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UPDATE: Christopher Nolan has told the BBC that, to him, James Bond is one of the great characters in contemporary fiction. Speaking before last night’s world premiere of his much anticipated Inception in London, Nolan said that 007 is a huge influence on his mental heist thriller. “I’ve loved the Bond films since I was a kid. For me, they’re always about the expansiveness of cinema. The first Bond films set up infinite possibilities about the world they create. I’d love to do a Bond film.”
Nolan also told the BBC that the James Bond movies had a strong influence on his new movie Inception, whose marketing campaign describes the pic as “James Bond meets The Matrix“. “The Bond influence on the film was very intentional because, for me, growing up with the Bond films — they’ve always stood for grand-scale action,” said Nolan who helmed The Dark Knight and Batman Begins. Like the Bond films, Inception was shot in various locations around the globe including Morocco, France, Japan and Canada. Nolan said the Bond films had always “stood for the promise of being taken to some place bigger than you could have imagined” and added: “In dealing with the human mind and dreams, my mind naturally gravitates towards the Bond films as that sort of expression of cinematic potential. By the end of the film you feel that Inception could go anywhere and do anything.”
Here’s great interview footage from the premiere with Nolan et al:
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The Bond Franchise has become a joke. It is so crap. I’m not going to go through the list of what is wrong with it. Because, I don’t want to help any of you guys out.
If Nolan does a Bond film, he’ll bring back REAL WRITING, Characterization, to Bond & everybody else. We’d finally see another great Bond villian (when was the last time we had anyone as memorable as Grant, Blowfeld, or Goldfinger? Never…) Nolan stands for A class filmmaking, with terrific scripts backing up his projects – just look at his filmography.
Mr. Nolan – I’m keeping my fingers crossed you either get this Bond or the next!
I’m sure when the people behind Bond heard about Nolan wanting to direct a Bond movie, they jumped for joy!
After the fiasco that was the last Bourne movie…Uh, I mean, Bond movie, this is GREAT NEWS! The Quantum Of Solace attempted to be like Bourne, and failed miserably.
Nolan can bring Bond back the way he was meant to be. While they’re at it, make it R-rated with sex, nudity and extreme violence. That is the true Bond!
Nolan could make a great job of it, simply because Nolan would make a great job of whatever it is he applied his mind to.
But other posters are right, unless some mirale happens suring the sale of MGM, he will never direct Bond.
Nolan gets my green light simply for Bale’s flanged “Who’re you working for?” and accompanying nightmare imagery.
If Nolan directed Bond, I would see it the opening day, same with Cameron, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Greengrass, and maybe just maybe Michael Bay, I love Bond, especially Goldeneye & Casino Royale, but like any popular director it won’t happen, maybe we could perform Inception on the producers and then it could work.
Humm … people, I think James Cameron has already made HIS version of James Bond. It is True Lies. Personally, I enjoyed True Lies much more than some of the Bond movies, such as Die Another Day, or Quantum of Solace …
That said, I don’t think Cameron will come back anywhere near this kind of picture …
I love Nolan’s style. His directing a Bond movie would be very interesting, but as someone said, I’m not sure the producers would agree to let this franchise in anyone’s hands, even if these hands are the ones of a great director.
Please, PLEASE(!!), keep Nolan away from Bond. I don’t like his Batman movies at all, so I’d hate to see him taint Bond.
Is there a new James Bond movie filmed in Serbia?
Wow this guy really should check himself! Cant name a Nolan hit??? Memento was a huge sucess- Insomnia was amazing and was met with critical acclaim- The Prestige is an amazing film. As a filmmaker and writer, you kind of embarrass me to talk such shit and not know your facts. If you have to go to imdb because your out of the times and cant name his “other hits” aside from Batman you prolly shouldnt be bashing him because he’s had a recent success with films like batman and Inception (which you obviously dont like- hey to each his own).
Im not real crazy about Terry Gilliam, but im not going to bash his films or trash talk his work (being an artist myself). James Cameran is amazing but frankly im getting tired of his Romeo and Juliet subplot in almost every film he does (unlikely opposites who have no buisiness falling in love yet they do- Terminator, Titanic, Avatar). I love The Abyss and yet there was another sub plot of predictable love (or re falling if love if you will). The only film of Cameran’s that didnt have a slightly over the top R&J type sub plot of opposites attracted was Aliens (my OPINION his best film).
Although i respect someone saying they didnt like a film that i love- dont go making speculations because someone is popular or successfull. I didnt like Avatar, but im not gonna bash it- there were some GREAT things about that film, but it didnt really do it fore and i thought it was over hyped- im not gonna talk shit on it for that reason tho. It shows a lack of understanding and makes you seem kind of juvenile as a writer or filmmaker.