Introspective masculinity, women on top, cross-dressing PSAs, gay undertones ? the James Bond franchise has come a long way in 50 years, most notably during the current era built around Daniel Craig?s serious Blond Bond with the icy blue eyes. Behind the scenes, producers Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson set the record straight on recent Idris Elba-as-Bond rumors and pointed to the post-9/11 shift that spurred them to take Bond from the slick reign of Pierce Brosnan to the morally-complex brand of progressive contemporary heroism embodied in this week?s Skyfall.
?I think once we made the decision to go with Casino Royale ? we had the rights, and we decided to make the change after Die Another Day ? it had a lot to do with 9/11 and the way the world was at that time,? Broccoli told Movieline recently in Los Angeles. ?A post-9/11 world. It was a real opportunity to recalibrate.?
Craig?s Bond re-set the franchise on a grittier path starting with Casino Royale, which exposed 007?s only vulnerability ? his heart ? and its continuation Quantum of Solace, which healed his emotional wounds with violent redemption. Skyfall, however, finds Bond unencumbered by romance; feeling his loneliness and approaching obsolescence. His new enemy is mortality itself ? and Silva, the off-kilter, tech-savvy nemesis bent on revenge against former boss M (Judi Dench) played with calculated control by Javier Bardem.
?They are mirror images of one another,? explained Wilson, who has produced every Bond film since 1979?s Moonraker. ?They come from the same background, and in a way M has sacrificed them at one point or another for what she considered to be a greater good. But…
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