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No to your question.
Is wanting the casting process open to all actors, no matter their race and ethnicity, “woke” and “virtue-signalling”?
No to both.
But saying actors of color need not apply, and having an actor of color will be a disaster for the franchise is treading along despicable lines, yes.
I think a Sope Dirisu or an Aaron Pierre have as much right and talent to audition as ATJ, or any white actor. And can anyone on this site tell me these two men of color shouldn’t be able to audition? I’d love to hear your reasoning.
Other than that, this discussion is getting ridiculous and tedious.
Lol, thank you, good catch, 😂...at least something brought a smile to my face in the midst of all this nonsense.
I'll go and correct now...
Like I said, one never looks for the ideal candidate, but for the best.
• Edward Berger
• Denis Villeneuve
• Edgar Wright
• Jonathan Nolan
• Paul King
Alfonso Cuarón has reportedly took himself out of the running.
(Source: https://puck.news/the-mail-room-bond-movie-directors-blumhouses-saw-deal-apples-post-f1-strategy/)"
https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1935928525225443810
EDGAr WRIGHT, I would die from happiness!! OMG
...and bring in Simon Pegg to write!
I don’t follow movie news much but I feel like I’ve heard Puck are quite decent..?
All of them are OK choices. Perhaps the one I like least is Paul King.
Honestly, if I had to pick from this list, it’d depend on what these ‘pitches’ were. I guess Berger?
Was Lewis Gilbert better at kitchen sink, gritty stuff?
King has proven he can handle big budget films with exciting action and emotion and heart, big set pieces, plus laughs and a British feel, and has delivered properly excellent films every time.
Wright on the other hand, for me has never quite delivered in any of the genres he's tried (apart from Shaun of course). I find he always falls a little short and there's a certain flatness to his films.
Berger's good; Nolan's a little inexperienced. Villeneuve is obviously excellent, but perhaps doesn't promise much in the way of lightness.
Bond films, even the breezy ones, have a bit of an edge to them. I haven't seen that from King's work.
I think Baby driver has an edge, especially during the robbery scenes, inspite of being overall a fun, entertaining film.
Baby driver is a fun film. But it's not how I would want a Bond film to be, it doesn't even have depth like the lighter Bond films. Plus, after first viewing, I don't think Baby Driver has much re-watch value.
He does peril even in his kids films, I don't find it hard to imagine he could dial that up a bit.
Baby Driver is decent, but for me it's another example of one of Wright's film being fine, but nothing outstanding. I wouldn't be upset if he got it, but I wouldn't be excited.
I imagine they are selling the whole pack. The project itself.
Baby Driver's a film I've struggled with on rewatches. I do think it lacks that edge you're talking about, but it's a fun enough film. Still, I'm not sure about Wright, and I think he's still not been able to top Hot Fuzz or Shaun.
But hey, I'd say I find many of Villeneuve's films dull as dishwater (except Prisoners - awesome, tense film, and I think he's a great director regardless of my personal opinion).
I don't have many opinions about King or Nolan one way or the other.
Berger I like because he's got experience with different kinds of genres, and I'd say he's been pretty great at doing dark humour (especially in Patrick Melrose. Weirdly it's the most Bondian I've ever seen Benedict Cumberbatch as being, despite the subject matter) and of course to some extent action/violence. I'd say he's the most suited to Bond in theory, but it depends I suppose (I think he's even said he'd be less interested in doing it under Amazon than EON).
I think Shaun is superb but I've actually struggled with Hot Fuzz. I think it's funny enough, but it keeps promising to the audience in the actual dialogue that it's going to be a comedy take on an action film, but the action is really weak and rubbishly-handled. It was a long time ago though and the action in Baby Driver is better.
The action has a conscious amount of cheesiness especially by the end, sure. But I tend to see it more as a comedy so I'm ok with it. And to be fair there is a legitimately sinister mood in terms of what's going on with the village, so I feel those fun action scenes are earned.
An issue I have with Baby Driver is despite the good stuntwork Wright makes very specific decisions which takes away a lot of tension and sense of danger (one thing I remember vividly is elaborate rock music being played over one of the last chases in the garage, just before he defeats Jon Hamm's character. Just felt like a waste. It could have been a stand out scene where the sense of danger is really dialled up, but Wright defaults back to that lighter mood. It doesn't give me the sense he's a very confident director when not in that mode. To be completely honest I got that sense from Last Night in Soho).
I do like him as a director (Scott Pilgram's actually a very watchable film too) but for Bond I think something's a bit off about the idea of him doing it. But we'll see.