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with Skyfall it was
Boyle rumored in febuary denied by march
Gilroy rumored around May 2009
Mendes came on board in 2010
So who knows we may get a few rumored directors we may just get the director when its confirmed
I would at least float it past him. There is no doubt that he is an extraordinary filmmaker; no doubt he would bring John Williams aboard. I know Williams is in his 80's but he is still vital and his creativity has not waned.
My reservation concerning Spielberg is that It's been a while since he made a smart, entertaining, fun, escapist movie. Has he passed that stage in his career? He is at a point where he has all the money he needs, has won almost every award there is to win. Who knows the little boy in him just might say ,'that would be fun'; why not? Peter Jackson just said that he wants to direct a Doctor Who, so never say never.
Here's a little history on the timeframe for director hiring to give us an idea what to expect:
TWINE - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/1792
Apted was hired in Summer, around 6 months before filming.
DAD - http://uk.ign.com/articles/2001/07/31/tamahori-forges-direct-bond-with-007
Tamahori was hired around a similar time.
CR - http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond_21_announced.php3
Campbell's hiring broke the pattern as he officially boarded the film over a year before filming commenced; but CR was delayed a year remember so the prods had plenty of time to find a helmer.
QOS - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6220890.stm
Forster's appointment went back to a similar pre-CR schedule.
SF - http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=26631
Mendes was hired almost 2 whole years before cameras rolled on SF. But once again the film was severely delayed.
Looking at the above it seems that the unanimously-agreed best Bond films come when the direct is hired early having had around 1-2 years to develop the thing.
For these reasons I think it integral that EON hire a director now, Mendes-or-no-Mendes; they need to get the ball rolling.
Tintin? :D
Woah!
We appreciate the effort @Pierce2Daniel :)
I think that would mean around July as an announce date ?
http://www.nu.nl/film/3380471/danny-boyle-regisseert-volgende-bond-film.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/4859864/danny-boyle-to-direct-james-bond-movie.html
So, perhaps we can say that Danny Boyle can't be ruled out completely ;-)?
Good job @Gustav_Graves. Where is a rubbing hands emoticon when I need one? Now seriously, he's an amazing director but if he gets the job I hope he leaves out his usual quick cuts which I usually love but don't fit much into Bond.
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I remember how Sam Mendes got the director's chair for Bond 23. He and Daniel Craig were just having a coffee somewhere in NYC, when Daniel popped this up: "Hey Sam, do you wanna be a Bond director??". Everything that followed speaks for itself no :-)?
But Sam hadn't repeatedly stated that he didn't want to do one. In fact, Sam stated that a big budget actioner was the kind of thing he needed at the time to wake himself up. Boyle said that's exactly the thing he DIDN'T want. Regardless I'd be really careful about signing someone who has claimed to have no interest in directing Bond. They've really got to be all in, because it's a big committment.
You underestimate the power of conversation :-). Perhaps Barbara set some things straight with Danny Boyle :-).
Anyway, we'll see... I do hope the "soon" will be very soon. Not that I'm impatient or anything... :D
Maybe, maybe not. I'm just saying that I'm not that convinced because it seems like they're blowing up a small comment Barbara made. It's the media and it's their job to make a story out of everything, so I'm taking it with a very large grain of salt.
I didn't explain myself correctly, low frame-rate editing would be a more suitable description but I couldn't for the life of me remember it when I wrote the comment.
Regards Boyle, there are two ways of looking at it. What he said was a statement of fact, or he realised that flagging up even a slight bit of interest would snowball into a media onslaught about how he 'is' the next Bond director. Boyle doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who'd want to be caught in a media circus, particularly while he has other commitments.
I imagine Boyle as a Brit has been to that place many a time, the place where you remember Bond as an intrinsic part of your childhood. I think 99% of Brit directors would find that sentimentality hard to resist. It's your chance to be part of 'that'. That cultural behemoth you watched in awe as a kid.
for some reason i'd have a bad feeling if Boyle were to get the nod but id get behind him all the same.
"Boyle is surprised how much he liked Skyfall. He's such a traditionalist when it comes to Bond - Sean Connery's his man. (...) "I really enjoyed it". [About the Olympics bit] : "We did them a favour, but they did us a favour as well. It was mutual. Barbara Broccoli was very good to us, because they were right in the middle of it. In fact they were behind. It looks easy now it is such a success, but they needed money". Mendes admitted to Boyle that the budget was tight. Foreign locations had to be scrapped, limitations were being enforced on 007's new director. Boyle could sympathise, but he needs restrictions. "You do better work, and he did a really good job of it. I was really proud, because Naomie Harris was in it. He rang me up about Naomie and asked about her (...) The most wonderful thing for me is that Craig is such a good actor" Boyle gives the words a trademark intensity, speaking in italic."
So since his most widely publicized reason not do Bond is that the budget are too large, you could image a promise the budget will be even more scaled down than for SF + lots of creative control + working with actors he knows and likes, could be enough to change his mind.
He likes Bond, as well as Craig, and obviously Harris (at least), he already did a bit with the producers and was happy with them, and he has done big production before, and has been chatting with Mendes about the whole thing.