Skyfall is the title of the next James Bond fim. It’ll arrive about a year from now, give or take a week. Javier Bardem’s the asshole. Daniel Craig’s the hero. Naome Harris is the babe. Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, and Albert Finney support.
Those are pretty much the facts. Everything else is speculation.
These are the luckiest event films in history. The plot is irrelevant. The style will be a delightful mix of effectively shot drama married to modern 2nd and 3rd unit magic. It’ll have action and sex appeal and Daniel Craig will continue to serve as a capable James Bond. Arguments will happen over who the best Bond is, how good or shitty the title is, and what elements from previous films have been repurposed. A mediocre video game will come out and everyone will talk about the Nintendo 64 Goldeneye game with reverence.
And the movie will bank.
More details once we have more than ‘Skyfall‘.
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A great article! Thanks, Nick
PS: ELDER SCROLLS humor or error?
“More details once we have more than ‘Skyrim‘”
The information isn’t quite so scant as that, we also get a brief synopsis from the official press release:
“In SKYFALL, Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.”
It’s not much, but it’s something.
Such a cynic about Bond, Mr. Nunziata. Yet, you’re pretty on point, sir.
Let the bitching commence! Shit title. In all likelihood it refers to a weapon/secret project/emergency protocol. All a little too “Spooks” (Brit MI5 tv show) obvious. But as Nick rightly pointed out, this film is a license to print money.
Bond titles have been silly-to-ridiculous since their inception, but let’s at least acknowledge due credit here: Roger Fucking Deakins is the cinematographer on this. That, at the very least, assures us that this will be the best looking Bond film ever.
They have no need to keep anything about the next Bond films secret, it matters little. They’re the most predictable franchise-fests since Fleming cracked a mango at his Goldeneye hideaway.
Not that this is without precedent either. Lewis Gilbert’s movies had great cinematographers – Freddie Young on You Only Live Twice and Claude Renoir on The Spy Who Loved Me – and also look fantastic, whatever else you might say about them.
I’m looking forward to how they incorporate the title into the dialogue. [Bond kicks Javier Bardem out a plane]: “Looks like he had a nasty … SKYFALL.”
When did they cast David Caruso as Bond?
Nice writeup – spot on, Mr. Nunziata.
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