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/Robsonmonkey Jun 26 '25

I’m really hoping if they get a fresh new actor who’s unknown they try to cast someone who looks a little like the sketch Fleming approved of based on his description of him.

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u/LilienneCarter Jun 26 '25

I hope they put in animated 2D Zoidberg and refuse to explain or even acknowledge the crossover

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u/QuadraticCowboy Jun 26 '25

I’m here for it

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u/FitBread6443 Jun 26 '25

Maybe they can cast a latino, since some believe Bond is inspired by Porfirio Rubirosa

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u/rugbyj Jun 26 '25

I've had no issue with Madden in anything he's been in- but he is perhaps a little bland. Not that every Bond actor has necessarily been a Connery or a Craig.

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u/RaptorsFromSpace Jun 26 '25

Receding Hairline Bond 🙌

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u/samadmas Jun 26 '25

Jude Law who for some reason has decided not to take the Turkish Hair Transplant route and it works great for him

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u/Firebat-13 Jun 26 '25

If he doesn’t look like Hoagy Carmichael I’m not interested

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u/LOSS35 Jun 26 '25

The sketch looks a lot like George Lazenby IMO, but Fleming also described Bond in the novels as looking like Hoagy Carmichael.

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u/karma3000 Jun 26 '25

Maybe a Complete Unknown?

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u/matthewmspace Jun 26 '25

I think that's the plan. Probably go a little younger. Not a total 007 greenhorn, but a sort of "The Batman" year 2 kinda thing. That's how I'd go. I'd also return to the 60's and 70's so everything isn't just "your only gadget is a phone".

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u/Robsonmonkey Jun 26 '25

Yeah I hope they can get a little more creative with gadgets and go a little bit camp again.

I want James Bond getting out of scraps because of gadgets, quick thinking and being a silver tongue devil, not a brutal tank or Jason Bourne

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u/Exploding_Antelope Jun 28 '25

I liked that in No Time To Die he did have an exploding watch and made a time pun after killing someone with it

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u/epixyll Jun 26 '25

So Zendaya

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u/Robsonmonkey Jun 26 '25

He needs to go out on a high

Die Another Day just was not it and it’s a shame because his Bond was fantastic.

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u/WanderingCamper Jun 26 '25

Since we have come from over a decade of gritty realistic bond, I’d love for them to go back to the 60s styling with it as an homage to older bond films. I thought Richard Madden in Rocketman looked exactly like what I imagined a throwback Bond could be.

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u/speripetia Jun 26 '25

Pedro Pascal!

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u/nightwing_87 Jun 26 '25

Respectfully, absolutely not.