Not So Fast Sam Mendes! Another Director Enters The BOND 24 Mix

Is every director being considered for this movie?

Who's this guy?
Uhm...NO.

@youngman I agree I think Nolan would make a great bond movie but it is time for him to go back to writing and directing his own material. On a different note though Warner Bros should get a creative team including Nolan, Goyer, Timm, Synder, Burnett and Waid to oversee the dc movie universe.

@TheYoungMan, I dunno, I really like the idea of a Nolan directed Bond movie. He himself has admitted to 'plundering' them for inspiration in his own movies, plus not much of his filmography is truly 'original' stuff anyway. I think the only concepts he actually came up with himself were Inception and Following. The Prestige is based on a novel, Insomnia is a remake of a European film, Memento was based on a short story his brother wrote, and Interstellar was written by his brother for Steven Spielberg. And obviously, we all know what The Dark Knight trilogy was based on.

And I'm not saying that as an insult or anything, I'm just saying that I don't see why directing a Bond film should be any different to any other project he may choose. He's expressed a love of the franchise and an interest in directing one anyway, and one thing he tends to do very well is take already established concepts and improve them.

If he needs to take a step back from anything, I think it'd be superhero movies. He did what he set out to do with his Batman movies, he's produced Man Of Steel. Maybe he could produce the rest of the Man Of Steel trilogy if it gets made, but I hate the idea of him being tied to a DC Cinematic Universe or The Justice League, because then we'll never see him make anything even remotely unique.

Headhunters sucked though.

as long as it isn't Nolan and there isn't a huge gap in between Bond movies I am not too concerned about who directs. Refn, Mendes, this dude. I would like 2 more movies with Craig before a new Bond is introduced.

And before Nolanites flip out on my not wanting a Bond movie directed by him, it has to do with his fight scenes. His stories are typically good, and the cinematography is pretty good. but his fight scenes are always sort of mediocre.

@Happy11 What no love for Geoff Johns? Let him take some control of the direction that DC films go. He's a genius IMO the way he blends the rich tradition of a character and yet building a new and unique mythos at the same time.Also he has movie experience from his days with Richard Donner.
@ACira And don't forget inception was plundered from an uncle scrooge comic! I know sounds BS until you look it up and read all of the similarities, at least its a very entertaining theory.
What about Brad Bird directing? I know its cool to hate on Tom Cruise but MI 4 was a pretty entertaining film. Not to mention the rest of his resume is full of great films albeit of a slightly different genre, i.e. The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille.
And finally just because I want it, John Woo. I feel like he hasn't made anything here in the west for a while and I loved/love his MI 2 take. Not to mention Hard Boiled, The Killer, a Better Tomorrow.