Stephen Graves
@stephengraves.co.uk
Special Projects Editor at Decrypt, director of short films (The Dead of Winter, premiered at @frightfest.bsky.social), player of D&D, painter of little Warhammer/MESBG men. @stephengraves on Twitter.
It's literally what Fleming did with Dr. No (Bond is poisoned at the end of From Russia With Love). And No Time to Die basically nicks the ending of You Only Live Twice, down to Bond being blown up in a big explosion… except Fleming has him survive and wash up somewhere with amnesia.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It's literally what Fleming did with Dr. No (Bond is poisoned at the end of From Russia With Love). And No Time to Die basically nicks the ending of You Only Live Twice, down to Bond being blown up in a big explosion… except Fleming has him survive and wash up somewhere with amnesia.
Never mind the angst, if you want to hark back to the literary Bond the heart of the character is his obsession with eggs: www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/articles/how...
This is how James Bond really likes his eggs
Forget the martinis. Ian Fleming's novels reveal a surprising secret about James Bond: his obsession with eggs. We crack open every reference in the original Ian Fleming James Bond novels to see how 0...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Never mind the angst, if you want to hark back to the literary Bond the heart of the character is his obsession with eggs: www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/articles/how...
Personally I'd just go back to brass tacks, dial up the Roger Moore escapism and let the Guardian critics wrap themselves up in knots of angst in about whether Bond is a Man Out of Time (and trot out their periodic article about how Now Is The Moment For A Female Bond).
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Right. Myself and @benbartlett.bsky.social have been bouncing ideas around for ages on How You Do The Next Bond Film, so here we go…
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Personally I'd just go back to brass tacks, dial up the Roger Moore escapism and let the Guardian critics wrap themselves up in knots of angst in about whether Bond is a Man Out of Time (and trot out their periodic article about how Now Is The Moment For A Female Bond).
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Technically speaking, Die Another Day is a Moonraker adaptation. They were originally going to call Rosamund Pike's character Gala Brand until someone pointed out it sounded like a packet of 1950s soap powder.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Technically speaking, Die Another Day is a Moonraker adaptation. They were originally going to call Rosamund Pike's character Gala Brand until someone pointed out it sounded like a packet of 1950s soap powder.
They'll never make it a period piece, nor should they. For one thing there's too much product placement money tied up in it.
For another, Movie!Bond is explicitly a contemporary phenomenon; one of the fascinating things about the franchise is that it's a record of current fashion, geopolitics etc.
For another, Movie!Bond is explicitly a contemporary phenomenon; one of the fascinating things about the franchise is that it's a record of current fashion, geopolitics etc.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
They'll never make it a period piece, nor should they. For one thing there's too much product placement money tied up in it.
For another, Movie!Bond is explicitly a contemporary phenomenon; one of the fascinating things about the franchise is that it's a record of current fashion, geopolitics etc.
For another, Movie!Bond is explicitly a contemporary phenomenon; one of the fascinating things about the franchise is that it's a record of current fashion, geopolitics etc.
Almost as good as the way the NAs put out a book called "Happy Endings" immediately before the TVM came out, leading you to think that it'd segue smoothly into the opening of the TVM, and... no, it's just a mess of niche fanwank for devotees of the books.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Almost as good as the way the NAs put out a book called "Happy Endings" immediately before the TVM came out, leading you to think that it'd segue smoothly into the opening of the TVM, and... no, it's just a mess of niche fanwank for devotees of the books.
If you want a deep dive from someone who worked on the film: www.ianwatson.info/plumbing-sta...
Plumbing Stanley Kubrick
For almost two decades Stanley Kubrick was obsessed intermittently by a project for a science fiction movie, featuring a robot child, originally known as Supertoys and subsequently called AI (for Arti...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
If you want a deep dive from someone who worked on the film: www.ianwatson.info/plumbing-sta...
One detail I love: when Scheider does the "judo CHOP" it *really hurts him* because of the cut on his hand.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
One detail I love: when Scheider does the "judo CHOP" it *really hurts him* because of the cut on his hand.
Have a queue-themed party?
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Have a queue-themed party?
My Pedant Brain is now wondering whether it actually snowed in Yorkshire and Manchester in December during the 1940s.
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
My Pedant Brain is now wondering whether it actually snowed in Yorkshire and Manchester in December during the 1940s.
I keep meaning to read @lanceparkin.bsky.social's WW2 Emmerdale novel, IIRC it has a cheeky in-joke linking it to his Doctor Who WW2 novel…
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
Emmerdale: Their Finest Hour
It is 1941, and when war comes to the Yorkshire village…
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November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I keep meaning to read @lanceparkin.bsky.social's WW2 Emmerdale novel, IIRC it has a cheeky in-joke linking it to his Doctor Who WW2 novel…
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...
