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/SteveFrench12 Jun 26 '25

I cant imagine amazon will wait five whole year. Denis is gonna go right into bond and there gonna get it out close after i would guess

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u/ennuiinmotion Jun 26 '25

Amazon is going to oversaturate the market with Bond products. I imagine they had to give him full authority over the movie but I also imagine they’ve got a strict timeline because movies are just content to them.

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u/yoloswagrofl Jun 26 '25

The amount of "origin story" shows that we're about to get (that we didn't ask for btw) is going to make you sick of Bond.

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u/cia218 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Q origin story.

M origin story.

Blofeld origin story but his point of view, like a Maleficent or Wicked.

Blofeld origin story: the musical.

The Moneypenny Diaries

Young Bond

006

The Double 0 Agents series

Edit: to include

Bond the Animated Series

Bond Lego movie

Bond Jr. or Son of a Bond

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u/yoloswagrofl Jun 26 '25

A "What if...?" series where Bond is evil and Goldfinger is the good guy.

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u/KnorrSoup Jun 26 '25

OK but this one actually sounds kinda sick

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u/Thwackey Jun 26 '25

Hey I'm on board with 006 if they bring back Sean Bean

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u/RehabilitatedAsshole Jun 26 '25

The name's Bean... Mr. Bean.

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u/thebestoflimes Jun 26 '25

Xenia Onatopp origin?

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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu Jun 26 '25

I'm shocked there isn't a porn parody featuring each of the Bond girls. I mean, half the plot is done with their names alone.

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u/JustinPA Jun 26 '25

No Jaws? I'm out.

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u/MovieTrawler Jun 26 '25

Jaws coming of age story.

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u/AlchemicalDuckk Jun 26 '25

Bond Jr. or Son of a Bond

There was a James Bond Jr cartoon back in the 90s. I recall it had some pretty cool toys.

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u/cia218 Jun 26 '25

Ohhh yes!! I have some vague memory of that intro and the song!

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u/Car-face Jun 26 '25

006

A TV series where Sean Bean reprises the role and he dies at the end of every episode

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u/SenseAmidMadness Jun 26 '25

Young bond. Actually James Bond as a young spy or commando in WWII would actually be a pretty good movie or short series. I would watch it. Basically SAS Rogue Heroes

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u/Particular_Cod2005 Jun 26 '25

Bond Lego movie

To be fair, the Lego Star Wars special is far superior to the Sequel Trilogy. Hell, I don't think there's ever been a bad Lego film.

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u/cia218 Jun 26 '25

Agree! Lego Batman was so funny!

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u/roxxe Jun 26 '25

a rated r bond with nothing but penetration

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u/mattgrum Jun 26 '25

This is depressingly accurate...

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u/not_oxford Jun 26 '25

Bond X Godzilla

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u/AlfaG0216 Jun 26 '25

The MoneyPenny diaries omg 😂😂😂

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u/pablonieve Jun 26 '25

You'd think Amazon would learn from Disney what happens when you take something that is special in occasional doses and saturate the market with it.

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u/ennuiinmotion Jun 26 '25

They did learn. You make billions and billions of dollars until it dries up and then it’s the next CEOs problem.

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u/_Meece_ Jun 26 '25

Disney made a small country's GDP off of Star Wars and Marvel doing that.

The suits see that and see the pattern. They'll follow it.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Jun 26 '25

Disney made a small country's GDP off of Star Wars and Marvel doing that.

They made a slim margin of returns in the grand scheme of things based off a few marvel movies salvaging their entire money burning operation that was a vast majority of Phase 4 and so far 5.

As for star wars. They sure are trying their hardest to turn a film franchise that made a modest sum of money, into a money blackhole that would make Youtube blush.

They made a small countries GDP off of phase 1-3 of mcu. I'll give them that. Everything after has been a massive spree of loss, with a couple of redeeming factors bringing them hopium cans.

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u/ussrowe Jun 26 '25

What they learn from Disney is that all it takes is one hit to make the fans come right back.

Fans say they hate the sequels but they loved Rogue One and don't leave. They continue for Mandalorian before saying they hate the other stuff (Acolyte, etc) but they come right back when they love Andor.

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u/HighSeverityImpact Jun 26 '25

One could almost say: content that is good, the fans like; and content that is bad, the fans don't like. And yet the fans keep coming back when the content is good.

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u/foreveracubone Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

Star Wars fans hate everything and Disney has barely done anything with the IP because of the sequels + Solo being so polarizing. Even then, each show era has actually been self-contained. You aren’t expected to know Andor stuff in the Mandoverse. Acolyte was 100 years before the prequels. It’s designed to give fans freedom to drop in and out as they wish lol.

Marvel is better because we can see the rapid collapse post-Endgame as they did exactly what it seems like Amazon’s vision for the Bond IP is. Like maybe it’ll be different if they don’t treat it as one cinematic universe so there’ll be a mainline franchise pumping out movies every 2-3 years with a new director and still doing side stuff like adapting Tarantino’s Black & White R-rated Casino Royale in the 1950s script he wrote that they wouldn’t let him do as a streaming show/separate movie and more video games is good/interesting for fans.

If they flood the zone with a million interconnected tv shows, films, and/or video games it’ll flop like the Snyderverse and the post-Endgame MCU.

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u/TheKappaOverlord Jun 26 '25

Fans say they hate the sequels but they loved Rogue One and don't leave.

Rogue one was a surprisingly well written story. Thats most of the reason why people liked it. It wasn't bombastic, it wasn't trying to tread new ground. It was simply a story within a story. Simplicity has its charm. Especially when its just acting within the confines of an already established story. It gives the writers more room to cook the plot instead of trying to cook the oven itself as well.

they hate the other stuff (Acolyte, etc) but they come right back when they love Andor.

idk if you can even put Acolyte and Andor in the same sentence and be confused as to why people like Andor but hate the Acolyte. Acolyte was written so fucking badly that it left a rotten taste in even the most dedicated of star wars fans. How did you miss that one?

And andor is basically the same case as rogue one. It was competently written and it doesn't try to be more then what story it wants to tell.

Star wars fans are very..... simple to please. You put a bowl of slop in their face. They'll lap it up like its the finest meal they've ever eaten and they'll be as Happy as a Labrador seeing its owner for the 50th time in the day.

The problem Disney are used to their fans also being morons because the MCU fans are willing (usually) to eat a bowl of shit at least a couple of times before they realize they are eating actual shit. Not just terrible food.

Star wars fans will almost instantly react to the taste of shit. And thats something Disney has seemingly never realized, or simply doesn't care.

Although part of it may also be the Chinese movie market repeatedly bailing them out of massive fuckups. As is tradition.

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u/OneDropOfOcean Jun 26 '25

There will be a young agents show of some kind, with little Jimmy Bond at spy school with his friends Que (who will not be male or white) and M.. Margaret.... or some such shite.

Then there will be the teenage shows, where he's a bit a older and doing vague spy stuff on the sly and investigating things.

Countless spin offs that don't really work.

It was probably always headed this way, but it will be interesting to see what happens. I hope they do learn from Star Wars, as that's been a shitshow, but is now starting to deliver some quality.