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[moon]

Michael Mann
Oliver Stone
John Woo

Brozzy once mentioned he wanted Quentin Tarantino, but I don't want bond film to be gangster-like.

[Xenobia]

I realize I am going to get shot for this...but I would just like to see what he would do with Bond:

Steven Speilberg.

And ditto to Ridley Scot and John McTiernan. I would also like to see Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) direct one as well.

-- Xen

[Icephoenix]

I think Jon Ameil would be perfect , hey he's already worked with a former Bond, and i loved it!

[gala_brand]

David Fincher, Ridley Scott

[Lonely Gunman]

White Persian (17 Mar, 2002 11:10 a.m.):
After "Lost In Space", I wouldn't like to see Stephen Hopkins anywhere near a Bond set.

John McTiernan or Ridley Scott, certainly.

If Casino Royale ever gets filmed, I'd like to see Brian de Palma give it the Hitchcock treatment.

And I'd like to see Peter Hunt lured from retirement to direct the second Bond he always deserved.

Brian de Palma would be great! I love his style in Mission Impossible or Snake Eyes. It would perfectly suit to Bond.
I would also like M. Night Shyamalan.

[White Persian]

After "Lost In Space", I wouldn't like to see Stephen Hopkins anywhere near a Bond set.

John McTiernan or Ridley Scott, certainly.

If Casino Royale ever gets filmed, I'd like to see Brian de Palma give it the Hitchcock treatment.

And I'd like to see Peter Hunt lured from retirement to direct the second Bond he always deserved.

[rubixcub]

Arrant (12 Mar, 2002 12:04 a.m.):
Its interesting because I think the Bond movies opened the door for movies like The Matrix and MI2 but as much as I enjoyed those movies I really dont think its the route Bond should take now.
I like the idea of Stephen Hopkins.(as long as he promises NOT to use split screen.).His handling of everything from action to Hi tech to domestic drama on 24 has been assured and stylish but still appears well within the realm of reality.Thats something I,d like to see Bond return to.
(although with rumours of V.R. training rooms and face changing machines it doesn,t seem likely.)

Ya know I was just about to suggest maybe getting someone from "24". Seems to me it worked well when they got a director from another TV crime drama, "Homicide: Life on the Street". That of course was New Zealander Martin Campbell, who didn't have a great rep as a film director (his thrillers were consider pedestrian) but his TV experience on a fast-paced show like that may have helped. That's also good news for the casting of Lee Tamahori, another New Zealander with a mediocre rep as a film director ("The Edge", "Along Came a Spider") but who served a stint on one of TV's top crime dramas, HBO's "The Sopranos".

Personally I'd like for them to get Martin Campbell to do another one (they originally offered TND to him), but Stephen Hopkins sounds like a good choice.

And no, I don't think he'd use split screen. The Bond series never have, though some of the older trailers have. It seems to be making a comeback, in music videos, in the Ocean's 11 trailer, in the movie Requiem for a Dream and of course on 24. I wouldn't mind seeing it in a Bond trailer, kind of like the YOLT trailer that showed brief clips of previous films. Perhaps for the Bond 20- sorry- "Die Another Day" trailer (gotta get used to that) they could show brief clips at the beginning from Brosnan's previous three over the beginning bars of the theme.

Dave

[Roebuck]

I believe Stephen Hopkins who did the TV show 24 was on the shortlist for Bond 20.
I liked his work on Predator 2 and Blown Away so I wouldnt be adverse to seeing him do Bond 21.

[Lonely Gunman]

I wouldn

[rubixcub]

Is this the same Michael Bay who has racked up several Razzie nominations as Worst Director? The one who made Pearl Harbor in order to copy- seriously, COPY!- respected period epics Titanic and Saving Private Ryan? He himself said the movie was going to be like a cross between them, indicating clearly that he didn't have an original idea or a meaningful story he wanted to tell or a purpose to make the film other than trying to copy more successful films and cash in on them. Rather than having anything important to say through the medium of film, rather than coming up with an idea of his own, he just watched Titanic and Saving Private Ryan and thought to himself "Hey, I could do that!" No he couldn't. A clear case of a hack director who wants an Oscar (as did his producer, Jerry Bruckheimer) and tried to do a film tailor-made for the Academy only to prove he hadn't the talent for it and he was just stealing the idea anyway.

No, no, no. Bay would probably end up giving us another Christmas Jones and a film that would pale in comparison to A View to a Kill.

Dave

[ShockTroop22]

Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, The Mask Of Zorro, Vertical Limit)

Dominic Sena (Gone In 60 Seconds, Swordfish)

The Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded)

[White Persian]

After "Lost In Space", I wouldn't like to see Stephen Hopkins anywhere near a Bond set.

John McTiernan or Ridley Scott, certainly.

If Casino Royale ever gets filmed, I'd like to see Brian de Palma give it the Hitchcock treatment.

And I'd like to see Peter Hunt lured from retirement to direct the second Bond he always deserved.

[General Koskov]

How about Peter Hunt? Or anyone who gets Bond into brutal fistfights with sped-up punches and lots of smashing of furniture and other props! ;D

[General Koskov]

How about Peter Hunt? Or anyone who gets Bond into brutal fistfights with sped-up punches and lots of smashing of furniture and other props! ;D

[Arrant]

Its interesting because I think the Bond movies opened the door for movies like The Matrix and MI2 but as much as I enjoyed those movies I really dont think its the route Bond should take now.
I like the idea of Stephen Hopkins.(as long as he promises NOT to use split screen.).His handling of everything from action to Hi tech to domestic drama on 24 has been assured and stylish but still appears well within the realm of reality.Thats something I,d like to see Bond return to.
(although with rumours of V.R. training rooms and face changing machines it doesn,t seem likely.)

[mrmoon]

Potential Director = Pierce Brosnan

[Simon]

I think they should bring back Spottisewood.

If he is given the chance of being able to direct something with a locked down script, enough production time and his choice of production designer, I believe we will never have a cooler looking Bond film.

Brosnan, despite the on-set problems, looked in control in TND (he looked desperate and too earnest in TWINE)
The production design through Cameron looked suitably modern, again I wasn't overly impressed with TWINE.

I know Spottisewood said "Never again", but then so have other people. With all that he had to face, I believe he pulled off a bloody miracle in TND. Give him another chance.

Other than that, either of the Scott brothers or McTiernan(sp?)

[Arrant]

I didn,t know that Tamahori had directed episodes of the Sopranos.
There have been some wonderfully staged moments throughout the show although I dont know if he was the director on any of my favourites.
Neither "The Edge" or "Along came a Spider "stuck in my mind particularly well but that may have had as much to do with the lacklustre scripts.
That said at least I wasn,t yelling at the screen "How did this man ever get near a movie set
"Speed2" or "The Cell"
or wishing that they would give the director an old fashioned editing machine and take away his computer.
"Lock,Stock ... and a host of other recent movies"
There is a great deal to be said for a director who,s background is in TV drama rather than Advertising or Pop Videos.

[Dalton]

I'd like to see Martin Campbell & Michael Apted do another one.

But as for New Bond directors:

John McTiernan,
Michael Bay &
Roger Donaldson