Mendes won't direct Bond 24.

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  • raptors_887raptors_887 CanadaPosts: 215MI6 Agent
    edited March 2013
    Whoever they choose, I hope its somebody who is a huge Bond fan. My biggest concern is that we get another movie like QoS where its just non stop action and a big mess because the director doesn't know what he's doing.
    1: Casino Royale 2: Goldeneye 3: Skyfall 4: Octopussy 5: Goldfinger 6: Tomorrow Never Dies 7: The World Is Not Enough 8: The Living Daylights 9: From Russia With Love 10: The Spy Who Loved Me
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Barbel wrote:

    Guy Ritchie is 'bookies favourite' to direct the next Bond film

    Oh Gawd no....
    ?? Why is that? Don't you like him?

    IMHO he's just not the right man for the job.

    I'm hoping that with Mendes out of the way, David Arnold will be free to return.
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    I agree, Guy Ritchie is a categoric "no" in my opinion. I cannot see what makes him the bookies favourite, given the wealth of talented Brit directors currently at work. Someone mentioned Rupert Wyatt, who did Rise of the Planet of the Apes film recently -anyone have any thoughts about him?

    Re David Arnold, I had the pleasure of meeting him late last year, just before Skyfall opened. I was under the mistaken impression that he picked to do the Olympics over Skyfall, but he told me he would have loved to do both, but Mendes wanted Newman to score it.

    I'd like Arnold back, but having said that Newman's score was actually quite good I thought, and his award nominations may make him a leading candidate, in spite of the fact that Mendes won't be back...
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Re David Arnold, I had the pleasure of meeting him late last year, just before Skyfall opened. ...

    [searches for jealousy icon] :D
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,702MI6 Agent
    I think Matthew Waughn is a good candidate. There is Layer Cake of cource. But remember Kick-Ass shows he can do action and Stardust shows he can do adventure.
  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    In a Guardian interview, Sam Mendes explains why he turned down Bond 24. "Was I willing to go straight back into a room with a writer and start work on the same set of characters and the same scenarios as I've been working on for the last three years? No. The idea made me physically ill." He also says, "Maybe I should go on to one of the [Bond] chat threads and change my mind? I don't think that's going to happen."

    And about killing off Judi Dench's M, "Ha! You can't kill him [Bond], lets kill her instead! I thought I was going to get so much s**t for that. But you know you shock people into rediscovering their first acquaintance with the characters."

    The FULL interview.
    Sam Mendes: life is sweet
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/apr/19/sam-mendes-life-is-sweet
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,239MI6 Agent
    Well, there you have it. Most folk would love to dream up new situations for Bond. Thing is, that was when Bond was a cipher, it was more about the people he met, so the villains, babes and so on would all be different, locations too. Now they are not exotic, Eve is bound to show up in another extended role isn't she and it will be all about Bond's personal demons. So yeah, that does get repetitive.

    Most directors only want to do the one it seems, Apted an exception.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    Moore Than wrote:
    In a Guardian interview, Sam Mendes explains why he turned down Bond 24. "Was I willing to go straight back into a room with a writer and start work on the same set of characters and the same scenarios as I've been working on for the last three years? No. The idea made me physically ill." He also says, "Maybe I should go on to one of the [Bond] chat threads and change my mind? I don't think that's going to happen."

    And about killing off Judi Dench's M, "Ha! You can't kill him [Bond], lets kill her instead! I thought I was going to get so much s**t for that. But you know you shock people into rediscovering their first acquaintance with the characters."

    The FULL interview.
    Sam Mendes: life is sweet
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/apr/19/sam-mendes-life-is-sweet

    I read the interview and felt like he came across as a super-smug Luvvie. I for one am not sorry that he won't direct 24, no particular objection to him doing another at some point as I'm not a Skyfall 'hater' I regard it as a good but somewhat disappointing instalment that failed to deliver all it promised, but certainly not a disaster.
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