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Sam Mendes' style didn't suit Craig as well as Forster's or Campbell's did and would have been better fitted for Brosnan.
Kathryn Bigelow seems like she has a good working relationship with John Boyega for example.
I could see the dark and humourless tendencies of Nolan work well with Aidan Turner.
She would be a great choice.
I remember that Kathryn Bigelow was once asked by Amy Pascal to direct a Bond film. That's the most obvious choice that comes to my mind when I have to think about a female director for Bond. But I guess a lot of others could work!
A possible joke.
Wonder what the announcement could be?
Why’d you say that?
It Always Has Been...
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It depends on who. In the case of directors it also depends on the film.
For instance, I've said in the past that someone like Lesli Linka Glatter would be a good choice of director under certain circumstances. She's a television director working in the post 'Golden Age' of TV, experienced, and has worked on both drama and action. Given a good script and a well defined vision for the next Bond film she would potentially be a solid pair of hands.
The only problem with this is that it requires that script and vision for the film to be exactly that - well defined. Would someone like Glatter be able to take a script and elevate it - add something fresh with new dimensions - through her direction, or does her background in television working under tight schedules, having to adopt the show runner's consistent vision, hinder her in this area? Might we get a weaker film in a seemingly competent pair of hands?
On the other hand an auteur director is also no guarantee of success. I personally think given Christopher Nolan's tendency towards misguided sound design, needlessly complex plots, plot holes etc. he'd be a bad choice of director/writer for Bond 26. As we've seen with Danny Boyle should a director clash creatively with the many people they need to work with on this type of film, this can be a detriment too.
Would a British director make a difference? Or at least someone non-American...
I can't see Kathryn Bigelow doing a Bond film. She'd be great at it, but I think she's been touted too many times for it now, and I'm not even sure she'd want to do one now. Anyway, my point is these are the things that the producers will need to weigh up for the next one.
Cheers. Yes, Nolan's films are sometimes disappointing for me. I'm a big fan of his early Neo-noirs though (Insomnia, Following, Memento) as well as films of his like Batman Begins and Inception (as much as I enjoy TDK and TDKR I have criticisms of them). Tenet I found to be near unwatchable, and found many of the technical decisions creatively jarring for such an accomplished director.
I think there was probably just one other person in that screening I went to. It was noon, and of course business was practically dead.
And did you walk backwards?
Honestly, I think I was fine with everyone jumping around and picking objects up without touching them like Jedis... then Kenneth Branagh started talking in an unintentionally comical Russian accent, I got confused for a moment, and then the sound started blaring over what everyone was saying.
I have not tried to rewatch it since.
I understand what Nolan is trying to do. Back in the early 2010s he started watching a ton of silent films on blu-ray and decided to use less and less dialogue, focusing more on visuals and music. This is why his dialogue is overpowered by the blaring music. What he should have realized is that there are people who actually try to listen to the dialogue, and when they can’t, that just makes a more frustrating experience. So my advice would be this: Get rid of the dialogue, at least during those action sequences. I don’t need to hear John David Washington give voice commands to a SWAT team, so just have him do gestures and signals to his team mates rather than try to speak through a muffled gas mask. When Princess Diana throws Kenneth Branagh off a boat, I don’t need her to say “go to hell”, just have the actress convey it with her eyes (if she’s capable).
Me too. I feel lost without them.