• Home
  • Reviews
    • All Reviews
    • Theatrical Release
    • Video-On-Demand
    • Home Video
  • Features
    • All Features
    • Exposition
    • One Year Later
    • Career View
    • Encore!
    • Departures
    • Forgotbusters
    • Laser Age
    • Movie Of The Week
    • Performance Review
    • You Might Also Like?
  • Newsreel
  • Essential
  • Podcast
  • The Writers

The Dissolve

  • Reviews
  • Features
  • Newsreel
  • Essential
  • Podcast
  • 0
  • 0

July 11, 2013 newsreel

Sam Mendes will return… as Bond 24 director

by Matt Singer
Sam Mendes will return… as Bond 24 director

After months of speculuation, Sony Pictures and EON Productions announced today that Skyfall director Sam Mendes will return to helm the as-yet-untitled 24th installment in the James Bond franchise. 

Mendes’ statement:

“I am very pleased that by giving me the time I need to honour all my theatre commitments, the producers have made it possible for me to direct Bond 24. I very much look forward to taking up the reins again, and to working with Daniel Craig, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli for a second time."

In the olden days of Connery, Moore, and more, it was not unusual for directors to guide the Bond franchise for years or even a decade at a time. Terence Young directed the first two Bonds, Dr. No and From Russia With Love, and Guy Hamilton made three sequential Bonds in the 1970s—Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die, and The Man With The Golden Gun. John Glen directed all the 1980s Bonds, from For Your Eyes Only to Licence To Kill. But Mendes will be the first man since Glen to helm two installments in a row. By sheer coincidence, Mendes’ Skyfall earned more than $1.1 billion worldwide, and is the eighth highest-grossing movie of all time.

Daniel Craig will return to star in his fourth Bond, and Skyfall screenwriter John Logan will return to pen his second Bond screenplay. (And yes all these “will return”s are a deliberate reference, thank you very much.) Bond 24 doesn’t have a title yet, but it does have a release date: October 23, 2015 in the U.K. and November 6, 2015 in the U.S.

[Deadline]

  1. Most Recent News

    1. The End
    2. North-South Korean conflict film Northern Limit Line to see limited run in American theaters
    3. In Disney live-action remake news, Disney's doing a Prince Charming movie
    4. Broken hearts and broken boats dominate the trailer for John Woo’s The Crossing 2
    5. Slow West and Criterion's twofer of Hemingway adaptations lead this week's home-video releases
comments powered by Disqus

Comments Policy

The Dissolve

  • Reviews
    • Theatrical Release
    • Video-On-Demand
    • Home Video
    • 4+ Star Reviews
  • Features
  • News
  • Essential
  • More Info

    • RSS
    • Comments
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
    • Advertising
    • Writers
    • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr

Tweets

The Dissolve @thedissolve

© 2022 Pitchfork Media Inc.
All rights reserved.