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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.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

Mickeroo

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

JP Liz V1

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

Otacon

Kess73 wrote: »

Bond vs Werewolves.

Matthew Vaughn then!

D'Agger

ricero wrote: »

Christopher Nolan would do a fine job

Obviously. Won't happen though

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.

Kess73

Otacon wrote: »

Neil Marshall perhaps?

Bond vs Werewolves.

ricero

Christopher Nolan would do a fine job

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,

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.

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!

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

No Americans!

JP Liz V1

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

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.

WoollyRedHat

Awful movie title.

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:

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

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 .

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

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 .

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.

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.

Sad Professor

It seems Mendes may be returning after all...

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

*grumble grumble*

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

Otacon

Neil Marshall perhaps?

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.