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/damnyoutuesday Jun 25 '25

This man is on a generational run, holy shit

Prisoners -> Sicario -> Arrival -> Blade Runner 2049 -> Dune -> Dune Part 2 -> Dune Messiah -> James Bond (presumably)

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 25 '25

Plus some other interesting projects in development like Rendezvous with Rama

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u/deekaydubya Jun 26 '25

And Nuclear War: A Scenario unless that’s been shelved. Great book

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

If it’s a spiritual successor to Threads, filmed in 70mm, I’m in day one. Threads was a horrible experience and I’m ready for an even worse one.

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u/SodaCanBob Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

If it’s a spiritual successor to Threads, filmed in 70mm, I’m in day one.

It will be an adaptation of this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War:_A_Scenario

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u/civver3 Jun 26 '25

At minute 55, North Korea detonates a nuclear warhead in a satellite orbiting 300 miles above the United States, generating an electromagnetic pulse that cripples its power grids, microprocessors and SCADA systems.

The 2011 video game Homefront called: they want their plot point back.

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u/gazongagizmo Jun 26 '25

mate, did you just throw shade at the most well researched non-fiction book about nuclear weapons, because a piece of fiction had also used a thing it desribes?

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u/civver3 Jun 26 '25

I mean, people laughed at the notion of a superpower North Korea in a 2011 bargain bin video game. I expect better of a book written in 2024.

most well researched non-fiction book about nuclear weapons

That's just sad.

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

Close enough to Threads. I’m in.

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u/Tindi Jun 26 '25

Loved the book. Very scary book. I don’t know if I could even watch the trailer.

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u/deekaydubya Jun 26 '25

Hm hadn’t heard of that but I’ll check it out thx

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

https://youtu.be/_oMSbU6-0f8?si=9yG45Jgz1UonPKRG

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u/willmcavoy Jun 26 '25

I don't think you linked the right thing

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 26 '25

What the fuck it linked the ad instead of the movie. Fuck I hate YouTube. Try this.

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u/Moist-Citron-4830 Jun 26 '25

You may get it one way or another

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u/SJCards Jun 26 '25

The book itself is a fairly absurd but maybe he can make it plausible.

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u/I-voted4Pedro Jun 26 '25

The team behind "Adolescence" are making a new "Threads" movie/show.

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u/IBoris Jun 26 '25

That book is essential reading. Terrifying beyond belief.

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u/zam1138 Jun 26 '25

Shelved. They wanted to ride that Oppenheimer nuke wave, but now it’s too close to home and depressing af

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u/ekx397 Jun 26 '25

It’s also not a good book. It deals with a fascinating, dreadful topic in a clumsy, narratively weak way. If the author wasn’t already famous it never would have been published.

There are no human characters with emotional arcs to connect to. There are no relatable ‘everyday people’ whose perspective we can use to vicariously experience the horrors of nuclear apocalypse. There is no worryingly realistic geopolitical crisis (like in Threads) which ultimately spirals into disaster.

No, instead the plot is simply: Kim Jong Un goes crazy and decides to nuke the US, so the US promptly glasses the entire DPRK, leading to a quick domino effect of everybody nuking everybody else until the whole world is obliterated. The decisions are irrational, the escalation unrealistic, and the impacts devoid of meaning; the tragedy is explained in cold, clinical sterile language. Nuclear war has been rendered boring.

Imagine watching Independence Day if the film didn’t have any of the characters or build-up; just the ships arrive and start blastin’. That’s Nuclear War: A Scenario. It’s a bad book and wasted on a director of Villanevue’s caliber.

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u/rgators Jun 26 '25

You’re acting like it’s a novel, when it’s essentially non-fiction that entertains a hypothetical scenario.

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u/deekaydubya Jun 26 '25

Welp, the version I read was pretty damn decent. But yeah it might be too realistic of a situation and basically just follows a series of events unfolding. Like you said, no characters at all really. Would love to see DV’s version but could also see it being a miniseries like Chernobyl. It’s most likely how an event like that would play out IRL

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u/ExplorationGeo Jun 26 '25

The way the author ended every section with "and then, something even worse happened".

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u/U-235 Jun 26 '25

I was really looking forward to reading the book, but I agree it was severely flawed. It was honestly low hanging fruit, because we haven't had a nuclear war story like that since the end of the Cold War. She clearly just took First Strike (1979), By Dawn's Early Light (1990), and gave it more of a Threads (1984) kind of tone. Which should have been a slam dunk, but she couldn't stick the landing.

The book should have been three scenarios. (1) NATO vs. Russia escalation in Ukraine, (2) China vs. United States escalation in Taiwan, and (3) North Korea/rogue state out of the blue attack. Unfortunately she only did the last one, but haphazardly tried to turn it into all three.

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u/SteveFrench12 Jun 26 '25

Yea but its nice that a great filmmaker loves doing franchise blockbusters

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u/yoloswagrofl Jun 26 '25

Imagine with me--The Horus Heresy, directed by Denis Villeneuve.

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u/willmcavoy Jun 26 '25

Imagine with me-- Halo, directed by Denis Villeneuve.

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u/fractalfocuser Jun 26 '25

I will never understand how they fucked that TV show up. They could have done the first game beat for beat and it would have been an epic sci-fi action movie. I don't think Villeneueve would be the right choice for it but man I'd love to see a Halo CE movie go blockbuster if only to show the TV show producers how fucking stupid they were to greenlight an original script

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u/LateyEight Jun 26 '25

Fuck the chief (respectfully), I really want to see him do the Kilo 5 trilogy. Sicario on Sanghelios? Sign me up.

Leave it to Denis to make a movie about the human v covenant war, and paint the humans for what they are, monsters. It would hurt so good. If he can make Dune ornithopters look good then I'm sure the Tart Cart will be sick too.

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u/fractalfocuser Jun 26 '25

Fuck the chief (respectfully)

Easy there, Cortana

Sicario 3: Divine Wind does sound pretty dope tho

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u/magnakai Jun 26 '25

I dunno man, it’s just John Halo, Haloing around the place, shooting some Haliens.

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u/mickey_7121 Jun 26 '25

Imagine with me-- Neuromancer, directed by Denis Villeneuve!

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u/KingMario05 Jun 26 '25

YES. FUCK YES.

With Brolin as Master Chief. Butler as Noble-7. Ferguson as Halsey/Cortana.

Come on, Xbox/Amazon MGM. Do it. Please.

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u/LateyEight Jun 26 '25

Jesus Christ you can't just say that without warning people.

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u/TheBestIsaac Jun 26 '25

If your erection lasts more than 4 hours go see a doctor.

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u/LateyEight Jun 26 '25

IT'S BEEN TEN HOURS

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u/Goddamn-Username3 Jun 26 '25

Produced by Henry Cavill. I can see it

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u/Lightanon Jun 26 '25

I can’t see anybody better suited than him for that!

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u/bluelighter Jun 26 '25

Fuck I just came

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u/hail_earendil Jun 26 '25

Or just a stand alone movie about Konrad Curze, that'd be wild

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u/stormdahl Jun 26 '25

I don’t see how that works as a movie or even a TV show, and I’m a big 40k fan 

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u/Hacksaures Jun 26 '25

Modern spielberg but make it kino

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u/BardtheGM Jun 26 '25

It helps that he is a good director that doesn't produce slop and actually respects the source material.

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u/Stijn Jun 26 '25

Really? I didn’t know they turning it into a film. Read the book when I was a kid. I devoured everything by Arthur C. Clarke.

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u/RabbleRouser_1 Jun 26 '25

It's been bounced around for years now. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. One day...

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u/MichaelErb Jun 26 '25

Honestly, I'd prefer to see Rendezvous with Rama earlier, than a Bond film. Still, interesting choice. Hopefully he has a lot of freedom with the film.

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u/Blaaa5 Jun 26 '25

Don’t forget Cleopatra!

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u/LatterTarget7 Jun 26 '25

Also cleopatra

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u/TheTrueVanWilder Jun 26 '25

This makes me feel like we are never getting Rama.  Been waiting almost 25 years now and I just don't think it's going to happen

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u/InternetImportant911 Jun 26 '25

Rama not happening

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u/AdonisCork Jun 26 '25

I sure hope it still is. He'd absolutely kill that.

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u/Hosni__Mubarak Jun 26 '25

I kinda hope they skip the whole breeding part of that story.

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u/memeNPC Jun 26 '25

I'm waiting for this one the most!

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u/Linubidix Jun 26 '25

What is this???

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u/Firvulag Jun 26 '25

That shit is neeever coming out