In the absence of actual Bond 26 news, Bond fans understandably latch on to crumbs.
One such crumb was an installment of the Hot Mic podcast, where co-host Jeff Sneider made the case that the time may be right for Christopher Nolan to direct a Bond movie (or two or three). Nolan’s prestige Oppenheimer movie comes out next month and his schedule appears clear after that.
Nolan is now in now 52 and if he’s going to do it, Sneider opined, now is the time. Also, he’d get the chance to recast the role of Bond with the departure of Daniel Craig after No Time to Die.
Also, as has been written over the years, Nolan is a 007 fan. His trilogy of Batman movies has Bond-inspired tropes. So did his 2010 movie Inception.
The possibility (and that’s all it is right now) of Nolan helming Bond 26 brings up some issues.
Does Eon bring Syncopy into the Bond mix? With Nolan, you typically also get the involvement of his production company, Syncopy. Nolan gets a producer’s credit. So does his wife, Emma Thomas.
Bond films traditionally were a producer-driven operation. Since the late 2000s. Eon boss Barbara Broccoli has been more enthused by “auteur” directors (Sam Mendes on Skyfall and SPECTRE, and Quantum of Solace’s Marc Forster). But would Eon accommodate Nolan’s production company in a Bond film? Or does Nolan, in effect, work as a director for hire?
Eon has gotten the Nolan bug before: Mendes, during Skyfall’s production, acknowledged The Dark Knight (the second of Nolan’s trilogy) was an inspiration for Skyfall. As a result, there are a number of similarities.
What’s more, Eon has hired some of Nolan’s collaborators. Chris Corbould, Eon’s long-time special effects whiz, has also worked on Nolan-directed movies. The crew of 2015’s SPECTRE included editor Lee Smith and director of photography Hoyte Van Hoytema, both Nolan veterans.
At this point, all of this chatter for fans.
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Eon Productions, Hoyte van Hoytema, Jeff Sneider, Lee Smith, Skyfall, SPECTRE, Syncopy, The Hot Mic podcast |
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I think this would be a horrible idea.
His films are basically shot in gray and black and brown—with very poor lighting.
Is this what we want the next Bond film to look like?
He seems to have an extreme hatred for the visible spectrum.
I don’t know if he himself is colourblind, but it seems like he hates colours.
That’s why I oppose, very strongly, having this guy direct any Bond movies. Because that’s what we’re going to get — a very dark, ugly film if he ends up directing it.
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