Comment by danpalmer
2 days ago
With all due respect, because there are nice ideas in this, a wider Bond Cinematic Universe is the wrong direction. There is already a very established "BCU" in the film progression, and I believe that the cultural significance of that would be diluted, not enhanced, by adding side quests to the story.
Alternatively, to look at it from the perspective of your spec script, what about your spec script is enhanced by it being in the BCU. Ignoring the leg-up it would get from that, what is better about the story for it being Bond, over a new franchise? From what you've written here, nothing jumps out to me as benefitting from being Bond. Similarly, how are the Bond films improved by this? By having a missile deactivated by off-screen magic that you need another streaming subscription to watch the back-story of?
Thanks for your thoughts!
BCU is why AMZN bought the IP, so I'm just leaning into the business reality. My argument is that the films are the center of gravity, and it's fine to put other BCU properties 'in orbit' around them without having to have everything reference everything else like they did (brilliantly) at Marvel.
The films are holy, but deserving of a reboot. My spec - which I genuinely can't post here – dips into deep Bond lore but, introduces us to this broad world of espionage in which these other properties could orbit.
It's not too too different than Star Wars or even DC (like with Gotham), but what's so cool about this world of espionage is that there's so much to tap into that is both grounded AND cool. A whole constellation of espionage stories just under our psychic reality, perhaps moreso than comic books or scifi.