{"id":26631,"date":"2013-02-15T10:57:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26631"},"modified":"2013-02-15T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T15:57:20","slug":"sam-mendes-75-percent-certain-to-return-for-bond-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/15\/sam-mendes-75-percent-certain-to-return-for-bond-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Mendes “75 Percent” Certain To Return For BOND 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With Skyfall<\/strong>‘s box office receipts now passing $1.1 billion, it is understandable that the producers of the James Bond franchise would like to replicate whatever magic the film had when assembling the production team for the inevitable next installment.<\/p>\n

The most vital member of that team is undoubtedly director Sam Mendes, and according to the London Daily Mail<\/em>‘s Baz Bamigboye<\/a>‘s sources, that Mendes while the director “hasn\u2019t firmly made up his mind about directing another Bond, I\u2019m reliably told he\u2019s \u201875 per cent\u2019 of the way towards doing it.”<\/p>\n

Purportedly, Mendes’s original reluctance to return to the franchise stemmed from the possibility that the producers were exploring the idea<\/a> of making the next two Bond films one giant-sized connected adventure that would film back-to-back. Bamigboye states that such a plan would have amounted to a four-year commitment that Mendes was unwilling to make. But with that plan abandoned and Skyfall<\/strong> scripter John Logan having drafted “two treatment papers outlining a rough idea of the plot,” it seems as if Mendes is amenable to the smaller time investment.<\/p>\n

It’s not as if Mendes is lacking for work. He currently has two upcoming stage productions hitting the London boards – Charlie And The Chocolate Factory <\/em>opens in May and then King Lear<\/em> at the National Theatre next January. of course, this would push a start date for a Bond film under his direction towards late\u00a02014 and I don’t know if the franchise producers want to wait that long to get a follow up into theaters.<\/p>\n

I will admit that I am sad to see that the idea to tell a two-film Bond adventure has been abandoned. Besides the cost-savingtaht I am sure the producers would welcome there is the opportunity to tell a really sprawling, epic Bond story. Hopefully, it is an idea that will get revisited in the future as it holds some great potential and the with the recent Casino Royale<\/strong> and Skyfall<\/strong>, it shows that the franchise is still open to try new things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SKYFALL director looks likely to return to the franchise.<\/div>\n

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