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Remenber, ATJ has a secret.
And it's something he can't tell anyone. ;)
Yep, but they can't hold back the dam forever, whether its Bond 27 or later, eventually a change of course will become impossible to avoid. The best we can hope for is that they don't mess up getting the building blocks right for when that eventually comes.
He’s clearly a first rate director and I think it shows that the new team are taking Bond 26 seriously. I look forward to seeing what he comes up with.
Dune has started casting so I guess Bond is a way off.
That's my worry too.
I liked the Dune films, but would never want the same approach for Bond.
I was rather hoping for a less self-serious Bond film, something like TSWLM.
Regardless what I think, at least the critics will love it :p
This director can do the job, that's for sure.
It doesn't seem like a radical change from the Craig era, but maybe Denis will surprise us. I'm sure he has his own ideas of what a Bond movie should be.
They certainly aren't making this into "British Reacher: The Film Series", as I had feared. This is going to look very, very, expensive (Damn. Two preditions, after all)
We need to start looking at it like Bond 26 is just the building blocks, just getting the peices on the board that other filmmakers will go on to do interesting things with down the line. As long as they don't mess up casting Bond, and set up a believable, modern MI6 then this film has done its job. Then the next film can start and all the legwork will have already been done for someone like Berger or Wright to take advantage of.
That's the mindset I'm going to have going forward. I'm not going to let myself get wrapped up in what direction the story is going etc. The plot, villain, threat, none of that matters. We already know Villeneuve as a director, he's not a Speilberg who can turn his hand at anything. We know his movie is going to be slow and moody, but if he can build the basis of a setting for other directors to run off in their own visions, then it's mission accomplished.
I think it's highly likely. I'd wager he had a pitch and a story outlined for years.
You need to see Sicario. Beautiful, incredibly tense, with some incredible action set-pieces.
Great visuals and sloooow pacing. He hasn't directed any action movies before, right?
Lean?
Yes, Sicario had that "Heat"-inspired setpiece at the border, but it's a crime thriller, in the likes of the fantastic 'No Country for Old Men', imo.
He will bring his style, of course, which I look forward to. Because most of his movies just look damn good. A fun and fast-paced action mayhem B26? Probably not.
Hopefully he fully utilises the IMAX format as he did with Dune.
NTTD's IMAX sequences were amazing but limited to the entire opening sequence and the second half of the Cuba sequence.
I'll be glad if we're staying with the more serious tone, my only slight concern is pacing but Sicario was fine
Yeah, I think now I'm pretty confident it will be a good film. Whether it'll be a fun film remains to be seen I suppose, but I don't think we'll have a duff movie on our hands.
I thought there was a fair deal of action in Dune (only seen his first), and pretty well done. But I prefer Bond movies to be slower anyway, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Some people are complaining that it won't be a departure from the Craig era. Is that such a bad thing? And when were the debut Bond film of an actor a clear a departure from the previous era? CR notwithstanding. LALD had the same director as DAF, Moore was still finding his feet in the role. GE was first written with Dalton in mind. Now I'm sure Villeneuve will bring his own sensibilities and ideas to the table, but I'd be glad to keep something from the Craig era. First good news in a long time.
It also won't be TLD/GE type middle-ground, let's be honest.