It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Yep, it was time for a shake up.
I'd be up for that!
Both those films are over a decade old, let it go dude.
What are you talking about? Maybe you should reread my post.
Yet you’re getting hot and bothered by a director who did a HP film back in ‘04, Children of Men in ‘06, Gravity 12 years ago, and Roma, a beautifully shot snore-fest in 2018.
He hasn’t shot a feature in seven years and the only thing he’s done of note was the, again, beautifully shot, but tonally and narratively messy, Disclaimer for Apple.
If we are being honest, the last solid film Cuarón has made was back in ‘06…so, @Mendes4Lyfe who should get over what?
I honestly hope they cast a wide net for the Bond director. Lots of interviews and callbacks and poking and prodding…There are plenty of talented filmmakers out there brimming with ideas. Why bolt yourself to a guy that hasn’t made a feature film for seven years, and the last one to show flashes of action was made almost 20 years ago.
I have to believe there are more directors being queried…
That’s the thing, @SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ , I don’t have one director in mind at all. But my hope was the best and brightest would be brought in for constant meetings to see who has the best vision for James Bond. And when I say the best and brightest, I mean bring in the straight up big action directors, bring in thriller directors, call in the big boys like Fincher and Nolan and Villeneuve and Cuaron. Bring in some women who have directed thrillers and action and suspense films. Bring in dramatic directors who also know how to create suspense and tension in their genre. Bring in the best of the best.
Cast a wide net (like they’ll hopefully do with the man who will eventually play Bond), and see what’s popping and who has the ideas that are popping.
I just find it hard to believe that Cuaron, a man who hasn’t directed a film in seven years, whose last project looked beautiful but was very messy, is the one and only.
To me, I hope he’s one of many that they’re vetting for this most important role; not only is this person going to be launching a new James Bond film, not only will they be launching a new era after a long pause, they’re launching an entirely new team, new figureheads, since 007 was first released into our pop culture. This is a huge undertaking and to simply anoint one man without vetting others is concerning (IF true).
Yeah. These are valid points @peter
I suppose it’s worth saying the last three Craig films actually have a wide array of tones, ranging from fatalistic darkness to good old fashioned Bondian humour, nostalgia, and even outright breeziness. So short of something really radical there’ll be some similarities.
Personally, I’m still not sure we’re looking at a much needed course correction Bond movie (insofar as the Craig era was relatively successful and even if EON aren’t the ones to be helming the next film I think they’ll be looking at what worked from at least a couple of those films, which is fair enough). With Amazon at the wheel it’ll inevitably feel different though. I can see them retaining some broad ideas or attempt to harness some of what worked with the Craig era (at least in their minds) though.
All of Cuaron's film's have had a particular style to them, much in the way Campbell's film's have. Both have been able to take an established franchise and bring fresh blood to it without losing the series trademark tropes and tone. Whether or not Cuaron is actually picked is not the point but shows us the kind of directors they could be looking to. Regarding the time lapse between films, there are lots of excellent directors out there who have not lost their touch over time.
And perhaps it's for the best.
You're the one who's been constantly pushing for a return to Moore/Brosnan style campiness. Those films are decades (plural) old, let it go dude.
"Roma" as a snore-fest? What? I understand everyone has different tastes — not everyone likes melodramas — but that film creates such incredible contrasts in the class landscape of Mexico through these dynamic frames of background/foreground. Some of the best composition in a film in the last ~ten years, as far as I'm concerned. Snore-fest is a bit too aggressive of a term to use...
A bit reminiscent of the "suburban melodrama director takes on Bond 23?" questions back then. Look how that turned out!
Yes, Hollywood has changed a lot since then.
I'm glad you liked it. But for me, although every shot was undoubtedly a masterpiece in visual composition, the story was a superficial melodrama. Slow. Plodding. On the surface representaions of the cliche: pregnancy out of wedlock, cheating husband.....Two hours of someone picking up dog poop or going for walks didn't quite grasp me.
And that's my main concern with Cuaron..,outside of HP (21 years ago), and Children of Men (19 years ago), storytelling takes a back seat to visual composition, and visuals only take me so far in a film. It has to be a marriage between the narrative and the the moving picture.
I'd say Cuaron has a far more distinctive and polished style compared with Campbell.
And once again, I'm not against Cuaron, I'm just finding it very strange that Amazon and the producers have supposedly latched on to this one director, a guy who hasn't shot a feature for almost a decade, whose last film was a beautifully shot, yet narratively dull soap opera; whose last project was a narratively messy limited series for Apple.
They're launching a whole new era of Bond films, and I expect(ed) they'll be interviewing a wide variety of talented directors and not hitching their ride onto one person (without investigating the talent that's out there).
Bingo.