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Bourne director Paul Greengrass has ruled himself out of ever making a James Bond film.
The acclaimed British filmmaker, who has just released the latest in the Bourne franchise, admitted that he has had discussions with Bond producer Barbara Broccoli in the past.
When asked if he would consider taking on the project during an interview on Radio 4, Greengrass said:
“Honesty and truly no. I mean I know (Bond producer) Barbara Broccoli and we've discussed it.
“It's a bit like your football team, you can't... I'm a Bourne man, I like Bourne. And I've said before, listen it's a great, great franchisee of course it is, it's been going for 50 years, you've got to salute its success.”
Greengrass, who has directed three of the Bourne films, went on to say that he doesn’t share the same ‘series of values’ that are ‘encoded’ in the Bond franchise.
“Speaking personally as a filmmaker I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, about the world, about masculinity, about power, about the empire that I don't share,” he said.
“Quite the reverse. Whereas in Bourne I think encoded is much more scepticism. There's an us and a them and Bourne is an us, whereas Bond is working for them.
Good. Greengrass and Bourne are just too anti-American for me. Plus Bourne is pretty much the same film over and over and way too spastic to ever enjoy.
Not memorable.
Anyone gutted we won't get his lefty take on Bond? I enjoy the Bourne films and Captain Philips was pretty good but I don't want to see Bond in the hands of a raving socialist who despises things such as nice cars, nice watches, expensive suits, exotic travel and the concept of Queen and country.
I personally like the values espoused by 'traditional' (at least) Bond.
Bourne might have better chases, MI may have better stunts and gadgets, but losing Bond would cripple me and really upset me and hamper my enjoyment of entertainment. If the Bourne series ended tomorrow or MI came to a close with Tom dropping the role, I would move on and that'd be fine. But Bond has been a massive part of my life for years and years now, and I don't share that love and commitment for anything else in the genre, or most genres. He's one of the few, special things I find myself pursuing with all my spare time and energy, and I don't see that changing as long as he's around and there's so much Bondian content to absorb.
Speaking on this, I know many are really looking forward to the next Bourne film coming up, and I fear some are setting themselves up for disappointment. What I've seen looks interesting enough I guess, but if I'm perfectly honest, it's really never on my mind, and I wouldn't call myself at all hyped for it. It's just a movie that I'll probably see sometime during theater release, depending on reactions from people I trust, but I don't spend my days dreaming of it or anything. Of course, I've been burned a lot by hyping things up in the recent past that turn out to be rubbish, so subconsciously maybe my brain is just trying to avoid that sensation repeating again. Anybody else feel this way?
Bond is of course my favourite franchise by far. However, in the last 10 yrs, the most awe inspiring franchise installments for me have been Nolan's Bat trilogy. I continue to be amazed at how he took a comic character and made him so alive and 'authentic'. Not to mention starting the reboot phase with a bang. Just brilliant work.
The last two MI films for me occupy the space that Bond had between roughly 1965 to about 1983. They are pure gold spy action thrillers with impressive location filming, budgets, fights, awe inducing stunts and humour/pacing. Nothing deep about them at all, and that's just fine with me as well. Just damn great escapist fun entertainment.
At the box office ................ so far nothing has. SP made well over $200 million more
Than MI5 same with the Bourne films.
Which must mean as far as the average cinema audience, Bond must be doing something
Right. Why change what you do, to do something inferior ? :D
I think people were secretly longing for a true successor to the legend that is Clint Eastwood, and Neeson fell into it.
They really missed a trick not using a Carlos the Jackal type figure in the films, a man almost gone mythic to terrorize Bourne for years and years that was his perfect match in every way. He became a really thrilling, threatening and downright ominous antagonist over time in the books, though I'm not a big fan of the novels beyond Identity, where Ludlum did things I just can't get on board with. Still, the face-offs between Webb and the Jackal remained, and they were always thrilling.