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Chris Nolan: "I'd Love to do a Bond Film"

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DoctorWho said:
Watch more Bond films. Also, I shudder at the thought of some future utopia for internet geeks in which every film is made "dark and gripping." I appreciate my campy Bond just as much as when they delve into the dark stuff. The Bond films that manage to capture both are easily the best.
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I've seen nearly every Bond film. The oldest ones have aged terribly, and the newer ones, aside from Goldeneye, were never that good. It's by far one of the most overrated film franchises out there in my opinion.

Camp can work... but it never has for Bond with me. Casino Royale, and certain aspects of QoS, nailed the presentation of a man that has lost everything and is actually human. That's why I enjoyed them so much. When I was 14 I was okay with Pierce Brosnan having all of these magical tools, but now I want more depth from the films. That's just my personal preference.

But hey, feel free to brand me as an "internet geek" without knowing anything else about my taste in films. :lol
 
Solo said:
Steven Spielberg was the biggest filmmaker in the world in the 1980's, and he desperately wanted to do a Bond movie, and he was never let within spitting distance of it.
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And thank god for that. I can just imagine the scene where Bond saves the plucky kid from impending disaster, and the cute denoumont they share at the end of the film.
 
Earl Cazone said:
One thing i hate about christian bale is the wart between his nose and the right eye.

christian_bale_2.jpg


i know its absurd, but i have to force myself not to look at it, but its one of those "cant unsee it" things.
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And just when I was beginning to forget about it... D:
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
I've seen nearly every Bond film. The oldest ones have aged terribly, and the newer ones, aside from Goldeneye, were never that good. It's by far one of the most overrated film franchises out there in my opinion.

Camp can work... but it never has for Bond with me. Casino Royale, and certain aspects of QoS, nailed the presentation of a man that has lost everything and is actually human. That's why I enjoyed them so much. When I was 14 I was okay with Pierce Brosnan having all of these magical tools, but now I want more depth from the films. That's just my personal preference.

But hey, feel free to brand me as an "internet geek" without knowing anything else about my taste in films. :lol
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Sorry, it's just everytime someone talks about the evolution of any film franchise it seems they want to make it "darker and grittier." It's just a phenomenon I can't quite get used to. I love the new Bond stuff but I'd like to see the series continue to embrace some of the core elements that it was built upon. The gadgets were never a bad thing and honestly you can have a bit of camp mixed in with your human drama.

It just seems that "dark and gritty" equals taking a lot of the fun out of what made some of these past franchises great. Same with Batman.

Hey, I'm also an internet geek. :lol I think we all are.
 
Solo said:
No, I mean talking about Bond is not how you get a Bond gig. Every actor who has ever been approached for the role who has then turned around and talked to the media about being up for Bond has subsequently not gotten the role. Same with directors. Talking to the media is almost a death knell.
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Yea, I'm sure his lack of grace and respect has ruined this huge director's chances of reviving another dead franchise.

Get real Solo, I'm sure the Bond folks would love to have him make Bond relevant, and hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time
 
PhoenixDark said:
Yea, I'm sure his lack of grace and respect has ruined this huge director's chances of reviving another dead franchise.

Get real Solo, I'm sure the Bond folks would love to have him make Bond relevant, and hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time
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MGM may be on the brink of death but the Bond franchise is fairly strong right now.
 
It's not that I want "dark and gritty" for its own sake, but in my teens I read almost all the Bond books and found them even better than the movies. And in a lot of cases, it's because they made the movies "lighter" than the books.

The Craig filsm manage to get teh tone right (as did the Dalton films and the first few Connery ones).
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
It's not that I want "dark and gritty" for its own sake, but in my teens I read almost all the Bond books and found them even better than the movies. And in a lot of cases, it's because they made the movies "lighter" than the books.

The Craig filsm manage to get teh tone right (as did the Dalton films and the first few Connery ones).
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I think the Craig films go a little too far in one direction. The Dalton films nailed the character from the books IMO. If they could balance Craig's Bond to what we saw out of the Dalton films, I'd be happy.
 
PhoenixDark said:
Yea, I'm sure his lack of grace and respect has ruined this huge director's chances of reviving another dead franchise.

Get real Solo, I'm sure the Bond folks would love to have him make Bond relevant, and hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time
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The Bond franchise is as relevant as it's been since Roger Moore was in them. Unfortunately it's tied to MGM so it's in funding hell.
 
PhoenixDark said:
Yea, I'm sure his lack of grace and respect has ruined this huge director's chances of reviving another dead franchise.

Get real Solo, I'm sure the Bond folks would love to have him make Bond relevant, and hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time
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You didn't see Casino Royale did you?
 
Wow, Nolan would be a pretty inappropriate director for a mindless, entertaining franchise like Bond. Do I really need Nolan to get all introspective about the life of a spy? What I need from Bond is : great locations (Not Nolan), great geographic space editing (Definitely Not Nolan), great fight sequences (SOOOOO Not Nolan), great chases (NO, NOT NOLAN PLEASE NO) and great women (well... Not Nolan).

I guess it'd have good dialogue and a great villain...
 
PhoenixDark said:
Yea, I'm sure his lack of grace and respect has ruined this huge director's chances of reviving another dead franchise.

Get real Solo, I'm sure the Bond folks would love to have him make Bond relevant, and hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time
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Your perception of what a dead franchise is about as on point as your box office predictions apparently

CR:

Domestic: $167,445,960 28.2%
+ Foreign: $426,793,106 71.8%
= Worldwide: $594,239,066

QoS:

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $168,368,427 28.7%
+ Foreign: $417,722,300 71.3%
= Worldwide: $586,090,727

Shit, this fucking franchise is DONE FOR
 
This would be awesome. If he could somehow get signed on to MGM, a Bond film by him would definitely get the studio the financial backing they need.
 
curls said:
You didn't see Casino Royale did you?
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I'm not talking about its gross. Casino Royale is one of the most overrated guy films of the last decade, and we can all agree QoS was bad. The franchise has been stale for 50 years as far as I'm concerned, considering how repetitive each film is.

I'm no Nolan slappy (BB is the second most overrated guy film of the decade) but if anyone can make a Bond movie worth seeing, it's probably him.
 
Solo said:
This is not how it works.
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:lol

Anyway, not going to happen. Directors always talk about movies they would like to do. It's not news.

PhoenixDark said:
I'm not talking about its gross. Casino Royale is one of the most overrated guy films of the last decade, and we can all agree QoS was bad. The franchise has been stale for 50 years as far as I'm concerned, considering how repetitive each film is.
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Oh PD, your negativity concerning absolutely every single thing that mankind creates never ceases to astound me.
 
PhoenixDark said:
I'm not talking about its gross. Casino Royale is one of the most overrated guy films of the last decade, and we can all agree QoS was bad. The franchise has been stale for 50 years as far as I'm concerned, considering how repetitive each film is.

I'm no Nolan slappy (BB is the second most overrated guy film of the decade) but if anyone can make a Bond movie worth seeing, it's probably him.
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This post is full of wrong.
 
PhoenixDark said:
I'm not talking about its gross. Casino Royale is one of the most overrated guy films of the last decade, and we can all agree QoS was bad. The franchise has been stale for 50 years as far as I'm concerned, considering how repetitive each film is.

I'm no Nolan slappy (BB is the second most overrated guy film of the decade) but if anyone can make a Bond movie worth seeing, it's probably him.
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This is why we can't have nice things.
 
It's be unlikely purely for the fact that the Bond franchise is very much led by the producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson. The directors film all the action, but very rarely are they able to put their own personal stamp on the films - and when they do, they fuck up. See Die Another Day as an example.

If Chris Nolan directed a Bond film, it'd be good, but for the most part Broccoli and Wilson would call pretty much all the shots. It wouldn't be a Chris Nolan film, it would purely be a Bond film. It's the same reason why Tarantino would never be able to work on a Bond film.
 
PhoenixDark said:
I'm not talking about its gross. Casino Royale is one of the most overrated guy films of the last decade, and we can all agree QoS was bad. The franchise has been stale for 50 years as far as I'm concerned, considering how repetitive each film is.
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Oh my, I was going to mock you with the famous laughing smiley, but I think I will pity you instead. :p
 
this is before i have seen inception. His action would need a little more work, for his bond to be awesome. The Bond should be a 60s period piece, he creates great atmosphere which bonds have not had in along time. Plus his villian would be a great shade of gray.
 
Dead said:
Your perception of what a dead franchise is about as on point as your box office predictions apparently

CR:

Domestic: $167,445,960 28.2%
+ Foreign: $426,793,106 71.8%
= Worldwide: $594,239,066

QoS:

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $168,368,427 28.7%
+ Foreign: $417,722,300 71.3%
= Worldwide: $586,090,727

Shit, this fucking franchise is DONE FOR
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didn't QoS have like a $200+ million dollar budget too?

While I'm not really a fan of turning Bond into shaky cam Bourne movies, the franchise still makes money. For all the people shitting on it, the movie only got canceled because MGM is billions in debt. They can't get funding because even making the best and highest grossing Bond movie ever would hardly put a dent in their stack of debt.
 
PhoenixDark said:
Get real Solo, I'm sure the Bond folks would love to have him make Bond relevant, and hundreds of millions of dollars at the same time
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:lol :lol :lol Sometimes I think you couldnt be any worse of a troll and then I see something like this :lol Bond is irrevelant now, is he? I guess the $1B+ grossed for CR/QoS and the rave reviews (critics, literary fans, nerds, and the masses) for CR, BAFTA nom for Craig, etc., dont mean shit. Oh, and the Bond franchise is only the single most lucrative property in the industry. Irrevelant indeed.

jett said:
edit: wtf Bond 23 is slated for 2014??
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Its not slated period, as such. It will come out a year from when MGM gets sorted. Both CR and QoS went into pre-production in January and released in November of their respective years. Such will be the case for Bond 23. Im 99% certain MGM gets sorted late this year or early next and Bond 23 releases in 2012 on the 50th anniversary of Dr. No.
 
Solo said:
No thanks. One Inception review states that its (paraphrasing) "like OHMSS, but not as thrilling or exciting". :lol
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Oh. Oh

Well I never had interest in Inception anyways. Even if it's the movie of the forever.
 
Nolan directed Bond with James Cameron action choreography and a unearthed script by Tarantino, starring Matt Damon as James Bond, Ken Watanabee as the token Asian villain and Christian Bale as his male subservient musclehead lackey.

GAF's Wettest Dream.
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Nolan directed Bond with James Cameron action choreography and a unearthed script by Stanley Kubrick.

GAF's Wettest Dream.
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Might as well have said INCEPTION.


;)
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Nolan directed Bond with James Cameron action choreography and a unearthed script by Tarantino, starring Matt Damon as James Bond, Ken Watanabee as the token Asian villain and Christian Bale as his male subservient musclehead lackey.

GAF's Wettest Dream.
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Don't forget Lady Gaga as the bond girl.
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
It's called Bond. James Bond.

A Chris Nolan joint, with all new hit singles by Wally Pfister and bangers by the ZimmerMan Duo.
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:lol
 
kaskade said:
At this point I think I would watch anything Nolan does. Since MGM killed off Bond 23 why not let Nolan do it?
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MGM owns the rights to Bond. Nolan is a WB lapdog. He is almost a throwback to the old days where actors and directors were under contract with a studio. MGM and WB would have to go in on the film together for this to even be remotely feasible. And since MGM is affiliated quite closely with Sony, I dont see any of this ever happening.
 
AFreak said:
Sony, paging Sony.

Don't fuck this chance up please.
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Dear AFreak,

This is perfect. We can have scenes where British intelligence officers sift through swarms of counter-terrorism information stored on Blu-ray discs, and people in Q's department simulating combat gadgets with PlayStation®Move controllers. Thanks!

Signed,
Sony
 
Pctx said:
Nolan for Bond yes.

Bale for bond movie? Don't you even fucking dare Christopher....
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Ironically Bale was rumored to be one of the top contenders to replace Brosnan back in late 2004 when Casino Royale was still in the conceptual stages, but then he got cast in Batman :D
 
Bond films have sucked for years. It's like they are content with making ~$200 million box office profit every few years for tradition's sake.

Not saying Nolan should, but someone should give Bond a proper treatment.
 
DeathNote said:
Bond films have sucked for years. It's like they are content with making ~$200 million box office profit every few years for tradition's sake.

Not saying Nolan should, but someone should give Bond a proper treatment.
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Someone didn't see Casino Royale.
 
DeathNote said:
Bond films have sucked for years. It's like they are content with making ~$200 million box office profit every few years for tradition's sake.

Not saying Nolan should, but someone should give Bond a proper treatment.
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That's a pretty nice thing to be content with.
 
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