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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.

Nicolas Winding Refn

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Here’s a bonkers idea for you. I imagine Refn – the director behind Drive, Bronson, and the Pusher trilogy – making an incredibly violent, brutal Bond film, perhaps one where 007 is actually killed in the line of duty (this would, hypothetically, have to be Craig’s last film). Refn is a great, fascinating filmmaker, one whose technical and stylistic prowess knows few equals, and while I am not necessarily confident that his style would be great for Bond – possibly the opposite, actually – it would be a very bold, extremely fascinating decision. If Eon ever wants to push Bond back in a depressingly dark, ruthless direction – and I don’t quite know why they would – Refn would be an excellent pick.

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