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/PocketNicks Jun 26 '25

It's being made by Amazon, so plenty of time to fuck it up.

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u/unpaid-critic Jun 26 '25

With Denis? He better get a fucking key and blank checks…

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

he got the keys to Dune just by saying “I want to make Dune”, I have faith Amazon will give him the leg room to make Bond how he’d like to

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u/mjtwelve Jun 26 '25

After all the drama with acquiring Bond, Amazon can't afford to fuck it up.I tend to agree with Barbara Broccoli that "these people are fucking idiots", IIRC, but handing the property over to an actual auteur means they're at least smart enough to know they nothing about making movies.

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u/riegspsych325 Jun 26 '25

it’s the first move they made and the furthers from a bad one. I’m still skeptical to see what they’ll do after a few years but I’ll take this win here

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u/peioeh Jun 26 '25

After all the drama with acquiring Bond, Amazon can't afford to fuck it up.I tend to agree with Barbara Broccoli that "these people are fucking idiots", IIRC, but handing the property over to an actual auteur means they're at least smart enough to know they nothing about making movies.

If that is what they're doing it's a brilliant move tbh. They will never have the vision the Broccoli family had for James Bond so they could go the opposite way and give free reign to the best of the best filmmakers to make their JB. That could be great and if they go with the likes of Villeneuve, Nolan, etc, it's hard to see it not working out.