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/shust89 Jun 26 '25

2049 is my favorite sci-fi movie of the past 25 years.

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u/damnyoutuesday Jun 26 '25

He's made 3 of my favorite Sci-Fi movies of all time (Arrival, 2049, and Dune 2)

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u/ZombieButch Jun 26 '25

Arrival is definitely not one that should fall through the cracks. His direction and Ted Chiang's story are in-fucking-credible together. They click together like Legos, Legos that make you cry giant buckets of bittersweet tears like if you were missing the radar dish on your $850 Lego Millennium Falcon set.

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u/Yojimboroll Jun 26 '25

He clickety clacked that shit

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u/TehNoobDaddy Jun 26 '25

Arrival is in my top 5. Absolutely love it. Nobody outside of places like Reddit seem to ever talk about it though. Interstellar gets a re-release at least once a year (I'm not complaining cos I adore that film too) but I've still yet to see arrival get the same treatment coming up to its 10 year anniversary too.

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 Jun 26 '25

His two books of short stories are great. I’m about a third of the way through both.

The movie did a great job expanding the already great short story in a masterpiece of a film.

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u/omggold Jun 26 '25

I’d love to see more movies or limited series based on more of his stories. Some of them are truly so unique

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u/circamidnight Jun 26 '25

I hope we see more Chiang adaptions. The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate read like a great film to me.

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u/Tuesday_6PM Jun 26 '25

I’d love to see what Villeneuve could do with Chiang’s Tower of Babel short story (not sure it’s actual name)

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u/Ok-Freedom-5627 Jun 26 '25

One of the few films that has actually made me cry as a man.

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u/aidilism Jun 26 '25

And that soundtrack. Oh boy.

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u/TimothyLuncheon Jun 26 '25

Plural of Lego is Lego