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Bond 24's title will be announced on Thursday...

MGM and EON Productions today announced that the title of their 24th film in the official James Bond film series would be announced via live stream from Pinewood Studios on Thursday 4th December at 11:00am GMT.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment will present a live announcement and photo call from the 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios. The title and cast of the 24th Bond film will be revealed, marking the start of principal photography on Monday 8th December.

 

I believe all of the titles from the original Fleming stories have been used, right? That means this will be an original?

There haven't been many clunker Bond titles. Accurate though it may be, Moonraker is certainly wonky, and not many people seemed to warm to Quantum of Solace, but the rest are quite good to outstanding.

 

If Blofeld is back, the title should be: Specter. They could even retcon Quantum from CR and QOS to be Specter. Mr. White, who was in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace could be second or third-highest ranking member of the organization.

 

I thought it was interesting that Roger Moore was the only Bond that never ever ran.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stephen-hawking-would-like-play-753250

 

Nah he should perform the Bond theme instead.

 

Yeah, he found early on that he looked awful running, so always had scripts changed to remove any running scenes, iirc.

 

Here we go, this is good for discussion. Listed first are the official movies from EON, in order; Never Say Never Again is not EON and came out in 1983.

Dr. No 1962
From Russia with Love 1963
Goldfinger 1964
Thunderball 1965
You Only Live Twice 1967
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
Diamonds Are Forever 1971
Live and Let Die 1973
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974
The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
Moonraker 1979
For Your Eyes Only 1981
Octopussy 1983
A View to a Kill 1985
The Living Daylights 1987
Licence to Kill 1989
GoldenEye 1995
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
The World Is Not Enough 1999
Die Another Day 2002
Casino Royale 2006
Quantum of Solace 2008
Skyfall 2012
Bond 24 2015

Next, here are the Ian Fleming Bond novels, in order. Others written by other authors are not listed.

Casino Royale 1953
Live and Let Die 1954
Moonraker 1955
Diamonds Are Forever 1956
From Russia with Love 1957
Dr. No 1958
Goldfinger 1959
For Your Eyes Only 1960
Thunderball 1961
The Spy Who Loved Me 1962
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963
You Only Live Twice 1964
The Man with the Golden Gun 1965
Octopussy and The Living Daylights 1966

 

We have a Bond series discussion already, EHT.

The unused titles are Risico, Property of a Lady, 007 in New York, and the Hildebrand Rarity.

 

One of those is almost usable, one is meh, one is squee, and one sounds like a Robert Ludlum title.

 

007 in New York = lol, never
Risico = Nope
Property of a Lady = What we got as QoS should have been called this. I mean, sure, tying Quantum the organisation to the title was cute, but it never explained how Bond got his quantum of solace from Vesper. But it's great.
The Hildebrand Rarity = Was this your Ludlum?

 

Yes, I know. I was just posting that for discussion of potential titles for Bond 24, and to list what's already been used from the novels and what wasn't from them.

 

I just hope we don't get a sequel to Skyfall. Please.

 

I liked Skyfall, but I don't want a direct sequel to it. That doesn't seem to be something that's been rumored at all, though, so it's probably safe.

 

Sure; but it's Mendes directing, probably Thomas Newman (ugh) scoring it...

 

Property of a Lady is the best still unused title, hands down.

 

Agreed. Though, I tells ya, should have been the name of the Casino Royale sequel!

 

But but Octopussy!

 

Sssh. Sssshhh.

 

I've got the perfect title; Quantum of Physics.

 

Wasn't this next one going to be a somewhat return to the wacky gadget usage?

 

Not sure when the announcement is supposed to livestream, but I just read that Sherlock actor Andrew Scott and not Christoph Waltz is going to be playing the main villain (According to several sources, who are of course never wrong). If true, that doesn't necessarily mean no Blofeld, but he seems an odd choice if it is; even if it's "Blofeld Begins".

 

If Blofeld is the villain for this new movie, I wonder if the recent Bond movies will parallel the first four: two involving a major criminal/terrorist organization (Specter/"Quantum"), then a movie not connected to that organization, and then back to the villainous organization. Granted, Blofeld didn't play a major role in Thunderball, but the pattern could hold.

 

The next Bond car

Fiat 500