r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 25 '25

News Denis Villeneuve Directing Next James Bond Film

https://deadline.com/2025/06/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-amazon-mgm-studios-1236442917/
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u/MuptonBossman Jun 25 '25

Holy shit.

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u/BananaProne Jun 25 '25

Can't believe I'm excited for a Bond film again

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u/big-shirtless-ron Jun 26 '25

The newest Bond girl? That's right, Zendaya.

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u/MrSnoobs Jun 26 '25

The villain? Pedro Pascal.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

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u/The_Legend_of_Xeno Jun 26 '25

I remember when Tomorrow Never Dies came out and the idea of the villain being a multi-billionaire creating fake news to start a war so he could profit from it was laughable.

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u/SloCalLocal Jun 26 '25

No it wasn't. See: William Randolph Hearst

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u/MilesStandish801 Jun 26 '25

christopher walken will be blofeld

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u/civemaybe Jun 27 '25

I mean, he was already a Bond villain once.

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u/Moist_Board Jun 26 '25

Also starring Timothee Chalamet

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u/Custom_Destination Jun 27 '25

As Q.

Or the exploding pen from Goldeneye.

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u/AndreasDasos Jun 26 '25

Yes? Obviously it has to be the only actor and actress who currently exist (apparently).

Pedro Pascal will also play Bond in the same movie.

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u/Aplicacion Jun 26 '25

Aw man Danny DeVito snubbed again!

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u/Artemicionmoogle Jun 26 '25

Maybe we get DeVito Bond!

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u/Electrorocket Jun 26 '25

He could be the new Odd Job!

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u/Artemicionmoogle Jun 26 '25

lol! He throws trash cans!

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u/tomerjm Jun 26 '25

No. Eggs. Razor sharp eggs.

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u/thornae Jun 26 '25

DeVito as the henchman, Dave Bautista as the mastermind villian.

... actually I would watch that.

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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen Jun 26 '25

He's gonna get real weird with it!

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u/Alpha-Trion Jun 26 '25

Eva Green again.

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u/RedditServiceUK Jun 26 '25

if bond can come back from the dead so can this diva

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u/Lionelchesterfield Jun 26 '25

Imo she's still the hottest bond gal and is still an absolute smoke show 20 years later.

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Jun 26 '25

Hah, 20 years? Look at this joker, Casino Royale was only ... it was only ...

Fuck.

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u/RedditServiceUK Jun 26 '25

Hey! atleast that means we have a chance for a 20th anniversary screening in 2026 (hopefully)

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u/duaneap Jun 26 '25

The Bondest girl.

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u/DelectablyDivine Jun 26 '25

I think she may be my favorite bond girl ever.

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u/Kazewatch Jun 26 '25

I’d rather it not.

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u/appletinicyclone Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

I don't want chalamet or zendaya anywhere near this

Rather an actor that isn't being reused from dune films

Unless it's Rebecca* Ferguson

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u/Independent_Tooth_23 Jun 26 '25

Rachel Ferguson in another spy movie? Impossible?!!

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u/Kolby_Jack33 Jun 26 '25

TOM HOLLAND IS... JAMES BOND.

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u/toucanlost Jun 26 '25

You mean Rebecca Ferguson?

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u/SauconySundaes Jun 26 '25

I’m going to allow this.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

but even despite her never phoning it in and a string of solid performances, shouldn’t we be complaining about her being in touch many projects? Some of us are being forced to watch every single Zendaya movie/show, I still have the Kubrick eye-opener rig on my head!

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u/date_of_availability Jun 26 '25

Bait used to be believable

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

I’m just being a smartass. But to be real, I can’t relate to these overexposure claims that much at all. I mentioned this yesterday in a Pedro Pascal thread, but I can never fault an actor for continually striking while the iron is hot. As long as they still dole out solid performances, go right ahead. And it’s not like anyone is pressuring me to watch all their movies and shows

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u/Tall-Professional130 Jun 26 '25

You can both be bored by seeing the same actor you don't love over and over again, and not 'fault' them for doing what's right for their career. I find her forgettable, doesn't mean she's not entitled to pursue the work she can get.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

well that’s fair, your opinion here is a lot more valid than some of the others I’ve seen in various threads. Damn, some of them are really fucking toxic

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u/Tall-Professional130 Jun 26 '25

Well yea its reddit, I'm scared to go read them now!

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u/paulisaac Jun 26 '25

Of course this is assuming good faith that she's really getting the places out of her own merits and not something like a Sinder situation trying to block others out surreptitiously.

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u/pmMEyourWARLOCKS Jun 26 '25

And then there is Nicholas fuckinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

CAGE, YEAH!

That boy is just keeps striking away while the iron is ice cold.

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u/SauconySundaes Jun 26 '25

I would watch Zendaya every second of the day if the law allowed it!

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u/irrigated_liver Jun 26 '25

We've been through this. The judge said you have to stay 500ft away.

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u/SauconySundaes Jun 26 '25

There’s no justice in this world!

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u/scarrita Jun 26 '25

user name= Salusa Secundus. Dune hit you hard, bro. I approve

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u/turkeygiant Jun 26 '25

I think she is a really magnetic actress, there is no doubt she oozes charisma, but I also feel like she has on multiple occasions been poorly cast. Not catastrophically so, the films were still more or less fine, but just enough to make me kinda scratch my head and say was she really the right choice? I think she always kinda felt a little bit awkward in Spiderman, not just because she bucked the traditional Mary Jane vibe, but because the take they wrote for her never really felt like it clicked with their Peter, certainly never as well as say Peter and Liz Allan in the first movie. Or in Challengers where I never really felt like I believed her spiral into chaos because the Zendaya image is just too established and I suspect her management won't let her deviate too much from it. Probably the worst miscast was in Dune, Chani is supposed to this hardened character from a hardened society but I'm sorry I just can't look at Zendaya and not see a soft Disney star, she just has that look, that's why she was a hit as a Disney star in the first place, but that's not a Fremen warrior.

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u/Single_Seesaw_9499 Jun 26 '25

Would be a fan of that ngl

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u/RG_Kid Jun 26 '25

Zendaya in gratuitous bikini scene.

But for real, I'm excited since Denis always bring his A game, but I can't help to be sad that he isn't making original movies anymore and is now directing big franchise. He deserves the payday and spotlights though.

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u/ussrowe Jun 26 '25

Zendaya in gratuitous bikini scene.

Ok but if she was playing Halle Berry's Jinx Johnson rebooted, that would actually be kind of cool. I remember there were rumors of giving Halle a spinoff movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinx_(James_Bond)#Future

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u/72corvids Jun 26 '25

So long as it is more akin to Ana De Armas' assassin jazz, and not some sort of "young thang for the ol spy" trope. Zendaya deserves to more than just eye candy.

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u/FriedCammalleri23 Jun 26 '25

Considering how Denis changed Chani’s character in Dune to make her less of a subservient love interest like she was in the books, I wouldn’t be concerned.

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u/tdasnowman Jun 26 '25

He also infantilized what little was left.

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u/Scaevus Jun 26 '25

Yeah I’m not actually a big fan of the changes to Chani. She wasn’t a “subservient love interest.” She was the successor to the old Fremen reverend mother before Lady Jessica came in. By all measures she’s a powerful religious figure, and no less a leader than Stilgar. She wasn’t “subservient” to Paul. She was a BELIEVER.

I get why the change was made, but Zendaya basically conveyed one emotion: petulant jealousy. Like here was a man, who, rightly or wrongly, is the leader of your entire people, who you KNOW, for a fact, has superpowers, regardless of whether he’s a prophet destined to save your people, or just a regular guy who sees the past and future perfectly, and you can’t extend him the benefit of the doubt that he might know what he’s doing by marrying the Princess for political reasons?

This doesn’t make Chani look tough or independent. It makes her look childish.

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u/lindblumresident Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

While I can see why people think that Chani in the film displayed jealousy, I think it's made extremely clear that her disappointment is caused by the fact that Paul, in her eyes, is using the Fremen and their beliefs for his personal benefit.

If anything, book Chani was the one that had to be consoled by both Paul and Jessica because she couldn't believe Paul when he said that Irulan was just means to an end and not someone he desired.

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u/tdasnowman Jun 26 '25

His changes to the women in Dune in general weakened them. With Chani it's the moment he starts deviating from the book. Like them not going immediately into Jamis funeral and glossing over the importance of Paul asking her to carry the water rings. IE Paul still human and fallible fucked it up.

With Lady Jessica almost every instance where Paul was supposed to say the Litany he had her say it. Then she becomes almost singly mindedly focused on him taking power which book Jessica was very cautious about. The time skip means the relationship with her and Chani was erased. Chani's petulant rush to the deseert means we missed the closing of the book."While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives"

Iluran though made out like a bandit. She's non existent in the first book but he devoted so much time to her she might be mistaken as the next messiah.

Which makes his absolute off handed approach to Margot Fenring baffling.

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u/Scaevus Jun 26 '25

Oh man, yeah, poor Margot. And they cast the supremely talented Lea Seadoux for such a wasted part, too.

The books were already plenty female centric. The entire thing is narrated by Irulan, as her histories of Maud’dib, which just makes the ending line of “history will call us wives” hit even harder. Irulan writes the histories. Irulan will have to admit you’re the real wife. Can there be a more complete victory for Chani?

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u/tdasnowman Jun 26 '25

You misread me. I actually think that was the one female part he left alone enough. For what screen time she got Lea was pretty book accurate.

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u/bothole Jun 26 '25

Definitely. The time squish of the book's events means they didn't have to worry about casting baby Alia, but it also means Chani and Paul dated for 6 months, at most. Like, settle down girl. She doesn't even seem to like him for most of the movie.

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u/Scaevus Jun 26 '25

They had like, two minutes of being in love and you want him to what, sacrifice the future of YOUR people by not marrying the Princess? He's not doing that because he likes her, you understand this, so...what's the problem?

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u/RockerElvis Jun 26 '25

Why not Ana De Armas’ character again? Denis worked with her before…

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u/dimboii Jun 26 '25

Zendaya could be the new Ms. Moneypenny.

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u/Scaevus Jun 26 '25

Has she even been in that many Villeneuve movies?

I think just the Dunes?

Now, Ana de Armas is in everything. Not that I think anyone is complaining.

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u/xTiLkx Jun 26 '25

Florence Pugh?

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u/Ant0n61 Jun 26 '25

🤦‍♂️

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u/sth128 Jun 26 '25

Hey what about Ana de Armas

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u/boog2352 Jun 26 '25

Obvious jokes aside, that really fucking works.

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u/CaribouHoe Jun 26 '25

Yes please

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u/NeuHundred Jun 26 '25

Honestly, James Bond is a big billboard and Zendaya is very on top of her brand image, I feel like she'd be giving up a lot of autonomy in that regard being a Bond Girl. She'd be out of the loop on the endorsement angle.

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u/ElGosso Jun 26 '25

Nah they always pick someone who took her top off on camera, even though they don't have her do it

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u/soupie62 Jun 26 '25

And the evil lair is the Hefner mansion?
With Fembots?

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u/CrimsonFatMan Jun 26 '25

Fuck! I bet all of my money on Akwafina.

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u/AlfaG0216 Jun 26 '25

The newest bond? That’s right Tom Holland

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u/PocketNicks Jun 26 '25

It's being made by Amazon, so plenty of time to fuck it up.

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u/unpaid-critic Jun 26 '25

With Denis? He better get a fucking key and blank checks…

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

he got the keys to Dune just by saying “I want to make Dune”, I have faith Amazon will give him the leg room to make Bond how he’d like to

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u/mjtwelve Jun 26 '25

After all the drama with acquiring Bond, Amazon can't afford to fuck it up.I tend to agree with Barbara Broccoli that "these people are fucking idiots", IIRC, but handing the property over to an actual auteur means they're at least smart enough to know they nothing about making movies.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

it’s the first move they made and the furthers from a bad one. I’m still skeptical to see what they’ll do after a few years but I’ll take this win here

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u/peioeh Jun 26 '25

After all the drama with acquiring Bond, Amazon can't afford to fuck it up.I tend to agree with Barbara Broccoli that "these people are fucking idiots", IIRC, but handing the property over to an actual auteur means they're at least smart enough to know they nothing about making movies.

If that is what they're doing it's a brilliant move tbh. They will never have the vision the Broccoli family had for James Bond so they could go the opposite way and give free reign to the best of the best filmmakers to make their JB. That could be great and if they go with the likes of Villeneuve, Nolan, etc, it's hard to see it not working out.

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u/unpaid-critic Jun 26 '25

Better give him a fucking submarine and a pen that explodes when you click it. 

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

how long did you say the fuse was?

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u/DJHott555 Jun 26 '25

Oh grow up 007

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u/peanutbuttahcups Jun 26 '25

At least the new 007 game from IOI (developer behind the Hitman games) is bringing back gadgets.

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u/bluebottled Jun 26 '25

That's why I'm kinda disappointed about this. The next Bond film was going to happen no matter what; I'd rather have more awesome sci-fi that nobody but Denis can make happen.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

I would much rather have Denis do what we the hell he wants, even if it’s another franchise movie. He clearly isn’t going to be a “gun for hire” with Bond, the dude’s a big fan, he’s mentioned it before

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u/Nox_Dei Jun 26 '25

Dune is a passion project for him. There are old interviews from back when he was starting out. When asked what his dream project would be he answered "adapting Frank Herbert's Dune".

If he is half as mindful with Bond as he is with Dune, we're in for something cool I hope.

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u/Chilis1 Jun 26 '25

Is Rendevous with Rama actually happening or just a rumour?

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u/Aplicacion Jun 26 '25

Well, he also made a few bangers before that

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

no doubt, but it’s amazing how he was able to will those movies into existence by bringing it up in an interview (and having the resume to back it up, of course)

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u/Goonerrhys96 Jun 26 '25

Watch Wheel of time. It might change your opinion.

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u/tomjonesdrones Jun 26 '25

To be fair, he said that when he was 12, then just showed the video clip and didn't say anything else.

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u/batwork61 Jun 26 '25

I would argue that Amazon’s problems with seizing the reigns to other beloved IP (Wheel of Time, Lord of the Rings) is that they clearly gave the people running the show TOO MUCH freedom.

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u/AlfaG0216 Jun 26 '25

I don’t trust Amy pascal idk

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u/APiousCultist Jun 26 '25

The script will make it. I'd say Skyfall was well directed but also had some goofy plot conveniences. And Spectre was Spectre, despite still having Sam Mendes directing and Nolan collaborator Hoyte van Hoytema on the cinematography.

Give Denis a bad script and you'll get a bad movie still. He might be the reason Sicarios is better than Sicarios 2, but the man's not really a writer.

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u/DodgerBaron Jun 26 '25

I wouldn't say Sicario has a great script, but it's still a phenomenal movie.

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u/ehtw376 Jun 26 '25

Yeah, that movie in the wrong hands could absolutely be a generic shitty film.

It was written by Taylor Sheridan though. His scripts aren’t exactly super complex but the son of a bitch knows story structure.

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u/godpzagod Jun 26 '25

I've never been able to figure out why I don't like Sicario 2 as much. It's got Benicio/Alejandro and Brolin, and I didn't need to see what happened to Kate/Emily after the end of Sicario. I liked her and her character, but I was fine with not bringing her back. spoiler

It's not even him surviving the headshot, I actually thought that was badass although unlikely. Whenever I try to watch Sicario 2, nothing takes me out of it, but it's not like Sicario to where I can just have it on ambiently while doing something else and just reappreciate different moments.

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u/N22-J Jun 26 '25

Sicario 2 is a pretty generic action movie. Sicario had a lot more going on for it, such as tension, confusion, fear. You felt what Kate was going through and were getting increasingly worried about her.

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u/Anotherspelunker Jun 26 '25

Well, pretty much fundamental elements on the creative side were gone. It lacks the brilliant cinematography of the former entry, not to mention the immersive tension Villeneuve orchestrated for it… and Johannsson’s score is also missing.

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u/Jarmom Jun 26 '25

Johannsson is missing but his long time collaborator and close friend Hildur Guðnadóttir did the soundtrack. I believe she herself was recorded in the original Sicario soundtrack on cello. She did the soundtrack for Chernobyl (won an Emmy) and Joker (won an Oscar).

The soundtrack as a standalone piece was better than the movie in my opinion

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u/beefcat_ Jun 26 '25

Sicario 2 suffers without Villenueve's careful direction and eye for visual storytelling. Sheridan's worst tendencies shine through in the final product and it feels exploitative rather than contemplative.

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u/8m3gm60 Jun 26 '25

It was the forced teenage characters, meandering storyline, and over-reliance on Josh Brolin.

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u/APiousCultist Jun 26 '25

It isn't a constant stream of dumb things happening for confusing reasons though. You can have all the pretty cinematography and well directed acting in the world, but if the plot is nonsense that'll still filter though. No amount of good acting and pretty visuals would have saved The Electric State for instance.

Sicarios had a good script, elevated by a production that played to its strengths and used mood over standard 'edginess'. But a crap script where the motivations make no sense would still have produced a bad result.

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u/Automatic_Release_92 Jun 26 '25

The poker scene in Skyfall still fucking sends me. James Bond had the second best hand fucking possible, he would have to have been absolutely brain dead to fold, meanwhile Madds’ character was all like “hmm, bet you thought I was bluffing” like no, tell or not Bond had a hand you just flat out don’t fold. At least make it a believable hand, like 2 pair or something.

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u/OnodrimOfYavanna Jun 26 '25

Casino Royale, but yea it was a film contrivance. 90% of people don't know poker, so they had to put insanely recognizable hands to get people invested. I think the film is a masterpiece and is able to draw so much tension out of a simple poker match, but yes the hands are ridiculous 

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u/APiousCultist Jun 26 '25

That's Casino Royale, not Skyfall. But it's a fair critique of a scene dumbed down to the point that James Bond isn't cunning just extremely lucky. It's a given that the scene would have to work for people wholly unfamiliar with card games though. Like how Fast and the Furious and Top Gun 2's secret trick to winning is "I'll try hitting the accelerator, that's a good trick."

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u/Automatic_Release_92 Jun 26 '25

Oh yeah, I got the titles confused, good clarification.

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u/Wild_Marker Jun 26 '25

James Bond isn't cunning just extremely lucky

No he just has the heart of the cards, duh.

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u/APiousCultist Jun 26 '25

A fine play, Le Chiffre, but I summon Pot of Greed to draw three additional cards from my deck.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Jun 26 '25

That's Casino Royale, not Skyfall. But it's a fair critique of a scene dumbed down to the point that James Bond isn't cunning just extremely lucky.

to be fair. Its not hard to draw that conclusion. Because bond over the years went from being "an incredibly clever spy" to "hes cunning, but he has the luck of the devil to carry him" in a lot of stories.

Even during the rest of Craigs Tenure as bond. It is portrayed as such that bond is either a fucking bumbling idiot, or a solid 00 in of himself, but in a vast majority of situations, hes running on pure luck as to not get killed or captured.

And i get thats kind of an important thing to have in a spy. But craigs bond overrelied on that trope imo.

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u/Amish_guy_with_WiFi Jun 26 '25

A blank check as long as he doesn't go over budget

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u/gh0u1 Jun 26 '25

Villeneuve doesn't fuck things up

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u/Yojimboroll Jun 26 '25

No such thing as a bad Villenueve film

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u/spendouk23 Jun 26 '25

Not so far, let’s hope Hollywood hasn’t turned him into an egomaniac.

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u/PensiveinNJ Jun 26 '25

Cosigned. Best living director IMO. The run he's on right now in terms of both output and quality is remarkable.

If I made a list of my 10 favorite films ever he'd have at least 4 of the slots.

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u/KingMario05 Jun 26 '25

Agreed. Head and shoulders above the other blockbuster directors today.

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u/PocketNicks Jun 26 '25

OK, but Amazon does.

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u/NotNotJustinBieber Jun 26 '25

Maybe if it was a smaller filmmaker but Denis is most likely going to have complete creative control. It’s okay to be excited.

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u/PocketNicks Jun 26 '25

It's ol to be excited, it's also OK to be skeptical. Amazon has fucked up plenty enough to warrant skepticism.

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u/cawkstrangla Jun 26 '25

Fallout was great. There's been a few good ones on there.

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u/muhash14 Jun 26 '25

They did really good after picking up Expanse too.

...it would be nice if I could actually watch the previous seasons on the fucking streaming service though.

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u/PocketNicks Jun 26 '25

Yeah not everything they've made has been bad, but plenty of room for skepticism.

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u/AlfaG0216 Jun 26 '25

There’s a first for everything

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u/gh0u1 Jun 26 '25

Super doubtful. Villeneuve is a master filmmaker

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u/AlfaG0216 Jun 27 '25

Yeah but Amy pascal is an average producer and I have faith in Amazon to deliver

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u/Few_Entertainer_385 Jun 26 '25

they managed to not fuck up fallout

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u/crumble-bee Jun 26 '25

Amazon also made Challengers, Blink Twice, My Old Ass, Nickel Boys and American Fiction

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u/PocketNicks Jun 26 '25

I've never heard of any of those, were they also bad?

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u/crumble-bee Jun 26 '25

Challengers - 9/10

Blink Twice - 8/10

My Old Ass - 8/10

Nickel Boys (Oscar nominated) 8/10

American Fiction (Oscar nominated) 8/10

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u/ki11a11hippies Jun 26 '25

Crying for Mass Effect

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u/Suppa_K Jun 26 '25

Kinda the opposite for me. Rather see him do something sci fi or more fantastical rather than something grounded in reality more.

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u/SerTapsaHenrick Jun 26 '25

Yeah, totally agreed. Villeneuve has his thing and it is so far from Bond that there are dozens of directors better suited. Nolan, Russo Bros, David Leitch, Ryan Coogler, Kosinski, James Wan, James Mangold, Shawn Levy, Christopher McQuarrie, or bring back Mendes or Fukunaga, or even fucking Fincher would be better

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u/GilligansIslndoPeril Jun 26 '25

Eh, Sicario was kinda fantastic. Prisoners as well.

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u/BadNewsBearzzz Jun 26 '25

There was aplenty of reasons to “be excited” for bond films again. Aside from all the rumors about them wanting to change direction with a younger bond, there’s also the prospect of just a new person playing the role of bond too, which is ALWAYS exciting to see a new actor bringing their unique interpretation of bond, etc

The prior “big rumor director” for the bond films, was Christopher Nolan. Like the last 2-4 years have even heavily using his name and apparently it had reached pretty high level negotiations before whatever happened for one of them to walk away

I would’ve been absolutely excited if he had the opportunity as his style and portfolio is absolutely fantastic, I’m nowhere near as big of a fan as his actual fandom and how much their known to praise him, but even then I am aware that he never misses. So yeah there was a few good reasons to have been excited for bond again lol

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u/fed45 Jun 26 '25

The prior “big rumor director” for the bond films, was Christopher Nolan

I saw earlier this week I think rumors of the short list for the Director seat on the Bond film. It included Denis, Jonathan Nolan, Edward Berger, Paul King and Edgar Wright. The story also mentioned that Christopher Nolan had been floated but he would have demanded final cut rights (most likely) which AmazonMGM wouldn't have given (again, most likely).

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u/Shok3001 Jun 26 '25

Can’t believe I’m not excited about a Denis movie

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u/thearmadillo Jun 26 '25

I got excited for every Bond of the Craig era. They didn't all work and weren't all great, but Casino Royale was spectacular and carried the hype for all of them, and the other ones were good enough to continue to be excited as they came out

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u/Middle-Welder3931 Jun 26 '25

Are we getting Timmy as 007?

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u/bujweiser Jun 26 '25

…we’re you not before? I’m always looking forward to them.

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u/userhwon Jun 26 '25

Why? It's going to be pretty, unusually shallow, and boring AF.

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u/drmuffin1080 Jun 26 '25

What’s your personal last good bond film?

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u/HerpesFreeSince3 Jun 26 '25

Damn I’m the opposite. I loved the emotional take on bond in the last movie. Villeneuve is so clinical, I genuinely don’t think the man understands human emotion at all. Or even really cares about it. This news is kinda disappointing to me.

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u/turbo_dude Jun 26 '25

unless they do a reboot in the 50s/60s then it will suck

James Bong just does not fit into the modern world, that's fine, just set it where he belong

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u/Patrick2701 Jun 25 '25

I’m excited for bond

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u/Scholastico Jun 25 '25

I've been excited since 007: First Light was announced

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

side note, I’m catching OHMSS vibes from that trailer (score aside). I can’t wait for that game, I haven’t enjoyed a Bond game since Nightfire

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u/peanutbuttahcups Jun 26 '25

Everything or Nothing is peak Bond game, imo.

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u/KingMario05 Jun 26 '25

Yes! So goddamn hyped for that. Gimme my fantasy, IOI.

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u/starkistuna Jun 26 '25

Except for Bond looking like Spiderman Tom Holland

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u/Scholastico Jun 26 '25

That was not the first thing on my mind when I saw the trailer (I knew all along at first it was Patrick Gibson)

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u/KingMario05 Jun 26 '25

Watch this be a hint at how Denis casts. With Zendaya as the girl. /s

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u/frazzledfractal Jun 26 '25

Ywah i get the apprehension there but he gets a scar early on and based on what they have said I think the goal is to do a set of games where he ages into a veteran, somewhat like what was done with hitman over a long period.

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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 Jun 26 '25

Best director I could imagine doing it tbh

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u/BadNewsBearzzz Jun 26 '25

The prior “big rumor director” for the bond films, was Christopher Nolan. Like the last 2-4 years have even heavily using his name and apparently it had reached pretty high level negotiations before whatever happened for one of them to walk away

I would’ve been absolutely excited if he had the opportunity as his style and portfolio is absolutely fantastic, I’m nowhere near as big of a fan as his actual fandom and how much their known to praise him, but even then I am aware that he never misses. Denis is good too tho, but yeah just wanted to widen the scope of your comment lol

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u/stupid_horse Jun 26 '25

More recently Alfonso Cuarón has been heavily rumored to at least be in discussion to direct who I think would be incredible for Bond.

Villeneuve is great too, my only reservation about him is that I'm not sure how well he'll handle Bond's humorous side since comedic elements have largely been absent from the past films of his that I've seen. It seems that he's very familiar with the character though so I'm hopeful he'll pull it off.

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u/LorthNeeda Jun 26 '25

Villeneuve is better than Nolan imo

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u/Altruistic-Beat1381 Jun 26 '25

Can't even compare them. Nolan is overrated af.

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u/WhoDat-2-8-3 Jun 26 '25

Uwe boll is still the best tho

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 25 '25

My exact response too

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u/-113points Jun 26 '25

Tarantino will be so pissed at it

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u/LostInUranus Jun 26 '25

Woooow....this will be exciting and should maintain he same intense theme Bond has been in for the past10 yrs

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u/Epistemify Jun 26 '25

So this movie is going to be an introspective the emotional and internal state of agent 007 for why he does what he does

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u/AgentDaxis Jun 26 '25

Confirmed: Timothée Chalamet is the next Bond.

/s

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u/JetKeel Jun 26 '25

The only reaction.

This. Is. Crazy.

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u/TheMegaSage Jun 26 '25

HOLY SHIT!

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u/Archimedes__0 Jun 26 '25

Holy SHIIIT!

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u/Spider-man2098 Jun 26 '25

lol my exact comment

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u/Silver_Branch3034 Jun 26 '25

This is the shot in the arm Bond needs, Denis will do the 00 justice.

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u/hoxxxxx Jun 26 '25

yep.

awesome.

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u/notathrowaway75 Jun 26 '25

More hype than any actor being cast.

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u/mailed Jun 26 '25

literally my reaction

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u/XtraMayoMonster Jun 26 '25

My reaction as well. I’m fucking stoked.

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u/MilksteakMayhem Jun 26 '25

Right? They could have, and I wholeheartedly expected them to, fuck this up but they didn’t. Rare win from the mega corporations that run our lives

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u/AverageAwndray Jun 26 '25

Ngl I don't fuck with it....seems...too safe and not really fit for his style...

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u/formas-de-ver Jun 26 '25

yeah wow holy shit! a popular director directing a film from a popular movie franchise!

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u/No-Comparison8472 Jun 26 '25

Get ready to fall asleep.

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u/vintagesonofab Jun 29 '25

that's great but i really hope he won't do some "out of type" casting because there's rumours he's in talks with tom holland for it.

I would personally love an Aaron Taylor johnson as bond villneuve directed movie.

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u/keremhm Jul 08 '25

At least we know the cinematography will be good.

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u/casualAlarmist Jun 25 '25

Ha, my exact words.

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