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I think the 007 producers should look more into TV/streaming shows anyway, there are some very talented writers and directors out there.
Regarding writers, Charlie Brooker ("Black Mirror") and Noah Hawley ("Fargo") come to mind, for example.
I agree @Kojak007 , TV/streaming is boasting a lot of talent. I wouldn't be surprised if EoN is mining these series for, especially, writing talent (directing may be a little trickier, especially on a huge $200 million tent pole film; it could overwhelm . But a director who has done both elite series on streaming, and features...)
Re: Fallout, I was a little late to watching it because, like you, I wasn't sure if it was quite to my tastes.
I had even watched the trailer a few times, and I was very doubtful.
The first episode intrigued me. By the second episode, I could feel myself being drawn in. By the third, I was completely onboard. The series did it's job and won me over through fantastic storytelling.
I hope you'll be able to give it a go down the line. It was really not something I expected to respond to so strongly, but here I am, an absolute fan, 😂!!
I agree about Jonathan Nolan writing. I think his brother would be jealous, lol. But yes, the writing does need to change for Bond. Maybe an action writer as well, would work for me.
💯 there’s something fun, yet infantile, about everything he does. Fun, yet shows no adult coolness, nor adult gravitas for Bond…
Always comes back to Hamilton or Campbell for me. Could I see them forging a new, stylish man out of an actor? A gentleman out of the box? Wright I can not.
Where would you put Matt Smith? He reminds me of the NSNA M.
Anya, with her massive eyes looks otherworldly, or how every human will evolve to look like in 200 years. Similar thoughts with her: versatile as the main Bond girl, femme fatale, henchwoman or reluctant mistress to the villain. Perhaps a young Bond falls for the honeytrap.
That said not sure if even I like that idea!
I dunno if I like it, but what I do like is great thinking out of the box. Nice!
Jason Watkins maybe? Bill Nighy could be good: Q as a funky cool uncle.
I think AI is overused, but they probably will use it in the new film because that is the trend.
An AI was virtually a supporting character in the recent A Murder at the End of the World (cinematography by Charlotte Bruus Christensen, who you suggested as a potential DP for Bond), and following this tenuous link, I think Emma Corrin who lead that miniseries would make for a good non-binary Q if they wanted to go that route.
Cheers! I’m definitely not sold on it myself but who knows.
I think it depends on how it’s used. I know the latest MI film depicted an AI weapon as some sort of faceless all knowing entity, and it doesn’t seem to have worked. The thinking I actually had for a computerised Q was more Robin Williams as the AI programme in the Steven Spielberg film A.I. Something which allows the actor’s personality to come out while still fulfilling a plot purpose (and which doesn’t show this sort of tech as being fundamentally bad and instead being used for practical purposes, although it’s a bit too sci fi in many ways).
Have not seen that yet! As for a non-binary Q I suspect it’d depend on the actor, and it’d be handled/referenced even more subtly than Wishaw’s Q being gay was, if at all. But Corrin’s good.
I like Guy Ritchie…
I wouldnt mind Christopher Mcquarrie
And then I rewatched Leigh Whannell's exquisite 2020 horror film THE INVISIBLE MAN. Seeing what Whannell was capable of doing with only 7 million dollars, how well he told the film's story, how easily he grabbed my attention in the very first minutes if not seconds of the film, how he built tension, and what amazing performances he elicited from the likes of Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid and Michael Dorman, I got to thinking: what if Whannell directed a Bond film?
I honestly think he could do it. Films such as UPGRADE and THE INVISIBLE MAN prove that he has matured as a director since the days of SAW and INSIDIOUS, that he can do action, tension and character work, and that he can tell a compelling story. He's never done anything that involves suave spying and such, but I don't see that as an obstacle either. To me, he's more than proven himself capable of making good, intense and suspenseful films. I'd like to see him make a Bond film at some point.