Christopher Nolan big favorite to direct the next two James Bond films

2023-09-30 08:00:00

Since the retirement of Daniel Craig in 2021, the producers have been looking for a filmmaker capable of relaunching the saga.

He has been telling anyone who will listen for more than ten years now, Christopher Nolan “loves” James Bond. And better than that, he could see himself in the shoes of the director of the next mission. Because it is not trivial to recall, Daniel Craig took a well-deserved retirement three years ago already with the release on screens of No Time to Die and it will soon be three years, an eternity in the universe of the film industry.

Christopher Nolan would have met the high priestess of the saga Barbara Broccoli several times. The latter, who wants to continue to modernize the Bondian gesture, sees in the director ofInceptionof three Batmanof Tenet and todayOppenheimerthe gifted filmmaker, holder of 11 Oscars for his films, capable of raising the adaptations of the adventures of 007 to a level of excellence never before reached until today.

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Christopher Nolan, who feels desired by the producers, that is, Eon and Amazon, is now ready to say yes. it nevertheless poses two conditions. He first wants to keep his creative freedom, that is to say, concretely, to be the master of the scenario and the choice of actors. And, he wishes – this is not a detail – to return to the original inspiration of the Bond series, the novels of Ian Fleming.

Tenet by Christopher Nolan in 2020, with John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson….

Barbara Broccoli, who had already taken a risk by hiring Sam Mendes for psychoanalytics Heavy rain (2012) et Spectre (2015), will certainly accept Nolan’s demands. On the other hand, Amazon, the new co-producer of the saga, has not yet given its point of view on this crucial subject for the future of James Bond.

If Christopher Nolan becomes the master of James Bond, he should bring in his suitcases the one who will play 007. His name is Aaron Taylor-Johnson. He’s handsome, he’s young (33 years old), and he proved himself with the role of Ives in Tenet, a science fiction spy film where a CIA agent penetrates a clandestine Russian organization. A James Bond story before the letter…