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Martin Campbell To Helm Bond 21? The Hollywood Reporter claims negotiations are happening

This morning's Hollywood Reporter opens with the news that <<Martin Campbell, who helped to revive the James Bond franchise with the 1995 hit "GoldenEye," is in negotiations to direct the 21st installment in MGM's spy series.

Although MGM recently said the Bond film will not arrive in theaters next November, as originally scheduled, the project would be on track to meet a 2006 release date should Campbell come aboard.>>

Hmmm, looks like they're taking the same direction as in 1976 when they rehired Lewis Gilbert to do TSWLM 10 years after he did YOLT.

Article also reports: <<Broccoli and Wilson have been keeping the direction of the next Bond under wraps. Its script -- by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the duo that contributed to both "Die Another Day" and "The World Is Not Enough" -- is said to contain more of the elements of earlier Bond pics than the more recent effects-packed pictures.>>


Update on CBn's Main Page...

"Campbell Close to Signing Aboard Bond 21" 'GoldenEye' Director Still Considering Project

Heeee's baaaack...

""It's a Done Deal."" Martin Campbell to direct BOND 21

This post has been edited by Righty007: 16 January 2005 - 20:57

Top notch choice!

BRAVO EON!

If this is true, I'm getting very excited indeed!

Well, there you go. Number 5 in my Pick Your Bond 21 Director thread has been hired. And I couldn't be more happy. 'GoldenEye' was the best Brosnan Bond and it seems Purvis and Wade have written a screenplay that goes back to Bond's roots. Campbell would be the perfect director for this. Like I said in my director thread; "his career could use another Bond film" and Bond could use another director like Campbell. Someone who knows what Bond is all about.

Does this mean however that we can expect Clive Owen (my number 1 in my Most Likely Bond Candidates thread), since he's Campbell's top choice? Here's what Martin said about Clive: "Clive would make a great James Bond. He goes back to the Connery version of Bond. There's a duality in both Connery and Clive. These are guys who onscreen love you one minute and then can kill you in the next. Plus, with Clive, like with Connery, when he hits you, you stay down." The mind boggles. Finally we're getting somewhere and it seems like we're heading the right direction.

Not too fast my friend... 'in negotiation' is not the same as 'has been hired'! There is some light in the dark, though

Would be well received by this chap.

Hopefully then he won't have to put up with the model work, which was, I think, the only thing that let GE down. (No offence to the master Derek M)

Good news. Given that the last 3 directors have proven to be very bad choices, calling back Martin Campbell would indeed be a wise decision for Eon.

Could be, but then you could also draw a parallel with Guy Hamilton - directs a "classic" Bond film and is called back to the series after three films by three different directors, whereupon he makes a film that tends to get called a classic only in conjunction with the word "camp".

No guarantee that BOND 21 with Campbell will be any good, in other words. crashdrive tells us that "his career could use another Bond film" - well, that's putting it mildly. I disagree with Simon - there were several things that let GOLDENEYE down: a rather wooden Brosnan, Alan [censored]'s* scenery-chewing, Campbell's somewhat poor eye for locations, a score that's horribly inappropriate in places, a script that needed "some work"....

GOLDENEYE is a good Bond outing, and Campbell did a pretty decent job, but I don't think he is or was the great director many Bond fans appear to view him as.

I'd welcome him back, but I'd prefer someone like Stephen Frears or Phillip Noyce, and I'd sooner see Tamahori make a second Bond flick than Campbell.

*ETA: darned auto-censor! That's Alan C-u-m-m-i-n-g.

I thought Roger Spottiswoode did a fantastic job! There was just problems with the script.

...plus an extremely tight production schedule!

I would welcome Campbell with open arms. What I liked about him with Goldeneye, was he seemed to capture the appropriate spirit of Bond's world. A very inportant thing that, and as noted ad nauseum, something which has eluded certain other recent Bond directors.

Some people forget that Guy Hamilton was to be the director of TSWLM, but left the project to work on Superman before dropping out of that.

I think Campbell would be a decent choice if this was to be the start of a different era, as he helped to successfully usher in the last one. But I agree with Loomis he is not necessarily the savior director many see him as. The whole flying into the plane thing still irks me 9 years later.

I agree with Ice Phoenix about Spottiswoode. He took a completely revamped script and against a serious deadline and other problems delivered TND on time. It still ranks as my favorite Brosnan Bond.

As far as Tamahori goes, I've watched DAD a couple times recently on cable and noticed how obvious and overused the speed ramping is in the second half. The Bonds don't need these types of gimmicks as it will date faster than you can say "Names is for tombstones, baby." Save those tricks for instantly forgettable projects like xXx 2 or something.

Iam very happy if it is true. (And a lot of the story´s on this forum are untrue.)
There is a litle reasen that there is a change that the 2006 story is true.
Pierce Brosnan & Campbell are not avaible for a 2005 movie ,but avaible for 2006. My bigest directer Wish for Campbell is that he doing Bond 21 and if not that he can direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix or Jurassic Park 4 or Tomb Raider 3 followd bye Bond 22.

There need a big singer too and i think that Sting is the man we need.
I think Sting can make a song like Tina Tuner did for Goldeneye and if needed there must aks Bono from U2 back for writing that song.