nymag.com - 11/3/2008
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Director Marc Forster tells New York he had surprisingly few disagreements with the Bond proprietors (see our profile here ). "For instance, my concern was the product placement. And they said, 'We have contracts that say they should be in the background we don't have to shoot a closeup.'" But ...
sunsetgun.typepad.com - 11/11/2008
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James Bond is in a word, timeless. An
enduring symbol of effortless cool, irresistible sex appeal, intelligence,...
style, sophistication and class, it’s not surprising that the actors who’ve played him have had some big (and chic) shoes to fill. But ...
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Bond Through The Ages
imdb.com - 10/29/2008
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15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Go Prev | Next 1-20 of 35 articles Prev | Next Bond Is Back 30 October 2008 2:37 AM, PDT Thousands of fans braced themselves against chilly weather in ...
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Paul Haggis Wanted To Give Bond A Baby?
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... While being profiled for New York Magazine, "Quantum of Solace" director Marc Foster let it be known that in an early draft of 'Solace" one of the many scribes, Paul Haggis, attempted to outfit Bond (Daniel Craig) with the ultimate chick magnet...a baby. ...
Was James Bond Going to Adopt Vesper's Child?
RopeofSilicon.com —
New York Magazine has a quote from Marc Forster saying at one point screenwriter Paul Haggis had the idea to add a little baby into the ...
“Quantum of Solace” Almost Featured a James Bond Jr.
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New York magazine’s Vulture has a piece (via Film Junk) that describes how Paul Haggis, a screenwriter for Quantum of Solace (and the writer/director for the Best Picture-winning Crash), almost created a child subplot for the next Bond film. According to Marc Forster, Solace’s director:
Haggis had an idea they weren’t fond of, and I didn’t know if it would work or not…The idea was that Vesper in the last movie, maybe she had ...
James Bond Jr…Almost
TheBadandUgly.com —
Quantum of Solace is getting pretty well reviewed, besides setting European box office records, always a good sign. Bond 22 has a harder James Bond turned almost invincible through revenge facing off against a realistic enemy. But new reports suggest Quantum of Solace almost included Bond’s orphaned son…
From Vulture:
According to [Solace Director Marc] Forster, Bond nearly became a father in a plot twist written by one of Quantum of Solace’s ...
James Bond Almost Had A Kid?!
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... Call it the Indiana Jones effect - according to Vulture, 007 almost had a James Bond Jr. in the new Quantum of Solace. Here’s what director Marc Forster told them: ...
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lightpalimpsest.blogspot.com 11/14/2008 — Here's my list of the top Bond Songs. It interestingly inverted in many ways, as the list does not follow the best films much, and is sometimes quite the opposite. I'll try to supplement this with YouTube clips, but some seem to get pulled for ...
That's Enough, Mr. Bond
he-shot-cyrus.blogspot.com 11/13/2008 — I don't understand all the love for James Bond movies. Apart from a few in the middle, I've seen most of the Bond franchise. Each of the movies have their scenes. The New Orleans funeral ceremony that opens Live and Let Die is worth buying the DVD. ...
Bond and Nostalgia
lightpalimpsest.blogspot.com 11/3/2008 — Part of the James Bond Blogathon Following Will's post on his own autobiographical approach to the series , I thought I would tell the story of my own life in Bond. Among other things, my dissertation on Song of the South attempts to document how ...
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