Looks like things are about to move forward after all… 
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And I want to have a body like Brad Pitt’s (sadly I am gym phobic so this is equally unlikely).
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Sensible assumption.
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He said that before NTTD came out. He was aware the the contracts for himself, Harris and Fiennes were up with that film as well as Craig’s so he didn’t see any of them coming back. The other 2 were saying how much they’d love to return, but Whishaw has always been pragmatic about it.
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While the Mi6 crew or some of them have sticked around before, this time it would not even be useful to offer some familiarity that way.
So that whole question is a nonstarter.
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Put me down as someone who would like to see Fiennes back.
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My pick for a new Q:
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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I would welcome Gary Oldman and Olvia Colman as M or Q.
Or scrap that - they would need too much screentime.
Go with unknow stage thespians! They are trained and great as well.
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Fiennes would have been interesting as an alternative to Brosnan and/or Craig back in the day - but he was a fine, if misused M.
If we could go a similar route in the future I’d vote for Jason Isaacs as next M; that idea from our ‘Casting the Continuations’ thread really got me intrigued.
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Tweak that a little to be Jackson Lamb and I’m in 
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A disheveled M, I like that!
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A rebrand is what we need. A new Bond with a clean slate.
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There’s quite a few of the cast of Slow Horses who would be brilliant in Bond.
Even if one already has…
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They definitely need to rebrand. Which is, for me, partly disappointing because, on paper, I absolutely love the idea of Ralph Fiennes as M. But, they gave hi some awful material to work with. He was able to overcome it in SP, but they did his character so badly in the last one that I don’t think that they can bring him back, even as a completely different M like they did with Dench.
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If they can bring back Fiennes (ooh, after his Oscar win for „Conclave“, directed by Edward Berger) then please as a different M and with a different Mi6 crew, just to make it clear that this is a different era.
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I’m going to be honest. I don’t care how old he is, or if there are completely different choices on the table - I’d love it if Martin Campbell directed Bond 26. You can’t deny it would be a great story. Spanning decades and three Bond actors. He’s done it before and those films were both good. That has to count for something.
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That is also my first reaction, but after thinking about it a little more… what good and remarkable things has he created after CR. I can’t think of anything. In any case, except for that first nice Zorro film, the rest of his CV can only be called average to reasonably good and he looks like a good hired help, nothing special.
Whether the success of both films can really be attributed solely to his credit and whether it was not a team effort that everyone did exta their best because both films heralded a kind of new beginning. It seems more a matter of coming up with the right time right place. No one can’t tell me that another director would not have produced those films with a good end result, or maybe even better.
For example, both films have a moment around two-thirds of the way through the film when the story comes to a standstill, while there should still be some kind of urgency.
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No to Campbell. He made two very good Bond films and ushered in two successful Bond actors. But it’s time for a complete and total change from what has been done before. The only thing that should remain the same is Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. Everything else (director, writer(s), composer, etc.) should be completely and totally different.
As great as Campbell is, he shouldn’t get to introduce roughly half of the James Bond actors. It’s time for a fresh perspective for the franchise.
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I never thought Campbell was one of the great Bond directors. He had the good fortune to be asked at the right time. And he was good with action.
GE, with the years, has not proven to be that great, and CR has extremely wobbly pacing and some badly directed supporting characters (and Craig was not Campbell‘s idea either).
As for someone over 80 directing an extremely stressful blockbuster - c‘mon, nobody is that fit, really. And it’s also not a good look to hire him, as if the only guy they trust to do it is an octogenarian. Hey, that wasn’t even a good idea for the US presidency.
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