While rumors abound about currentBondstarDaniel Craigand whether or not he’ll be back forBond 25, there’s been considerably less chatter about the director’s chair.Sam Mendes, who sat the helm for the last two super-spy installments–2012’sSkyfalland 2015’sSpectre–said himself thatit’s time for another directorto take over, though who exactly that is has yet to be confirmed.
EnterChristopher Nolan, the three-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose filmography is celebrated by comics fans and cinephiles alike. He’s currently making the press rounds for his upcoming World War II filmDunkirk, but talk of future projects inevitably came up in one of his interviews. Surprisingly, the potential film franchise in question was perhaps the most storied in all of movie history:Bond. Could the mind behindThe Dark KnightTrilogy,Memento, andInceptionbe a good fit for 007?
Here’s what Nolan had to say about the prospect of directing aBondfilm while talking withPlayboy:
A Bond movie, definitely. I’ve spoken to the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson over the years. I deeply love the character, and I’m always excited to see what they do with it. Maybe one day that would work out. You’d have to be needed, if you know what I mean. It has to need reinvention; it has to needyou. And they’re getting along very well.
Sony / Columbia isn’t exactly struggling at the box office with the Craig-led foursome of Bond films over the last decade. At worst, 2008’sQuantum of Solacepulled in roughly $586 million worldwide, while at best 2012’sSkyfallcrossed well over $1.1 billion. The films have even done well critically, thoughSkyfalland 2006’sCasino Royalerevamp are the modern franchise’s standouts in that regard. So to Nolan’s point, Bond doesn’t reallyneedhim. But aBondfilm with Nolan’s name behind it would certainly be a picture worthy of attention, to say the very least.
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