{"id":6696,"date":"2010-01-06T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T13:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2014-12-29T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:36:30","slug":"bond-23-gets-a-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/06\/bond-23-gets-a-director\/","title":{"rendered":"BOND 23 Gets A Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DanielCraig1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6531\" title=\"Quantum of Solace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DanielCraig1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DanielCraig1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DanielCraig1-550x334.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DanielCraig1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/05\/bond-23-still-on-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\">may not know<\/a> yet when they&#8217;ll be rolling cameras, but we know who will be yelling &#8220;Action!&#8221; on the next James Bond adventure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Beauty<\/strong> and <strong>Revolutionary Road<\/strong> director Sam Mendes is currently in negotiations to direct the next installment in the long running James Bond franchise. It looks as if Eon Productions, the franchise&#8217;s producers, is hedging their bets in their waiting game over the sale of the films&#8217; distributor MGM.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes is known more for his films that place an emphasis on drama, though his 2005 film <strong>Jarhead<\/strong>, which was set in the US war in Kuwait, did contain some well done action sequences. As the rebooted Bond franchise has taken steps to include a previously little seen emphasis on strong characterization, Mendes&#8217;s participation suggests that the next film, as yet untitled, will continue with that.<\/p>\n<p>While Eon Productions has stated that they are making no concrete production plans until MGM&#8217;s financial problems are resolved, the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100802002725\/http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com:80\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3i856fd022b069b3fe4b8d2be322d5c07c\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is stating that the company is gearing up for a June shooting schedule in order to meet its projected late 2011 release. Writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have turned in a script which <strong>Frost\/Nixon<\/strong> scripter Peter Morgan is revising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">They may not know yet when they&#8217;ll be rolling cameras, but we know who will be yelling &#8220;Action!&#8221; on the next James Bond adventure. American Beauty and Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes is currently in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/06\/bond-23-gets-a-director\/\" title=\"BOND 23 Gets A Director\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2313,504,57,22,2051,1614,605,1615,912,24],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-bond-23","8":"tag-daniel-craig","9":"tag-directors","10":"tag-in-development","11":"tag-mgm","12":"tag-neal-purvis","13":"tag-peter-morgan","14":"tag-robert-wade","15":"tag-sam-mendes","16":"tag-sequel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}