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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.
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Published: Feb 8, 2013 10:00 am

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Kathryn Bigelow

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No woman has ever directed a James Bond film, and Kathryn Bigelow seems like the most obvious choice to remedy that oversight. Her recent, most acclaimed work – The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty – hardly screams 007, but for most of her career, Bigelow was a director of less notable, far more pedestrian action movies, and a fairly solid one at that. Hurt Locker was a major leap forward for her, and I think the filmmaker she has evolved into could easily return to her more action-oriented roots and create an outstanding James Bond film, one with a great handle on plot, suspense, spectacle, and character. She seems like a very natural choice for this era of the series, in fact, given that the Craig films have always attempted to exist in something closely resembling our real world; few modern directors are more skilled at emulating reality than Bigelow, and I imagine she would contribute a strong social conscience to the series as well. 

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Jonathan R. Lack
With ten years of experience writing about movies and television, including an ongoing weekly column in The Denver Post's YourHub section, Jonathan R. Lack is a passionate voice in the field of film criticism. Writing is his favorite hobby, closely followed by watching movies and TV (which makes this his ideal gig), and is working on his first film-focused book.
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