Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Other Star Salaries Revealed $25 million to return to the role of James Bond next year.
Like that's ever stopped a film. The old Hollywood saying was "Give me Stallone and the phone book, and I'll get it made!" (that's what one of my old screenwriting profs told us, anyway. He did win an Oscar.)
No, didn't Stallone win that? He won for an old Cary Grant movie called "Father Goose" (which I adored as a kid).
It's on; Bond 25 Director Confirmed as Danny Boyle, Production With Daniel Craig Begins December 2018 This will be interesting...
The whole James Bond formula seems rather old and worn out right now. I would think that some time off (like a decades worth or so) would be wise.
Well they halfway tried to modernize it with the worldwide-surveillance plot thread of Spectre, but the rest of the movie was so gawdawful that it didn't register.
The trouble with Spectre is the script was an unfocused jumble right up to the time they started filming, with frantic last-minute rewrites (particularly to the final act) even after the sets had been built... it really should have been pushed back a year to a late 2016 release, and in fact almost was when Daniel Craig badly injured his leg early in production, but he took a little time off to recover, they rejigged the schedule... and delivered the worst Bond movie in three decades!!! The modernization of Bond came about very successfully with Casino Royale (and it's flawed-but-interesting sequel Quantum of Solace)... Spectre forgot those lessons, and suffered accordingly... let's hope Danny Boyle and John Hodge don't do likewise with the upcoming installment.
Craig' getting 50 million(£)+ bonuses not bad for a guy that would rather slit his wrists than be in another Bond flick.
That oft-quoted statement has been an albatross around Craig's neck ever since he said it, and it's invariably always taken completely out of context; the interview in question took place a mere couple of days after filming on Spectre had wrapped, Craig was understandably exhausted after a seven-month shoot (which saw him badly injure his leg), the interviewer asked him about the rumors that the upcoming film being first of a two-part story and was there ever plans to shoot them back-to-back, Craig simply said making one Bond film was hard enough and at that moment in time, he'd rather slit his wrists than do another one so soon after... in other words, he simply didn't have it in him for another Bond movie immediately after coming off Spectre... he didn't say he wouldn't do another one or he wanted to leave the role altogether, but the clickbait-happy internet positively went to town with that remark, allegedly got Craig into trouble with the powers-that-be at Sony, and he's been asked about it constantly ever since... He didn't have to do Bond 25... but I think, like all involved with Spectre, he wasn't happy how that movie turned out and he's determined to go out on a high note.
