42 years ago, the late James Bond franchise producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli received an honorary Oscar – the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. This coming weekend his daughter and stepson – Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson – will receive the same honor this Sunday at the 15th Governors Awards held by AMPAS. The […]
  1. It will be a man.
  1. He will likely be in his 30s.
  2. Whoever says yes is doing so with the expectation of at least a decade’s worth of films.
  3. “Whiteness is not a given”.

Not exactly a massive revaluation but I hope they’re bold enough to be different.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    god i hope they go back to being campy. the austin powers franchise inflicted generational trauma on bond that they should really deal with.

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        definitely that too, but the franchise owners and Craig have called out austin powers as a catalyst in the past.

        [The pivot] had to happen the way it did. I can’t see it happening any other way. We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us - I am a huge Mike Myers fan, so don’t get me wrong - but he kind of fucked us; made it impossible to do the gags.
        – Daniel Craig, 2012