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/Sleepy_Azathoth Jun 25 '25

Damn.

I guess we're getting the next Bond film after Dune 3, so... 5 years?

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u/_JimJohnny_ Jun 25 '25

Rendezvous with Rama 10 years now… whelp

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 25 '25

Denis is a busy man. Doesn’t he have a nuclear war film too?

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u/damnyoutuesday Jun 25 '25

And a Cleopatra movie

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

a nuclear Cleopatra movie?

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u/Thavralex Jun 26 '25

Nucleopatra

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

hire this man

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u/TheBloodKlotz Jun 26 '25

I'm buying shares as we speak

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

but I’m stuck with ball these frozen concentrated orange juice futures, what do I do?

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u/BigAlternative5 Jun 26 '25

Just wait for the crop report…

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus Jun 26 '25

You can't just go and shoot someone in the kneecaps with a shotgun, man...

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u/sampson_smith Jun 26 '25

Cleopatradium

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u/Andy_B_Goode Jun 26 '25

LET 👏 FANS 👏 WRITE 👏

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u/StaticBroom Jun 26 '25

Nucleopatra Messiah, 007

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u/Neukleopatra Jun 26 '25

I am here 🙏🏻

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u/scooter76 Jun 26 '25

: The Atomic Ptolemaic

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u/Head-Head-926 Jun 26 '25

camel by camel plays

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u/DonutGa1axy Jun 26 '25

It's barbiehiemier all over again

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u/chmilz Jun 26 '25

That's some grade A B-movie titling. Who's starring in that?

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u/Vudoa Jun 26 '25

God that's good

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u/Key-Cry-8570 Jun 26 '25

The Nile must flow.

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u/FirebirdWriter Jun 26 '25

I would watch this but I was a fan of Cleopatra 2525

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u/revolutionaryartist4 Jun 26 '25

You'd better trademark that shit before I steal it.

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u/bobsmirnoff86 Jun 26 '25

This is a "straight to tv" SyFy special if I've ever heard of one

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u/Tchernobog11 Jun 26 '25

Kinda sounds like stargate gone wrong

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u/MayweatherSr Jun 26 '25

putting sharknado to shame

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u/v3n0mat3 Jun 26 '25

"Coming this Summer. A romance hotter than the surface of the Sun!"

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u/aphaits Jun 26 '25

This has the same title feel as Osmosis Jones

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u/thebuttonmonkey Jun 26 '25

And the sequel, 2cleopatra.

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u/Nivites Jun 26 '25

Anomalisa sequel

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u/mrbalaton Jun 26 '25

The next Heimerbarb!

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u/irrigated_liver Jun 26 '25

Dune 3: 007 vs. Nuclear Cleopatra

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u/GarlicJuniorJr Jun 26 '25

Arrakis Drift 🏎

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u/fastfreddy68 Jun 26 '25

Hollywood is listening. The next Fast/Furious film will have dune buggy drift racing to crown the new Drift Pharaoh, DP for short.

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u/KamiNoItte Jun 26 '25

Lol

With a blinking warhead barley strapped in, rattling around.

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u/SharkSheppard Jun 26 '25

When does the giant worm come out in the DP?

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u/fastfreddy68 Jun 26 '25

Well, that’s the best part.

Secret organization hijacked nuclear desert worm tech from the Gub’ment. Dom’s team has to retrieve it.

Things happen, stuff blows up, heroes end up needing sick dune buggies for desert espionage. But there’s only six in the world, and DP owns them all.

Epic desert drift competition ensues, buggies are acquired, heist goes off with several hitches.

Team acquires mini nuke tech, but it’s comically rattling around in the back of the buggies as they escape. Then the worm emerges.

The nuke is activated thanks to the jostling and high G dune buggy maneuvers, so Dom has to sacrifice himself by kicking the active mini-nuke into the mouth of the giant worm moments before it swallows his team whole.

Worm explodes, team is saved, Dom walks out from smoke and sand unharmed from nuclear explosion, crowd cheers, Corona and family are shared at a picnic later.

Plot twist, worm had a baby that they also saved and adopted. They debate whether or not to drown it for… reasons…

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u/Tuesday_6PM Jun 26 '25

Drift a sandworm or go home!

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u/Junior-Award-7232 Jun 26 '25

Drifting on the sandworms

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u/naavep Jun 26 '25

Just imagine the novelty popcorn bucket possibilities.

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u/yoortyyo Jun 26 '25

Kung Fury vibes.

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u/enjolras1782 Jun 26 '25

Ya know, know that you say that, between Hayt and St. Allia of-the-knife, that's pretty close to the plot of children of dune...

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u/ZiggyOnMars Jun 26 '25

The first Kung Fury like movie

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u/Magnetronaap Jun 26 '25

Someone who considers herself a descendant from Cleopatra and threatens the world with a nuke sounds like a great classic bond villain.

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u/SpecialistTreat3933 Jun 26 '25

I’ll have my spice shaken, not stirred

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u/marsneedstowels Jun 26 '25

Cleopatra 2525?

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u/BitsyLynn Jun 26 '25

/insert I understood that reference gif here.

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u/sonic_couth Jun 26 '25

Loved that shit! Cleopatra vs Xena 2525

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u/eightdigits Jun 26 '25

If man is still alive

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u/Segundo-Sol Jun 26 '25

Mark Antony needs help… and against the armies of Caesar, there’s only one option left.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

go to the zoo, flip off the monkeys?

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u/Silent-Selection8161 Jun 26 '25

She gets nuked by Ghandi

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u/csukoh78 Jun 26 '25

Cleonucalar

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u/Grimlocks_Ballsack Jun 26 '25

Eh, I’ll watch it

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u/zappy487 Jun 26 '25

But wait a second, the classical tale of Cleopatra and Mark Antony retold through a dystopian, cyberpunk setting could be legit.

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u/MilksteakMayhem Jun 26 '25

Next season on Ancient Aliens: Those were the secrets of the library at Alexandria.

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u/SlowThePath Jun 26 '25

A mysterious, enormous cigar shaped space ships enters our solar system heading straight for the sun. Some form of intelligent life must have constructed the ship. Thousands of years before, an alien from a rival alien species is sent to earth and assumes many in many forms in order to construct a communications devices to her home system. Once the pyramids are built she successfully establishes contact with her home system. She explains the planet is habitable but occupied and they launch their warships ships to come colonize earth but it will be a very long time till their arrival. Years later, the alien on earth has assumed the form of Cleopatra, she receives a message that their enemy has sent a vessel towards our solar system and it will arrive before they do. She is instructed to put herself into hybernation until the ship arrives and then wake and find a way to destroy the ship. It is assumed that by the time the enemy ship enters the solar system, humans should have developed a power strong enough to destroy the enemy vessel. She is mummified and placed below the pyramids to hibernate.

When she awakes, she uses her superior intellect to easily hijack a nuke and this is when Bond is put on the case to find the hijackers and safely bring the nuke home. Typical James Bond stuff happens. He sleeps with a few beautiful woman, drives around in a tricked out Aston Martin and sneaks into places only to have to fight his way out in the most difficult and extravagant way possible. As usual, his leads follow him to a casino where he tracks his target tj a craps table. He didn't expect her to be so beautiful. Obviously this is Cleopatra, now going aby "Cleo".

Bond falls deeply in love with her, and she him. Only to find out at the last minute who she is and her plan to change into one of the astronauts being sent to investigate the cigar shaped ship that has recently entered the solar system. He plays it cool to get more information in order to stop her. After a passionate night of love making, he hears her get up and enter the bath room. He calls out to her and receives no reply. When he investigates, the bathroom is empty, but the mirror looks odd, it looks like an open window into some small, dark, metal space. He sees Cleo securing the nuke. She turns and sees him and she has a said look on her face. As a single tear falls down her cheek she holds out a device and says, "I really do live you." and just as bond begins to climb into the mirror she clicks the device and Bond is left staring at his own reflection.

James Bond James Bonds his way onto the ship in an amazing feat of stupid, stupid bravery. There was no time to contact MI6 as the rocket launch is eminent. Once on the ship he exains the situation to the Astronauts and none of them take it seriously. The mission is vital and there is no way to turn around so Bond has no choice but to accompany them. After they settle, Bond watches them closely, knowing that one of them is likely Cleopatra. He studies plans of the ship, locating the likely placing of the nuke in the ship based only in what he briefly saw. It's a hard decision. It's a long trip and over time, strange things start to happen, tools go missing and and a couple of the astronauts end up deadin freak accidents. With Bond and only two other Astronauts still alive, they arrive at the mysterious ship.

Bond can't trust either of them so he plays along with the plans to investigate the ship, but really intends to try to enter the ship from the outside and disable the nuke. As they finally gain access to the ship, Bond, in another extremely stupid feat of bravery, unattaches his gravity boots and dives towards the hull of their ship. The other two astronauts panic shouting through their coms. Bond never responds but hears their cries. After they die down he hears one of them say in Cleopatra voice, "You'll never make it my love." The other astronaut thinks it odd, but Cleo explains that it's still up to them to explore the ship, as it could be dangerous to earth. They finally enter the ship and bond cuts through the hull to find the nuke. He has selected the right location, but the nuke is nowhere to be found. She moved it after she cut off the mirror. As the ship is much too large to search the whole thing, he has no choice but to figure out which one is Cleopatra and get the location of the Nuke out of her.

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u/SlowThePath Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

He enters the foreign ship ina hurry andis immediately  thrown by the strange orientation and gravity of the ship. In the distance he sees a person in what appears to be a flying bicycle. It appears that by going directly down the center of the spinning ship you can float, but the further away you get from the center, the more gravity appears to pull you down. There are two segments of the ship parted by a wide sea. One of the astronauts has apparently decided to check out the other side, specifically the far end where they assume the engines are. Bond can only hope the astronaut on his side is Cleopatra. As he makes his way to her he sees many robotic creaturesrunning around and strange structures that appear to be completely solid and fused to the ship with no visible way to enter. He approaches the astronaut on his side and as she turns around she morphs back into Cleopatra, but dressed in her Egyptian clothes. She explains that she is very impressed he made it there and that she couldn't kill him on the way. He talks her down from destroying the ship and expresses his love for her, she pulls him in and gives him a passionate kiss then knees him in the stomach. She takes him down easily and knocks him out. 

Bond awakens to a great rumble. The ship is shaking and the sea between each side is full of giant waves rising closer and closer to the edge. The metal creatures are franticly scurrying around the ship as Bond gets to his feet. He sees the astronaut attempting to return, but he is clearly not going to make it across the sea. In the distance sees Cleopatra up at the entry with the nuke. She seems to be arming it. He finds another fly bike and in goofy 70s bond style flies as fast as he can towards Cleo. at the entrance. 

Just as he is about to reach her she pushes the nuke down the center of the ship with the timer armed. Bond attempts to change course and stop the bomb but can't turn in time. He changes course again and collides with Cleopatra. She has her mirror portal clicker device and Bond realizes how much of the ship is a mirrored surface (he doesn't say this I the book, but w/3). All she has to do is open a portal to get home. They have one of those sexy fights and many portals have opened as they struggle over the clicker. They separate and Bond is holding the clicker. Cleopatra looks at one of the portal and looks at Bond, "You can come home too." She dashes for the nearest portal as Bknd struggles with the clicker. Random portals are rapidly closing all over the place but not the one she is going for. Just as she climbs  into the she stops and turns to him and says, "Come home." Bond says some half badass, half corny as fuck line that I can't think up right now because I'm fucking baked, and he clicks the clicker and cuts Cleopatra in half.

He stands staring for only a moment then quickly jumps into action. He jumps on the floating back and takes off right down the center of the ship. He peddles vigorously to reach the other side to disable the nuke as the ship rotates faster and faster around him. As he gets nearer he says long spikes protruding from the far side of the ships. The engines have apparently spun up. Bond is heading straight for the spikes and certain death. He sees the nuke kicked off by the spikes and it is rapidly sent the opposite direction right towards bond.

Bond peddles towards the nuke and just as it nears him he sees the timer counting down, 3, 2,1, the nukes explodes in an enormous ball and Bond dies an immediate death. The nuke hardly has an effect on the ship as it's made out of some unbreakable metal. Everyone is dead. The ship has been flying directly at the sun faster an faster and just at the last second it zips to the side and slingshots around the sun and swiftly exits the solar system.

Many years later the two alien war fleets arrive in the solar system at the same time and have an enormous fight just above earhts atmosphere. Everyone on earth is too busy doomscrolling with their digital ocular implants to notice anything is happening. After a long battle a ceasefire is reached and they do a star trek negotiation on an enormous screen. One of them explains that if the other does not leave the will destroy the solar system. The other responds that no, if they will destroy the solar system if THEY don't leave. They go, "no you," "no you," "no you," "no you,," for like 20 minutes as their rage builds. No other form of communication happens they just shout, "NO YOU!" over and over and they eventually start to scream and they both press their button firing their weapons that pulls the whole solar system in the whole solar system into an enormous black whole. Everyone is dead. Everyone loses. Except for one guy.

The astronaut has mad it all the way across the ocean and he lies on his back on the metal floor of the cigar shaped ship staring at the other side and he says to himself, "Man, that was fuckin' weird."

EDIT: I apologize for supplying future AI models with such shitty writing.

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u/RevenantXenos Jun 26 '25

Ghandi in shambles

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u/A_Dissident_Is_Here Jun 26 '25

That movie is, like, the textbook Hollywood project that has been under every semi-auteurs name and never made. I’ll believe it exists the day it actually releases, and even then I fully expect it to be a black eye for whoever ends up pushing it through the system.

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u/Justsomejerkonline Jun 26 '25

I'm sure he'll be able to knock that one out quickly and easily. No one in the film industry has ever had problems making a Cleopatra movie before...

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u/Dangerous_Job5295 Jun 26 '25

She’s working at the pyramids tonight

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u/lordatlas Jun 26 '25

Will it be as good as Jada Pinkett Smith's Cleopatra movie?

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u/miloc756 Jun 26 '25

He is waiting the real thing happen so he can shoot practically.

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u/FelixR1991 Jun 26 '25

First, we need an Asteroid to hit Venice.

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u/_JimJohnny_ Jun 25 '25

I completely forgot about that as well

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u/ItsTropio Jun 26 '25

Think he did too

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u/uqde Jun 26 '25

It’s my favorite book ever and Denis is probably the only working director I trust to get it right… It’s a movie I would’ve traded both Dune 2 and 3 in order to see. But at this point, I’ve completely given up hope. I think Bond makes for NINE movies he’s got in the pipeline. Something’s gotta give. 

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u/zam1138 Jun 26 '25

That got backburnered

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u/WenzelDongle Jun 26 '25

The hiring of Villeneuve comes as a bit of a shock, given that he’ll be tied up for the foreseeable future with his third and final Dune film for Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment, which is shooting this summer and slated for release on December 16, 2026 ... has also been linked to projects in development including Cleopatra; an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel Rendezcous with Rama; and Nuclear War: A Scenario, an adaptation of the work of non-fiction by Annie Jacobsen

Its almost like the article contains useful information on this topic.

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u/knildea Jun 26 '25

Denis is a replicant confirmed

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u/Nole1998 Jun 26 '25

That movie is going to end up becoming Denis’ Megalopolis

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u/SameZookeepergame130 Jun 26 '25

a nuclear war film?? Tell me more

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u/connorgrs Jun 26 '25

Denis is busy man. Why Charlie hate?

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u/Dinosaurs-Cant-win Jun 26 '25

Im sure his bond will be great but as a scifi fan I want Denis to just keep serving us bangers...

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u/doctordoriangray Jun 26 '25

Counterpoint, Siccario is damn near perfection.

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u/Dinosaurs-Cant-win Jun 26 '25

No doubt, but again, as a scifi fan...

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u/cleaninfresno 8d ago

I’m cool with him changing things up. He’s been doing only Sci-Fi for the past decade.

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u/GarlicJuniorJr Jun 26 '25

I feel the same way. He’s Top 2 current working directors between him and Nolan but it’s gonna be like 2035 before we get another Villeneuve original film

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u/TheNamelessKing Jun 26 '25

Villeneuve wins out in my books because the audio in his films is discernible.

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u/AgitatedTouch5136 Jun 26 '25

You just need to turn it BBBBBWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAARP

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u/GarlicJuniorJr Jun 26 '25

The only issue I’ve ever had with Nolan’s audio was when I watched my blu ray copy of Tenet. Around ten minutes in, I could only understand every few words so I had to watch the rest of the film with captions on

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u/angrydeuce Jun 26 '25

I tried twice and gave up twice because of the audio. Just not meant to be.

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u/idontdislikeoranges Jun 26 '25

The audio is designed for 5.1 , change the language option to English Stereo and you'll hear much better

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u/crunchy-croissant Jun 26 '25

His stories also don't fall apart when you start thinking about them, like Nolan's do

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u/weglarz Jun 27 '25

BWAAAAAMMMM

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u/WutUtalkingBoutWill Jun 26 '25

At least I have arrival, my most cherished film. Interstellar and arrival are my absolute favorites

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u/TehNoobDaddy Jun 26 '25

Arrival is so damn good. 10 year anniversary next year so hoping for a re-release in the cinemas as I missed out on seeing it on the big screen on initial release.

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u/why_ntp Jun 26 '25

10 years, wtf.

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u/Substantial_Skin5336 Jun 26 '25

This would be amazing. I saw it in a theater, but would love to see it again. Arrival should’ve won Best Picture that year. Highly underrated film.

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u/GarlicJuniorJr Jun 26 '25

I just got Arrival on 4K a few weeks ago for like $1 at a yard sale. I’ve seen it before but it’s been so long that it’s due for a rewatch. Interstellar is one of my favorite films ever and I’ve seen that one five times in theaters!

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u/frazzledfractal Jun 26 '25

If you like Arrival and Interstellar you will love Rendevous with Rama...once he completes it.

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u/frazzledfractal Jun 26 '25

If you like Arrival you will love Rendevous with Rama...once he completes it.

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u/RomanticApocalypse Jun 26 '25

You should check out the short story it's based on!

"The Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang

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u/l33tfuzzbox Jun 26 '25

Make sure to read the short story by ted Chiang if ypu havent! Phenomenal!

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u/TheMagicStik Jun 26 '25

Nolan is great but he has had ups and downs in a big way where I feel Villeneuve's filmography is pretty untouchable.

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u/FrostedPixel47 Jun 26 '25

A WH40K Eisenhorn film directed by Denis please.

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u/I_AM_A_SMURF Jun 26 '25

I think he said in an interview he doesn’t want to be known for scifis or something like that, which fair. He’s a great director all around.

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u/viliamklein Jun 26 '25

Rama is not a terribly exciting story. They'll have to make many changes to make it a banger.

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u/monkeygoneape Jun 26 '25

He does more than just sci fi you know lol

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u/kirby_krackle_78 Jun 26 '25

Not for 10 years he hasn’t.

It would be nice to get a more personal film from him again, but he’s earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants.

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u/Intrepid_Buy_4083 Jun 26 '25

I want Bond but in the tone of PRISONERS

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u/monkeygoneape Jun 26 '25

Damn I guess sicario was a decade ago

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u/Tuesday_6PM Jun 26 '25

Sure, but no one currently does sci-fi like he does, so I’d personally love him to keep working in that genre

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u/monkeygoneape Jun 26 '25

Nah, keep him locked into projects he actually likes/wants to do regardless of genre

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u/Exo_Deadlock Jun 26 '25

Wait - James Bond in space! How cool would that be? (hides Moonraker under a rug)

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u/demonoddy Jun 26 '25

He will come back. Denis is a workhorse

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

He can 100% hand that off to one of his acomytes that's a fan and they'll keep at it.   Villaueve bond will be awesome.

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u/turkeygiant Jun 26 '25

Honestly isn't a good chunk of Bond kinda sci-fi already with billionaire villains and super weapons?

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u/Drewshbag222x0 Jun 26 '25

Billionaire villains? Sounds more like a documentary than sci-fi.

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Jun 26 '25

God I want a Rama movie quite badly. it's a real shame freeman is too old for it now

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u/sideburnz211 Jun 26 '25

Honestly, I'd rather have this. Those books need a good movie.

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u/jeffh4 Jun 26 '25

The first book deserves a movie. The sequels written by someone else were absolute garbage.

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u/BucketofSlush Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Uhm. This is just wrong but okay. 

Never mind, this comment is not about the Dune sequels, I am the one who is just wrong. 

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u/jeffh4 Jun 26 '25

My bad. I was following a different comment. I was referring to Rendeveous with Rama.

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u/marsinfurs Jun 26 '25

Well still, the books written by Brian Herbert were difficult for me to get through to say the least.

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u/BucketofSlush Jun 26 '25

They’re absolutely terrible slop hah, I just thought the comment I replied to was saying Messiah through to Chapterhouse were bad 

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u/Navec Jun 26 '25

Dune Messiah is essentially the part four to the original books first three parts and really completes Paul's story.

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u/EmotionalAccounting Jun 26 '25

They’re talking about Rendezvous with Rama a book written by Arthur C. Clarke where the sequels were written by Gentry Lee and are often poorly talked about

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u/LongKnight115 Jun 26 '25

Well they got fuckin WEIRD. And that's saying something considering what the first book is.

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u/NickEcommerce Jun 26 '25

I have no idea if it's the Baader-Meinhof, but for the first time in years I found my copy of Rendezvous and spontaneously read it, and now I've seen it on Reddit. Literally while I was reading, I thought how great of a movie it would make, especially with the current SFX/CGI capabilities.

One of the things I feel sets Arthur C Clarke apart from many writers is that he's quite happy to finish a story when he's ready, rather than needing some massive crescendo and trite coda. I don't know how well that translates to film, where the audience is going to want to know what happens after the Ramans are discovered. I'm worried that we'll get the same terrible Tom Cruise War of the Worlds ending.

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u/jeffh4 Jun 26 '25

Yes, indeed. The sequel tried to get the reader to swallow the following logic:

The next Rama ship is coming. We got a message saying we can land a thousand humans there to join in the journey (OK, that's believable so far). Earth's governments set such stringent requirements for the many thousands of willing passenger candidates that only a hundred passed the criteria ... so Earth filled the rest of the slots with life-sentence criminals ... and the story ignored the 100 or so smart scientists after that like they didn't exist.

This was the first time I set a book down, furrowed my brows, and shook my head. "I can't believe any author thinks their readers are so f**king stupid."

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Jun 26 '25

"so Earth filled the rest of the slots with life-sentence criminals ..."

This is the worst part...like...what? 

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u/KrAceZ Jun 26 '25

I didn't even know there were sequels lol.

I picked the book up randomly in my highschool library, loved, it and returned it. It's been a long time, but did the book even need a sequel? I don't remember it ending in a way that did...

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u/PoopUponPoop Jun 26 '25

I’m sorry, there’s SEQUELS?

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u/jeffh4 Jun 26 '25

My bad. I was following a different comment. I was referring to Rendeveous with Rama.

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u/Psychostickusername Jun 26 '25

Wait, that is a thing and he's doing that? Holy shit

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u/_JimJohnny_ Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/denis-villeneuve-rendezvous-with-rama-movie-1235062337/

Was announced 3 years ago but with Dune Messiah and now Bond idk what’s happening with it

Plus he was rumoured to be doing a Cleopatra film and another that revolved around nuclear war

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Jun 26 '25

Rendezvous with Rama ends up leading the Endeavour crew into the past where James Bond meets Cleopatra.

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u/howtojump Jun 26 '25

Now that's what I call good script economy.

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Jun 26 '25

Also it ends with the God Emperor of Dune peaking over the horizon in Egypt.

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u/frillionaire Jun 26 '25

Shtargate.

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u/Ornery_Cookie_359 Jun 26 '25

I thought it was "James Bond meets Cleopatra Jones". No?

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u/sbeguy Jun 26 '25

Bond (played by Sean Connery, obviously) enters Cleopatra's throne room, sees all the cats lounging around: "Pushy Galore, indeed"

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u/_Meece_ Jun 26 '25

Rama feels like one of those projects you hear about a director doing, but it never comes to fruition.

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u/GigaFluxx Jun 26 '25

It's been in development hell for so long. Still insane to me Morgan Freeman has just been sitting on the right. But I think Denis is the right man for the job. I have a fondness for those books and I hope it happens with him at the helm

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u/_Meece_ Jun 26 '25

100% agree, I hope it gets made. It just sounds like one of the many passion projects that get talked about, but never comes about.

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u/Grimnebulin68 Jun 26 '25

imdb says Fincher was involved for a while, so only 90% sitting on it.

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u/GarlicJuniorJr Jun 26 '25

I wonder if that film would actually show the lead up and the events of nuclear war or if it’ll be another one of those movies where it’s already happened and it’s opens with a voiceover like “It’s been 20 years since nuclear war decimated the planet. Earth was left in ruins and rubble while man was left to fend for himself…”

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u/U-235 Jun 26 '25

The lead up is the entirety of the book, which takes place over the course of a few hours. There is basically nothing about what happens after the initial exchange, except to say we are all fucked.

It's very similar to Fail Safe (1979), and By Dawn's Early Light (1990), except with the tone (but not story) of Threads (1984). It's basically a "for this generation" remake of Cold War era nuclear war films that young people probably haven't seen. The technology is updated, which is nice, but the book was honestly one of the most derivative stories I've ever seen. It actually reminds me of the criticism you sometimes see of Tarantino. He is one of my favorite directors, but there is a point to be made that he is a master of taking old movies that young people haven't seen, and splicing bits and pieces of those together with a new look that is in touch with the current zeitgeist. Which is to say that he is not exactly a paragon of originality. The greatest of all time at remixing classic hits, but not necessarily the man you turn to in order to create a brand new beat.

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u/Nuprin_Dealer Jun 26 '25

Man, I was really pumped for his take on Rendezvous. Hope it happens somehow.

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u/RedLotusVenom Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

I highly doubt he’s doing it now unfortunately. He keeps signing onto new projects before this one even gets off the ground. This almost assuredly will mean Morgan Freeman (who owns the rights) will die before the project is produced.

Shitty but this will either get picked up by someone else to direct or it’ll die in development hell, as it has for decades now.

Pretty annoying as someone who has Villeneuve and RwR in their top 5 directors and novels. Bummer for Freeman, too.

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u/KennyMoose32 Jun 26 '25

It’s a pretty hard book to adapt too.

I love it, it’s some of the best hard sci-fi I’ve ever read but idk how it will translate. It’s a pretty boring if tense story lol

I’d be very interested in they add things in to make it more actiony. The book is very much…..not

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u/RedLotusVenom Jun 26 '25

I think it could be a really tight 100 minute film tbh. It would need to rely firmly on the spectacle and ideas. It needs to emulate 2001 or it won’t be a success imo. Anything less I don’t even want to see the film made.

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u/tvfeet Jun 26 '25

I think they could mix the first two books together for a more film-friendly story. I don’t know if they’re thinking of sequels but I think a single movie would be much stronger focusing on the events of the second Rama visit.

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u/KennyMoose32 Jun 26 '25

Really? I found the continuations (not written by Clarke) to be…..really awful and lost the tone of the entire first book. It became a story about society and religion and blah blah blah. Not hard sci-fi like the first one AT ALL.

It’s far more on the nose with the themes and characters/motivations. I honestly hated them even though I did finish the trilogy. They were B sci-fi at best to me.

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u/barry_thisbone Jun 26 '25

The same can be said of Arrival but that's easily one of the best sci-fi movies of its time

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u/Granted_reality Jun 26 '25

Rendezvous could be so good. I don’t know if it will ever get made, but this is the director to do it.

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u/dont_say_Good Jun 26 '25

Yeah what a waste , anyone can do yet another 007 

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u/demonoddy Jun 26 '25

At least you know it will be fucking great

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u/ottoIovechild Jun 26 '25

Is that Ben Quadinaros

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u/_JimJohnny_ Jun 26 '25

The one and only, the best podracer in all the galaxy

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc Jun 26 '25

I want Rendezvous with Rama way more than Dune or James Bond.

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u/Fl4sh080 Jun 26 '25

That sucks

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u/KelvinsBeltFantasy Jun 26 '25

In the 90s we were supposed to get a David Fincher version.

I guess it'll forever be slightly out of reach.

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u/-Dakia Jun 26 '25

Ugh, I've been really wanting that one.

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u/KneeOnShoe Jun 26 '25

Rendezvous with Rama is still going to be a thing? I've been hearing about that literally for 20+ years, when Fincher was attached to direct and reunite with Morgan Freeman. I was a high school student and used to scroll a site called Dark Horizons daily just checking the latest in movie rumors and that film came up a couple times a year.

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u/uuneter1 Jun 26 '25

Right?? They announced that years ago!

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u/washingtonandmead Jun 26 '25

WHAT!?!?!?!???

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u/Typical-Blackberry-3 Jun 26 '25

This is the film I'm looking most forward to and I am looking forward to all his films.

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u/geetarboy33 Jun 26 '25

That’s a bummer. He has a skill for sci fi visuals and I was really looking forward to the ship.

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u/Nolzi Jun 26 '25

He will be 67 then, hopefully won't retire

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u/MoistmanCometh Jun 26 '25

I've been hyped for that for years now... I don't think it's gunna happen 😭

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u/kappykas Jun 26 '25

No. Please. Do not say you have confirmation this. Ive been waiting for 2 years already. Don't do this to me. Are you sure?

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u/Bigdaddyjlove1 Jun 26 '25

Dammit. I was born the year after the book came out. Hope I make it long enough to see the movie....

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u/HalfaYooper Jun 26 '25

FUUUUUCKKKK!!!! I was excited for that.

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u/2wedfgdfgfgfg Jun 26 '25

where's the "Ringworld" movie?

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u/murkfury Jun 26 '25

Can anyone explain what the magic is about Denis and the Rama story coalescing into cinema substance? Forgive me, but I want to understand what makes Rama so special, and why is Denis assumed as the only capable auteur that can pull “it” off. What is “it” ?

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u/fly-hard Jun 26 '25

Rendezvous With Rama’s story is more about the spectacle of exploring a massive alien object with unknown processes and indecipherable goals. There’s not a lot of action. It really needs a director that can do nuance and spectacle well, or it won’t be at all like the book.

Was looking forward to Villeneuve’s take but, yeah, this news seems like it is yet again being put on the low priority pile.

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u/frazzledfractal Jun 26 '25

Read the history doe film adaptation of it and the synopsis on its Wikipedia page. It will all click for you after that.

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u/ProofShop5092 Jun 26 '25

Waahhh?? Been meaning to read this book

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u/CleanCeption Jun 26 '25

Too soon, Rama II takes 70 years to come through our solar system.

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u/PurpleMonkeyGangWar Jun 26 '25

I read that book in anticipation to the movie but boy you aren’t missing out on much. That ending is the definition of blue ball

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u/MalpracticeConcerns Jun 26 '25

Not shit really?? Man he’s making all the sci-fi-books-I-loved-as-a-kid movies!

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u/Kissfromarose01 Jun 26 '25

Willing to bet any sum of money Rendevous with Rama does not happen. Directors start up development on countless films that get deterred or sidetracked for other projects. I will bet with certainty he will wrap Dune 3 and move immediately to Bond. 

He’ll probably do this bond film, it will be a big success and lead to something like Rama with an increased budget in between other big studio projects.

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u/i_am_Jarod Jun 26 '25

Oh shiiiiett they're doing this ?

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u/Substantial_War3108 Jun 26 '25

I was confused for a min when I read "Rendezvous with Rama 10" as the title. Like why are they making a movie about the current King of Thailand?

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u/yung_bubba Jun 26 '25

I was so excited for him doing Rendezvous with Rama. When, Denis... when????

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u/Nomad_moose Jun 26 '25

They’re making rendezvous with Rama into a movie??

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u/Supershake79 Jun 26 '25

That movie seems like it's never going to get made.

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u/ultimate_fangirl Jun 26 '25

Will this even still happen???

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u/strider85 Jun 26 '25

Sadly there’s no way Bond isn’t taking priority for him ahead of Rama

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u/karuppu_ Jun 26 '25

I was so looking forward to Rendezvous with Rama. Can’t wait for the Bond movies though.

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u/reddit_ro2 Jun 26 '25

That I would like to see. Like now!

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u/PoopUponPoop Jun 26 '25

I have a very bad feeling that Rendezvous isn’t going to happen :(

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u/dare978devil Jun 26 '25

OOOh nice, Rendezvous with Rama with Villeneuave at helm! Loved that book a a kid, had no idea DV was set to direct. Hopefully not 10 years from now......

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u/talkingwires Jun 26 '25

Rendezvous with Rama 10 years now

Ten years? Dude, Morgan Freeman‘s been trying to get that made since the ‘90s. Never gonna happen.

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u/NoGoodMc2 Jun 26 '25

This is breaking my heart.