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What Directors Should Helm A Bond Film?

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  • jetsetwillyjetsetwilly
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    There is only one candidate for Bond 24, and that is Chris Nolan.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    jetsetwilly wrote:
    There is only one candidate for Bond 24, and that is Chris Nolan.

    With the success of Mendes i doubt it!
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    cooperman2 wrote:
    According to B Brocolli the reason she watched Layer Cake was not for Craig but actually to see what Matthew Vaughn was like as a potential director. Given that X Men:First Class had a real sixties Bond vibe i think he would be a terrific choice. After the whole oylmpics thing i can also see good possibility for Danny Boyle. But from out of left field my choice would be Stuart Baird. Not a top name i grant you and many will say that Star Trek Nemisis was shit (i agree), but Exectutive Decision was a top suspense thriller with some excellent performances and US Marshalls a greatly underated sequel to The Fugitive. A more workmanlike director i will grant you but thats not always a bad thing. Also a top, top editor so you know the film would flow superbly

    I too would love Stuart Baird to rise up the ranks and direct a Bond film.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
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    As I stated above, IMO the best choice would be to get Mendes to do Bond 23. If he does not want to do a second Bond movie in a row (and with Campbell saying that does not want to direct a third Bond movie), how about Danny Boyle? Chris Nolan maybe could do the first Bond movie after Craig's tenure... Michael Mann might also be a choice. As for Matthew Vaughan, I only watched Layer Cake... Steven Sodebergh? Rather not... I like some of his movies (my favourite here being the highly underrated "Kafka"m love that movie), but then Bond 24 might be another arthouse Bond movie as was QOS...
  • MalloryMallory
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    Samuel001 wrote:
    cooperman2 wrote:
    According to B Brocolli the reason she watched Layer Cake was not for Craig but actually to see what Matthew Vaughn was like as a potential director. Given that X Men:First Class had a real sixties Bond vibe i think he would be a terrific choice. After the whole oylmpics thing i can also see good possibility for Danny Boyle. But from out of left field my choice would be Stuart Baird. Not a top name i grant you and many will say that Star Trek Nemisis was shit (i agree), but Exectutive Decision was a top suspense thriller with some excellent performances and US Marshalls a greatly underated sequel to The Fugitive. A more workmanlike director i will grant you but thats not always a bad thing. Also a top, top editor so you know the film would flow superbly

    I too would love Stuart Baird to rise up the ranks and direct a Bond film.

    If Peter Hunt can do it...
  • nobodydoesitbetternobodydoesitbetter
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    Executive Decision is a very good and well directed thriller and I am sure Stuart Baird would do a great job directing a Bond film. However - at this moment in time and after SF I think BB and MGW need to sign a big cheque with Mendes name on it!...and soon before he signs on to direct Star Wars EP VII :))
  • bondfan007bondfan007
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    I think it telling that I cannot say who I would necessarily want to see helm Bond 24, but I can think of individuals I would have reservations about seeing. The name I see the most is Christopher Nolan. Yes, his Batman films were amazing. Yes, Inception was a phenomenal achievement. Yes, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan are insanely creative and infinitely inventive. That being said, I would question Nolan's ability to take a film series as prestigious as Bond. I know this qualifies me as insane and I'm prepared for the responses in which my personal dignity is to be whittled away; point withstanding, when Nolan took over the Batman franchise he was careful to reiterate the films were "his" Batman. Those films broke so heavily from Batman tradition that, as good as they were, they could not help but stand out. So, say that Nolan takes the Bond franchise and makes the Bond films, just as the films,
    if the ending to Skyfall is any indication
    , are about to embrace that fifty-year-old tradition, "his" Bond. I'm not questioning Nolan's very foundations as a filmmaker or anything that cynical. I'm merely questioning his ability to take a film series that is so heavily stooped in tradition (and, let's face it, it's that tradition and Bond's ability to "resurrect" that's made OO7 so successful), and embrace that tradition rather than completely make it over. We're 3 films into a new era of Bond. Casino Royale rebooted the franchise. Skyfall is pretty much a rewrite of known canon. Can we have Nolan as a director without looking at another reboot or series rewrite, and the film still be pure Bond?
  • battleshipgreygtbattleshipgreygt
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    The more I think about it the more I think Joe Wright would be the ideal choice especially following up Mendes. The man can direct and his resume speaks for itself: Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, The Soloist, all very good drama but it was Hanna that showed me that the man can direct action as well. Obviously it'll have to be a bit less stylized than that but I'd be very comfortable with him.
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited November 2012 Posts: 4,521
    Earlier sugestion from the oldforums.

    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.
  • cooperman2cooperman2 Uk
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    Joe Wright no way. Much to self consiously stylised a director for my liking. After Thor and the fact he is directing the new Jack Ryan movie i would love to see what Kenneth Branagh would do with Bond. While i think as a rule stick to British directors, one name i would like to add is Mimi Leader. The Peacemaker is a cracking thriller superbly well paced and plotted.
  • DRESSED_TO_KILLDRESSED_TO_KILL Suspended
    edited November 2012 Posts: 260
    Whats it matter? Barbara Brocolli and Michael Wilson basically control everything. The director is bullied into the formula they want. I still believe Sam Mendes had little creative control or real direction in skyfall.

    To answer the question though I'm not sure...I wouldn't mind the director of patriot games. Phillip Noyce
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
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    Please, nobody bother to reply to @DRESSED_TO_KILL because this isn't thread for that sort of discussion.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    I'd like J.J. Abrams or Brad Bird to direct Bond movies. They made good Mission Impossible Films and Bird also directed The Incredibles which is James Bond meets Superheroes. :)
  • Pauly_TPauly_T
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    Christopher Nolan
    Matthew Vaughn
    Nicolas Winding Refn
    Kenneth Branagh
    Danny Boyle
    Ridley Scott
  • BondWillReturnBondWillReturn
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    Did anyone else get really annoyed by the amount of 'Dutch Angle' shots Branagh used in Thor? I mean: just tilting the camera doesn't make a good action scene!

    That's the main concern I'd have with Branagh as a Bond director.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    BondWillReturn wrote:
    Did anyone else get really annoyed by the amount of 'Dutch Angle' shots Branagh used in Thor? I mean: just tilting the camera doesn't make a good action scene!

    That's the main concern I'd have with Branagh as a Bond director.

    I call it artistic douchebaggery. ;-)

  • TonyEbikTonyEbik
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    You know what I am quite happy for Mendes to do the next one, I think (if he doesnt say no) could be the next Guy Hamilton of the Bond series in the past. I think he did a grand job, would defo like him to do one more, then get Chris Nolan to do maybe (hopefully not) DC's last outing as Bond....Go out with a bang!
  • LicencedToKilt69007LicencedToKilt69007 Belgium, Wallonia
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    Christopher Nolan
    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)
  • PierceuhhhPierceuhhh Banned
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    I too would like to see Christoper Nolan tackle Bond... I have made a fan poster depicting how he might approach...

    the_dark_knight_poster_1.jpg
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
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    I say it once again, in that John McTiernan would be a good choice. And does have a sort of Bond connection having worked with Pierce Brosnan on The Thomas Crown affair. It's just that I thoroughly enjoyed his Die Hard work, and Hunt for Red October (Connery also), and even Predator, although some of those titles were a long time ago and he may well have lost some of his magic, but always a suitable candidate I feel
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Here's Nolan's Bond film:

    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?
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Here's Nolan's Bond film:

    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.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Here's Nolan's Bond film:

    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.
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Here's Nolan's Bond film:

    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..
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited November 2012 Posts: 6,306
    While I like Nolan's films, I find his characters underdeveloped/unemotional and his style overly pretentious for Bond. Still, Mendes was able to dial back his own pretensions for Bond, so you never know...
  • mdo007mdo007 Katy, Texas
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    I would love to have these direct future Bond films:

    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.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Hitchcock's Bond film/s would have been mind-blowing. No other director could create such palpable nail biting tension with no little than Hitch. Hitchcock understood what is largely forgotten today: It's what you don't see that gets you. He knew the audience would let their own minds go to work and that is where the fear comes from. And he made the scariest films without the gore that is tossed upon the screen today. That is largely why Halloween (1978) is not only my favorite horror film, but also a timeless classic in its genre. Carpenter brilliantly played on Hitchcock's influence, showing us as little of Michael as he could, and let us dilate the monster, raising the suspense and fear. There isn't a single ounce of blood spilled, and yet it is still gut wrenching to this day. Norman Bates and his wonderfully demented disposition and Michael with his chillingly collected composure is 100000000X more frightening than anything produced today in mainstream horror.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    Baltimore_007 wrote:
    I say it once again, in that John McTiernan would be a good choice. And does have a sort of Bond connection having worked with Pierce Brosnan on The Thomas Crown affair. It's just that I thoroughly enjoyed his Die Hard work, and Hunt for Red October (Connery also), and even Predator, although some of those titles were a long time ago and he may well have lost some of his magic, but always a suitable candidate I feel

    I think he should've done Daltons never made 3rd film. He was at his peak in the late 80s/early 90s.
  • lahainelahaine
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    Ducan Jones
    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.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
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    LicencedToKilt69007 wrote:
    Christopher Nolan
    Roman Polanski, to bring his famous atmosphere in addition to the usual one...
    Michael Apted, again.

    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....

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