![]() In the director’s chair is Martin Campbell, the man who made what is arguably the best of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds with 1995’s Goldeneye. Step three: get a new Bond, some one who is raw and rough around the edges but shows promise and can act. Step two: get a competent director behind the helm, someone who can do action but can also keep eyes fixed to the screen when stuff’s not blowing up. ![]() ![]() While it had been done for TV in the 50s and a spy spoof in the 60s, it had never been done in the canonical film series. Casino Royale was Fleming’s first Bond adventure and the one that set the formula that all others followed. Step one: go back to the Ian Fleming novels. So there’s no time like the present for a reboot after all the pomp and circumstance for 40 years and 20 movies in Die Another Day, and in the wake of highly successful re-imaginings like Batman Begins and TV’s Battlestar Galactica, it was Bond’s turn to be reborn. While recent Bonds have made bucks by the buckets, they’d hardly be accused of being the most innovative, if even superior entries into the series. But with familiarity comes comfort and a reflex against being bold and trying something new and exciting, and so has it been with Bond as of late. How could you not? The guy’s probably more well known then every British cabinet minister combined.
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