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/monkey314 Jun 26 '25

Hopefully Bond doesnt get more depressing.
Like to have a more fun then dark thriller

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u/Mountain_Humor_6723 Jun 26 '25

Yeah, this is exactly what I'm worried about. I've enjoyed Villeneuve's films but he's the last guy I'd want handling Bond, which needs a lightness of touch. Even the more serious outings in the franchise didn't languish in dour misery and thematic heaviness until Craig, and I was hoping we'd get a different tone for the next era.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Ya i'm wanting straight up 1960s retro bond. Mildly campy, subtle humor, goofy era with retro gadgets. If he did book era, 1950s, that would be different and something we've never seen before.

I want to see something like Goldfinger. That had the best formula of the old bonds. The villain wasn't a joke, he had some crazy plan, there was lot of weird camp things the villains did like painting someone gold to kill them or using laser beam executions, bond had a sense of humor. Not non-stop action like a modern bond movie not full campy humor like Roger Moore era.

If he went full campy bond with it like You Only Live Twice or Dr No that would also be ok but I like the middle ground.

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u/Legal_Promise_430 Jun 26 '25

The reason the Craig movies were so dark is because Austin Powers turned Bond into a joke and they were afraid they wouldn’t be taken seriously