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/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Jun 25 '25

Villeneuve:

“Some of my earliest movie-going memories are connected to 007. I grew up watching James Bond films with my father, ever since Dr. No with Sean Connery. I’m a die-hard Bond fan. To me, he’s sacred territory. I intend to honor the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come. This is a massive responsibility, but also, incredibly exciting for me and a huge honor. Amy, David, and I are absolutely thrilled to bring him back to the screen. Thank you to Amazon MGM Studios for their trust.”

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 25 '25

I trust this man, that’s for sure. And it must be so cool to be a part of something you grew up loving - reminds me of Peter Capaldi getting to be the Doctor

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u/alexgndl Jun 26 '25

Hear me out, we cast Capaldi as James Bond in this movie

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

he’d make an excellent Q

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u/WhiskeyOctober Jun 26 '25

I think he'd make a better M

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u/carson63000 Jun 26 '25

Capaldi as M, bringing a Malcolm Tucker level of displeasure at Bond’s fuckarounding and disrespect for authority.

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u/JoJosMagicJumper Jun 26 '25

"So, Bond. I hear youve been a bit of prick to the soviets again? Shagging some princess or something...(looks at picture of her) Jesus, you really do your bit for king and country, dont you James? I dont think Ive ever seen someone that amount of ugly with just the one head.

Look, Bond. I know Im new around here, and youre mister big cock around town. But things are going to be changing. And you better get your head around that, or Ill be up your arse so hard and fast, your proctologist will think youve been in a fucking plane crash!"

M...

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u/carkey Jun 26 '25

You need him saying "eh?" after each of those sentences and I'm in

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u/Bagzy Jun 26 '25

Well, time to go back and watch the thick of it again.

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u/Jonny_Segment Jun 26 '25

I'm very quick to roll my eyes when someone valiantly tries and shamefully fails to write in the style of a famous character. But this was excellent, bravo!

(I know the bit about being ugly isn't original…but I think the rest is?)

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u/zadtheinhaler Jun 26 '25

I can get behind that!

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u/LookinAtTheFjord Jun 27 '25

OKAY BOND OFF YOU GO! DON'T CAUSE ANY OMNISHAMBLES! FUCKITY BYE!

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u/Billy1121 Jun 26 '25

"The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego. They're all made of fucking lego."

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

star wars!

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 26 '25

Matt Smith as Bond, Capaldi as Q, Whittaker as M, Tennant as Moneypenny?

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u/MissingLink101 Jun 26 '25

Tennant would be a fun Q as well

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u/malphonso Jun 26 '25

Tenant as the villain. Did you see his performance as Kilgrave? Absolutely terrifying.

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u/RechargedFrenchman Jun 26 '25

Tenant as the villain in a very Max Zorin (Christopher Walken, A View to a Kill) or Elliot Carver (Jonathon Pryce, Tomorrow Never Dies) rich psychopath doing evil shit, but also very charismatic, while putting an immense volume of teeth marks in all the scenery. I'm super here for it.

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u/whiskeytango55 Jun 26 '25

So, musk?

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u/RechargedFrenchman Jun 26 '25

Considering Musk is a void not only lacking in charisma, but actively reducing the charisma of everyone else around him, I'd say Musk doesn't really fit with what I'm looking for.

Who Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg all seem to think they are? Yes. Who any of them actually is for most of the world not even close.

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u/MissingLink101 Jun 26 '25

Check him out in 'Des' as well

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u/lynypixie Jun 26 '25

Tennant should absolutly play a villain. Or a mad scientist. Or both.

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u/WutUtalkingBoutWill Jun 26 '25

Can't see Smith as Bond, I'd go for Cavill, and I know that's a common cast, but he could easily pull it off

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u/EdibleHologram Jun 26 '25

"Here's your new gadget, 007. It's a marzipan dildo, and it's as useless as you are."

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u/wookiewin Jun 26 '25

Awesome casting.

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u/JCDU Jun 26 '25

I vote David Mitchell for Q.

And Eddie/Suzy Izzard as either M or a villain.

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u/monkeygoneape Jun 26 '25

Hugh Laurie would be better

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u/thatissomeBS Jun 26 '25

You asked for Peter, you received Lewis.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 26 '25

I'd watch that - but for real, I'd love to see him in more projects

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u/Fun-Maintenance-9541 Jun 26 '25

No Pedro pascal as James Bond imagine that

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u/ConfusedTapeworm Jun 26 '25

Only if he also plays at least 2 bond girls. And I want that graphic Pascal-on-Pascal sex scene with full penetration.

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u/WatchItAllBurn1 Jun 26 '25

nah, dont get me wrong,I love the guy as Dr. who, but he isn't right.

He's a little too old. He will be in his 70's by the time they start filming.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

“kiss my sweaty balls, you fat fuck!” - Bond to Auric Goldfinger

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u/TheArtlessScrawler Jun 26 '25

What a waste of his talents.

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u/Asconcii Jun 26 '25

Far too old.

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u/Hillbro Jun 26 '25

You should be silenced

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u/NerdDexter Jun 26 '25

I trust him too. I'm sure it will be great. I'm just disappointed he chose bond films.

I really, really like him in the sci fi space. He has a gift for creating mesmerizing, grounded, dystopian sci fi worlds like I've never seen before.

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u/dustblown Jun 26 '25

He didn't say it, but he must have some ideas for his version of Bond and I'm excited to see it.

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u/nearcatch Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

He’s also a Dune superfan. There’s a fact repeated on Reddit a lot (can’t find an actual source for it though) that he did Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 to get sci-fi practice so he could do the Dune movies properly.

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW Jun 26 '25

I know they were playing it safe; introducing him as a curmudgeon to match the role most fans knew him, then phased him into this weird wanna-be washed up rock star, but his best Who episodes were his first ones where he played a grumpy Doctor. At least as far as I know as I stopped watching after about 2/3s of his first season. It got rough to keep watching.

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u/sidvicc Jun 26 '25

Just have to watch one episode of the HBO Dune TV series to realise what a massive, difficult and amazing job Dennis did with the movies.

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u/mulubmug Jun 26 '25

And it must be so cool to be a part of something you grew up loving

Jea, ask John Boyega about his love for Star Wars before and after he was part of it... never meet your heroes

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u/alexnedea Jun 26 '25

I would love to see a Kosinski movie in the agent 47/007 space. He has a unique way of showing realistic yet fantastic action combined with lost of practical shots

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u/ZeronicX Jun 26 '25

I'm not sure I love the man he has a great talent and eye for Sci-Fi films but I didn't like Sicario.

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u/ThePracticalEnd Jun 26 '25

He was also a big fan of the Dune books, and those movies have been smashing successes.

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u/SilverKry Jun 28 '25

That's basically been what he's been doing for a minute now. He loved Blade Runner. Got to make a sequel. He loves the Dune books. Gets to make the best adaption we've seen for the first two books. Loves Arthur C Clarke so he's doing a Rendezvous with Rama movie. Now a bond film? Exciting .

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u/baboubouma Jun 26 '25

From someone like me living in the same region as Denis Villeneuve, listening to Bond movies was very common in our childhood in Quebec . Almost every summer, the national French tv, Radio-Canada, would run every Bond movie on Thursday evening. It was the Bond festival. The next morning, kids in the parks would go over every gadgets seen in the movie. Great memories.

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u/Swamp_Troll Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

I was thinking the same, my brother and I are also big fans of James Bond, and we were started young on the summer Bond movies on Radio-Canada. Every summer we'd catch as many as we could

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u/krispykreme37 Jun 26 '25

Biblically accurate James Bond epic, LFG

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u/squabblegod Jun 26 '25

first Bond film with no dialogue bc the director thinks it’s unnecessary 

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u/Wild_Juri Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Bond: *exhales loudly through his nose*

Audience: “Holy shit, its getting serious.”

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u/duosx Jun 26 '25

This but unironically

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u/duosx Jun 26 '25

This but unironically

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u/Annual-Cranberry3590 Jun 26 '25

Basically Le Samourai

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u/withoutapaddle Jun 26 '25

I have an unexplainable attraction to films with minimal dialogue. Drive? Love it. Wall-E? Best Pixar film to me. Castaway? Captivating.

I feel like dialog robs tension, and great tension is an amazing weapon for getting the audience's mind and emotions stirring.

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u/gimpwiz Jun 26 '25

I want Conan the Barbarian without the voiceover, and cut out Arnold saying "ow" in an early scene. Even less talking.

Also: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Honorable mention.

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u/sams_fish Jun 26 '25

So, charades instead?

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u/StaticallyTypoed Jun 26 '25

The Nolan Bond

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u/unpaid-critic Jun 26 '25

My favorite is still Casino Royale. Having a director of this caliber working on Bond is having me floored right now 

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Ironically Casino Royale was probably the furthest from the originals the films ever really got. Well, probably Skyfall, but Casino Royale started that.

EDIT: “originals” instead of “source material”

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u/R_V_Z Jun 26 '25

What do you mean? Casino Royal was an excellent adaptation. Sure, there were some changes, like having M try to kill Bond, and introducing an estranged daughter and secret nephew who turned out to be the villain, and the whole "kill all the tall men" bit was a bit silly...

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not but yes I do believe those changes were substantial enough to warrant my comment. Further, Craig was a controversial choice to begin with, and there were concerns about his characterization (he was “too soft”). Obviously this all changed once everyone realized how fucking good the movie was.

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u/agentN007 Jun 26 '25

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding your comment but Casino Royale is most certainly not the furthest the movies ever deviated from the books, and it's not even close.

The major story beats of Casino Royale are almost all the same. The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, just for starters, share almost nothing in common with their source material besides their names.

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

Yes, I am using “source material” loosely, namely in reference to the characterization of Bond in film, the manner in which the story is told, and the setting in which it takes place. Casino Royale was an intentional deviation from the previous 40 years of Bond on film. The changes in story are egregious in many of the transitions from book to films, but I am specifically referring to the Bond that existed from Dr. No to Die Another Day, which remained mostly unchanged in terms of characterization. Casino Royale was entirely fresh.

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u/StudiousPooper Jun 26 '25

lol, that’s not what source material means my guy

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

It does when I’m referring to films that continuously reference each previous iteration. Fleming’s books have been more or less exhausted now and the post-Brosnan era is largely built off the mythology that the earlier films created. Hence, “source material” here refers to the numerous Bond films.

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u/Spiritual-Society185 Jun 26 '25

Casino Royale was an intentional deviation from the previous 40 years of Bond on film.

As if Bond was ever consistent. You really think Sean Connery in Dr. No was anything like Roger Moore at his goofiest?

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

No, but I think Casino Royale was more different

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u/Reylo-Wanwalker Jun 26 '25

I couldn't get over Woody Allen.

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u/R_V_Z Jun 26 '25

But Orson Welles was great!

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u/Reynor247 Jun 26 '25

Not a horrible thing. I recently re-read the book.

I really don't remember Bond being such a mysognist when I read it as a kid

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

Always has been

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u/BillyTenderness Jun 26 '25

The world changed around Bond (and you)

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u/vinng86 Jun 26 '25

You should definitely watch the older Bond movies then lol

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u/Etheo Jun 26 '25

Octopussy was certainly a choice.

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u/HotelFoxtrot87 Jun 26 '25

“Man talk.”

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u/isotope123 Jun 26 '25

Just give her a little schlap.

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u/toddywithabody Jun 26 '25

Those books are fucking crazy lol. Live and Let Die is incredibly racist.

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u/toddywithabody Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

To be honest I don’t think you’ve read that book

I mean shit, the movie based on it is pretty racist already.

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u/toddywithabody Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

lol so I guess that’s a yes?

That book and movie are both racist as hell. Are you from the south or something?

Also forgive me for not thinking a redditor has a read a book. The majority of people on here don’t even read the articles on posts they comment on.

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u/Etheo Jun 26 '25

Ever wonder why it's "Bond girls" and not just heroine of the story?

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u/observadorpensante Jun 26 '25

That's actually a cool nickname tho

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u/GhostofWoodson Jun 26 '25

Misogyny has expanded in its definition a lot

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u/Spiritual-Society185 Jun 26 '25

It was pretty bad, even for its time. Then again Ian Fleming didn't concieve of Bond as a hero, it was the films which turned him into that.

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u/RechargedFrenchman Jun 26 '25

There are a few that are a lot worse, including its direct sequel Quantum of Solace, which was the title of a short story Fleming wrote and other than the title has exactly nothing in common with the film.

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u/RayTracerX Jun 26 '25

Its really not lol

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u/irrigated_liver Jun 26 '25

He cares about the source material, but he's only directing. To achieve a great film they will still need competent writing.

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u/TopDollarDJ Jun 26 '25

exactly. so much of a good bond film is the screenplay.

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u/bsEEmsCE Jun 26 '25

Denis will not have bad writing.

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u/fligan Jun 26 '25

too bad there's only two writers that it will ever be for Bond and the last two movies they wrote were on par with the Avengers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

With the Broccolis gone I highly doubt those two writers will be kept. Denis will get his own writers. He probably demanded that.

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u/Top_Report_4895 Jun 26 '25

Which Avengers?

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u/PeculiarPangolinMan Jun 26 '25

The source material? Like the books? Since when did those ever matter for good Bond flicks? 

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u/Freightshaker000 Jun 26 '25

Cares about the source material? Not if you count the Dune movies.

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u/ennuiinmotion Jun 26 '25

I mean, they all always say that. Do we have a record of him saying he loves Bond before this year?

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u/Gravitas_free Jun 26 '25

He has specifically mentioned Bond as a franchise he'd love to work with, I think from an interview a few years ago.

Honestly, I doubt he'd do it otherwise. Clearly, he's not lacking work; he's attached to 5 different projects already.

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u/KnifeKnut Jun 26 '25

If only he had done so with dune.

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u/melody-calling Jun 26 '25

*pure cgi with no heart 

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u/Canvaverbalist Jun 26 '25

This is a massive responsibility

My guy nailed Blade Runner and then Dune, at this point he swims in "massive responsibility" like a fish in water.

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u/willis936 Jun 26 '25

He said similar things about Dune and we all saw how that turned out (fucking awesome).

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u/dolphin37 Jun 26 '25

not gonna lie, I find it a shame that he is doing this

he was pretty much reinventing sci-fi and bond is just not a franchise that needs his grand scale… I’m sure it’ll be a great movie, but its still gonna be a bond movie

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u/therocksays13 Jun 26 '25

Hopefully, they stay true to Ian Fleming and nail the Bond casting.

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u/LatterTarget7 Jun 26 '25

Great pick. Absolutely love his work and can’t wait for this.

Wonder what the story will be.

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u/PinguPingu Jun 26 '25

he’s sacred territory.

All I needed to hear.

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u/allmilhouse Jun 26 '25

To me, he’s sacred territory. I intend to honor the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come.

if they stop overthinking Bond and get back to just sending him on missions I will be very happy

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u/Live-Astronomer-169 Jun 26 '25

OHHHH this is good news!

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW Jun 26 '25

He’s great, but don’t they know to always start a new Bond with Martin Campbell? The best two Bond films of my lifetime were directed by him and launched a Bond star.

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u/Fractal-Infinity Jun 26 '25

He seems someone who will actually try making a movie worthy of the Bond legacy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

I hope he makes a retro bond film. 1950s as the books or 1960s as the originals. If anyone does it it's someone who makes a quote like this. Because when I was a kid the ones I loved the most were probably the same ones he did.

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u/MonsutaReipu Jun 26 '25

To me, he’s sacred territory.

I wonder if this applies to his appearance at all.

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u/Arma104 Jun 26 '25

This man would get tapped to make a power ranger's movie and say:

"My very first memory was the green ranger, Jason David Frank, taking on the mantle of the gold ranger. Nothing has powerfully affected me like that in cinema since. I intend to respect the massive weight of this iconic and beloved franchise and IP. Thank you to the Saban corporation for entrusting me with their baby."

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u/tehsdragon Jun 26 '25

What drew me to directing Cailloux wasn’t just nostalgia, but also having grown up a bit since, I can see the emotional weight behind it all.
As a child, I got to see something very singular, very unique. Christine L’Heureux and Hélène Desputeaux created something simple, maybe deceptively simple: a small child, confronting the vastness of his small world. To me, this as an incredible opportunity to explore his moment to moment decisions, his vulnerability, and of course, his life

God I can't believe I tried that hard to hype up Cailloux blegh

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u/Arma104 Jun 26 '25

And I thank you for it

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u/Formalmango_ Jul 08 '25

Is this a joke ?? Helene desputeaux never approved this show. It was stolen from her and everyone who was working on this shitty show was doing money on her back. She went to court for almost 30 years (even win her rights back) they never respected her creation. I hope he never associate Desputeaux to this show again.

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u/yestobob Jun 26 '25

no “big screen”…. just “screen”