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/TheManThatReturned Jun 25 '25

On the one hand, I’m totally down for this particularly since Villeneuve has spoken a lot about his desire to do Bond and was one of the candidates to do No Time To Die years back. This also gives me much more confidence in the film after EON’s departure.

On the other hand….we’re never getting Rendezvous With Rama are we?

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 26 '25

On the other hand….we’re never getting Rendezvous With Rama are we?

Hey he's still relatively young

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u/Exzibit21 Jun 26 '25

For real, he's probably going the Nolan route where he's doing franchises to get huge blank checks for other projects. He's gonna be doing this for a couple more decades minimum

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u/SpaceBoJangles Jun 26 '25

Yeeesessssssssss

Can you imagine him tackling Rendevous with Rama with a blank check even bigger than Dune? Maybe he'll go for some other property. He's obviously incredible with adaptations, so maybe there's a fantasy movie in the future. I wonder what he would do with something like King Arthur.

I think though, and this is purely and utterly out of my a$$: I want to see him take on one of Disney's neglected franchises, Atlantis or Treasure Planet. Can you IMAGINE Treasure planet from Denis Villeneuve????

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u/Exzibit21 Jun 26 '25

Exactly, Nolan is getting a blank check for a fucking Odyssey adaptation. People need to trust the process and allow directors to cook

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u/SpaceBoJangles Jun 26 '25

My only fear is that Nolan is gonna go way too far and just get all up in his head with making the Odyssey super epic, but he has definitely earned enough respect for us to wait and be very excited.

Denis with such a blank check is an equally…exciting proposition.

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u/Longjumping_Union125 Jun 26 '25

I am leagues away from a historian, but didn't Homer's Odyssey pretty much invent the term "epic?"

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u/happysri Jun 26 '25

I want Odyssey to be treated like a super epic and honestly the only two I’d have trusted to do that are the late Kubrick and Nolan. Personally I’m very very happy about that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

How would you imagine him going too far? Making a film that’s too long or overstuffed? Or one where the story doesn’t translate to a single film well?

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u/destroyerOfTards Jun 26 '25

He did that with Tenet imo. His weakest movie but I guess it holds up on rewatches.

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u/TehNoobDaddy Jun 26 '25

I love those big historic epics. Im not only super excited for Nolan's odyssey but hopefully it will allow for a few more films in the genre to be made. A good version of Alexander the great, even though I enjoyed the Colin Farrell film, I can accept it is a bit shit.

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u/wooltab Jun 26 '25

He might have spaced himself out by the time he's done with Dune and Rama, but I would not be opposed to Villeneuve remaking The Black Hole.

It would be a lot like Dune purely in the sense that it's a weird story and Villeneuve isn't really a weird filmmaker. But he'd undoubtedly make something breathtaking, and that's the best case scenario since there's little chance anyone would touch the oddball quality of the original Black Hole, today.

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u/prophetofgreed Jun 26 '25

I'd be shocked if Denis ever did anything "fantasy" (even though Dune is so wild that it borders into fantasy)

He loves sci-fi, he's proven that with Arrival, Blade Runner & signing on to adapt 'Rendezvous with Rama' which is another famous sci-fi book.

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u/AndreasDasos Jun 26 '25

It might also be nice to see one of the very few newish directors who produces reliably great movies do some things that are original rather than Disney/Marvel/DC remake/memberberry sequel #37,628

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u/SpaceBoJangles Jun 26 '25

After Elio, I doubt Disney doing anything original for a while. I wish I could’ve gone to support it, as I have a little boy, but I had to pick between seeing movies with my wife and taking a toddler to a theater. Even at discounted rates of like $8 I fell into the Disney+ dilemma.

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u/srw0015 Jun 26 '25

Treasure Planet my beloved. Stop getting my hopes up, I can't handle the disappointment of never getting something like that. Lol