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Mendes for Bond25? he may not be done yet, would you want him?
SirHilaryBray
Scotland
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spectre-director-sam-mendes-returning-833138
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - Would you do another?
SAM MENDES -Well, the most of important thing is that you can only make this decision if people want you do it, but one thing I learned from the last one is that you’re in no fit state to make any decision about your career – or any form of creative involvement in Bond – until at least six months after you’ve finished. So I think it would be foolish of me at this stage to offer anything concrete.
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - Would you do another?
SAM MENDES -Well, the most of important thing is that you can only make this decision if people want you do it, but one thing I learned from the last one is that you’re in no fit state to make any decision about your career – or any form of creative involvement in Bond – until at least six months after you’ve finished. So I think it would be foolish of me at this stage to offer anything concrete.
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HR: Would you do another?
SM: Well, the most of important thing is that you can only make this decision if people want you do it, but one thing I learned from the last one is that you’re in no fit state to make any decision about your career – or any form of creative involvement in Bond – until at least six months after you’ve finished. So I think it would be foolish of me at this stage to offer anything concrete.
If I like Spectre as much as I hope I will say why not but honestly I am hoping someone else. Plus I am sick of one word S titles.
If this is the case, why is it necessary to heap all the blame on one man's doorstep?
Surely the producers and the scriptwriters, oh and let's not forget SP's special co-producer, had something to do with this?
Darius as director the buck stops with him. If he was not happy then it's for him to say so. But although I did not enjoy Spectre as a sequel to Dan's prior films and have major issues with the dialogue it's going down well with critics and a majority of fans.
The buck stops with the producers, I'm afraid. They are the ones at the top of the food chain in any film production. They hire or fire the director as the situation permits, since they are the ones controlling the money.
Mendes does tend to learn from mistakes I believe and if he does return I suspect a more controlled development stage.
But I'm truly ready for another storyteller to try his or her hand at Bond.
This approach occurred long before Mendes came on the scene.
Whether you fully appreciate the film or not it's still incredibly well made - and of course well staged in regards to the Mexico PTS - and it's a shame praise never goes to the production team and that Babs and Mendes seems so disliked by fans.
Personally, i'd like to see Martin Campbell back to helm another Bond film..........this guy knows how to direct action and the narrative scenes, and just has the feel, on how to make a very good Bond film!
Surely Campbell would be treading old ground too. I liked what he did with CR but it still irks me that Campbell was so insulting and uncharitable about Dalton and his films when promoting GE.
I think with new people we get new ideas and we keep everyone on their toes. There is a tendency to fall into habit and complacency with time......and most dangerously, to repeat what one felt caused success before....although I've heard they've not done that here.
I'd like Forster back because I think of all the most recent directors he may be the one who most would like to redeem himself and put a more clean stamp on his Bond legacy. The writer's strike during his tenure was quite unfair.
I completely agree with you. After seeing the resume of Marc Forster, I think he should definitely come back. It wasn't fair for him to go through what he did. He's no writer and neither is anyone of the actors, so to leave it up to them to "make it work" was so stressful. I would like to see him return with a property he can sink his teeth into and have the best writers. Would love to see that.
Good thing you don't work for EON.
I always feel slightly embarrassed to admit it, but I do actually think Forster did the best job with Bond since Glen.
SP is decent. But I really feel now that I know what a Mendes Bond movie is like and I've frankly seen enough. Mendes has severely hampered himself by insisting on the utterly uninspired Newman, and also by the stench of Purvis and Wade that sadly pervades both his films (although particularly SF).
If Bond 25 continues where SP left off then expect the stakes to be higher and I wouldn't be surprised if it's slightly more serious. It's strange how the fun aspect that the whole world was crying for to be returned comes back and is for 95% of the time handled perfectly and yet it's also one of the consistent criticisms across the board for both positive and negative reviews.
The script writing process for SP was a shambles and it's a mistake that EoN aren't or I at least expect them not to repeat for the next movie, furthermore, what's going to really help Bond 25 is the competition. The new Bourne movie with Damon and Greengrass is out next year and like it or not, it will have a bearing to some extent on the navigation of where Bond 25 takes us tonally. Bourne will be a hit, that's not even up for debate but it's thriller style and lethal action will no doubt help Bond 25 in it's approach to be a different movie from SP and not be repeated.
I personally loved SP, a solid 8.5/10 for me but it lacked a thoroughness and a smoother sense of cohesion compared to CR.
Mendes will observe the positive and negative feedback of SP and I'm sure if he does direct a third Bond movie I can see him taking the best bits of SF, the more layered aspects and combining it with the best bits of SP but without compromising heavily on the fun aspect because as it is; SP is a fun and exciting movie that does away with the dourness and that's one of the major contributors to SP going on to be a huge success.
For me the on-going weakness for Bond is plot/story/screenplay. SP is actually fairly solid, but it does feel slightly plodding compared to CR. There are some nice lines in SP but I think there's plenty of work for EON to do on this front. It's a shame that time after time the writing seems to be a bit last-minute.
I don't really see Mendes doing anything new or interesting with a third movie and I sense he probably feels the same way. Time for some one new.
I'd like a film that falls between SP and QoS in terms of length and pace.
That's just it, SPECTRE isn't Skyfall 2. Mendes is unlikely to have done it if it had been.
If SPECTRE proves to be huge at the box office I can very much see EON wanting Craig and Mendes back that one more time.
Would that be the self same brother who oversaw the production of the acclaimed 007 Legends?
Excuse me while I go out and find a coffin marked 'James Bond Film Series' to start hammering nails into.