The first thing that comes to mind over a “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” remake is that the film will in all likelihood be devoid of the whimsical charm and innocence of the 1968 film I saw in the theater-and instead will be somewhat dark and disturbing.
P&W have done some good work. I think Bond fans don't have a good sense of what they bring to the table, but if you read the Some Kind of Hero book, you'll see why they've become a fixture of the creative team.
The film did not follow the book at all. There are elements drawn from the book but the book ends with the family going to the cliffs of dover and finding caves that the mafia are using for nefarious purposes. I wonder if the new one will more closely parallel the book's story.
Eon seems to have a licence to kill Bond day by day, line by line, film by film. They should sell the rights to say a rotting smelly vegetable yet still with more creativity than the Eon Board
I'll only watch this movie if Dick Van Dyke can be the grandad :) good point, EON can certanly be active in other things aswell as Bond 26 and theres nothing wrong with that. But yeah 2027 does seem like it now and I'm not sure how to feel :(
I saw that announcement as well. Yeah, i think its buying time for a Bond film. But i hate the fact they would redo this already amazing movie. It's too iconic. They may as well have said they are going to remake Goldfinger. I welcome that just as much.
My frustration level is escalating, and it was already fairly high! I'm an optimistic person, but I feel a sense of resigned defeatism coming over me whenever I think about BOND 26 now (in the absence of any news and Broccoli & Wilson sounding totally uninterested when asked about its status). I just want something to get excited about!
I thought the more recent interviews with Broccoli and Wilson (from when they received the award) indicated a shift towards being a bit more talkative about things, but maybe that's just me!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a great film and the Bond influence isn't just Ian Fleming and EON. Theres also Rhoald Dahl and Richard Maibaum for the screenplay and most notably of all Gert Frobe (AKA Goldfinger) as the Baron. The recent theatre revival is also really good, I saw it in Liverpool (UK). Having said that, would EON/Barbara PLEASE direct your energy towards Bond 26 and make it a fun film with girls, gadgets and cars and Bond saving the world rather than dying
I am personally praying for the next Bond film to be a period set Casino Royale, set around 1952 which will spark a reboot of the series, all filmed as period films and filmed in the same order as the novels. I know that this will never happen, but I am allowed to dream. :)
I would love to see a set of very faithful Fleming adaptations (ideally for TV). I could see it happen after the Bond novels start to enter the public domain in a decade.
* Cue some disgruntled fans raging at EON * haha. Anyway, to me it seems like it's a company that's more active than it ever has been between this and Othello (I believe that's the play they're adapting anyway). No idea what this'll be like (new adaptations are fine so long as they do something interesting with the material. The original Chitty Chitty is a nice film, but not perfect by any means). As for Bond 26, I'm just waiting for something official. It's obviously going to be a wait (and to us a wait is a year, which obviously isn't the time frame we're looking at), but we really don't know what's going on with it at the current time.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond Exactly. Nothing anyone here can do about it, and I doubt anyone's going to boycott Bond over this. There's more to be optimistic about than many believe. Bond has a new video game being developed (which, btw, has a similar drawn out development timeline, with limited information out about it at the current time too). I think that could be positive for the franchise if it's any good. There's even that Bond reality show getting a second series (not my thing personally, but it can't hurt). Add to that EON seem to be developing more than they have done in a long time. Bond is a franchise obviously kept very close to one particular company (or more accurately two if you count the literary side, and of course continuation novels also continue to be released), but it's not a dead franchise, even if the films have had this obvious gap. No point in getting wound up over this I'd say.
Here's another thought why should they even bother with Purvis and Wade! They're responsible for some of worst material ever! They can't even hire competent script writers. I'll bet a million dollars not one thing is in motion at Eon for Bond 26, literally NOTHING
I think Purvis & Wade have contributed quite a lot of value. The Some Kind of Hero book does a good job of highlighting what they bring to a Bond film's development.
@ I didn’t know about the book but, based on your taste and recommendation I will definitely read it. Forgive my harsh assessment of them. Perhaps I could use more information. I am ridiculously frustrated at this point with Eon all together, as many of us are.
It's a bit amusing to see all of the complaints in this comments section acting like EON is incapable of developing Bond AND other projects at the same time. They have made 7 non-Bond films since 2014. OTHELLO will be #8 and CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG will be #9. They are perfectly capable of developing BOND 26 at the same time as both of those, especially now that they no longer have to worry about MGM filing for sale or bankruptcy every other year.
If NTTD had not ended the way it did, I think I would have been happy for the films to have been given an extended rest. I think the series has been running on fumes for the past 30 years as it is, but that was just too sour a note to go out on.
@usernameinfo4therevenge Nothing went out though, aside from the Craig era, which was always an entirely separate thing. The original 20-film continuity still exists out there in the ether. The Bond played by Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan is still alive and continuing his missions off in the void. They didn't kill that Bond off, yet I feel like many fans still act like they did. Hell, if EON really wanted to, they could have the next run return to that continuity. "Legacy rebootquels" are a thing these days. Mind you, I don't think that's what EON will do. I figure they'll start a new separate third continuity, but they *do* have the option to return to the old one if they want. I think Bond fans are being way too hard on NTTD, the Daniel Craig era, EON, and *especially* themselves when it comes to Craig's Bond dying in NTTD. We will get more Bond. We were always going to get more Bond. Just not *that* Bond. And that's perfectly fine.
@@danielbaldwin8220Thank You, for having a level-headed, rational response to this. One would think it was rather obvious that Craig's Bond was its own thing.
I'm not sure how well a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake will do, but I can imagine someone like Wonka director Paul King doing it justice. LEt's not forget that it was not only a popular movie starring Dick Van Dyke, but also a successful long-running stage musical produced by Dana Broccoli. In addition, Wilson's son David said EON was looking for new avenues to make money, and not just rely on the Bond series. EON can produce multiple projects at once without ruining quality. Producers make multiple projects in Hollywood all the time. If I was Barbara, I would probably want to make other films besides Bond too.
This last election cycle showed a zeitgeist change , they could just be waiting for the “dust to settle” to ensure that they are in alignment with whatever current cultural climate exists. If I were the folks at Netflix , I would encourage the creation of a streaming series which embraces the original bond era (aka madman) leveraging Flemings original works (warts and all) as this would not affect a modern movie series. And Netflix could at least generate some capital from their investment.
Netflix has no access to Bond. If we ever get more streaming Bond, beyond that current reality series, it will continue to occur over on Amazon Prime due to Amazon MGM's ownership stake in the Bond franchise. That said, Bond goes public domain in most countries come 2035, so period piece streaming movies or a show will inevitably happen after that. Just probably not from EON.
@@danielbaldwin8220 Fleming's novels are already in the public domain in Canada and Japan. This is why there exists in our current timeline an all female Japanese musical adaptation of Casino Royale. There's no reason (in theory) it couldn't be done so long as it's from either one of those countries. It very likely won't happen though. Not under a big company like Netflix anyway, and not even after 2035. For starters such a series would probably have limited appeal (why would anyone apart from hardcore fans want to watch a 'faithful' adaptation of Fleming's Goldfinger, for example? The novel is a bit stupid or at least one of his weaker ones, and the film improves on it in many ways and is a classic). It'd either be a very sanitised version of those stories in order to avoid controversy (I love them but they're very of their time) or a sort of retrospective Mad Men type thing about the past (which isn't really Bond - they're meant to be escapist thrillers fundamentally). I suspect there'd be strict boundaries to depicting Bond even on the small screen as EON would still own the film rights (it certainly wouldn't be 'James Bond' as we know it. Remember, the films created a lot around this character, and it's doesn't necessarily all come from Fleming). It'd be such a thankless task. Personally, things like the all female musical are much more interesting anyway. I'm all for Fleming's stories coming to theatre. That's more likely what we'll get.
The first thing that comes to mind over a “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” remake is that the film will in all likelihood be devoid of the whimsical charm and innocence of the 1968 film I saw in the theater-and instead will be somewhat dark and disturbing.
@historybuff66 It depends on who does it!
@ True. In my eyes Tim Burton would be a worse case scenario.
With EON's planned remake of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," we can take a quantum of solace in the fact that Ian Fleming didn't write "Mary Poppins."
As long as it’s not Purvis and Wade writing…
P&W have done some good work. I think Bond fans don't have a good sense of what they bring to the table, but if you read the Some Kind of Hero book, you'll see why they've become a fixture of the creative team.
I actually quite like the idea of this. It would be the perfect project between Bonds, strange to see this being talked about ahead of Bond 26.
EON is busy these days!
The film did not follow the book at all. There are elements drawn from the book but the book ends with the family going to the cliffs of dover and finding caves that the mafia are using for nefarious purposes. I wonder if the new one will more closely parallel the book's story.
Eon seems to have a licence to kill Bond day by day, line by line, film by film. They should sell the rights to say a rotting smelly vegetable yet still with more creativity than the Eon Board
Sell to who? No movie studio cares about doing good movies anymore.
I'll only watch this movie if Dick Van Dyke can be the grandad :)
good point, EON can certanly be active in other things aswell as Bond 26 and theres nothing wrong with that. But yeah 2027 does seem like it now and I'm not sure how to feel :(
I'm thinking 2028...
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond as of things are now after doing your recent video, I think your right
I saw that announcement as well. Yeah, i think its buying time for a Bond film. But i hate the fact they would redo this already amazing movie. It's too iconic. They may as well have said they are going to remake Goldfinger. I welcome that just as much.
I have only seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang once, as a young child, and I didn't really like it. Maybe I should revisit it!
My frustration level is escalating, and it was already fairly high! I'm an optimistic person, but I feel a sense of resigned defeatism coming over me whenever I think about BOND 26 now (in the absence of any news and Broccoli & Wilson sounding totally uninterested when asked about its status). I just want something to get excited about!
I thought the more recent interviews with Broccoli and Wilson (from when they received the award) indicated a shift towards being a bit more talkative about things, but maybe that's just me!
I may have missed that, so I'll look into it.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a great film and the Bond influence isn't just Ian Fleming and EON. Theres also Rhoald Dahl and Richard Maibaum for the screenplay and most notably of all Gert Frobe (AKA Goldfinger) as the Baron. The recent theatre revival is also really good, I saw it in Liverpool (UK). Having said that, would EON/Barbara PLEASE direct your energy towards Bond 26 and make it a fun film with girls, gadgets and cars and Bond saving the world rather than dying
Why redo it… it’s a classic… the last 20 years of bond however, not so much
I am personally praying for the next Bond film to be a period set Casino Royale, set around 1952 which will spark a reboot of the series, all filmed as period films and filmed in the same order as the novels. I know that this will never happen, but I am allowed to dream. :)
That is one beautiful dream 🙌🏻
I would love to see a set of very faithful Fleming adaptations (ideally for TV). I could see it happen after the Bond novels start to enter the public domain in a decade.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond Amazon could do what WB is doing with Harry Potter and adapt the books as a tv series 🙌🏻
* Cue some disgruntled fans raging at EON * haha.
Anyway, to me it seems like it's a company that's more active than it ever has been between this and Othello (I believe that's the play they're adapting anyway). No idea what this'll be like (new adaptations are fine so long as they do something interesting with the material. The original Chitty Chitty is a nice film, but not perfect by any means).
As for Bond 26, I'm just waiting for something official. It's obviously going to be a wait (and to us a wait is a year, which obviously isn't the time frame we're looking at), but we really don't know what's going on with it at the current time.
There's a lot of frustration in this chat! But things will come when they come.
@@AnalyzeThisMisterBond Exactly. Nothing anyone here can do about it, and I doubt anyone's going to boycott Bond over this.
There's more to be optimistic about than many believe. Bond has a new video game being developed (which, btw, has a similar drawn out development timeline, with limited information out about it at the current time too). I think that could be positive for the franchise if it's any good. There's even that Bond reality show getting a second series (not my thing personally, but it can't hurt). Add to that EON seem to be developing more than they have done in a long time. Bond is a franchise obviously kept very close to one particular company (or more accurately two if you count the literary side, and of course continuation novels also continue to be released), but it's not a dead franchise, even if the films have had this obvious gap.
No point in getting wound up over this I'd say.
Here's another thought why should they even bother with Purvis and Wade! They're responsible for some of worst material ever! They can't even hire competent script writers. I'll bet a million dollars not one thing is in motion at Eon for Bond 26, literally NOTHING
I think Purvis & Wade have contributed quite a lot of value. The Some Kind of Hero book does a good job of highlighting what they bring to a Bond film's development.
@ I didn’t know about the book but, based on your taste and recommendation I will definitely read it. Forgive my harsh assessment of them. Perhaps I could use more information. I am ridiculously frustrated at this point with Eon all together, as many of us are.
It's a bit amusing to see all of the complaints in this comments section acting like EON is incapable of developing Bond AND other projects at the same time. They have made 7 non-Bond films since 2014. OTHELLO will be #8 and CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG will be #9. They are perfectly capable of developing BOND 26 at the same time as both of those, especially now that they no longer have to worry about MGM filing for sale or bankruptcy every other year.
If NTTD had not ended the way it did, I think I would have been happy for the films to have been given an extended rest. I think the series has been running on fumes for the past 30 years as it is, but that was just too sour a note to go out on.
@usernameinfo4therevenge Nothing went out though, aside from the Craig era, which was always an entirely separate thing. The original 20-film continuity still exists out there in the ether. The Bond played by Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan is still alive and continuing his missions off in the void. They didn't kill that Bond off, yet I feel like many fans still act like they did.
Hell, if EON really wanted to, they could have the next run return to that continuity. "Legacy rebootquels" are a thing these days. Mind you, I don't think that's what EON will do. I figure they'll start a new separate third continuity, but they *do* have the option to return to the old one if they want.
I think Bond fans are being way too hard on NTTD, the Daniel Craig era, EON, and *especially* themselves when it comes to Craig's Bond dying in NTTD.
We will get more Bond. We were always going to get more Bond. Just not *that* Bond. And that's perfectly fine.
@@danielbaldwin8220 ok, if you really believe they’re capable of…..sorry boss, clearly they aren’t. It’s time to stop enabling theses idiots
@@danielbaldwin8220Thank You, for having a level-headed, rational response to this.
One would think it was rather obvious that Craig's Bond was its own thing.
I'm not sure how well a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake will do, but I can imagine someone like Wonka director Paul King doing it justice. LEt's not forget that it was not only a popular movie starring Dick Van Dyke, but also a successful long-running stage musical produced by Dana Broccoli. In addition, Wilson's son David said EON was looking for new avenues to make money, and not just rely on the Bond series. EON can produce multiple projects at once without ruining quality. Producers make multiple projects in Hollywood all the time. If I was Barbara, I would probably want to make other films besides Bond too.
@@danielscott8180 Paul King would be a fun choice for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Paul King would be a natural fit.
I wonder how they'll do the child catcher in the new movie???
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We aim to please... I quess.
😂
This last election cycle showed a zeitgeist change , they could just be waiting for the “dust to settle” to ensure that they are in alignment with whatever current cultural climate exists.
If I were the folks at Netflix , I would encourage the creation of a streaming series which embraces the original bond era (aka madman) leveraging Flemings original works (warts and all) as this would not affect a modern movie series. And Netflix could at least generate some capital from their investment.
Netflix has no access to Bond.
If we ever get more streaming Bond, beyond that current reality series, it will continue to occur over on Amazon Prime due to Amazon MGM's ownership stake in the Bond franchise.
That said, Bond goes public domain in most countries come 2035, so period piece streaming movies or a show will inevitably happen after that. Just probably not from EON.
@ good insight. Thank you
@@danielbaldwin8220 Fleming's novels are already in the public domain in Canada and Japan. This is why there exists in our current timeline an all female Japanese musical adaptation of Casino Royale. There's no reason (in theory) it couldn't be done so long as it's from either one of those countries.
It very likely won't happen though. Not under a big company like Netflix anyway, and not even after 2035. For starters such a series would probably have limited appeal (why would anyone apart from hardcore fans want to watch a 'faithful' adaptation of Fleming's Goldfinger, for example? The novel is a bit stupid or at least one of his weaker ones, and the film improves on it in many ways and is a classic). It'd either be a very sanitised version of those stories in order to avoid controversy (I love them but they're very of their time) or a sort of retrospective Mad Men type thing about the past (which isn't really Bond - they're meant to be escapist thrillers fundamentally). I suspect there'd be strict boundaries to depicting Bond even on the small screen as EON would still own the film rights (it certainly wouldn't be 'James Bond' as we know it. Remember, the films created a lot around this character, and it's doesn't necessarily all come from Fleming). It'd be such a thankless task.
Personally, things like the all female musical are much more interesting anyway. I'm all for Fleming's stories coming to theatre. That's more likely what we'll get.