| "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #215998] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 04:09 |
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http://www.filmstew.com/blog/blog_commento.asp?blog_id=530
CAMPBELL ON BOND by Ian Spelling 1/31/2006 at 15:11
Ten years ago, MGM entrusted its flagging James Bond franchise to
Martin Campbell.
The result was an astounding success. Pierce Brosnan made 007 his own
character, and the film Goldeneye went on to gross $350 million
worldwide, paving the way for Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not
Enough and Die Another Day. Now, Sony owns the Bond franchise and has
called up Campbell to simultaneously update it and go retro.
And just how does one do that? "The answer lies in going back to the
book," replies Campbell, speaking with FilmStew by telephone from
Prague a few days before this week's production launch of Casino
Royale, which will shoot in locations from the Czech Republic to the
U.K. and from Italy to the Bahamas. "I directed one which was, to be
honest, very much in the line of the standard Bond stuff. It was great
to have a new Bond at that point, but this is going back to the [Ian
Fleming] book."
"I don't know if [people] have read the book, but it's quite
sobering, quite interesting (and also the first of Fleming's Bond
tales),"he continues. "It centers around the Cold War, which, of
course, we can't do."
"But essentially we are leaving all the ingredients in the book
pretty much intact. The villain is the villain. There is this big card
game that happens at Casino Royale. Bond falls in love with the girl,
Vespa. He genuinely falls in love with her and she falls in love with
him. It has a wonderful ending. And the girl's part is absolutely
terrific. She has a fantastic part, unlike any of the Bond girls of the
past."
The villain role has yet to be cast. Likewise, Campbell and the
producers still don't have their Vespa. According to the rumor mill,
Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron passed on the part, while actresses
Rose Byrne, Natasha Henstridge, Sienna Miller, Kimberly Davies and
Thandie Newton are all supposedly under consideration.
So far, Sony and MGM have only of course announced - back in October of
2005 - that Daniel Craig, the blond Brit best known for roles in
Elizabeth, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Layer Cake and Munich, would be the
6th man to step into 007's beloved Aston Martin. "What he brings,
actually, is a grittier, tougher feel to it," Campbell observes.
"It'll be much more real in that sense. And he'll just bring
whatever each actor does to the role."
"If you look at all the Bonds, from [Sean] Connery, who has always been
my favorite, to Roger Moore, who was entirely different -- I'm
skipping On Her Majesty's Secret Service of course -- but then you
had Tim Dalton and then Pierce, and now you have got Daniel Craig.
Everyone brings their own thing to the series, and I'm excited,
really, because Daniel is a terrific actor and he's so different."
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216000 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 04:42 |
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Advance notice to any trolls who may try to use parts of this article
as their latest pre-emptive strike against CR - it's the journalist who
wrote the article, not Campbell, who makes all the elementary factual
mistakes, so please don't start whining about stuff like 'Vespa' etc.
Phil
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216001 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 04:46 |
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"-- I'm
skipping On Her Majesty's Secret Service of course --"
Strange of Campbell to say that as OHMSS is the only Bond film where
Bond falls in love - and that mirrors what Campbell wants to do in CR.
Oh well...
LLC
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216002 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 04:52 |
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The good news is that's all they have to whine about. Campbell's saying
all the right things.
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216411 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 16:02 |
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JHause wrote:
> The good news is that's all they have to whine about. Campbell's saying
> all the right things.
--- But EON has the "creative rights" to prove him wrong.
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216414 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 16:42 |
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WQ wrote:
> JHause wrote:
> > The good news is that's all they have to whine about. Campbell's saying
> > all the right things.
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> --- But EON has the "creative rights" to prove him wrong.
And they can bribe the other filmmakers! And they have a distorted
female genital perspective! And they hired Paul Haggis but they don't
care about the script!
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216418 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 17:28 |
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"WQ" <wq [at] email.com> wrote in message
news:1139062499.079187.190190 [at] z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
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> JHause wrote:
>> The good news is that's all they have to whine about. Campbell's saying
>> all the right things.
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> --- But EON has the "creative rights" to prove him wrong.
>
The glass is still half-empty, I see.
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216420 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 17:36 |
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Will wrote:
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> The glass is still half-empty, I see.
No, just the head.
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216432 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 20:42 |
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Will wrote:
> "WQ" <wq [at] email.com> wrote in message
> news:1139062499.079187.190190 [at] z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > JHause wrote:
> >> The good news is that's all they have to whine about. Campbell's saying
> >> all the right things.
> >
> > --- But EON has the "creative rights" to prove him wrong.
> >
> The glass is still half-empty, I see.
--- They've already proved Campbell wrong about the Aston Martin.
Quote from the MI6 site regarding that:
"MI6 can reveal that despite earlier comments by director Martin
Campbell, the DBS will be fitted out with the latest gadgets and gizmos
for an exciting car chase."
Hmm. I wonder who decided to exercise their "creative rights" to see to
it that the car will now come fully equipped with WMDs "despite earlier
comments by director Martin Campbell."
The actual link for that is in the Aston Martin thread of a couple of
days back.
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216433 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 20:57 |
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Just for you, James Bond is going to a drive a 73 year-old grey 1933
Bentley convertible, get passed by everybody in the chase, break down
midway, and push it by himself to a car repair shop.
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| Re: "Film Stew" Martin Campbell Interview [message #216434 ] |
Sa, 04 Februar 2006 21:08 |
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This just in: WQ has uncovered the shocking revelation that EON and
Sony have creative control over the director they hired to shoot their
movie.
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