The other way to do this is Mad Max where George Miller goes “I don’t care” and anything can happen to Mad Max and it doesn’t matter because it’s all kind of a weird Australian fairy tale

They should do a RONIN / FURY ROAD-style feature length car chase, but they’ll probably fuck up and try for another GOLDENEYE, which hit precisely bc there were no expectations for it whatsoever

The question then is what comes after John Wick. If PLAY DIRTY is any indication, there’s not much interest in a return to maximalism

Now that I think about it, the energy from early Bond movies comes from the mix of post-War British anxiety and post-war Italian zootiness; '60s/'70s Bond has Diabolik/fumetti energy through its Italian connection, and losing that has left the franchise rudderless as much as the end of the Cold War

A vegetable family, even

The bigger problem with James Bond is it's been a franchise in search of a point for decades. Questions about what to do with James Bond elide how we don't need to do anything with him, we don't need him, an Italian family needs him to make money.