Editorial Staff
Christopher Nolan has been a favorite to helm the next James Bond flick – heck, any James Bond flick – for a while now. But the “Dunkirk” director tells BBC Radio 4 that he won’t be the one in charge of Daniel Craig’s fifth and final go-round as 007.
“I’d love to make a Bond film at some point and I think those producers – Barbara and Michael – they do a tremendous job and Sam Mendes has done a terrific job the last couple of films, so they don’t particularly need me. But I’ve always been inspired by the films and would love to do one someday.
I love the character, I love the films, I’ve been very inspired by the films as anyone who’s seen my films will find embarrassingly obvious. But you’d only take on a franchise like that if you could bring something completely new to it, if that were needed. And I think at the moment they’re doing fantastically well without me.”
The next Bond film, due November 2019, will likely announce a helmer soon.
