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With the success of Mendes i doubt it!
I too would love Stuart Baird to rise up the ranks and direct a Bond film.
If Peter Hunt can do it...
Belgium directer Maxime Alexandre (Holy Money - 2009/ Christopher Roth - 2010) http://www.maxime-alexandre.com Made more movies as Cinematographer and one of them with earlier sugestion Michael J. Bassett (Who be my alternate choose for people who like to see so much Nolan as directer) With the trailers of the 2 movies Maxime Alexandre direct i must think about CR/QOS.
(Warning: Skip the part between 1.17-1.36 because of horror elements.)
Belgium directer, also to dear Eon to bring Bond finaly to the Dutch neighbours and re-consider a part for Jan Decleir (Consider for the part of Gupta in TMND.), like i also sugest a couple of Belgium actres for a part in Bond movie.
To answer the question though I'm not sure...I wouldn't mind the director of patriot games. Phillip Noyce
Matthew Vaughn
Nicolas Winding Refn
Kenneth Branagh
Danny Boyle
Ridley Scott
That's the main concern I'd have with Branagh as a Bond director.
I call it artistic douchebaggery. ;-)
Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral, Public Enemies) "à la GoldenEye" would kicks ass !
Roman Polanski, to bring his famous atmosphere in addition to the usual one...
Michael Apted, again.
Quentin Tarantino, maybe.
Also, Philipp Noyce (Bone Collector)
John McTiernan (Hunt For Red October, Thomas Crown affair's remake)
Jonathan Demme (Silence of The Lambs)
Let's be out of range for fun : - Peter Jackson
- Clint Eastwood
:D
(BTW, I wish Alfred HItchcock could have made it earlier, if he was still alive...pity)
We start the film in medias res with Bond in M's office, gun in hand while M is turned away from the door. We go back in time just as Bond is about to kill M where we find out that the new Bond villain has hired Cobb and his crew to plant the idea to kill M and the MI6 staff. Will Bond be stopped from his killing spree?
That.. actually.. err... I would absolutely gawk at the idea of Nolan coming in and weaving Cobb into the film as the villain and using the 'dream hacking'.
Shoot me, but it'd be a fun idea.
If I ever find any balance in my time I would do a fan fiction with that idea.
I actually had a thread a year ago where I re-organized Inception as a Bond film. I'll have to dig that out..
Christopher Nolan-As a lot of Bond fans and Nolan fans said, they want him to direct the next Bond films. Nolan himself is a big Bond fans and you can Bond influence on his film (the mountaintop action in Inception a nod to OHMSS). Also Nolan's Batman help rebooted James Bond and Skyfall had influence from The Dark Knight. Now the producers at EON has now expressed interest for Nolan as a future Bond director.
Matthew Vaughn (X-men First Class, Layer Cake)-In an interview, he has expressed of wanting to direct a Bond film. He worked with Daniel Craig on Layer Cake, so I think Craig would be comfortable with Vaughn directing a Bond film. Tom Hardy also worked with Vaughn on Layer Cake. So if Hardy succeed to play Bond after Craig, Hardy can trust Vaughn to pull it off. Vaughn was also the one recommending Michael Fassbender to take over as Bond after Daniel Craig's tenure is over.
Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes)-I do see some him as a potential director for Bond. He also collaborate with Matthew Vaughn, so if Vaughn does direct Bond, he may suggest EON to have Ritchie to direct a Bond after him.
Danny Boyle (28 Days later, Slumdog Millionaire, the 2012 Olympic games)-After seeing him directed the James Bond (with Daniel Craig reprising his role) and the queen in a segment for the London Olympic. I think Boyle prove himself that he could direct a Bond film.
Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith)-Well his film, The Bourne Identity was one of the reason why Bond got rebooted, so are we going to give the director of the Bourne Identity a offer to direct Bond film in the future.
Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum)-well I like the way he did the last 2 Bourne films and he's British so he can put whatever he did to those films to Bond if EON wants him in the future.
Steven Spielberg- I'm aware he wanted to direct a Bond film but EON turned him down. But I still think Spielberg still has enough talent to direct a Bond film.
Directors I would've love to have directed a Bond film in the old days:
Alfred Hitchcock-North by Northwest was the prototype for the Bond film. I would've love to see how he would've handled Bond. Before EON handled Bond films. He was offered to direct Bond film:
http://shortknighthitchblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/alfred-hitchcocks-casino-royale-or.html#!/2011/04/alfred-hitchcocks-casino-royale-or.html
I would've love if EON had him directing From Russia with Love, or Dr. No.
Howard Hawks-now I don't know if any of you were aware of this, a year before Dr. No came out. Hawks express interest to adapt Casino Royale (before the 1967 spoof and the 2006 version) with Cary Grant as 007:
http://www.hmss.com/films/carygrant007/
If EON knew of this, they could've offered Hawk to direct one of the Bond film. I would've love Hawk to direct one of EON film, I would've love Hawk to direct Goldfinger.
Terence Fisher-Any of you are Hammer Horror films fans, because I always thought Fisher could've done a good job doing a Bond film. He has done non-horror films before. I don't know why EON didn't ever offer Terence Fisher to direct a Bond film. Whatever technique for Hammer would've fit for Bond. Live and Let Die being a supernatural element film could've fit Fisher's style of directing. Also I think Fisher could've done Thunderball and The Man with the Golden Gun. If he had directed Thunderball, Yvonne Monlour (She has work with Fisher on the Brides of Dracula) might have been Domino instead of Claudine Auger. For the Man with the Golden Gun, Veronica Carlson could've been Mary Goodnight if that had happen since Carlson had worked with Fisher on several films and Carlson had worked with Roger Moore before.
I think he should've done Daltons never made 3rd film. He was at his peak in the late 80s/early 90s.
Nicholas Winding Refn
Danny Boyle
It's time for the Bond Producers to start getting the best dirctors in since Sam Mendes did an awesome job with Skyfall and start shown that Bond films can be arty and great entertainment as well.
Mendes: EON should do their best to hire him for Bond 24 or (if he does not want to that) for Bond 25.
Campbell: actually apart from SF he was responsible for the two best entries of the franchise in the post-Dalton era....
Nolan: most certainly
As for Polanski (would be a good choice, GHOST WRITER was excellent): He may not be allowed to shoot on location in the UK and the USA because he would have been arrested for this rape affiar back in the 1970's. That's why GHOST WRITER was shot completely in Germany with Berlin doubling for London, the islands of Sylt and Usedom for Martha's vineyard...
Michael Apted: rather not. Although I don't rate TWINE as bad as a lot of people around here, but another one, no...
Noyce would be a good choice (look, that rhymes), have suggested ever since I watched THE QUIET AMERICAN, a superb thriller.
Quentin Tarantino: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Highly overhyped and overrated....