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Yes after being in sleep mode for who knows how long R2D2 had a rude awaking. :))
I hope they remember to sanitize that thing.
How's the megalomaniac training going? Received your graduation eye-patch yet?
No need to be so overdramatic.
James Bond will return.
, Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky) or can make from a Bond movie. If there take John Wells i prefer to have Adriano Goldman (Burnt/Trash/360) as cinematographer, but there option Deankins will be back. I prefer there film on film and iam curious what Hoyte van Hoytema will do with another movie. From Andrew Davis i expect a bit of Campbell and Spottiswoode in him because of The Guardian and Collateral Damage is closer to LTK.
If there consider American or/and Famale directer, mabey there should go for Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are Alright) and don't vergot then to take Yaya DaCosta with her as Bondgirl and Mark Norby as stunt coordinator/Stunts.
“I would never tell you that. Those are the only cards I hold. It’s the only chance I have of scoring the gig — to imply that I have some extraordinary thing that nobody else has thought of. So I’m never going to tell you.”
http://lrmonline.com/news/james-bond-christopher-nolan-wont-reveal-any-of-his-ideas-for-the-gentleman-spy
Sodebergh just doesn't excite me, he's a solid choice but not a name I'd be jumping for joy about. Plus I remember he said that Haywire was his take on Bond and nothing about that film really screamed 007 to me, it was more of a generic spy film.
Edgar Wright would be brilliant imo, and Matt Reeves. George Miller could be very good too. I'd also love to see Kathryn Bigelow have a go. If they wanted to go a bit more out there then Ben Wheatley would be good.
My number one choice is Gareth Evans. I really want EON to scoop him up before some other big studio inevitably does (he was in the running to do Assassin's Creed, it's only a matter of time before some franchise or other gets their hands on him).
I personally don't think he's the right fit for Bond at the moment. I don't think he's right for any franchise at the moment. He's doing great making his own movies, and since he has no problems getting them financed, I'd rather he stick to that. That being said, there are worse options, and lots of them. At the very least Nolan would do things "for real" and not fake CGI the action scenes. That's a big positive in my book.
Edgar wright is someone I never considered before, but come to think of it, he's probably perfect for what they need. Steven Soderbergh is great, I love his movies, but maybe it would be like returning to Forster in some ways? Wright is distinctly English.
Ego? I disagree there too, @Murdock. In what sense is Nolan driven by ego? Nolan makes Nolan films. Spielberg makes Spielberg films. Mann makes Mann films. Auteur theory and all that. In what sense is that a matter of ego? He brought his own style to Batman, but so did Burton and so did Snyder and so does Timm and so on. The fact that you can recognise a Nolan film isn't the same as dealing with an director who's full of ego, now is it?
If Nolan had only done Following, Memento and Insomnia at this point, many more would have said yes. But once a filmmaker creates something big like the Dark Knight trilogy, we reject him for the Bonds. I sincerely wonder why. Had Campbell's second Zorro film broken BO records in 2005, would we have said no to him too? Terence Young had directed more films than Nolan when he did DN and he was, at the time, a pretty big name too. Same with Gilbert. I'm still not sure I see the problem.
That's a good point, Dimi. Sometimes the obvious choice is the best choice. I imagine letting his hair down with a Bond film might be what Nolan needs after Dunkirk. Sometimes things just fall into place.
You raise an interesting yet difficult point there. Don't we want an auteur director? After years of debating what constitutes "a Bond film", we have come up with virtually nothing except that every one has their own opinion about that. So I suppose it's inevitable that the one who gets final saying will somehow impose his or her own style on the film. However, to what extent that is allowed to happen is yet another matter. Obviously the producers have some saying, and the screenwriters provide the "basis" for the film, and assuming Craig remains on board he will have something to say too. And if Arnold for example returns, he'll bring his own music. And then the cinematographer does his thing, and so on and so on. If Nolan were to have his brother Jonathan write the script, and if he brings Zimmer for the score and if Hoyte van Hoytema returns... then I'd get a little worried about Syncopy taking over EON so to speak. ;-) But I believe with these Bond films that enough layers of control can exist outside the mere efforts of the director. That said, some of the more recent Bond films have, indeed, experienced powerful collaborations we weren't exactly used to, especially the previous two films, with Craig - Mendes - Newman a very close team it would seem. So in that sense, I'm not sure exactly how much 'free reign' Nolan might get. I then also agree that a bigger name is more likely to make more demands and turn the next Bond film into the next [insert director name here] film. But would Nolan be that director and would EON allow it? I'd say the place is littered with ego and all we can hope for is that when they've duked things out, we get a decent Bond film in return. ;-)
Sadly for you, the Russo's last film had the same duration as SF and SP.
At least I have one, as does @talos7, I only chose not to use mine just now. ;)