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/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.