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10 Directors Who Should Make A James Bond Movie

This coming Tuesday, February 12th, Sam Mendes’ Skyfall arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray, thus completing its staggeringly successful $1 billion-plus run around the globe. Now that the dust has settled around what many consider to be one of the very best James Bond films, it seems like as good a time as any to start thinking about the future of the franchise – especially when Skyfall itself put so many promising pieces in place for upcoming installments.

Brad Bird

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One of my favorite potential directors on this list, Brad Bird has proven time and again that when it comes to stylish, character-based action, few do it better. We have never really seen him do an ‘espionage’ film – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is more a straight-up action flick, albeit a phenomenal one – but The Incredibles is filled with 007-esque stylistic touches, and every film Bird has ever made, no matter the subject matter, demonstrates his capacity to make top-notch pulp fiction. He would undoubtedly be a terrific Bond director, and I would actually be most interested to see him helm the first installment of a new 007, after Daniel Craig departs the series. I think Bird’s style may be a tad too ‘bright’ for Craig, but when the time eventually comes to recast, Bird might be just the man to set a new tone. 

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