Looks Like 'Bond 22' Will Indeed Be Direct Sequel to Casino Royale

November '08???

I dont wanna wait that long...

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Does anyone else wish they would dump Purvis & Wade. I just feel they're not doing much justice to the franchise even with "Royale" it makes me wonder how much of "their" script is entact after Haggis did his rewrite... I just wish they'd get rid of their flock of seagull totin' asses...

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I'm betting ELLIPSIS is the new SPECTRE, and it's about damn time we had a new SPECTRE, seeing how the old SPECTRE has been retired since their attempt to fry the world with a diamond-studded satellite in 1973 or so.
Nothing fits paranoid times better an international criminal organization. I know Mike Meyers had a good laugh at Blofeld, but I really want to see a movie in which people like Bin-Laden and Dick Cheney are but self-important office boys serving an unspeakably grand evil scheme.

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ELLIPSIS was actually the security code to the locked door at the airport. That's why both bombers were given that code. I haven't read the books from Ian Fleming, but isn't the group that hunted down Le Chiffvre really SPECTRE?

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In the book its not SPECTRE but SMIRSH. My memory on this is fuzzy but there were some rights issues being thrown aroung and the Bond movies had to use SPECTRE for legal purpose.

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@Chris
SMERSH - Směrt Špionam

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Now you've awakened the Bond geek. I know Ellipsis is the code that opens the doors, but it also has to be code for something else--there's something bigger here that is behind "Mr. White," Le Chiffre's shadowy boss in the movie of Casino Royale.
In real life, SMERSH was one name for the USSR's counter-intelligence operation--the word is a contraction for the phrase "Death to Spies" in Russian. They kill Le Chiffre in the novel Casino Royale.
Meanwhile, SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Revenge and Extortion, makes its debut in the book Thunderball (1962 or so). The book Thunderball was a novelization of a script Ian Fleming was working on with a producer named Kevin McClory.(And as we know, the movie was eventually made of Thunderball a few years later.)
SPECTRE gets introduced into the Bond movies in Dr. No and is in all of them up to Diamonds Are Forever, except for Goldfinger. I know what you're about to say, but no, the villains in From Russia With Love are all working for SPECTRE. From Live and Let Die on there's no more mention of SPECTRE or its boss Ernst Stavro Blofeld, "the man with the cat" (the baldie Dr. Evil is parodying), though in the pre=title sequence to For Your Eyes Only, we see someone who looks like Blofeld being dumped down an industrial smokestack.
As McClory was part owner of Thunderball, he was able to remake it as Never Say Never Again and to cast Max Von Sydow as Blofeld. All the Bond rights are back in the hands of the Broccoli heirs today, so presumably they could bring Blofeld back...or better still create some newer and larger crime syndicate.
I'm very happy to share this useless info and have more--far more--of it whenever requested. Or even when not.

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So far I recall Peter has worked with fifteen James Bond films as set director, production designer, art director, starting working on Thunderball first not from Dr No.

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Kathy Bates as a Bond girl would be HOT.

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casino royale isnt a bond movie ... it was missing a car chase, and hot women, as far as im concerned it was a decent espionage movie, but not bond status, sorry, this would have made a mediocre bourne movie.

so the next one being a sequel has me annoyed, that i wont be getting a car chase scene from these pansies in charge ... or a decent bond girl, look we all know they cant act, so why pretend? just throw a beautiful woman up there that the ones in the audience are uncomfortable watching, thats how you know its good.

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"casino royale isnt a bond movie ... it was missing a car chase, and hot women"

I don't know what movie you were watching, but it was a bond film in the vein of the old ones and my favorite so far. Also, no hot girls?? Eva is one the best yet.

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"casino royale isnt a bond movie ... it was missing a car chase, and hot women"

This is very common in all Bond movie, without this no Bond movie can be made, check any film from Dr No to Casino Royale -)

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All the Connery movies were sequels of one another. It's just that the movies could stand on their own and didn't have a need for elaborate story arcs to keep the viewers interested.
I don't know what movie everyone else watched but Casino Royale was one of the worst Bond movies.
How many people out there who that thought this was a good movie would honestly watch it again and again?

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1) Yes I too pray they would dump Purvis & Wade as well as Michael Wilson the the latter being more difficult as he is sleeping with the boss -- woman. Trust me Cubby is rolling in his grave.

2) It is not that Casino was not a Bond film per se
rather when did James Bond ever allow himself to
a) be slipped a mickey where the girl saves his life
b) fall into a trap so easily that he almost kills himself driving
c) sit at a card table so long that even on the DVD release I fast forwarded through the game. Playing cards is a past time A macguffin to be used once not for an hour and 15 minutes

Hire the guy who writes the Terminator films with Jim Cameron or the Die Hard movies so we can have a great action adventure film we can all appreciate

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the movie showed Bond as he is in the books. he gets jumped by two guys, they beat the crap out of him (machete-fight, where he gets cut up before he wins) and he is not a superhuman. The poison in the drink was inevitable, and it would have been cheesier if he had forseen it. in the books bond is middle aged and somewhat depressive. the is still a superspy, but human. as for the car chase thing, the same thing happens in the book except its tacks on the road puncturing the tires. and the girls in the movie were hot. I don't know what everyone is saying about that

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Considering that the last big Bond rumor I had heard was that they were effectively going to start remaking ALL of Fleming's books into movies, I'm curious to see what they're going to do with this new movie. I think we can all agree that to remake Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, and Thunderball, would especially be a bad idea because they're considered to be the pinnacle of the series.

However, considering just how bad some of the original stories were converted to film, (Man with the Golden Gun and Moonraker, namely) I think they could get away with remaking some of them, but leave the great ones alone. I think that the writers needed to give us a streamlined story without all the gadgets and the whining of Q for one movie. If they integrate them in slowly and not rely on them as they have in past movies, I think it will make them a bit better. After all, even Fleming himself didn't bombard us with gadgets in his stories.

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Well I dying for the producers for casting for Bond 22. They should find director,Bond girls,Villians & Allies. So they better get moving right now.

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I'm dying for Daniel Craig secoud outing as 007 in Bond 22. They find for the cast Bond 22. Bond girls,villians & Allies. Also & the title of Bond 22. Including a Mi6 Car Jag or Aston. They better get moving right now.

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This is the first time I practically went out and bought the dvd for casino royale and regretting it.

Please get a good story for the next bond movie. Bond movies are supposed to be action, adventure and of course hot women. Where is the inspiration??????

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