Nolan directing would probably mean the return of Hoyte Van Hoytema.
I can already feel Bond fans on edge for the first trailer for any hint of the pee color look 
In all fairness that was Mendes wanting that as I recall.
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NolanĀ“s films donĀ“t look like that, so I guess we would be fine
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If a director is hired they should be allowed to present their vision, but with a franchise like Bond I think there should be certain guardrails. Especially in the context of Bond 26 theyāre not just making one movie but launching a new era. If a director wanted someone else in the lead role Iād say the producers would have to put their foot down, unless they all unanimously agreed - as was the case with Craig and Campbell for Casino Royale.
I like Nolan, and most of his movies. However his work can feel dense, dialogue heavy and more like scripts that donāt translate into living, breathing pieces of entertainment to enjoy. Which isnāt to say the ideas or the techniques found within are bad - theyāre not. If he got the job I wouldnāt be disappointed as heās clearly competent and loves the franchise.
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Moonraker - May of 1954
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Just please tell me Noah Baumbach would be co-writing
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I like the suggestion that Barbara Broccoli will be doing Barbenheimer to look for potential employees.
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Variety was a serious trade paper once.
Now it makes click bait lists like this one:
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As usual, 90% load of bull. If this was meant to be taken serious, they should have at least chosen pictures on which the people remotely look like James Bond. If Idris Elba died in car crash tomorrow, heād still be on those lists for the next 15 years.
As you said, cheapest clickbait.
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I also love how they state explicitly that Bond will stay male - and then they put lots of women on the list.
Variety.
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Itās āThe Spice of lifeā you knowā¦
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Decided to come up with a list of the longest periods between the end of filming of one film and the start of filming the nextā¦
LTK to GE - 6 years 2 months
DAD to CR - 4 years
NTTD to Bond 26 - 3 years 10 months*
SP to NTTD - 3 years 9 months
QOS to SF - 3 years 7 months
*and counting
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I always like lists like this and am not trying to pile onā¦
ā¦but it seems odd to write it as ā4 years*ā instead of ā3 years 10 monthsā especially considering the last two on the list.
COVID really did unprecedented things to the NTTD release date and where I expected your asterisk to direct us.
Because the entire point in my writing the post was to show that this period was about to move into 2nd place on the list, but I went ahead and changed it for you 
After LTK it really felt as if there would never be another Bond film. Which helped GE enormously.
Now, we know there will be more Bond films because the brand is just too precious to abandon. But it appears very unlikely that shooting could start in 2024, due to all the uncertainty in the business with the strikes probably lasting until Christmas or longer.
2025 would be the earliest shooting start date, with a late 2026 release date (they most certainly will avoid a summer date).
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Does anyone else feel uncomfortable with the attitude of āblah blah covidā
Millions died, yet now itās hand waved.
Humanity is worse than any Bond villain
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I lost someone and still suffer long term effects from COVID, I hope you donāt think I came across with a āblah, blahā attitude.
I think the good part of humanity is its ability to move forward (hopefully learning from its mistakes). COVID was/is a landmark moment in time that it and its consequences on the era in general will be referred to like world wars, natural disasters and terrorism.
I donāt think that makes it āblah, blahā but reinforces the magnitude of the event by seeing the ripples.
That said, I will try to get things back on track and making friends again by sayingā¦
ā¦I donāt know who Bond 7 is going to be. I just want him better than Timothy Dalton, he was the worst.
We can all only agree on the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Another interview of Campbell.
(Heās been quite talkative about the next Bond, hasnāt he? Could it be heās waiting for a phone call?)
Says ignoring Bondās death as the simple solution to bring back Bond, and saying he had mixed reactions to NTTD, pointing some faults in his opinionā¦
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Tomorrow Never Dies is on TV here in Blighty, got me thinking this is a perfect kind of film for the next intro to new Bond, Bang straight in, itās Bond you know the score, we got the Bond riff in the soundtrack, Bond is looking sharp, he appears in his Navy Commander uniform, great action, what else do you want? That can come in future movies as the character develops.
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