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The Nolan rumour makes zero sense to me. He has basically inferred that he'd only be interested in the franchise if he was allowed the opportunity to "reboot" it once again. That likely means that Nolan only becomes a viable option once Craig has left. Even then, he likely wouldn't do it as he's one of the few folks in the business that writes whatever he wants and gets large Hollywood budgets nonetheless.
Nolan, is a talented filmmaker, but he's a self-serving man and likely doesn't want to inherit over a decade's worth of narrative carved by other directors. However, the thought of Nolan doing a one-off finale for Craig is a fantastic proposition. Something like "Inception" meets "Logan". but Nolan is such a cold filmmaker, I doubt he's the man to do an emotional finale for Craig.
Plus Nolan's politics are a little troublesome for me. "Dunkirk" was embraced too readily by the leave mob and Nolan only exacerbated the matter after writing an article for The Telegraph, etc. If he got his hands on an actual British icon, I shudder to think of the right-wing nonsense we'd be forced to swallow.
In many respects, Mendes is the right guy to see off Craig's era. I was totally bored of his directorial choices by the end of Spectre. But he is ideally placed to finish this off. Plus Sam is riding a huge wave of success recently, he just won the Evening Standard Best Director award for Jez Butterworth's "The Ferryman". Is a Mendes return on the cards?
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(these two brothers??!? Uncanny)
Personally, I'm hoping more than anything that Yann Demange is announced soon. He's cool, young and edgy. Exactly what I need after the boring and stagnant Spectre. If you've not seen the brutal chase scenes in '"71" then do yourself a favour.
Also listen to Yann comment on a scene here:
"Talked to someone today who works in the film industry and has offices at Pinewood. Says #Bond25 team starting work there in March 2018. Production delayed a little by ‘Han Solo’ Movie reshoots.
#Bond #007"
This timing would make sense. Broccoli wants the director announced early 2018; I could see us getting a few new details in February or March and then production begins.
I like QoS but the film itself is redundant in terms of Bond's journey. He became Bond at the end of CR, then he became Bond again at the end of QoS (and frankly, became Bond again at the end of SF).
I'd love to think all this symbolism was carefully thought out from start to finish but you'll never be able to convince me the whole era hasn't been cobbled together with about as much foresight and planning as a teenager banging out their homework on the bus to school.
I’m not even saying it was all planned out. I’m just arguing against the idea it was repetitive with each film. They still tried something different with all of Craig’s Bond films. Some of it is messy even, but I just take it for what it is and appreciate that they tried new things every time to add to Bond’s character.
I've always found that annoying as well. CR, QoS and SF basically all have the same ending (complete with the same tired 2006 arrangement of the Bond theme).
That's part of the reason I thought SP was so good. It was basically the film I'd been waiting for since CR.
I have trouble imagining it like that.
Re: SF being a pretty traditional Bond film. I cannot disagree more. In no way is SF traditional. It´s by a margin the least traditional of all.
I don´t appreciate adding the attribute of a miserable sod to Bond´s character in SF.
Yep. With "the bitch is dead" and then "Bond, James Bond", that character arc was pretty much done. Not sure why they dragged it out for even longer in QoS and broke him down at the start of SF so they could do it again.
Say what you will about SP but they kept the fleshed out human seeming Bond and did something different with him. They finally understood that keeping the approach CR had didn't mean they had to repeat it.
That's a difference of 19 or 21 months before release, which is obviously way more time than they would need. Starting in March 2019, however, would be a different story entirely.