I was just talking about this earlier!
from the IMDB:
James Bond contender Clive Owen has snubbed the legendary franchise - by dismissing it as unchallenging. The British hunk is reported to be a frontrunner to replace departing 007 Pierce Brosnan when he hands over the superspy role after the next film. However, Gosford Park star Owen is nonplussed about the prospect of being the world's most famous hero - in fact, he doesn't want the job. According to British tabloid The Daily Express, he told a pal, "I think it's too formulaic, too tried and tested and a little past it's sell by date. I would not consider it to be a challenge. I've just come back from Los Angeles where I had a meeting with Francis Ford Coppola who wants to cast me in an exciting new project, which will be Bond-like but more challenging and relevant today. I'm really excited about it."
Now if this were thirty years ago and he were snubbing the franchise that Sean Connery built I would say that Mr. Owen's getting a bit too big for his britches...but, in retrospect, the Bond franchise is not what it once was.
After a good start to the Brosnan era with Goldeneye (one of my favourites of "new-era" Bond. Sean Bean uber-cool as the villian and Famke Jannsen killing guys with her thighs; HER THIGHS!) the last ones have been rather stupid (Denise Richards as a nukular scientist for crying out loud!) and I haven't even bothered to go to the theatres for the last two outings: I even passed it by at the rental counter, opting for The Transporter instead...
Come to think of it. Why are there more Bond movies? Aside from the commercial product placement opportunities hasn't every possible permutation of the Bond film been made by now?
I think for me the franchise ended as soon as the super-ENGLISH spy began driving a German car and drinking pseudo-vodka in his martinis...
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My suggestion for the Bond franchise is to do one of two things either 1) Take Bond back to the 60s where their were real "bad guys" (ir the USSR or Spectre) or 2) Just scale it back to what is plausible, take some hints from "From Russia with Love".
The real tragedy of "Die Another Day" is that the general story had a lot of promise. Bond is captured by the North Koreans, he is traded back to the British on an exchange, MI6 thinks he has lost it, he is forced to save the world. Maybe they need Ang Lee to direct this franchise as well.
pls answer me
thnx very much
Petra