Will Sam Mendes Direct Bond 24 After All?
Skyfall was a massive success last year, becoming the first film in the James Bond franchise to gross over $1 billion at the box office. Naturally, it seemed a no-brainer that producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli would wish to reassemble the same creative team for the next installment. However, while Daniel Craig and Skyfall scribe John Logan are returning, it has seemed that director Sam Mendes would not. Now, though, things may have changed.
Mendes officially announced back in March that he would not return for Bond 24, choosing instead to focus on theater work, including stage adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Shakespeare’s King Lear. This prompted a search for a new director, and all manner of rumored names have been bandied about, from Ang Lee to Nicolas Winding Refn.
Yet it seems that Mendes’s schedule may be clearing up, and he has met with the producers to discuss a return to the world of 007. Bond 24 could begin production with the Skyfall director at the helm as early as next year.
What do you think? Good news? Bad? Completely unsurprising, despite official claims to the contrary?
Skyfall is currently the second highest-ranked James Bond film on Flickchart, and the sixth highest-ranked film of 2012.
via Deadline