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Hossein Amini. Earlier sugest as writer, but now he also direct his first movie and mabey also be intresting choose as directer for Bond movie.
Directors: I see like Alfonso Cuaron,
I know he's doing the next one (very pleased about that) but I don't know if he will stay around for a third. I think the producers will want an equally big name to take over.
Enter Christopher Nolan.
Nolan is known to be a huge fan and there are some very Bondian elements to Inception. I know he's usually involved on the writing in his movies - but I think he'll understand the way that the producers of these movies do things - and may see directing something that someone else has written as an interesting challenge!
Yeah. Very much think it could happen. I would want to see that film.
John Dahl (Red Rock West, Kill Me Again, The Last Seduction, Rounders, Joy Ride, The Great Raid, episodes of Breaking Bad, Justified, Dexter, Terriers, Homeland, The Americans)
Also:
Stuart Baird
Mel Gibson (despite his offscreen problems, though maybe his current status would make him a relative bargain)
John McTiernan (ditto)
Tom Tykwer
Nicolas Winding Refn
Christopher Nolan
Brad Bird
Bond films directed by Tarantino or the Coen Bros would be pretty amazing, but they likely wouldn't be very Bondian at all, or else would go off in crazy directions, distracting from what we enjoy in the series. I'd bet the Coens have no interest in ever doing one, or if they did, it would be to subvert it in ways the could conceivably anger fans.
I do hate that. Sigh ...
It looks very stylish, though, and he is such a fine actor. I do want to see it.
Nolan is tops on my list, too.
Luc Besson
They can be big names only if they fallen from grace (like Mendes)
My picks:
Shane Meadows
Roger Michell (be suggested for Bond 22)
Richard Curtis
Stephen Daldry (fallen from grace)
Stephen Frears (Mrs Henderson Presents)
Neil Marshall
Jonathan Glazer
Jon Amiel (worked with Sean on Entrapment so plenty of experience there)
Jonathan Lynn
John Madden (fallen from grace and director of Best Exoitc Marigold Hotel, so knows Dame Judi and can work with her)
Sidney J Furie (Ipcress File)
Mike Newell
Ken Russell (outrageous)
Or bring back Campbell...
I think Nolan needs to be given a crack of the whip.
-Michael Mann
-Ben Affleck
-Kathryn Bigelow
For starters, at least Ken Loach is still alive! ;-)
You're dreaming lol.
Fincher? Oh yes.
Mann is different. I love Michael Mann as a filmmaker. I have seen all his films and some, like Thief and HEAT, are stunners in my book. But I find his style perhaps too distinct and too 'Mann' for Bond. He should have done LTK I suppose. But maybe his next film will convince me otherwise. Still, every guy who wants to direct a Bond, needs to take Babs and Michael into account. I'm not sure Michael Mann is the kind of guy who will take orders or even accept any interference.
Nolan, I think, can still work with the producers. For starters, he's British and he seems to have a profound respect for the Bond property.
I agree that EON needs to break out of their comfort zone every once in a while, and that's why I say yes to Fincher. But Mann would bring Bond into his own comfort zone and I'm not sure that would be good. In terms of style, Mann made The Keep, Mohicans and then all the rest. :-) I don't mean any disrespect; I adore nearly all of his films. Apart from Thief and HEAT, I also passionately love Manhunter, The Insider, Collateral, ... I guess Ali and The Keep are my least favourite of Mann's films. But LTK was so clearly inspired by Miami Vice, had Mann directed it back then, it might have become a truly unique Bond film. There's a fat chance Tangerine Dream would have done the music and Dante Spinotti photography. Yes, I like that. And we wouldn't have gotten lines like "And I love James SO much!" I bet Benicio would have gotten a much bigger part (I think Dario would have hit on Lupe and run away with her to Cuba) and we might actually have witnessed the killing of Della. During the truck fight, we would have gotten In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. ;-) But I digress. The point is, I think Mann's chance to make a good Bond film is blown. In the 80s, yes. FYEO would have been a great Michael Mann film. Today? I'm just not sure. And this comes from a Mann fan.
Fincher will never say yes to directing a Bond film, at least not until the Bond directors are given something close to full autonomy over the projects. After his experience with Alien 3, coupled with the fact that he's become one of the very best directors in the business since, I can't see him taking marching orders from EON.
Simply by hiring Mann, I think that would be enough to shake the franchise up a bit, because his films are inherently different from the Bond films. He'd probably craft a much tighter and smaller Bond film than we're used to seeing, but Mann can ratchet things up for an action scene when need be. I'd love to see an action scene in a Bond film that is on par with the bank robbery and subsequent shootout in Heat, for example.
I must say I have always loved how the raid on the Russian airbase in TLD was done without music. It wasn't until the jeep tried to board the plane that Barry gave us some music.