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Read through this interview, it doesn't sound like a match to me: https://the-talks.com/interview/edward-berger/
Welp... doesn't sound like he'd be interested in doing more than one to me, if even one.
He would make a different Bond film, but it would not serve the audience what it wants I fear.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2023/11/new-jason-bourne-movie-all-quiet-on-the-western-fronts-edward-berger-1235630286/amp/
If the Bourne film is still moving ahead, I think it renders the Berger rumours moot.
However if the film is coming out in 26 i still say base the new film on the novel of Diamonds are forever with the squid bit from Dr. No being the climax
Kelly marcel as writer/director could work assuming she is polishing a script from purvis and wade
As for bond my gut still says its ATJ but perhaps thats the egg salad talking
Actually I think what he was talking about in the first quote about heroism is pretty interesting. There's a cynical, almost Fleming-esque element to it, albeit from a German about his own country. It's the sort of thing that if channeled right could bring a very interesting perspective to a Bond film. It's also quite interesting reading him talk about the American Dream/that kind of myth-making (he's doesn't even seem cynical about it as well, just interested). I can see someone with those outsider views/ideas doing something like Bond.
I can also sympathise with what he's saying about his experiences with television. I'd imagine working as a director on a Bond film would actually allow more creative input than working on those types of series.
It's still early days obviously, and it's difficult to assess how accurate any of this is. But if he was genuinely being considered I suspect there'd be a reason. And as I always say it's tricky at the best of times gauging just how well some of these directors understand Bond (ie. I'm not sure if there was much indication the likes of Lewis Gilbert or even Terrence Young would have made the Bond films they did going from their filmographies prior). I'll definitely make an effort to catch his upcoming two films though.
Does anyone want another bleak Bond film with themes of moral questioning and blurred lines between good and evil? Was the M. screwup plot used in SF and again in NTTD really compelling enough to do it well again? Do we want someone question whether Bond is a hero? I do not.
They’re referring to the third Venom film, not the second.
Like I said, it's tricky gauging just what kind of Bond film he'd make one way or the other. He just seems like a director with an interesting perspective about his own country, and if anything seems to have a genuine fascination with America/the pioneer spirit. You could easily argue that a German with those views would look for the inherent heroism in a character like Bond simply due to him not being able to find it with German characters. Heck, you can argue that's what's going on with what he says about America to some extent.
But yeah, it's all hypothetical. I just don't see anything that points to him making a bleak Bond film. I don't mind a bit of moral questioning in Bond (it's fundamentally, after-all, a series with pretty clearly defined villains and heroes/a clear sense of good vs evil even in those Craig films you mentioned). Just depends on what exactly they do.
Then again it really depends. I don’t think there’s an appetite to have a completely lighthearted Bond film (ie. I think if they went into the next film with the mentality of making it a two hour version of the latter part of the Cuba sequence it’d be a disaster). But Bond should be fun and always has been. It’s just about getting a gripping story with the right balance of that Bondian fun/outlandishness. But I can’t see a complete return to campiness.
Will there be demand for a Bond movie in 2027? Craig is not the problem.
And I'm arguing Berger seems interested in challenging each of those aspects, and I'm not sure the audience wants to be challenged in that way for a first Bond film etc. Nobody wants to walk out of cinemas in the summer or on Christmas questioning and arguing over what they just watched. They want to see what a modern James Bond looks like, not that he's a superhero, but he should defeat a clearly morally inferior villain and demonstrate some sort of "for the common good" aspect, if not for England for the World. Those are his stakes, I'm not interested in minimizing those stakes too much.
Not saying anyone else is wrong, just my perspective for what I hope to come.
It's very good point. People liked the Craig films; I can imagine something maybe towards the Maverick tone of a little more fun in there, but that film had drama too, and I think the audience expect a bit of meat in there.
Tell which of Craig's films where he wasn't clearly the hero of the story? Where he wasn't, in some regard, working in the interest of the British government? Where there weren't worldly implications if he failed? I'm saying Berger so far has not demonstrated that perspective, nor an interest in it, but even spoken out about the opposite. I have not left with a "that was fun" impression watching a Bond movie since 2006, and that kind of upsets me, and that one was even gut wrenching at the very end.
Not asking to be treated like a baby. I think Berger could surprise me with a "The Batman" style look at Bond, something showing more of his perspective but without doing the same-old drama. Dark and mysterious and raw but with all the elements you expect of the character and not too much baggage (Alfred lives, Catwoman lives, etc., but Bruce has developed and matured even more than when we met him, and has a better understanding of his role in the world). But that's still a hero's journey, which Berger explicitly criticized or at least would want to challenge.
I was just responding to Makeshift's point, not saying you're wrong at all.
Wow. Justin Kroll totall shot down the rumour reported by Sneider with that tweet.
And I do hope that Kroll is right. I don't want any of the 3 rumoured directors (Berger, Michôd and Marcel) near Bond 26.
Born in Hungary, grow up in France at age of 12. Been in VS for 5 years.
Has sadley a experience as Cuby Broccoli with From Russia with Love when there filming The Man from London (2007) where he was assistant directer there was committed suicide, in this case a producer.
Sam Mendes and mabey a bit Marc Forster vibes.
Dropt out on same film school in VS as directers Steve McQueen and Paul Thomas Anderson. He working with Hungarian sounddesigner on Sunset who also did this for Dutch movie.
One of his directing characteristics is that he always keeps the camera close to his main character; these are not films with a first person POV shot, but the camera circles around the protagonist and keeps the background at a distance: there are no wide shots and his films never follow other characters. Such an approach is one of his characteristic traits that I would have a hard time imagining him abandoning it when it is ultimately quite far from the usual imagery of a Bond movie.
Also, he never directed anything in English language, as opposed to Berger.
Last one. Look up Edward Berger on the internet, and you see he’s going to direct the next James Bond movie. What’s the deal?
Berger: That’s an absolute rumor. There’s no truth to it whatsoever. I would be very grateful if you put out that fire.
I will, but I’d like to leave a couple embers smoking. Sam Mendes made some damn good ones and he kind of reminds me of you. You’d make a great 007 director…
Berger: He’s a great filmmaker. But Barbara Broccoli is a wonderful producer. She will know what to do at the right time, and it’s her family legacy. It’s her job to protect this and whatever choice she’s going to make is going to be the right choice for the legacy of that genre.
https://deadline.com/2024/09/conclave-director-edward-berger-interview-the-power-of-self-doubt-long-road-to-the-a-list-those-pesky-rumors-he-will-revive-007-1236081714/
He’s literally saying:
“That’s an absolute rumor. There’s no truth to it whatsoever. I would be very grateful if you put out that fire.”
I don’t doubt he’s on a list of contenders. But there’s one director that’s number one on their list, and it’s not Berger.
Oh, yeah. We know who. Just that Berger's name pops up too much these days, though. But yeah, it looks more like director DV is higher on EON's list.
Well, in the media world, (particularly movies), projects can be picked up or dropped in an instant. Often, because a certain person (or people) are available, and are willing to work.