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Bond Movie on Hold, MGM Toast?

Tuesday April 20, 2010

MGM teeters on bankruptcy. This is the studio that where the Bond movies, one of the most successful long running movie franchises in history, have been filmed. But the producers long to move to Fox or Sony, so the next sequel has been delayed. 

Picture 1  I don't care for the way the producers have tried to make Bond an action hero, he is not and the last film as a disaster in my opinion, as well as its awkward title. As usual, go back and read the some of the original Fleming books. The first two films, Dr. No and From Russia with Love were pretty close to the original idea. Then the producers went for gadgets and locations rather than characters and plot. 

But our story here, bankruptcy casts a wide net, even netting Bond. 

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    LeAnna Nesbitt

    Well the original Bond actor caught the World’s attention at that time. Dr. No and From Russia with Love were unique in movie making technology. Since then all movie productions have used incredible science and technology in film making so it’s really taking the original Bond concept and placing their ideas at the bottom of the new contemporary electronic arts in film making. It’s not surprising MGM tried to cling to the Bond format for a long time. It still is a fantastic achievement for the Bond legend but time usually causes the shine to rare off.

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