch, Tristan Matthiae, Detlef Bothe, Bodo Friesecke, Wilhem Iben, Noemi Krausz, Noah Saavedra, Francis Attakpah, Michael Glantschnig, Marlon Boess, Marie Wohlmuth, Lili Epply, Konstantin Gerlach, Lara Parmiani, Umit Ulgen, Amra Mallassi, Ziad Abaza, Walid Mumuni, Derek Horsham, Nari Blair-Mangat, Michael White, Adam McGrady, Nader Dernaika, Pezhmaan Alinia, Judi Dench, Neve Gachev, Kim Adis, Maurisa Selene Coleman

Release: 2015-10-26

Runtime: 148

Plot: A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.




Press Release:
Sam Mendes Returns to Direct Bond 24 Director's Follow-Up to SKYFALL(TM), the Highest-Grossing Film in the Longest Running Film Franchise, to Arrive in Theaters on October 23, 2015 in the UK and November 6, 2015 in the US
CULVER CITY, Calif., July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, EON Productions; Gary Barber, Chairman & CEO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Michael Lynton, CEO, Sony Entertainment, Inc, and Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced that Daniel Craig will once again return as the legendary British secret agent in the 24th James Bond film and Sam Mendes will also return to direct the screenplay written by John Logan. The film is set for release in UK theaters on October 23, 2015 and in US theaters on November 6, 2015.

SKYFALL(TM), the 23rd James Bond film, took in $1.1 billion worldwide and set a new mark as the highest-grossing film of all time in the UK; it was the best-selling Bond film on DVD/Blu-ray and was the most critically acclaimed film in the history of the longest-running film franchise.

Commenting on the announcement, Wilson and Broccoli said, "Following the extraordinary success of SKYFALL, we're really excited to be working once again with Daniel Craig, Sam Mendes and John Logan."

"I am very pleased that by giving me the time I need to honour all my theatre commitments, the producers have made it possible for me to direct Bond 24. I very much look forward to taking up the reins again, and to working with Daniel Craig, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for a second time," said Mendes.

Barber added, "We are thrilled to reunite the extraordinary talents of director Sam Mendes with our star Daniel Craig for the next great Bond adventure." He added, "As evidenced by the phenomenal success of our last collaboration with EON Productions and Sony, the incredible legacy of this 51-year-old franchise continues to amaze."

Lynton and Pascal said, "It's a privilege to work on the Bond films. EON, John Logan and Sam Mendes have come up with an extraordinary follow up to SKYFALL and we, along with our partners at MGM, can't wait to share this new chapter with audiences all over the world."

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sam-mendes-returns-to-direct-bond-24-2013-07-11

I hope Bond 24 won't contain any more analogies comparing James Bond to a sewer rat, and then showing him running through tunnels like a sewer rat.
 
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While I am glad writers Purvis and Wade are not returning (they made the plots of the last 5 films needlessly complicated), I'm not a big fan of Logan. Despite his Oscar for Gladiator, I have yet to see a film he's written that has really impressed me, and he's responsible for Star Trek Nemesis, the worst film in that series.
 

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Sam Favate said:
While I am glad writers Purvis and Wade are not returning (they made the plots of the last 5 films needlessly complicated), I'm not a big fan of Logan. Despite his Oscar for Gladiator, I have yet to see a film he's written that has really impressed me, and he's responsible for Star Trek Nemesis, the worst film in that series.
Logan did not win the Oscar for Gladiator. He was nominated along with two other writers. And I know Nemesis is pretty unpopular but I enjoyed his screenplay.
 

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Logan is an intellectual giant compared to Purvis & Wade, who were the Dumb & Dumber of EON's "house" writers.

Logan is actually a refined dramatist, but every story he writes is a downer. A downer and a bummer. For example, in SKYFALL, Silva's analogy of Bond and Silva as two trained sewer rats gnawing on each other for M's edification, which is then affirmed by showing them chasing after each other in underground tunnels, had to have been Logan's idea. Purvis & Wade were incapable of thinking in such metaphorical terms in their previous Bond scripts.

My objection to Logan is that the Bond scripts should be written by someone who can uplift the spirit of the films, instead of delivering another bummer.
 

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Tino said:
Logan did not win the Oscar for Gladiator. He was nominated along with two other writers. And I know Nemesis is pretty unpopular but I enjoyed his screenplay.
I stand corrected. He's been nominated 3 times, for Gladiator, The Aviator and Hugo.

I enjoyed The Aviator most out of everything he's done, but I think he still has more demerits than not on his resume.
 

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Looking forward to Bond 24 in 2015. I wonder if this will be Craigs final Bond film?

He has now been Bond as long as Pierce was.
 

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I just hope this time Bond can be something other than the underdog. I have always preferred the Bond movie where he is challenged, but not made to look incapable and weak as a character.
 

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Looking forward to this - will miss Judi Dench in the role of M but agree that it will allow them to explore other avenues and with the elements of usual Bond films put in place by the end of Skyfall, it will be interesting to see where Mendes and Logan take it. I suspect we may see less personal stakes and more global threats etc.
 

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No brainer to bring Mendes and Logan back. They made the most financially successful/critically lauded Bond since Goldfinger.
 

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No brainer to bring Mendes and Logan back. They made the most financially successful/critically lauded Bond since Goldfinger.
Actually since Thunderball, which was previously the most successful in the series.
 

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Actually since Thunderball, which was previously the most successful in the series.
Yeah but critics don't like Thunderball, hence Goldfinger.
 

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DevilMayCare.jpg


Digital Spy, a slinky British entertainment site, reports that Bond 24 is rumored to be based on the novel Devil May Care:

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a498160/bond-24-to-be-based-on-novel-devil-may-care.html

Is it true?
One wonders.

If EON were to keep faith with the novel it would represent the first positive view of the character since ... well, since Daniel Craig debased him in Casino Royale (2006).
 

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Digital Spy, a slinky British entertainment site, reports that Bond 24 is rumored to be based on the novel Devil May Care:

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a498160/bond-24-to-be-based-on-novel-devil-may-care.html

Is it true?
One wonders.

If EON were to keep faith with the novel it would represent the first positive view of the character since ... well, since Daniel Craig debased him in Casino Royale (2006).
Probably bunk at this point. Why would they pay the royalties to the author?

I just saw this update as well.

http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=10992&t=mi6&s=news


Bond 24 tabloid speculation starts, it will not be 'Devil May Care'
Bond 24 - 13-07-13

In true, red-top shoot-from-the-hip style, The Sun's Bizarre entertainment editor claims he can reveal the title of the forthcoming Bond film - along with the officially announced release schedule and directorial comeback of Sam Mendes - that the film will be entitled "Devil May Care".

The name is plucked from the title of the lukewarmly received 2008 Fleming centenary novel by Sebastian Faulks. Never has an EON Production based their stories on any other author's work than their own screenwriter and Bond creator Ian Fleming, and this trend is highly unlikely to be bucked now, given the phenomenal success of the Fleming-inspired original "Skyfall" story, penned by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan. Both of Bond's long-time producers, Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, had a policy of not reproducing any of the story-lines conceived by past continuation novelist, Kingsley Amis.

MI6 Confidential explained back in 2011, producer Harry Saltzman had additionally blackballed the possibility of using Amis' novel, in part due to the issues of paying royalties and of Glidrose having rejected ‘Per Fine Ounce’ by Geoffrey Jenkins, with which Saltzman had been involved.

The article's author also ends the piece with the rhetorical question, "Could this be Daniel's last?" As many readers will recall, Craig is in fact contracted for the next two 007 adventures, Bond 24 and 25.

As ever, MI6 advises to take such rumours with a grain of salt. Especially when they are from The Sun.
 
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