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All good points. If they can do it, more power to them. But making it a sprint like that might be part of why Craig finds it so exhausting.
No, your mind is fine. I typed "2018" in my above post, reflexively, since that is this year and I'm used to keying it for dates. But what I actually meant was 2019; you just replied and caught it before I could edit my earlier post to fix it. So, yes, the release date has always been set for 2019, and that was my typo. Sorry.
It's amazing to think that when this is released in 2019, Daniel Craig will have been "James Bond" for 13 years, but only appeared in five films. Roger Moore appeared in seven films which were released in the span of 12 years (1973-1985). Sean Connery appeared in five Bond films over a five year span (1962-1967).
Prior to Craig, the longest gap between Bond films was six years (1989-1995, between Licence To Kill and GoldenEye), but the longest gap between Bond films without changing actors was only three years (Between The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974 and The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977). With Craig, he's now matched that gap once (between Skyfall in 2012 and Spectre in 2015), and exceeded it twice (four years between Quantum Of Solace in 2008 and Skyfall in 2012, and now Spectre in 2015 and Bond 25 in 2019).
I'm a little disappointed that not only has each Craig film been lesser than the one it follows up in my eyes, but that it's an ever increasing wait. It wouldn't be as big a deal to have a lesser Bond film coming out if it came frequently, but to wait four years for Skyfall (which is so beautifully shot that you don't notice how it doesn't actually make any sense) and three years for Spectre (which is a pretty weak film), it's frustrating to wait so long for diminishing returns. I think Craig is one of the very best actors to ever play Bond, but he's been let down by his writers.
Prior to Craig, the longest gap between Bond films was six years (1989-1995, between Licence To Kill and GoldenEye), but the longest gap between Bond films without changing actors was only three years (Between The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974 and The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977)...
Re: Bond DVD settlement. At one point last year, the judge made a ruling and inserted a number of 007 puns throughout. Here's the URL for that ruling.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3913262-Bond-Order.html
Thanks very much.Funny!
Welcome Spy Commander!!!!
I really wish MGM would just die already. Bond is pretty much the only thing that's kept it afloat for almost 40 years now, and its swallowing up United Artists is probably the worst thing that happened to the series.