Who should be the next Bond... Director?

[Music] I want to take you back to when I was 11 years old and this trailer came on I knew it was too early to promote you while I understand Double's have a very short life expectancy I remember the discourse around Daniel Craig at the time the thoughts about his hair his look the way people debated if he could even live up to the so-called lesser Bond actors only for it to release and be maybe the best Bond movie ever V sh do I look like I give a damn so now with his successor up in the air every single movie s on planet Earth has run a story with their theories cast lists top 10 and the never ending argument that they should cast UDA despite him being only 5 years younger than Daniel Craig but it matters so much less to me who plays the next James Bond than who directs the next James Bond and I'll tell you why PS brosen had maybe the best Bond debut since Shan connory with everyone's favorite of his movies golden eye directed by this guy Martin Campbell it truly pushed the franchise to its most iconic partly because it has one of the best villains almost certainly because it has one of the best Bond performances and then there's that other [Music] reason we both agreed you couldn't use our job he's too short he's impossible to shoot so 20 years later creatively spurred by Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and Paul Green grass's born Supremacy the bond producing Partnership of Barbara broccoli and Michael G Wilson have a mission make bond modern again make him sexy and make it feel fresh what noan did for Batman and what Bourne did for the Spy genre they wanted to do for Bond a whole new energy a whole new experience a fresh edgy approach so who did they hire to direct it the director of golden eye Martin Campbell at 62 Campbell was the oldest director to Helma Bond movie between gold and I he had made the two Antonio Bandera Sor movies the K2 Rescue movie Vertical Limit and an adventure drama about humanitarian Aid workers Beyond borders so why did they return to Campell well actually they had offered him first ride of refusal on every Bond film since golden ey Campbell only chose to do Royale because it was a chance to develop an entirely new Bond from the ground up like he had with broen and it was based on the first Fleming book so there was a deeper well of character to draw from but why did they hire Campbell for golden eye as is common with big budget properties the best director for the job is usually not the First Choice John Woo Peter medak and Michael Caden Jones were all considered but ultimately they chose Campbell because of his exceptional TV directing work on the show Edge of Darkness which he later remade as a feature film starring mil Gibson but what made Campell so special why was he different from the other Bond directors who worked with broen and why did the bond producers choose him to help the franchise well as crazy as it seems now James Bond was not a hot property in 1995 it had been 8 years since Licensed to Kill and in that time the Berlin Wall had come down the Soviet Union had ended and bond was looked at as sort of redundant because I think you're a sexist misogynist dinosaur a relic of the Cold War everyone was feeling that it might be over there were things in the Press about it being passed Itself by date and finished and a relic and not relevant to the 1990s and all that sort of [ __ ] the main story of that film was what is going to happen now of course things got pretty bad so I think Pierce's Bond reflected the changing World Order and the need more than ever for the heroic Endeavor plus there was unexpected pressure on the film's budget we had 55 million to produce the movie which was extraordinarily low so there was a lot of financial pressure for reference the budget of Die Hard with a Vengeance which would go on to be the highest grossing film of the year was 90 million the schedule was also very rushed filming from January 1995 to June 1995 believe it or not we have 18 weeks but it's a very tight 18 weeks in fact any film you do it's never enough time and uh my last film was 12 weeks this is 18 you think it' be enough allowing just 5 months of post- production before release which maybe explains why some parts of the film aren't that polished but it paid off golden ey was the third highest scoring film of the year worldwide but before we go any further we've got to answer an important question why do directors matter like me you probably grew up thinking that three people were responsible for creating the James Bond movies Ian Fleming Shan connory and the original producer of all the Bond films Albert cubby broccoli the Bond films have always been broccoli Productions his daughter Barbara taking over from Golden Eye onwards while the films have continued through different actors and drifted further from floing Source material The Producers have always partnered with directors whose takes on bond never go too far from the formula plus there's an obvious Joy these directors have in making a Bond film in the Bond style it's exciting and scary you know there's a huge audience out there and you have to deliver certain elements those elements in include the style of the film The Swagger of bond the girls the onliners the gadgets as a director you want to leave your finger marks on it but you have to accept that certain things are expected of you but who created that style well to know that we need to look at the first Bond director a man whose life in and of itself could have been a movie Terrence Young born in 1915 in Shanghai to Irish parents young served in the British Army in World War II where he rose to the rank of Captain and fought in the the disastrous operation Market Garden where in just 10 days close to 15,000 Allied lives were lost afterwards Young found himself in a Dutch hospital being nursed back to health by volunteers one of whom was a young Audrey Hiner who later became better known as Audrey heppo postwar he became a screenwriter and eventually a director in the 1950s he made several films with Albert broccoli who was fixated on acquiring the rights to a book written by a British author also a veteran of War II called Ian Fleming after realizing it would be too hard to acquire the rights of Thunderball broccoli settled on adapting a television concept Fleming had been shopping around called Dr No and after guy green guy Hamilton Val guest and Ken Hughes turned down the job broccoli offered the directing gig to Terence Young Who had gone to direct not only Dr No but also From Russia with Love and Thunderball I'm glad I killed him you're glad got it bloody good no I know it's all right you all right Sean bloody good the reason he didn't direct Goldfinger is because he was busy directing the Thriller Wait Until Dark starring Audrey heurn more than 20 years after she helped him recover from his injuries as an aside waiting till dark is a really great Thriller give it a watch but the true great directing decision of Terence Young long before cameras ever rolled was picking sha connory as James Bond but he didn't just cast him according to several sources young made Shan connory to James Bond you have to remember that sea was a pretty rough diamond at that time and teren taught him everything he knew I think he really sort of coached Shan how to be James Bond he had a maximum amount of style he had an enormous influence on creating James Bond Peter hunt the editor of many of the Bond films who had later direct the debut of Connor's successor claims that young talk connory everything what to say at dinner parties what wine to order with which meal how to move elegantly every director puts his stamp on a film every director some of his personality if sometimes not all of his personality comes off in a film his main influence was creating the bond character if James Bond appeared sophisticated and refined that's because Terrence young was young moved only in the finest places wore expensive suits and drank only the best champagne we had a yacht they rented a yacht on which we would go between takes when we had to work on a beach they would have tent champagne would be there and the best of wine that was teren anyway that was his style and that was the way that things were done so I worked on rougher pictures but Thunderbolt was definitely the easiest lace in pre-production when connory was almost ready to make his debut young took connory on a lunchtime trip into downtown London to his own tayor on saval Road it was time for connory to put on the suit as it were by the time connory showed up for his first day of filming young had changed everything about him connory no longer talked with his hands one of Young's most infamous pet peeves connory was already far from being a bad actor but young knew how to make him shine and he did he had turned connory into a gentleman and then turned that gentleman into an icon Terrence young never had a film made about his life but James Bond as we think of him is much closer to ter Terence Young than sha connory or even Ian Fleming's written version of the character Terence was a director that set the sort of style of it and he saw himself uh as James Bond Terence Young was James Bond he was he was the Glam Connor's model will always be the thing to which every other Bond actor is compared to and that model was firmly set by Terence Young all this is to say whoever takes on bond inherits the legacy of six actors and 12 director s but if you go back to the source the thing that was most important and is still most important is that sense of character a good director will navigate obstacles while trying to preserve a sense of tone and character a great director will take on something that could easily be silly or false like a story about a secret agent who goes everywhere in three-piece suits driving a sports car while telling his name to everyone he meets this a new Banker Mr Bond James Bond into something that feels believable and even emotional an easy way to show this is by looking at what happens when someone who isn't a great actor plays James Bond can you still make a great movie out of [Music] it now before anyone jumps to the comments section I love George Len be I love his bond I love that he can't quite shake his Australian accent this never happened to the other fell and I love how he fights and the way he looks lasenby with the exception of connory looks the most like he could handle himself in a fight before heading to a casino to meet a rich billionaire for dinner I cannot believe that in this performance he is the same age as I am now but let's be honest lerby is almost by default the worst Bond actor partly because he wasn't even an actor he managed to get a hold of a suit from Sean Connor's tailor get the same Rolex and haircut as connory and just manag to convince the bond producers and Peter hunt to meet with him he lied through the meeting that he had wide acting credits and got a screen test only to end up confessing to Peter hunt that he had made it all up and wasn't really an actor The Story Goes that Peter hunt laughed and told him you just strolled in here and managed to fool two of the most ruthless bastards in the industry you're an actor the whole story of how he became bond is priceless and you should go and watch the documentary becoming Bond because it's superb and really funny you got to change his accent so it wasn't my name's Bond James Bor 007 he give us a martiny sh St and a girl get but Len be isn't the reason on Her Majesty's Secret Service is a great Bond film Peter Hunt is Peter hunt had edited the first three Bond films and he pushed to direct You Only Live Twice But after he was denied he left the franchise behind and took a world round trip only to run into Albert broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert by accident in Tokyo broccoli asked Peter hunt on the spot to come back and direct second unit with the understanding that if he did a good job he could direct on Her Majesty's Secret Service so for his first ever time in the director's chair Peter hunt did The Impossible and made a successful Bond film without Sean Connor it's hard to overstate how radical this was for the time if Majesty had failed it's likely we would never have gotten the passing of the torch from actor to actor we love to this day guy Hamilton and John Glenn respectively handled Roger Moore and Timothy do 's debut but both of them had directed films of the previous Bond actors before taking the Reigns which makes Terren young Martin Campbell and Peter hunt the only directors to ever handle the first appearance of a James Bond actor as their first Bond film it's also worth noting in my opinion that all three of them have the most iconic reveals of7 which could just be because they're talented but also because it can be argued that they had something to prove Terrence young with the famous backr scene in Dr no where his face isn't revealed until connory lights his cigarette with the theme playing in sync with his name being stated for the first time Mr Bond James Bond in majesties Peter hunt directs a fantastic scene where Bond saves Tracy from drowning herself almost completely in silhouette before introducing her and us to George len7 good morning my name's Bond James Bond but Martin Campbell's two Bond introductions are exceptional and particularly notable for how distinct they are well while golden ey has the incredible damn jump sequence with Bond being introduced mid-action with a quippy line and a right hook beg you pardon forgot to knock Casino Royale introduces a bond that lives in Shadows not trying to show off but able to hold a quick conversation to find out as much as he can before doing what he needs to but this is also into cut with Bond making what is understood to be his first kill like golden eye it's in a bathroom but this time it is brutal violent and genuinely unpleasant and Bon doesn't have anything funny to say once the job is done with Campbell we clearly have someone who knows how to do bond with a classical Edge while still making the action exciting and contemporary both in the action escaper spectacle of the '90s and the post 911 paranoia of the 2000s several of Cino royale's action scenes are up there with the all-time greats the parkour construction site chase the airport sabotage attempt the iconic Aston Martin roll the broke a world record which was only beaten by Fall gu last year these are Beats of action that rank as some of the best Bond moments so the biggest question is will Martin Campbell return He is 80 years old now and recently expressed that he thinks he is much too old to do another Bond film but would love to be asked and would consider it I mean George Miller is one year younger than him I'd back Campbell's chances of making lightning strike a third time but let's assume he passes or the producers going a new Direction who genuinely has a chance at not just being the next Bond director but a great Bond director I know everyone online loves to say Christoph B Nolan for some reason [Applause] [Applause] [Music] all people suggest Dennis vov or Ridley Scott but the truth is that the Bon franchise has never been a comfortable place for Visionary directors the closest that has come to working is Sam Mendes and part of the reason he himself credit Skyfall with being as good as it was similar to Campbell with financial problems MGM had gone bankrupt which meant the production had to shut down and he and the writers had time to refine the script into better shape these movies are very difficult to right those 10 months of downtime on Skyfall that's when the script really turned around because we had the time to go down blind alleys and try things and that time was not afforded to me when we made spectre and you can see the differences in the script as much as I love the idea of Lyn Ramsey or luuk guo tackling Bond it seems like these films are highly organized chaos machines that only certain filmmakers can survive creatively it's interesting that after Terrence Young The Producers would mix it up with some homegrown Talent both Peter hunt and and John Glenn began working on Bond's editors before directing and complete newcomers to action films like Louis Gilbert my first thought was what the hell am I going to do there had been four very good films before me and how do I make it any different I had a long talk with cubby and he said oh I'm sure you'll find a way of making it a bit better or a bit different and I had already made 10 or 12 films so I was fairly confident I could do something with it and that is what most Bond directors have done made things a bit better or a bit different it's fascinating that the same formula for choosing directors who have limited action experience seems to have been a consistent decision ever since the fifth Bond movie Danny Bo one of the most iconic and established British directors of all time left the last Bond movie after not wanting to fire his longtime writer John Hodge replacing him with the producers established Bond writing team of Neil pvis and Robert Wade I remember thinking should I really get involved in franchises because they don't really want something different they want you to freshen it up a bit but not really challenge it and we wanted to do something different with it unfortunately Danny's crazy madap ideas didn't quite tie up with what Barbara and Michael wanted it was definitely a good thing to do maybe another time though I'm revving Barbara up to have another go with Danny he had some extraordinary ideas they just needed a little pulling together you know a lot B that's hardly a substitute the next Bond director like the next Bond should be someone unexpected someone who can manage a large production like a TV show or a miniseries with a great sense of character and personality someone who doesn't seem like they'll shake the boat but can still drive home an exceptional piece of work it shouldn't necessarily be someone who screams that person is an action movie director either remember that Martin Campbell hadn't made golden eye until he made golden eye so here are some of my thoughts on interesting European filmmakers who could take on bond Anil kah is a name not many people know but he has been making beautiful work for years and won the Oscar for best short film in 2022 for his collaboration with Riz armed the long goodbye but the reason I'm pushing him is for his work on topboy while top booy could be dismissively called the British version of The Wire the way the show builds with interesting double crosses intense showdowns is deeply satisfying and annel's direction of the season 3 finale is superb and is rightly recognized as the highest rated of the entire show however at only 40 he would be the youngest Bond director ever beating out K fukunaga but even younger and more risky would be Rose glass riter director of St M and love Li bleeding I doubt the bond producers would take on someone so young and for some reason they seem to avoid writer directors but Rose glass would bring a creative freshness that I'd love to see plus it's extremely overdue for a Bond film to be directed by a woman so why not someone who knows how to play with the erotic Thriller genre French director Thomas Vincent is one of the most Adept TV directors today with some of the best episodes of The Bodyguard and Reacher to his name in bodyguard in particular his handling of geography space and tension within the action is exceptional and it's a huge reason why that show became so popular seeing his setpiece designs for Bond would be wonderful I know I said that action isn't everything but what the producers saw in Martin cabell's TV work on Edge of Darkness I can definitely see transla to Vincent's work on bodyguard in the more unusual but still prestigious tier we have British director Steve McQueen whose incredible drama hunger and shame followed by 12 years of slave made him one of the most successful independent filmmakers critically and while his action thriller widows disappointed many I think it shows the range he has for turning a fresh perspective on violence and tension in his hands we would not only potentially have one of the most beautiful Bond films ever made his frequent cinematographer Shawn bobbit is an absolute master of crafting beautiful images but someone who can create a new evocative tone for what may end up being the first non-white Bond actor to step into but my number one choice would be Swedish director Johan rank whose work on Chernobyl seems like a real no-brainer his ability to work with great actors on dense material with the backdrops of a huge worldshaping event and still find moments of calm and humor speaks volumes of how he would be able to shape something as unreal as Bond giving you a sense of weight and passion but in all honesty we'll just have to wait and see as much as I love the idea of ly Ramsey or Luca guino tackling Bond it seems like these films are highly organized chaos machines that only certain filmmakers can survive creatively the only certain filmmakers can survive creatively that only certain filmmakers can survive creatively so I had this video finished I was done I was about to hit upload on the final version but I couldn't stop thinking about Luca Luca guadino is one of the best directors working today his sense of nuance and characterization his aesthetic choices his obvious love of genre Cinema make him one of the most interesting filmmakers alive and he would be the best director to helm the next Bond film not Not only would he be the first Italian director of the franchise he would also be the first gay director at least that's what I thought Peter hunt the director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service while never publicly confirming his sexuality lived with his partner nichos ctis from 1975 until his death in 2002 but daring now we have all the time in the world looking at Peter Hunt's Legacy on the franchise and how Luca could fit into it we have to acknowledge that the Bond films of always had this somewhat unspoken metrosexual if not outright homoerotic energy and I'm not talking about recent Bond I'm talking about from the very beginning the only reason I discounted Luca is because he seemed like a risky artistic choice but that's me trying to think like a Hollywood executive and not as a creative producer which for all you can say about the mon movies Barbara and Michael clearly are I don't think they would want their next Bond to be handled by someone who will struggle to get a vision across I think for the first film of a new actor they would want someone who it's fairly clear could make a film that captures the spirit energy and fun of classic Bond and the person I think is the best for that is Luca guino the Bond films tend to alternate between going too silly and then too Bleak or ordinary Luca is the guy who could make bond feel fun again having him Helm the debut of the next actor would not only give us a bond that feels sexy which we've been lacking since Cino Royale but also a bond that can be that little bit exaggerated without going over the top he is currently working on his next film queer starring Daniel Craig so there's potential for a meeting with the bomb producers off the back of a recommendation Craig was also responsible for bringing Sam Mendes on board so his word clearly carries weight like with the next Bond actor I do not want to lose any of the amazing original films that Luca guino would make in the years it takes for a Bond film to be made but I do greedily want to see his take more than anyone else I've said so that's it I think Luka guino should be the next Bond director now back to my wrap up where I look completely different but in all honesty we'll just have to wait and see but I do think this topic is interesting because if there's one thing the Bond films are fascinating to study it's how they have managed to keep being successful in spite of a changing World cultural attitudes and audience taste whenever someone thinks what's the difference between a movie and a film you couldn't find a clearer example than Bond you know exactly what to expect and yet it still needs to entertain you throughout but at the end of the day there is one constant that each film has to get right the thing you have to hang on to despite the complicated Logistics is that you want to make a character film yes it's going to have endless action but at the heart of it people go because they like Bond there are always special effects movies that will have more or bigger action scenes more of this or more of that but if you get it right and you get this odd entertaining English character at the center of it then it works sure the films have big St beautiful women exotic locations and dastardly villains trying to rule the world but in the end they always come down to one man Bond my name's Bond Bond my name's Bond James Bond I cannot wait to see who the next Bond is and find out who will be directing their introduction but in the meantime can we please get a decent remaster of golden eye both golden eyes slappers only for England James I'm bar malda and thank you for watching

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Length: 25min 12sec (1512 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2024