City of Films

So the story goes that MGM recently officially filed for bankruptcy and began restructuring so they could make movies again.  The first film is the long awaited The Hobbit that will begin filming in February.  News is coming in that James Bond, the other MGM franchise, will be headed back to the big screen in November 2012.

It would arrive one month before The Hobbit, the studio will be seeking a partner to fund the film and if all goes according to plan, future installments will arrive every two years.

That sounds pretty swell on paper, but most actors and creative people in Hollywood move on from a project once pronounced dead.  Sam Mendes who was once attached to direct might have a full schedule to keep him away, and more importantly, Daniel Craig is a busy man more and more each year it seems – he signed up for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo—and its two sequels—along with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and the thriller Dream House.  So we wait.
DYK: Bond films did arrive every two years up until the 90′s when longer gaps appeared with the longest one marked by the six-year distance between 1989′s License To Kill and 1995’s Goldeneye.