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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.

Rian Johnson

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I have no earthly idea what a Rian Johnson-directed 007 film would look like – and that is exactly what interests me about this idea. Johnson’s three theatrical features – Brick, The Brothers Bloom, and Looper – are each vastly different from one another, yet share clear narrative and thematic interests that define him as a thoughtful, ridiculously stylish artist. These skills would serve him well on a hypothetical James Bond film, where his aptitude for complex, fascinating plots and ability to build compelling, three-dimensional characters would get a healthy workout. He also has some action credentials from Looper, and is respected enough, I would wager, to attract some impressive talent to the project. Behind David Fincher, this is the name on this list that I would be most intrigued by.

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