Sam Mendes has spoken to famed American broadcaster Charlie Rose about what brought him back to the world of James Bond, having directed what many regard as a franchise best with Skyfall.
The return of the Oscar winning director surprised many, who thought he'd move on.
"I started a number of stories [in Skyfall] that were incomplete. I cast a new M, I cast a new Moneypenny, I cast a new Q, I cast a new Tanner. There was a missing piece now... I felt like there was a way to create a second part of the two-part story. And then, I started to get re-interested in it again. When they agreed to wait a little longer, and not go immediately, and not go with two movies, but one."
But it seemed to be the audience reaction that really made up his mind.
He added,
"What we tried to do, and audiences seemed to embrace in Skyfall, is that for the first time characters were allowed to age. And they were allowed to acknowledge the passing of the years. And they were allowed to acknowledge - in kind of a sly, mischievous way - the history of the franchise that they'd been part of. So there's the DB5 coming out with the Bond theme... Well, the orgy of nostalgia, the noise an audience made, the first time I sat with an audience at that point, was enough to make me want to do it all over again. Because that was my 12 year old self that loved that moment and loved that car...!
We can expect to see his follow up in November of 2015.
But in the meantime you can have a butchers at the Irish shot, Josh Hartnett/Eva Green starring Penny Dreadful - which Mendes produced. It premieres on Sky Atlantic on May 11th.
