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Denis Villeneuve, Director of the ‘Dune’ Films, Has the Chance to Bring the James Bond Series a Quality It Has Lost: Danger
With 007 now owned by Amazon MGM, the series risks falling into oblivion, but the director of "Dune" might have what it takes to restore Bond's magic.
The directors of the Bond films have mostly been veteran craftsmen (like Terence Young or Guy Hamilton), or journeymen (like John Glen), and a few have had a prestige aura (like Michael Apted or Lee Tamahori). And yet, in recent years, the weird canyon that seems to exist between James Bond films and the great, blue-chip artist-filmmakers who’ve expressed a passion about directing them has begun to narrow. The same thing happened with Nolan, though by that point it was actively reported that he wanted final cut, which was something that the legacy producers of the Bond series, Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother, Michael G. Wilson, simply weren’t going to allow.
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