He Wants 007
The rule for movies in the post-Dark Knight age should be if Christopher Nolan wants to do a film, you let him do it.
Nolan has voiced his fandom for the Bond franchise, and even told BBC when marketing Inception that the film was influenced by the Bond movies of his childhood.
“The Bond influence on the film was very intentional because, for me, growing up with the Bond films – they’ve always stood for grand-scale action…
In dealing with the human mind and dreams, my mind naturally gravitates towards the Bond films as that sort of expression of cinematic potential.
(Bond films have always) stood for the promise of being taken to some place bigger than you could have imagined.”
That isn’t the only interview where Nolan talked about 007 though, he told Empire that’d he’d be interested in doing a Bond film, but “It would have to be the right situation and the right time in their cycle of things.”
Now that it’s known it wouldn’t take any elaborate wooing to get Nolan to begrudgingly agree to suffer through a Bond film, I see little reason why it shouldn’t happen. Nolan wants to do it, so let him take on 007.
Memento
While Nolan has gotten most of his hype from the Dark Knight films and Inception, just as outstanding was the work on Memento, the film famed for being an out-of-order story, but in reality was much deeper than just that.
Memento deals with a man whose tattered soul is partially because of his lack of memory of the real events surrounding his wife’s death, but also because of the way he handles it. He’s able to completely remove any empathetic feelings he previously had for the humans who he murders in order to get his revenge, and he doesn’t care who he hurts in order to achieve the justice he believes his wife deserves.
This mindset of disposable humans and the willingness to kill for revenge is essential to the character of Bond, and although his re-hardening due to Vesper’s death wasn’t brought up in Skyfall, it’s an essential part of the Daniel Craig Bond, very much in the way Leonard Shelby has closed himself off because of his wife’s death.
Plus, if Craig doesn’t continue with Bond, Guy Pearce would be an excellent choice to fill the role.
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