{"id":2672,"date":"2005-09-18T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:08:36","slug":"return-to-dalton-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/18\/return-to-dalton-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Dalton Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/film\/4256024.stm\" target=\"_new\">James Bond writer &#8216;reinvents&#8217; spy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>James Bond is to be given a new image as a younger character with no gadgets, a writer on the next film has told trade paper the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Haggis, who is working on the script for Casino Royale, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to reinvent Bond. He&#8217;s 28 &#8211; no Q, no gadgets.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just like the time they made the movie James Bond into a modern 80s man.  Or so I&#8217;ve heard; I&#8217;ve never actually seen a Dalton James Bond movie, but it took a return to the old form and to Pierce Brosnan to keep the franchise going for another decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>This writer and the studios are willing to sacrifice the traditional Bond fan for a young, edgy audience that might not be there anyway.  Like other entertainment businesses, such as sports teams, who might underestimate the traditional appeal of a franchise and the effects of altering\/moving it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bond writer &#8216;reinvents&#8217; spy: James Bond is to be given a new image as a younger character with no gadgets, a writer on the next film has told trade paper the Hollywood Reporter. Paul Haggis, who is working on the script for Casino Royale, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be good. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to reinvent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19209,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/19209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}