After Daniel Craig said goodbye to 007, the James Bond series is in an exciting phase. The next iteration of the secret agent is currently being prepared by the production studio Eon Productions. There are two big questions: Who will be the new James Bond? And who will direct it?
While Bullet Train star Aaron Taylor-Johnson recently emerged as the front runner on the acting front, there was one name for many fans that they really wanted to see in the director’s chair: Christopher Nolan. Now the filmmaker behind Oppenheimer, Interstellar and The Dark Knight trilogy has commented on this.
James Bond 26 by Christopher Nolan? The Oppenheimer director denies the directing rumors
In an interview with the Associated Press, Nolan addresses the Bond rumors. Will he direct the 26th part of the series? “No, unfortunately no – these rumors are not true”, says the director, somewhat crestfallen. It was he who fueled the rumor mill with his own interest a few months ago.
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Christopher Nolan filming Tenet
He told the Happy Sand and Confused podcast in July: “The influence of these films on my work is embarrassingly obvious. It would be a great privilegea [James Bond-Film] to rotate.” For a moment it seemed as if Nolan could actually join the circle of Bond directors. But that doesn’t happen.
In recent years, we’ve gotten several glimpses of what a James Bond film by Christopher Nolan could look like. In Inception he takes up many elements of the agent series. He explores the Bond myth even more impressively in his uncompromising sci-fi thriller Tenet with John David Washington.
What is Christopher Nolan filming instead of James Bond 26?
In fact, Nolan currently doesn’t have a new project in the pipeline. Instead, he is still on a promotional tour to promote his Mega success Oppenheimer to introduce. The biopic about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who created the atomic bomb during World War II, grossed over $950 million worldwide and is considered one of the biggest cinema successes of recent years.
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