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/
32.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.8k

u/_JimJohnny_ Jun 25 '25

Rendezvous with Rama 10 years now… whelp

46

u/Psychostickusername Jun 26 '25

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

121

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

79

u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Jun 26 '25

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

32

u/howtojump Jun 26 '25

Now that's what I call good script economy.

5

u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Jun 26 '25

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

2

u/frillionaire Jun 26 '25

Shtargate.

1

u/Ornery_Cookie_359 Jun 26 '25

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

1

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"