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I was thinking that the other day, Ridley would certainly craft an excellent film. He doesn't have a great eye for scripts though, so whoever writes it will have to be on the ball, but he would direct the hell out of it.
Yup, I have a feeling he is too old now.
Is he still making movies...?
Smart, talented, knows how to wright... and a Bond fan.
As we saw with him exiting Ant-Man, though, he's very much his own man. That might not work for Eon.
Maybe, yes, but I’d say that Marvel in general is even less open to let director speak with their own voice since everything must stick to their bigger plan.
Yeah, I would say Bond directors have a little more wiggle room than a Marvel production. And we still dont know for sure what caused the Boyle rift. They could have been 99% on the same page and that last 1% (NTTD’s eventual ending and probably the most crucial part) caused the split.
Yes Boyle not wanting to go the EoN route for the ending…
I think Christophe Gans has a chance. He is stylish, and he directed both Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux in past films.
I'm sure many, incuding myself, would love to see Villeneuve helming a Bondfilm.
But as I said earlier, Villeneuve has made such a name for himself in his beloved 'highvalue-sci-fi' genre and is quite the auteur director, he would probably demand even more creative license than Sam Mendes did.
Also EoN may be weary of Villeneuve's insouciance of commercial production, 'Blade Runner 2049', though a brilliant film, might put Babs off...
Wholeheartedly agree. I'd go as far as to say that it was a quietly forgotten masterpiece.
But studio exces will have taken note that Villeneuve is perhaps not their ideal man to direct a popular franchise hat requires big box office takings, ergo mass appeal..
I'm not sold on Nolan, as I've said before it's a Bond film, not a Nolan film featuring James Bond. As for Christopher McQuarrie, I feel his time directing MI movies would rule him out. Not only by EON, but by McQuarrie as well.
I was a big proponent of Nolan for the job a few years ago, because he is very good at making blockbusters that feel epic in scale, but I’ve gone right off him since to be honest. I thought after Dunkirk that he was back on the upswing, but Tenet was a mess full of all his usual flaws (tons of exposition, complicated for the sake of it, sterile, clinical, endlessly po-faced). And can you think of one memorable female character from any of his films? That doesn’t bode well for any of his potential Bond girls.
Mendes bought colour back to the series, Fugunaka has just managed to match that colour with the virility of early Craig. Nolan would just feel like a step down imo. I would’ve been over the moon if they’d got him in the late 2000s/early 2010s, but now I think we might have dodged a bullet.
Edgar Wright on the other hand, could bring some needed change, even though I'm not even a huge fan of his movies.
We'd lose the uniqueness of Bond if Nolan directed. Bond has never attracted or used A list directors.
This is the problem I have with a lot of the high falutin names like your Nolan's, Fukanaga's and Villeneuve's.
Now Gareth Evans would be a brilliant choice. Anyone who has seen The Raid, will now how much of a game changer that film was. It took me longer than it should have, to watch The Raid, because I kept rewinding to see certain sequences again. The Raid 2... eh, not so much.
Agreed. Nolan is almost a brand.
Yes to:
Martin Campbell
John Madden
Roger Michell
Mike Newell
Matthew Vaughn
Mimi Leder
Kathryn Bigelow
Paul Greengrass
Ben Affleck
Danny Boyle
Roger Donaldson
Phillip Noyce
Ang Lee
Brian DePalma
Chris McQuarrie
Brad Bird
Roger Michell died!
i did not know that. RIP. Great loss. x