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Imagine him shooting for a Lewis Gilbert style Bond film… it would be maddening.
From what I gather, Nolan really appears to be every bit as much a fan as us. He seems to be a real student of the character and the series in many ways, and I don’t think we’ve had that in a Bond director in a very long time.
If he has that itch again, Bond seems like the opportunity.
I guess the difference is that Mendes didn't display such an unchanging style in his work before Skyfall.
Yeah exactly. And Batman, Inception and Tenet did have moments where they seemed like they were trying to tap into the sort of levity that Bond and some other blockbusters do well. But more often than not they didn’t land imo.
If Nolan never gets to make a Bond, I won't lose too much sleep over it, but if he does get the job, I'd be very intrigued, that's for sure.
That at least confirms Eon is shopping for directors. But if Nolan is their guy, they’re not gonna make any announcements soon because Nolan has said he’s not going to be doing any work until both strikes have been resolved.
Makes me speculate perhaps there is a script after all?
I'd be thrilled if there has been some effort in getting this film off the ground.
There’s ALWAYS a draft between films under Eon. There’s never been a point where there wasn’t. In all the major hiatuses Eon would have drafts being worked on just to give their future productions some kind of starting point.
Purvis & Wade had a draft being worked on for Bond 25, which then got shelved in favor of a different draft by Boyle and Hodges. Then when they exited, Purvis & Wade dusted that draft and continued more work on it.
If Nolan gets the gig, he’ll either take an existing draft and work from that (which he did with Batman) or start a whole new one himself.
Mendes wasn’t asked to direct B26. That was a complete fabrication.
EDIT: here’s the quote :
Mendes told Times of India that he received a "generous offer" from the producers of the 007 series to come back for another one. He said making Skyfall specifically was "one of the best experiences of my professional life."
However, Mendes said he's focusing on theatre projects right now, including the productions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and King Lear, which he said require his "complete focus."
He was attached to those plays a decade ago, if i remember correctly; I think this was before he came back to do Spectre. This was unfortunately a clickbait article released only a week ago, but lifted from the history books.
I thought there was something fishy about that article. Thanks for the clarification Peter!
It's interesting, I've seen something like that in:
* The Dynamite Comics: Agent of SPECTRE
* The Goldfinger novel, when Bond worked as a secretary for Goldfinger.
Or even in The Man with the Golden Gun novel when Bond works for Scaramanga. Maybe this is just what I am wanting to see adapted.
That is part of the story that LTK used. I do quite like that part, yes.
And there's still a hearty amount of original Fleming material that I'd kill to see them tap into and adapt.
Yeah, Paul Haggis said that he wrote Bond as 'an actual assassin', so it was probably a deliberate choice to emphasise that aspect and diminish the spycraft for Dan's run. Jason Bourne was explicitly an assassin, not a spy, so I guess that could've influenced the way they went. EON aren't competing with Bourne now, though, so there's a good chance that element won't get as much emphasis this time around and the new guy could well do more infiltration/investigative stuff.