The search for the next actor to take on the role of James Bond continues (or at least, has not been made public) - but if Barbara Broccoli is looking for a new director, someone has just put themselves forward.
Christopher Nolan is currently setting the cinematic world ablaze with 'Oppenheimer', but as he mentioned in a recent interview, he is up for taking on a Bond film at the right time.
Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the British director said: "The influence of those movies on my filmography is embarrassingly apparent. And so there’s no attempt to shy away from that. I love the films. You know, it would be an amazing privilege to do one."
He conceded, however, that taking on a film from a well-known franchise means that "you’re working within a particular set of constraints" and therefore, it must be approached with the "right attitude."
"It has to be the right moment in your creative life where you can express what you want to express and really burrow into something within the appropriate constraints," he added, "because you would never want to take on something like that and do it wrong."
Nolan had previously expressed interest in directing a Bond movie as far back as 2017, when he said "I deeply love the character, and I’m always excited to see what they do with it. Maybe one day that would work out. You’d have to be needed, if you know what I mean. It has to need reinvention; it has to need you. And they’re getting along very well."
The most recent Bond film, 'No Time to Die', was Daniel Craig's final stint as 007 and was directed by Cary Fukunaga - who took over from Danny Boyle, who departed the project due to 'creative differences'. The previous two were directed by Sam Mendes.
