What A Relief Danny Boyle Wont Be In Charge!

[dave50]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6083833/Oscar-winning-Danny-Boyle-quit-director-25th-James-Bond-film.html
Can you imagine the liberal PC claptrap he would have insisted on including? Don't know what they were thinking in the first place. His 2012 Olympic opening ceremony was embarrassing enough with all the dancing nurses, as if the UK was the only country in the world to have nurses and doctors.

[Guilbert53]

I am surprised they even considered him.

[Kromovaracun]

I think he's a very talented director, personally.

[Kromovaracun]

Also why is it a problem that the olympic ceremony had doctors and nurses?

[jackthehat]

Cheer up, dave....

I wonder if his film would have been as full of liberal PC claptrap as Trainspotting/2, Slumdog Millionaire and Shallow Grave?

[ToraToraTora]

result, we saw what a mess Mendes made of skyfall Boyle would have been worse. He'd have had Bond as a Transgender junkie living in a council flat on the rock and roll!

[jno]

I'd sooner watch a Danny Boyle film than a James Bond film, which have been mostly rubbish for years. (Skyfall was okay, but I can't remember the last good one before that... something with Sean Connery in it, probably.)

The point about the nurses and doctors was that they're provided by the state. In many other countries you have to buy your own.

[Garaman]

As AOG said, it is a quiet day for news; you have to use whatever you can.

[ichkeria]

I watched the 2012 opening ceremony in Croatia. All those doctors and nurses eh? I felt like crawling under the carpet :-)
What with all that shooting and stuff in James Bond films I guess a few extra medical staff might not have gone amiss.
Preferably they could can the whole sorry series which surely passed its sell by date about 30 years ago

[Kromovaracun]

Those nasty liberals! Making their horrid films and...

...stuff. I guess.

[New Judge]

I didn't associate Mr Boyle (of whom I've never heard) with the Olympic ceremony. I had the misfortune to catch some of that (or maybe it was "edited highlights, I can't imagine I would have watched it live). Without a doubt the bit which majored on the NHS was the most cringeworthy episode associated with sport that I have ever seen.

[Kromovaracun]

On a more positive note, as something of a Bond (film) fan I think it's worth stressing that if you really like the old ones, they are still there for you to enjoy and always will be. In fact my partner and I recently bought the blu-ray box set and they look better than ever - the restoration work done on the earlier films is excellent and the image quality is outstanding. We already have loads of Bond movies done "the old fashioned way." I don't understand why people are so horrified by the mere prospect that someone might, maybe, have done something different with Bond 25.

[jim360]

I genuinely hadn't realised that the 2012 Olympics Ceremony was anything other than awesome.

[youngmafbog]

Not a Bond fan so dont really care.

If directors take the liberal claptrap route that people dont like then the box office takings will fall. I suspect that is what they were worried about here since the hand-wringing liberal yogurt knitters are actually a loudmouthed minority.

[youngmafbog]

//The point about the nurses and doctors was that they're provided by the state. In many other countries you have to buy your own//

Err we do buy our own (apart from WSS and foreigners).

[emmie]

i don't like him or his films, never have, not since watching the awful slumdog millionaire.

[Rockrose]

Loved slumdog and shallow grave and am a huge fan of the olympic ceremony.

[Kromovaracun]

//Err we do buy our own (apart from WSS and foreigners).//

What do you mean by that?

[Bazile]

NJ
You've never heard of anyone , have you :-)

[Bazile]

Quick - rope Idris Elba in , to direct ; then he can stay on to take the lead in the next one

[Rockrose]

^^^^
Droooool yes please