Will David Heyman be employed to provide the James Bond franchise, and can he select Alfonso Cuarón to direct the subsequent movie?
When Amazon bought the legendary Hollywood studio MGM for $8.5 billion again in 2022, they discovered themselves within the James Bond enterprise, because the Bond franchise was arrange at MGM – they usually wished to start out making Bond films as rapidly as doable. Sadly, artistic disagreements between Amazon MGM Studios and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who inherited the Bond franchise from authentic producer Albert R. Broccoli, slowed down the method. So, final month Amazon paid off Wilson and Broccoli (reported worth: one other $1 billion) to allow them to achieve artistic management over the franchise for the foreseeable future. There was hypothesis that this might open the door to Bond fan Christopher Nolan lastly attending to make a Bond film, as he calls for “final cut” on his movies and Nolan getting last minimize on a Bond film was by no means going to occur beneath Broccoli’s watch… however Nolan is at the moment busy engaged on the epic fantasy movie The Odyssey, which is prone to hold him tied up till subsequent summer season (the movie has a July 17, 2026 launch date), and Amazon didn’t pay $1 billion to allow them to twiddle their thumbs whereas ready over a yr for Nolan’s schedule to clear up, particularly once they’ve already been sitting on the Bond franchise for 3 years. So now we’re listening to rumors about different contenders: like producer David Heyman and director Alfonso Cuarón.
Final week, Selection reported that “sources familiar with Amazon’s next steps on Bond say a film is still the top priority, and the studio will look first to attach a producer in the vein of David Heyman, who shepherded the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films with a cohesive vision.” Now, business scooper Jeff Sneider has heard from “a very good source,” one with ties to Amazon MGM Studios, that Amazon isn’t simply getting a producer “in the vein of” David Heyman, they’re getting Heyman himself to supervise the Bond franchise. Heyman is at the moment producing the Harry Potter TV sequence for HBO, so some suspect that he’ll be too busy with Potter to concentrate on Bond, however there’s an opportunity it might work out.
That very same supply advised Sneider that if Heyman indicators on as the brand new James Bond producer, his best choice for director would most likely be Youngsters of Males director Alfonso Cuarón, who he labored with on Gravity and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (And Cuarón has mentioned that Prisoner of Azkaban was “the best experience making a film I ever had.”) Curiously, Cuarón was speaking about Bond just some months in the past, as he revealed that he has been up for the Bond directing job earlier than! “Ages ago, I was offered a Bond film. And I said, ‘Yeah, cool. Maybe Bond. I am going to do one.’ And then when the process started and I was going to shoot all the dialogue and stuff, there was a [separate] team doing all the action scenes. It kind of felt very weird. I was troubled about the idea of doing it. I had dinner with Joel Coen, and I said, ‘Joel, what do you think of Bond?’ And he said, ‘Oh cool, I enjoy Bond.’ I said, ‘Would you do a Bond film?’ (Coen said), ‘It probably falls into the category of a film I want to watch but not do.’ There I learned the lesson that some films I prefer to watch and not do.” So he stepped away from Bond again then, however perhaps a Bond film could be one thing he desires to do if Heyman is the producer.
Sneider speculates that if Heyman indicators the deal quickly, a author may very well be employed moderately rapidly and spend the remainder of the yr getting the script into form, with Amazon possible hoping for a 2026 manufacturing and 2027 launch.
Do you assume producer David Heyman and director Alfonso Cuarón might take the James Bond franchise in an fascinating path? Do you assume Amazon ought to maintain off till Christopher Nolan is offered? Share your ideas on these rumors by leaving a remark under.
