James Bond In Skyfall - Part 3

[Raiden]

I wish Connery did OHMSS.

That would've been epic.

 

[Dark Raven]

Fiennes won't be stroking a white *****:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl..._skyfall_shakespearean_adaptation_coriolanus/

Can you track Ralph Fiennes’ career by his haircuts? The actor joked it would be possible, considering how often he’s had to shave his head for roles such as Voldemort in the ‘Harry Potter’ series and his most recent incarnation as the general-politician Coriolanus, in the Shakespearean adaptation he’s also directed. Noted Fiennes, “The last time I shaved was for the premiere [of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II”] on July 7,” before growing out a shaggy head of hair and an unruly beard for his stage performance in a West End production of “The Tempest,” which he displayed as an image on his iPhone. Now clean-shaven once again, Fiennes refused to say whether his work later this month on the upcoming Bond film “Skyfall” will require any further distract ‘do measures, but when the Playlist asked about rumors whether he’d play famous Bond villain Ernst Stavros Blofeld in the film, Fiennes played coy. “I can’t say anything more,” he said with a grin, having already discussed with The Playlist about how screenwriter John Logan (who wrote “Coriolanus”) was partly responsible for Fiennes appearing in the new ‘Bond’ film because “because he wrote this really interesting part which is really quite fun.”

When we asked him directly if he would be playing Blofeld he laughed once more. “I can’t say anything,” he said, but then did allow this: “I will not be stroking a white *****!” Is that a straight-up denial or perhaps a coy response to how his character would be different from the antagonist who appeared in the Bond films, “Thunderball,” “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” and “You Only Live Twice”? We’ll leave that up to you to decide.

 

[obin_gam]

He could still be stroking a *****, not just a white one!

[blackout]wow, that came out wrong haha[/blackout]

 

[Kurosawa]

He already said he wasn't getting laid in it, though.

It seems like with every Bond picture rumors of Blofeld surface and they never turn out to be true.

 

[Kurosawa]

He already said he wasn't getting laid in it, though.

It seems like with every Bond picture rumors of Blofeld surface and they never turn out to be true.

 

[vanson]

from the on location pictures it looks like deakins goes digital again...
i mean if there is anyone to trust on cinematography then its deakins, but this is the first bond filmed in that format am i right ?

quite curious how that will look.. the last two films have such a neat look

 

[Golgo-13]

Olga and Gemma had no acclaim to even be considered great choices. Mathieu and Giancarlo are satisfactory actors, and Jeffrey Wright is the only one that that matches Craig in acting talent. So that 2 outta 5. Again, nowhere near A+ cast. That is solely reserved for an ensemble that's beyond awesome and really impresses solely by names on a paper. I don't at all see that with QoS. If there was a large contributor to the hype, it was likely due to it being a follow-up to CR.

I wouldn't even put Gemma and Olga in the same catergory. Gemma is a stage trained actress. Olga is merely a model who's taken a few acting classes. I realise that Gemma had no acclaim at that time but you can't go wrong with a staged trained actress from a prestigous school. It's funny that Olga had more acting creds to her name, when they were cast in QoS, than Gemma did. Other than Olgo, the QoS cast was solid. The director was solid. Qos was a big let down.

I'm glad we've got such a high rated ensemble for Skyfall, but i'm not jumping onboard with both feet again. Lately, i've seen quite a few movies with an incredible cast of talented actors and the movie, for whatever reason, turned out bad. The Wolfman comes to mind.

 

[Octoberist]

Gemma did well with the limited role that she had. What a shame.

 

[Gold Samurai]

First official set photo.

 

[Webhead2006]

i am sure sam is going to do fine with the action.

 

[Crockett]

Helen McCrory is confirmed and this is pretty cool, Swedish actor Ola Rapace has joined the cast.

From the official Twitter account:

There are two new additions to the cast of Skyfall: Helen McCrory and Ola Rapace.

http://***********/#!/007/status/133679555167784960

 

[ChickenScratch]

He already said he wasn't getting laid in it, though.

It seems like with every Bond picture rumors of Blofeld surface and they never turn out to be true.

I don't get it either. The character was nice for the Blofeld trilogy and was the cause of some of the greatest growth in Bond's character .... but he is dead. Bond strangled the crap out of him in LALD, did it with his own hands for Tracy. No coming back from that, unless you count 3 books by Gardner that brought back the organization, but with a new leader.

 

[Raiden]

I don't get it either. The character was nice for the Blofeld trilogy and was the cause of some of the greatest growth in Bond's character .... but he is dead. Bond strangled the crap out of him in LALD, did it with his own hands for Tracy. No coming back from that, unless you count 3 books by Gardner that brought back the organization, but with a new leader.

Well, since Craig's Bond is supposed to be a "reboot" of the franchise, which was why they shown how he got his 00 license in the prologue of CR, so if they really want to bring back Blofeld they can do it. However, I have a feeling that they'd want to create their own villains instead of borrowing one from the old Bond movies, and the absence of Q and Moneypenny proved that they don't care if they do things differently.

 

[ChickenScratch]

I don't see CR or any of the DC movies as a reboot, just stories not done till now and we get to see the developing Bond rather than thew fully formed one. CR, QS, SF are all in the same continuity to me. But I consider the James Bond movies like I do the old Superfriends, close enough but I take my story/timeline/character stuff from the books.

 

[antsman41]

Deakins is doing cinematography?

damn...

 

[Webhead2006]

does eon even have the rights to blofeld. Umm its pretty clear CR and QoS are a restart to the bond series.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Depends on your interpretation. I don't see him as a filmic character being retooled. I see him as a literary character who they finally got around to adapting the first book. Doesn't help that they have done such a bad job of the rest of it. The books are the story to me, the movies are an interesting distraction. Kinda the same way I see Conan, Tarzan Sherlock Holmes (to some extent), Superman, etc.

 

[Webhead2006]

man how dam clear do you have to be that it was said its a reboot to bond to bring him away from being so far fetched it has gotten to a more grounded deal. Plus with CR getting him gaining 00 status and all that. IT WAS A RESTART TO WHO/WHAT BOND IS!!!!!

 

[PSYLENTGuardian]

man how dam clear do you have to be that it was said its a reboot to bond to bring him away from being so far fetched it has gotten to a more grounded deal. Plus with CR getting him gaining 00 status and all that. IT WAS A RESTART TO WHO/WHAT BOND IS!!!!!

You need to calm down before this gets out of hand. I don't think typing in all caps is helping your argument at all.

 

[The Batman]

Bond strangled Blofeld in YOLT, not LALD

 

[ChickenScratch]

man how dam clear do you have to be that it was said its a reboot to bond to bring him away from being so far fetched it has gotten to a more grounded deal. Plus with CR getting him gaining 00 status and all that. IT WAS A RESTART TO WHO/WHAT BOND IS!!!!!

Watch the language and caps man. You need to calm down.

Bond is a literary character, in fact my favorite literary character and for a guy with a degree in Lit that says a bunch. View the character however you wish but he is a literary character adapted to film. You can't reboot a story that has not been adapted. Less far fetched? Yeah, because in most cases the movies are terrible and I'm glad they have gotten back to the literary roots ... which includes no Q and no (or at least a diminished role for) Moneypenny. Them being mentioned as apart of this new one just means its going back tothat crap they were again.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Bond strangled Blofeld in YOLT, not LALD

Yes, I misspoke. In the guise of Shatterhand.

 

[Hunter Rider]

When I saw "Rapace joins Skyfall" I was like ....then I read the article.

I don't get it either. The character was nice for the Blofeld trilogy and was the cause of some of the greatest growth in Bond's character .... but he is dead. Bond strangled the crap out of him in LALD, did it with his own hands for Tracy. No coming back from that, unless you count 3 books by Gardner that brought back the organization, but with a new leader.

The thing is what happened in the books is irrelevant to the movies as we have established, and in the movie timeline, whichever way you interept it, Bond has never fully dealt with Blofeld.

 

[ChickenScratch]

If you wish to interpret it that way. It's totally valid. But I see the books as the source and the movies as adaptation, alternate takes (or as I said before, it's Superfriends compared to reading JLA) that at times are good, and at times so far off the mark it's not worth another viewing for me. You say he had not fully dealt with, but the Blofeld Trilogy ends with YOLT with the death of Blofeld/Shatterhand. Now I may be wrong, but as different as the movie was didn't Blofeld die there?

I know they didn't follow YOLT with TMWTGG which I thought was a huge wasted opportunity, as huge as not following CR with LALD (lol). But TMWTGG serves a great purpose in the overall character's arc, though Bond's entire arc is never really looked at by the movies.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I see them as two completely different timelines because they are so different and in a very different order, I can't find any middle ground. Blofeld escaped in the movie version of YOLT and the version killed in FYEO was not officially Blofeld.