What we’ve done is create a kind of Wanker’s Veto where nothing good or useful can ever happen, because MPs and the press will unite and destroy it. So the only things that will ever succeed even temporarily are projects that nobody likes or wants, except for said MPs and media figures.

"I thought you said that ship sank?"
"No, I said it went down."

Sam Mendes had a jolly good go, for some reason.

lol at "I wouldn't be able to do it." I will get Bond out of that predicament with two lines of dialogue a la X-Men. "Weren't you dead?" "I got better." Done. Give me $250k.

It also cost a LOT less than the three that cracked a billion each, as I understand it. When people will evidently see these whether they're good or not, I think it being more of a standalone B-movie-style messaround gave it a longer shelflife than other tentpoles this summer and all.