'Bond 22' Promises Speedboat Action -- And Gemmapenny?
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With pre-production now officially underway on Bond 22 -- or 007, if you believe the wild and unsubstantiated rumors -- more and more of the pieces will be falling into place as to what we can actually expect. To start things off, Bond fan site MI6 has picked up some photos from a British tabloid that show Daniel Craig racing speedboats in a Hampshire lake, and Craig reportedly let slip to someone that the script for the new film contains no car chases, so get ready for a lot of boat racing. Like most aspects of this production so far, I'm not too thrilled with this idea -- boat racing has already been done to death in the Bond series and, come to think of it, even in other series like Indiana Jones. What more can be done? I guess I'll have to give them the benefit of the doubt until I see some footage.
In other Bond news, the BBC is reporting that Cardiff University is now offering 007 studies as one of those throwaway undergraduate courses the way American universities will sometimes offer courses in Star Trek or Madonna or things like that. They never offered those at my college, by the way, though I wish they would have -- I could have used the grade point boost. The Bond course is a ten-week course that examines Ian Fleming's most famous character in terms of its significance historically and culturally.
One final note, concerning all the early speculation about Gemma Arterton being possibly cast as the next Bond girl -- if anything, she looks like a Moneypenny to me. She's 22, for starters, with a background in comedy and a very non-traditional look for a Bond love interest. I'm calling this one early -- if she's in, she's Moneypenny.
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12-17-2007 @ 1:04PM
Rich Drees said...
Let's face it... EVERY kind of chas has been done to death over the franchise's 40-some years. I once joked to a Bond-fanatic friend of mine that it seemed as if every third movie had a ski chase scene. He thought about it for a moment and realized that, yes, practically every third film in the series featured a ski chase.
So yes, we've seen boat chases all the way back to FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. We've seen car chases ad infinitum, too. What's left?
Zepplins? (No that was LIVING DAYLIGHTS.)
Spaceships? (MOONRAKER.)
How about Bond and the villian du film on a bicycle built for two? Big wheels? (With that cool handbrake on the right that lets you skid out!) Wheelie sneakers? ;)
Actually, I think a horseback chase through a crowded city might prove interesting...
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12-17-2007 @ 1:04PM
Rich Drees said...
Let's face it... EVERY kind of chas has been done to death over the franchise's 40-some years. I once joked to a Bond-fanatic friend of mine that it seemed as if every third movie had a ski chase scene. He thought about it for a moment and realized that, yes, practically every third film in the series featured a ski chase.
So yes, we've seen boat chases all the way back to FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. We've seen car chases ad infinitum, too. What's left?
Zepplins? (No that was LIVING DAYLIGHTS.)
Spaceships? (MOONRAKER.)
How about Bond and the villian du film on a bicycle built for two? Big wheels? (With that cool handbrake on the right that lets you skid out!) Wheelie sneakers? ;)
Actually, I think a horseback chase through a crowded city might prove interesting...
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12-17-2007 @ 6:10PM
Dylan said...
This is one film Im excited to see and I agree Gemma is so Moneypennyesque to me too. She gets my vote though.
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