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Nonsense. If it was possible in the case of The Dark Knight, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises, it will be possible in the case of a Bond film directed by Christopher Nolan. Nolan dislikes second unit and will probably never use one. Which means he will probably not agree to do a Bond film if he has to use a second unit.
What do you even mean by "not possible given the shoot schedule"??? We are talking about the shooting scedule of a Bond film far into the future. Why is it so inconceivable that a Chris Nolan Bond film would start shooting much earlier than usual? Like 18 months before the premiere?
It's likely the action would still look the same given the fact that the sequences are heavily storyboarded and a second unit director only executes the vision that the director has told him to.
Nolan's action can be a little messy at time but if he came on to a Bond I'd imagine he'd want to shoot both units. I'd imagine if EON snagged Nolan they would likely accommodate their shooting schedule to fit more with Nolan's approach to filmmaking. I doubt they would make him work to the same schedule they gave to Campbell, Forster et al. For instance Mendes was given an extra two months to edit Skyfall and also got two weeks rehearsal period something that had never occurred on other Bond films.
You said, and I quote you: "Your acting like Baird isn't Oscar worthy". That's implying stuff.
I loved the -let's call it- Batman-PTS of TDKR. Hell, even the 2nd unit from LTK could have learned from that scene. It was not just a terrific action sequence. There was also great acting from Tom Hardy during that sequence. I loved it.
Now about "action" on the whole? I love Bond, I love action movies. Hell, I wet my pants if I see the car chase from "Ronin" again. But sjee guys, can we also focus on aspects like story, plot and, also very important, characterization?
What I admire from each of these directors -Martin Campbell, Sam Mendes & Christopher Nolan- is that they did nut just make an "action movie". Everyone tries to do that nowadays. No, these three directors also helped, with terrific screenplay writers, to come up with complex multi-layered characters. Characters that, with help of stellar actors, come to live and draggg you into the world of either Bond or Batman, regardless of the action.
It's an aspect that franchises like "Mission: Impossible", "Red", "Taken", "Jack Reacher", "Jack Ryan", "The Expendables", "The November Man", "Hancock", "Fast & Furious"and many more still need to discover.
I am convinced "Bond 24" will follow that path, that Bond 24 will try to at least equal the quality of SF and CR.
And Bond films always have second units. They usually have the best in the business; look at the fine results.
No need for sniping at each other each, by the way.
That's what I said before down below @RogueAgent, allthough my remark resulted in somewhat sceptical reactions :-). Yeah, most people in this topic would reason that Nolan wants to have control over everything. But after upcoming masterpiece "Interstellar" I could understand that perhaps he wants to have a slightly more "relaxed" job on a Bond picture, with help of a 2nd unit. Trust me: Barbara Brocolli and Michael Wilson are on good....very very intense good speaking terms with Chris Nolan.
Do you have an inside source? I think the biggest question regarding a Chis Nolan Bond film is whether he will do it with Daniel Craig or only after his tenure is over. My impression was based on previous interviews that he would want to do his own thing including casting the main actor (with the help of the producers of course).
I can't really imagine him doing a Bond film with Craig... Unless it's Craig's last film and he (Nolan) is interested in doing something that has never been done before (and the producers allow him to do that): a movie that is a satisfying conclusion to Bond's story before the next reboot, like Bond's last mission, his retirement or his death.
I think it would be a masterstroke.....a brilliant coup. Also a rather "risky" one, as we know what kind of perfectionist Chris Nolan is. He's a bit like John Barry.....he usually has full creative control about...every part of the moviemaking process.
Also, he would be the first writer-director of the franchise.
Also succesful directors have the ability to change. And what Nolan has said in the past, could have been slightly altered by....."outside factors". It's a fact that Barbara and Christopher sometimes have lunch together. I could look into that more detailedly. But it doesn't give you more news, except that they meet occasionally.
Chris has the greatest respect for the Bond family, hence his countless references to Bond in his films. But it also works the other way around. Mendes has the greatest respect for the Batman family, hence his references to The Dark Knight in his film.
IMO a cross-over between Bond & Batman could be made as well :-O. 'Now that last sentence is a joke off course ;-).
No doubt his visuals and storytelling are great, but I'm just thinking that everyone's expected him to direct since prodution for Skyfall was announced so no one would be in slightest bit shocked or surprised so I consider that to be a safe choice. He's also guaranteed success and to be honest incredibly predictable. I don't like that in a director. I like to be surprised when a new director comes board. There are plenty of other well established directors, people just keep rehashing the same ideas and the same rumours.
It is not me coming up with Christopher Nolan. It is contracting Hoyte van Hoytema and Lee Smith that started this conversation. You might write a letter to Barbara Brocolli asking her that she needs to stop contracting Nolan's creative team, because you feel it's "cheap rehashing" and that you want to be surprised by her.
Really, if those are your arguments, we'd better cast Mike Meyers for Bond 25.
Completely agreed @4EverBonded :-)
Really? I've never read this anywhere myself. Lots of power players meet here and there, but I've never heard this clarified before. Have you got a source?
What I'm trying to say is that for me Nolan is no longer an inspired choice because people just keep bringing him up when it comes to director choices. NOT BARBARA OR MICHAEL OR WHOEVER. THE PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM. I'm just getting quite bored of the "Nolan-hype".
And for the surprise aspect, I say that because Mendes was such a different choice and you didn't know what to expect and now to go from that to using someone who I think is predictable in the sense that I can probably imagine what his Bond film would look like is uninspired to me. The fact that I don't know how Mendes is gonna handle Bond 24 even though he's already made a Bond film makes me more excited. Anyway, Hoyte and Lee could produce very different work in the hands of Mendes.
Come on, at least with Nolan they're talking about a director who had zero Oscar nomination for directing, and yet they still consider him worth of doing a Bond movie, that's quite some fresh air :)
But seriously, I agree with you, EON is able to take risks, and some here seems to forget that too often (Daniel Craig ?! Who is he ?!). And if they had cast James Mason or some other big name in Dr No as they were told to do, I'm not sure there would have been a fan forum 50 years later. On the other hand, Kevin Mc Clory went for the "as many Awards nominees and winner you can get" approach for the crew and cast of NSNA, and we're still waiting for the sequel...
About the casting of Lea Seydoux, it'll be interesting to see the impact with the promotion in France, because, well, she's far more than just an actress here :) I'll try to find a meme about her that was popular on some French cinema forum a few years ago.
And if I don't find it, back to hibernation until the official press conference...
But mabey it wil be John Lee who work as first assistent editor on all three Batman movies from Nolan and on Master And Commander. Con: Assistant editor on Die Hard 5
Mabey Jennifer Stellema who 4th assistant editor of Batman Begins and TDK going to be part of team, because she also work before with Sam Mendes on The Road to Perdition.
If that's true it looks like we'll be having two blondes this time round. I'm also curious to see what specific stuff you've been looking at @doubleoego
Do you want to bet? I am 100% sure that Froggart will either not appear in the movie or will have a small "non-Bond girl" role like Helen McCrory did in Skyfall. The main Bond girl will be an A-list actress.
The last time we had an "A-List actress" as a Bond girl was Halle Berry. Blech.
Eva Green, Olga Kurylenko, Gemma Arterton, and Naomie Harris became much more famous after appearing in a Bond film.
http://www.latino-review.com/news/exclusive-bags-bond-henchman-hinx-role-in-bond-24
http://www.latino-review.com/news/exclusive-bags-bond-henchman-hinx-role-in-bond-24