The next 007 movie

[Frankie]

SKYFALL


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15558355

3 November 2011 Last updated at 08:07 ET

Bond film called Skyfall

By Tim Masters, Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News

The title of the 23rd James Bond film has been confirmed as Skyfall.

The latest 007 adventure will star Daniel Craig for the third time. Leading ladies have been confirmed as French actress Berenice Marlohe and Naomie Harris.

Skyfall is being directed by Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for 1999's American Beauty.

Mendes said the storyline will take the secret agent to London, China, Turkey and Scotland.

It will see Bond's loyalty tested to M, his superior, while espionage headquarters MI6 faces an attack.

The movie, which sees the return of Dame Judi Dench as spy boss M, will also star Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney and Javier Bardem as the villain of the piece.

It will be released in the UK on 26 October 2012.

Craig told reporters in London that the cast would start filming sequences for the new movie later on Thursday.

Much speculation about the new film has focused on what Mendes will bring to the franchise, with some suggesting he will tone down - or even abandon altogether - the action sequences.

But the director denied that this was the case. He told reporters in London that the "fantastic script" had "all the elements of a classic Bond movie, including - to quell any rumours - lots of action".

When asked what fans could expect from the latest film, he added: "The movie will reveal everything, and there's lots of surprises."
Producer Barbara Broccoli said no-one had yet been chosen to write and perfom the Bond theme tune.

Financial troubles

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Bond movie, 1962's Dr No.

James Bond is one of the longest-running franchises in film history, but Bond 23 will mark the end of a four year gap.
The last 007 outing was in 2008's Quantum of Solace, directed by Marc Forster.

Work on the 23rd film was suspended in April 2010 because of uncertainty over the company's future.

The franchise had been on hold amid financial troubles, with MGM filing for bankruptcy protection last November.

A rescue deal and restructuring plan put US firm Spyglass Entertainment at the helm of MGM, which had struggled due to several box office flops and a DVD sales slump.

Craig - who made his Bond debut in Casino Royale in 2006 - is the sixth actor to play the British secret agent in the official Bond series.
Sir Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Sir Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan preceded him in the iconic role.

Casino Royale, was the most successful instalment in the franchise's 49-year history, making $594m (£385m) worldwide.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Also, KOMODO ****ING DRAGONS.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

He's still Bond, you guys.

He ****ed at least two women in the movie and possibly ****ed a third. He tried, anyway.

He also utterly ridiculous things that would get mortal men killed, and made it look easy.

Still Bond, and now that he's had his heart broken and

Spoiler!

mommy is dead

, he's going to be an even bigger dick going forward.

This is the best shot ever, BTW. It's screaming "BOND IS BRITAIN'S BATMAN!!!"

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

STILL BOND

Spoiler!

One of my companions was a bit irate at the way the female cast was treated, however. She pointed out that the strongest female character in the film was constantly undermined, then killed, then replaced by a man. The second strongest was played up as incompetent and demoted to a secretary where she is apparently far happier. The third female character was pointed out as a weak-willed and fearful former prostitute and was murdered almost immediately after she had sex with the main character.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

I would have enjoyed seeing the trail of breadcrumbs Q left for Silva, however. My only nitpick.

[keg in kc]

[Gravedigger]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

STILL BOND

Spoiler!

One of my companions was a bit irate at the way the female cast was treated, however. She pointed out that the strongest female character in the film was constantly undermined, then killed, then replaced by a man. The second strongest was played up as incompetent and demoted to a secretary where she is apparently far happier. The third female character was pointed out as a weak-willed and fearful former prostitute and was murdered almost immediately after she had sex with the main character.

Because James Bond has always screamed anti-sexism and total respect for women. Don't go see a Bond film and bitch about feminist bs, what about the many a men that Bond has met then killed, you think they were built up to anything but weak corpses for Bond to have his way with?

[nstygma]

maybe the next time i see the movie, i will like it more. too long, and the end was just so predictable and boring.

there are a lot of negative reviews, some have an interesting take.


http://nycmovieguru.com/nov9th12.html#skyfall

...............At a bloated running time of 2 hours and 23 minutes, Skyfall is a tedious, uninspired, sluggish and vapid bore that can only be enjoyed by very shallow, unctuous philistines.............

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/11/lyt-r...ke-on-skyfall/

Yes, the title “Skyfall” is explained, and it’s more of a shrug than a revelation, kicking off a segment that plays more like The A-Team than Bond and features an unusually useless Albert Finney. Some have made the case that, like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Bond is a singularly ineffective hero here, such that everything would have happened more or less the way it does without him being in the picture.

[keg in kc]

Anybody who uses the words "shallow, unctuous philistines............. " in a movie review needs to be taken out back and put out of my misery.

[nstygma]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Anybody who uses the words "shallow, unctuous philistines............. " in a movie review needs to be taken out back and put out of my misery.

well, that person is from NYC. probably a hipster. so, yeah.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

Because James Bond has always screamed anti-sexism and total respect for women. Don't go see a Bond film and bitch about feminist bs, what about the many a men that Bond has met then killed, you think they were built up to anything but weak corpses for Bond to have his way with?

That's kinda my point.

This movie was sexist as ****.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Anybody who uses the words "shallow, unctuous philistines............. " in a movie review needs to be taken out back and put out of my misery.

I'm betting Reaper16 wrote that review.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

if the Academy does not vote it best picture I will personally kidnap all of the members and tie them up to chairs, strip them naked and re-enact the testicle torture scene from Casino Royale.

I've forwarded this to the FBI, you sick bastard.

[L.A. Chieffan]

meh, if it wasn't for Deakins and Bardem it would've been just a VERY average Bond film. The last third of the film was laughable.

[Raiderhader]

Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning

That's kinda my point.

This movie was sexist as ****.

Welcome back to the golden age of 007.

[Brock]

Still didn't measure up to CR. It was good though.