James Bond is dead.
07.06.10
UPDATE: Bond’s status has since been upgraded from “dead” to “indefinitely not alive.”
MGM is currently $4 billion in debt and desperately seeking a buyer, meaning that the movies MGM owns the rights to are basically screwed. Their financial troubles have been a big factor in the delays with The Hobbit, and now the word is that they’ve killed Bond 23, kind of a shame since it was set to be directed by Sam Mendes from a script by Frost/Nixon‘s Pete Morgan.
The movie has been axed – and it could be years before the secret agent with a licence to kill is back on the big screen. A glum insider said: “Members of the production crew have been told the Bond film has been canned.
Production company EON confirmed in a statement yesterday: “We do not know when development will resume and cannot comment further at this stage.”
American TV company Spyglass Entertainment is the front-runner to take over but Summit Entertainment – which makes the smash-hit Twilight vampire films starring Robert Pattinson – is also understood to be in talks with creditors. [Mirror]
That’s the bad news. The good news is that lots of other Hollywood studios have plenty of money, meaning that the Magic 8-ball movie, the one where zoo animals give Kevin James dating advice, ‘Hasbro Factory‘ — those projects are all doing fine. And really, do we need another James Bond movie? I already got my secret-agent fix from Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl.
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After that headline, I was really starting to think that I’d be reading an article about unchecked syphillis.
MGM’s financial advisor really wasn’t a fan of the character Moneypenny.
That brunette is quite fetching.
no homo
I want more Layer Cake
That Kevin James zookeeper one is also an MGM picture, and it seems they’re also still making Jeepers Creepers 3. Great job, MGM. A bunch of Pink Panther and Jeepers Creepers movies and a Kevin James movie. Spend your money on that instead of two franchises that are a license to print money.
Mel Gibson: I’ll give you money for the movie…But you’ll have to Blofeld me first.
sunavabitch for a moment there I thought Sean connery had passed away :(
All I’m going to say is Dame Judy Dench called his ding dong a ‘MONSTER’ and I’d like more posts on that.*
*will probably say more.
From Bankruptcy With Love
All he had to do was talk to Goldfinger…
*incoming transmission*
Guy’cha! Time for a new feature from the IKC Grethor and The Mighty Feklahr! It’s called: Jokes That Write Themselves!
“Dana White Purchases 007 Franchise, Pegs Nick Ring As Leading Man!”
Esccoth me, I wood wike that mawtini sssthaken, not ssthtirred. Alsstho, that cowboy wantss a sthew thitty ssstasthparilla.
QAPLAH!
*end transmission*
Dr. No…Money
That’s just great. Now how am I going to get Daniel Craig off of my lawn? He just sits there, all day long in a rotting lawn chair. Anybody passes by and he tries to offer them basketball cards and those awful wax tubes full of nasty juice. Who likes those? I’ve turned on the sprinklers and that didn’t work. He just sort of turned his crotch towards the water. Shake-away granulated coyote piss worked for a few days, but pretty soon he was back again scratching at our window after dark. WHO’S FEEDING THIS GUY? He’s really starting to fuck up my lawn.
You Only Live Under A Bridge
The Necklace I Pawned Is Not Enough
“007″ is also the amount in his bank account.
Cubic Zirconias Are Forever
This is what happens when you fag up James Bond.
the got no green lantern
sorry, think i’m playing the wrong game here
I don’t know how soon another studio will pick this up. Junk Bonds are not a very savvy investment.
He’ll have to take on Odd Job
I guess this means we’ll see John Cleese in the unemployment Q.
Looks like they can’t spare a… um, quantum of… solace. *coughs*
Okay, I still don’t know what the hell that title means.
Give those highly paid executives a big fat taxpayer-funded bonus! Another great American company run into the ground and another American icon destroyed by the incompetence of our lords and masters. No doubt these guys will get golden parachutes to float off to ruin another company and will never suffer a single downside for their incredible failures. Ahhh, Capitalism!
I agree with RoboPanda. I mean, why waste money on shit movies that noone cares about when you could make movies like Bond and the Hobbit series that people are gagging to see? No wonder they’re in financial trouble!