BOND 24: SPECTRE

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[quote="Steven Zeitchik"]The monumental success of "Skyfall" -- the movie crossed $100 million at the domestic box office Monday -- proves that the appetite for James Bond is as strong as ever.

In the world of Hollywood franchises, that usually means a fast turnaround on a follow-up movie. But the stewards of the spy series say they're not in any rush to throw a new Bond into the pipeline.

Just before the film's release, I spoke to Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the producers behind "Skyfall" and the last two decades of 007 fandangos. Though they expressed frustration at the legal challenges that led to a four-year gap between the most recent Bond movies, they say they won’t allow themselves to be governed by the calendar, either.

"Sometimes there are external pressures from a studio who want you to make it in a certain time frame or for their own benefit, and sometimes we’ve given into that," Broccoli said. "But following what we hope will be a tremendous success with 'Skyfall,' we have to try to keep the deadlines within our own time limits and not cave in to external pressures."

The property has an unusual studio arrangement: rights for it reside at MGM but the company as it's currently constituted does not have a distribution arm. Sony released “Skyfallâ€

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[quote="Matt Granados"]British screenwriting duo Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have written five of the James Bond movies. These are The World Is Not Enough (1999), Die Another Day (2002), Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and most recently Skyfall.

It was announced a few weeks back that writer John Logan (Gladiator, Hugo, co-writer of Skyfall) had pitched his take on the next two Bond movies, and was already hard at work penning those scripts.

Now it’s essentially been confirmed that this is the case, straight from the mouths of Purvis and Wade. They’re no longer attached to the Bond series, and based on their statements, this doesn’t seem like such a bad thing.

Wade says:

[quote] “We’re very happy to have done five Bond movies, I think we’ve gotten it to a good place. I know that John Logan and Sam Mendes have come up with a plot for another one, which takes the pressure off because these films take up a lot of time.â€

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A 2015 release date has been set for the film, which sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as the British secret agent.

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http://badassdigest.com/2013/11/15/a-bo ... ore-likely

[Dr Kain]

Interesting, so we can see Quantum take up the name Spectre now.

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Good news. Really good news.

[XvGojira]

Oh man, that's awesome. I really hope they work some of that into the next film.

[Gwangi]

While others want to see Lex Luther come back in the next Superman movie, I'd rather see another bald villain come back to the big screen (and I believe it is now possible thanks to this settlement).

But please do not make him and Goldfinger as brothers!

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[Dr Kain]

Well it depends. In the original novel Thunderball, which is where Spectre first appeared, they talked about that Blofeld created the organization with the remnants of the now shut down SMERSH, who had been the villains throughout the series until that point. They could do something similar and make it so that Quantum was dissolved in order to let Spectre take over due to MI6 and Bond thwarting their plans.