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Maybe Michael and Barbara got married?
Tenet felt like a half baked concept and I wonder if the suits had courage to tell him to go back to work on more drafts.
2008, I was all in on Nolan directing Bond.
Now? Gulp.
@mtm, pls check your DMs.
@Thunderfinger -- you have great timing, 😂
If that happened @MajorDSmythe , I wouldn't know. My bet (and that's all it is, with a healthy amount of hope), is that Cavill doesn't get the Bond role.
(I really don't have a strong opinion of who should be the next guy; I only know those who I WOULDN'T want to get the role! I do trust EoN, and to date think they have largely got the casting of 007 bang-on the money. I've said before that Brozz wasn't my personal favorite, but he was definitely the right man for the job at that time (as was Connery, Moore and Craig... Lazenby and Dalton weren't as successful, but, especially after Moore's last one (a film I enjoyed), there needed to be a more grounded approach, and that's where Dalton's strengths lay...)
I personally don't like any of the aged bonds. They should have casted every new actor earlier.
@peter I can understand the trepidation, but every director has produced a stinker or two. While I have liked most of his films, I’m not a Nolan fanboy; he is a tremendously talented filmmaker who may have gained some humility after the experience of Tenet.
I have a feeling if he were to direct Bond that he would bring his A game.
Man I'm glad he got axed. Pattinson is still a sh-te actor, even though it's hip and trendy nowadays to claim otherwise.
I found Tenet a p-ss poor movie, so there we do agree somewhat, Peter. Turner will take over, Peter, mark these words. Remember them. That is all.
Then you'll have people complaining that Bond is too broody, too dark, too negative, too toxic, or whatever. I would rather have what you describe than a return to Moore or Brosnan, personally, but there you go.
Dalton to finally get his third film
First rule of mass media, give the people what they want!! 🙏
My problem with Nolan is definitely mine; I despised Tenet and found it so painful to watch it was the first film I genuinely wanted to walk out of. It was so flagrantly rushed from page to camera, it had me wondering if this guy knew the most simplest rules to film story telling. I had seen somewhat large bullseyes in his other films, but I ignored them, because, more or less, I was enjoying the film as a whole.
But the problems I saw sprinkled in his other films became the entire film that was Tenet. To me, it wasn’t a bad film. It was disastrous from the opening scene (just plopping us into the opera house scene was disorienting), to the final scene.
If he were to do Bond, I’d want Scott Burns at the ready to design organic set pieces and PWB to work on character, as well as a few other doctors at the ready.
For the most part, visually I have no problem with Nolan’s work— except he needs a good editor to keep his scenes moving forward.
If I was Eon and I hired him, it’d be under conditions that he doesn’t get final say on the script and will have to work with a writing team, and; he needs to allow the editor the space to make sure the pacing of the film is up to a Bond film’s standards.
Being as long-winded as I am today, I have to admit that nailing Nolan, from a commercial perspective, would make news and create buzz and conversations. It’d just be a helluva lot of work to manage the man himself (no doubt he’s got a great mind and imagination… but like a wild horse, he needs someone to break him, 😂).
@JeremyBondon , I think you haven’t quite read me correctly. I honestly don’t care if people agree or disagree with anything I say. I’ve actually learned from people with a different perspective than mine and I know my opinion is just that: mine. And I also am aware that, in the big picture of Eon and James Bond, my opinion has no relevancy. So whether someone agrees or disagrees with me is moot. But disagreements can be had with passion and respect as well.
Re: Turner: I have no idea if he will be Bond. Your guess is as good as anyones on this site. But that’s all it is: a guess.
And you may be right.
But you may definitely be wrong.
And I suppose my gentleman’s challenge to you has been declined. If not, I do look forward to what the “source” has to say!
EDIT: @thelivingroyale: sent you a brief DM
On the subject of Nolan my issue with him going near Bond is that he has shown almost zero sense of fun; I know it's possible to point to a joke here and there in his films, but that's not the same as fun, and I want my Bond films to feel enjoyable. CR did, the Mendes films did, but I've never got that sensation from a Nolan.
And most certainly not Tenet, I agree there. I was so bored by it I gave up trying to understand what was happening at the end- I simply didn't care.
I do agree with this. Nolan’s films certainly fail on the fun-factor— Tenet being the guiltiest of them all. Ugh. What a bad memory!
But it's definitely possibly casting? I won't push, as I wouldn't want anyone to get in trouble. As much as I would want them to have already greased the wheels of Bond#26, I would be surprised if there were any traction this year.
As you say, I'm sure there are lists of possible candidates, plus I would imagine agents have been pushing their clients on them for a while now; but it seems like the proper business won't start until they have everything a bit more sorted- they also seemed to like to get the director involved in the casting too.
And yet weirdly they still haven't incorporated a company for the new film.
Now I'm curious what this DM business entails. Color me intrigued.
Tony Dalton is slightly too old, moustachioed and Mexican but in every other respect he exudes James Bond energy that I'd hope the next actor has. As Lalo he's able to be charming while at the same time showing that coldness behind the eyes of Fleming's Bond. I've not listened to the companion podcast yet but I'd be interested to know hoe much they intentionally leaned into that because in the latest episode they have him snooping about with a silenced pistol and ordering a martini, I mean come on 😂