Spectre (Bond 24)

Sad Professor

A bit early for this perhaps, but with production set to start next Autumn for a 2014 release, we'll probably start to hear announcements re: title and director shortly.

Any thoughts on who - realistically - should direct? Keeping in mind that the director is usually British Commonwealth, or non-American at the very least. Mendes seems to have already ruled himself out.

I'd love to see Joe Wright do it. A great dramatic director (Atonement) who can also do action (Hanna). As a prominent British director, I'm sure he's already on their list, but he might be a bit too art-house for Eon.

It would be great to see Campbell come back, of course, but he's getting old and probably isn't interested in doing another Bond.

Mister Jingles

Wouldn't know much about directors but aren't the next two installments supposed to be related ? Similar to Casino Royal and QOS.

indough

i think they just wanted to take a break from the quantum plot and do a standalone movie and will probably move back to that story for the next one, seem to remember reading a while back that that was always the plan. as for potential directors, no idea. most important for me is that the throwbacks in this movie were just down to it being the anniversary year, and we dont see a gradual slide back to invisible cars, exploding pens and space laser battles like some supposed bond fans seem to want.

krudler

Glad its in faster turnaround than the 4 years between QoS and Skyfall. now with (sKyfall spoilers)

a new M

it opens up a new dynamic, I hope they bring Quantum back into it, it was never resolved in QOS after setting it up.

JP Liz V1

I love to see Chris Nolan do a Bond flick

FloatingVoter

I always thought Tarantino would script / direct a very good stripped down Bond. Kevin Spacey needs a decent villain role (watch The Usual Suspects if you're not aware of what I mean). Kylie Minogue needs to do a Bond before too long.

Sad Professor

indough wrote: »

most important for me is that the throwbacks in this movie were just down to it being the anniversary year, and we dont see a gradual slide back to invisible cars, exploding pens and space laser battles like some supposed bond fans seem to want.

Agreed. And on this issue the return of Logan worries me. I've never been particularly impressed with him as a writer, and I'm fairly certain all the silly wink-wink, nudge-nudge stuff in Skyfall was his doing. This is why the choice of director is crucial.

Nolan and Tarantino will never happen. Tarantino because his vision would never sync up with Eon's, and Nolan because he's too bloody big - and has already made several films that are heavily inspired by Bond.

krudler

Sad Professor wrote: »

Agreed. And on this issue the return of Logan worries me. I've never been particularly impressed with him as a writer, and I'm fairly certain all the silly wink-wink, nudge-nudge stuff in Skyfall was his doing. This is why the choice of director is crucial.

Nolan and Tarantino will never happen. Tarantino because his vision would never sync up with Eon's, and Nolan because he's too bloody big - and has already made several films that are heavily inspired by Bond.

Indeed, sure the snow fortress section of Inception is straight out of a Bond movie, ditto the mid air hijack in TDKR.

johnny_ultimate

They should go for broke and just give it to Ben Wheatley

mike65

I wonder would they be willing to get someone who's shown his chops on TV, Sam Miller who directed episodes of Good Cop, Spooks and Luther among others would seem to have the right stuff.

Roger Donaldson knows his way round action based material.

Otacon

Neil Marshall perhaps?

ricero

I heard rumors that Ernst Blofeld may be making a comeback. id love to see that but would need a strong actor to play the man

Sad Professor

It seems Mendes may be returning after all...

http://collider.com/neal-purvis-robert-wade-leaving-bond/212326/

*grumble grumble*

krudler

Sad Professor wrote: »

It seems Mendes may be returning after all...

http://collider.com/neal-purvis-robert-wade-leaving-bond/212326/

*grumble grumble*

I dont mind that at all, Skyfall is one of, if not the best looking Bond movie by a mile.

Josey Wales

Once they get Roger Deakins back on board I'll be happy. Skyfall was the best looking Bond film in the series and he was directly responsible for that. I also think that Joe Wright would be a great choice. Hanna was a wonderful film.

MisterAnarchy

indough wrote: »

i think they just wanted to take a break from the quantum plot and do a standalone movie and will probably move back to that story for the next one,

What is this Quantum plot you speak of ???
That film was just a sequence of poorly edited action scenes cobbled together .

Mickeroo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

They should go for broke and just give it to Ben Wheatley

i'd be up for that. Maybe he'll get all the henchmen to thank Bond as he offs them

MisterAnarchy

Im happy that Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have said they wont be writing anymore Bond's .
They should have been sacked years ago ,they are very poor writers .

JP Liz V1

ricero wrote: »

I heard rumors that Ernst Blofeld may be making a comeback. id love to see that but would need a strong actor to play the man

Always though Gary Oldman would great as a Bond villian also John Malkovich would be good as Blofeld

DoesNotCompute

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Kylie Minogue needs to do a Bond before too long.

Ugh, no thanks. Look what happened when they had Madonna in Die Another Day :shudder:

WoollyRedHat

Awful movie title.

Sad Professor

I'd love to see them do a remake of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (which is still my favourite Bond film). But instead of doing it as the middle act of a Blofeld trilogy leading into another revenge film, make it more climatic. Bond kills Blofeld, retires from MI6, marries Tracy and then some random former enemy guns her down. Seeing Bond struggle against falling in love again only for history to repeat itself would be a fitting end to the Craig films.

JP Liz V1

Well Mendes has ruled himself out as director so what about man of the moment Ben Affleck

mike65

No Americans!

krudler

mike65 wrote: »

No Americans!

What difference does it make? the majority of stuff on the Bond movies is done by the 2nd unit anyway.

mike65

There has never been an American director, don't let one near him now. As it happens there are hardly any Yankees who do action/adventure above lame comic book level. Nearly everyone who one might name is either British, Aussie or Asian. No John Moore obviously!

Fuzzy_Dunlop

i dunno I reckon Affleck could be a great shout. The way he built up the tension in the climax of Argo was brilliant.

don ramo

Tom Hooper could be a good shout, not much action experience but he done a great job with Les Misérables,

Guy Ritchie could also be an option, or even Danny Boyle, both have a certain way of making films that probably dont really make them good options for a bond film, but i wouldn't have thought Mendes would have been a good option either,

ricero

Christopher Nolan would do a fine job

Kess73

Otacon wrote: »

Neil Marshall perhaps?

Bond vs Werewolves.

Sad Professor

Given the huge success they just had with a theatre director who had never done an action film before, I see no reason for them go after a Nolan, Greengrass, etc. Nolan is busy and out of their price range anyway. Not to mention he basically already said it would have to be a reboot with a different actor.

Some realistic candidates: Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Vaughn, Joe Wright, Rupert Wyatt. They could also give it to Baird, though reuniting him with Logan wouldn't be wise.

D'Agger

ricero wrote: »

Christopher Nolan would do a fine job

Obviously. Won't happen though

Otacon

Kess73 wrote: »

Bond vs Werewolves.

Matthew Vaughn then!

JP Liz V1

How about Steve McQueen as director and Michael Fassbender as the main villian

Mickeroo

I'd like to see Stephen Frears or Ken Loach give a Bond movie a go :P

don ramo

don ramo wrote: »

Tom Hooper could be a good shout, not much action experience but he done a great job with Les Misérables,

He's a terrible director whose TV roots are still obvious. Les Miserables was baby things but well directed was not one of them, his use if close up was irritating and added nothing to the film. Even more annoying was his decision to frame every scene do it looked like it was set in the same world as Battlefield Earth.

There's a hundred or so directors I'd put ahead of Hooper and on that list would be Paul W. Anderson which says all I need to on just how much I rate Hooper's chances at succeeding in the Bond universe. I do think that with a decent script that he had no hand in Anderson could actually deliver a good film.

Sad Professor

Vaughn is a very strong possibility. He's free, he's worked with Craig before, he's on record as saying he'd like do a Bond, and the producers have considered him in the past.

krudler

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

How about Steve McQueen as director and Michael Fassbender as the main villian

Fassbender for Bond next, he'd be great

Handsome Bob

ricero wrote: »

Christopher Nolan would do a fine job

D'Agger wrote: »

Obviously. Won't happen though

It's no secret that Nolan's a major fan of Bond but I think D'Agger is right. I can't see Nolan taking up this franchise as it is, I think he'd want to make it his own. That means casting his own Bond and taking the story where he wants to take it.

MJ23

Christian Slater as the villain. He'd be great.

DrumSteve

**** it, Michael ironside and ronnie cox for bond villains.

JP Liz V1

Source

Christopher Nolan has been
approached to direct the next 007 movie.
It’s
early days, but informal talks have begun between Nolan, his representatives
and the powers behind the James Bond pictures, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G.Wilson........

:cool:

Sad Professor

I don't see how Nolan can do this or why MGM would even want him. Mendes apparently pulled out because of exhaustion and not being able to go back into production so soon. Nolan hasn't even started shooting Interstellar yet, which I assume will be another 6 month shoot, and we know he likes to focus on one film at a time. He also likes to be involved in the scripting, so to get him they'd probably have to get rid of Logan and throw out whatever crap he's written so far. All this could push Bond 24's start date back a year or two. Then they'd have to contend with Nolan's preference for shooting everything himself, which would result in a 6-7 month shoot (Skyfall shot for 4 months with second unit doing all the action scenes).

Why would MGM go to all this trouble when they've just made the biggest Bond ever with a theatre director who had never done an action movie before at the helm? And why would Nolan leave Warners, where he can do pretty much whatever he wants, to go share creative control with Eon?

I would put absolutely no faith in that report being even the least bit true. It's the Mail after all and they have no problem taking any old rumor and fashioning it into a story. Anyways what the hell is informal talks exactly, did someone associated with Bond 24 mention in passing to a friend of a friend of Nolan's baker that they' like Nolan to direct.

krudler

Nolan at this rate has blank cheque status with Warner, he's made them billions at this point between Batman, Inception and a producer stake in Man of Steel which is pretty much a guaranteed hit. Can't see him giving that up to go to a very tightly controlled franchise. Anyway he got to make his own Bond-esque sequences in Inception. I'm sure if, and it's a major if, he did go make a Bond film it'll be the 25th one, I'd be far more excited at the thought of a new original Nolan film instead of him helming an established francise film.

Handsome Bob

As I said before, Nolan wants to make a Bond film. But he'd very much want carte blanche which would include hiring his own Bond so I can't see any potential talks bearing fruit. That is, unless, they're granting Craig's wish and not asking him back.

Bullseye1

Where did Daniel Craig ask to be allowed drop out of the next Bond?

humanji

If Nolan does do the next bond film, I wonder what roles Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy will play?

FortuneChip

humanji wrote: »

If Nolan does do the next bond film, I wonder what roles Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy will play?

Well I imagine Caine & Hardy will play an old and young version of Bond.
JGL could play Blofeld

krudler

humanji wrote: »

If Nolan does do the next bond film, I wonder what roles Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy will play?

Hardy would make a great Bond villain, I'd love to see Michael Fassbender get a shot at Bond

FortuneChip

krudler wrote: »

Hardy would make a great Bond villain, I'd love to see Michael Fassbender get a shot at Bond

I hope Fassbender gets a shot too!
About 2/3 years ago I put a bet on him to be the next Bond after Craig.
About 2 weeks afterwards the Craig 5 movie deal was announced!