![]() ![]() ![]() After the band recorded the song, the film’s production team rejected it as too melancholy for the title sequence - perhaps inevitably, in retrospect, given how Radiohead’s songs lend themselves to the construction of a “gloom index” - and opted instead for a higher-flown (and ultimately Oscar-winning) number sung by Sam Smith. ![]() ![]() Or rather, the video shows how Radiohead’s “Spectre” might have appeared in the 24th Bond picture. You can hear Radiohead’s theme song as it appears in the opening of 2015’s Spectre (a reference, every Bond fan knows, to the global crime syndicate SPECTRE, or Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) in the video above. Three Bond pictures later, the producers must have realized that a haunted secret needs a haunted theme song, and so commissioned a piece of the ghostly yet hugely popular, at once cool and uncool work of Radiohead. As soon as he made his debut as Bond in 2006’s Casino Royal e, an adaptation of Fleming’ first novel, Craig immediately earned the distinction of the most troubled Bond yet. Scheduled for release this fall, the 25th Bond film No Time to Die features a theme song by the teenage singer Billie Eilish, whose dark-pop style may neatly suit the return performance by Daniel Craig. But despite all the changes of the leading man and the shifts in audience expectations over the decades, one of the franchise’s tasks has remained constant: to exude this Bondian uncool cool, whose distinctive tone must be set with just the right theme song. Thanks to the long-running Bond film series’ efforts to gradually increase the character’s complexity, the Bond who first appears in Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel Casino Royale may at first look simple, even cartoonish to readers of the 21st century. Though hardly a setter of youthful trends, he has always embodied masculine competence and unflappability of a relatively timeless and quintessentially British kind. #SPECTRE FILM 2006 FULL#Did this resolution come about because there's a desire to morph Quantum into SPECTRE in the next Bond film, and so someone drove a dump truck full of money up to the McClory house? Or is this simply nice timing? We don't know, but given the way that the Daniel Craig Bond films have called back explicitly to the older installments in the series, it is very difficult to imagine Blofeld and SPECTRE not making their way into the modern Bond movies within a film or two.Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR - code name 007 - is both cool and uncool. Here's some press release text, via OHMSS: Danjaq, LLC, the producer of the James Bond films, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the longtime distributor of the Bond films, along with the estate and family of the late Kevin McClory, announced today that Danjaq and MGM have acquired all of the estate's and family's rights and interests relating to James Bond, thus bringing to an amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically for over 50 years. And it's why EON introduced Quantum in recent years, as a SPECTRE-ish organization to oppose Bond. That's also how Never Say Never Again came into being - as a producer McClory had remake rights to Thunderball, and he recruited Sean Connery to return to the Bond role in that non-EON remake. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |