Announcement in June. You heard it here first. Alfonso Cuaron is directing the TWO next Bond movies. Bond 26 releases late Fall 2026.
This is the new James Bond
Impossibile.
He’s not a person of color.
Salke wanted Henry Golding to play Bond before she got fired, so there's that.
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Great choice, if true. Happy it isn't Quicksilver.
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I'm happy when things go my way
We're long overdue for Cuarino
I want Genddy Tartakovsky to do a Bond set in Transyfvania against an East Euro oligarch experimenting with genetic modification, with squirrel suit jetpacks, but Bond has that Iron Man jetpack thing being made in Britain.
Cuaron is a great choice though.
Alfonso Cuaron is directing the TWO next Bond movies
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It's true. He'll be supervising a script by Drew Pearce and another lesser-known co-writer. They're already two drafts in. Amazon wants the movie out by November 2026.
I was initially hesitant because I was under the impression he was an pretentious arthouse Oscar-bait director but he's done big-budget blockbusters before. I would have preferred if they gave Martin Campbell his third shot but alas..
Cuaron's work on Prisoner of Azkhaban is fucking brilliant. People fixate on the sensational or particular choices (dementors, kids wearing modern clothes).
What people miss is the intimacy and charm of Azkhaban.
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It's like the first two films were full zoom in, child height eyelevel full charm, and the later films were full zoomed out dark and moody. Azkhaban was like half zoomed out where there's some grit and the charm turns into quirk, but it remains intimate and charming.
Unique style and a slice of humor that will contrast against the Craig era.
Cate Blanchett as the main villain.
How long since a bond movie had a female main villain?
I trust him IF the aim is to make a Bond that takes things back to the early Brosnan days where there was gadgets and adventure but also geopolitically relevant plots and grit. GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies are perfect examples of this approach. They have all the bells and whistles but also are relevant to the world they released in. I'm afraid though Amazon won't go near the new Cold War that was unleashed back when Russia invaded Ukraine and just have him face off a billionaire villain based on Elon Musk and an AI MacGuffin.
Elektra from The World is Not Enough so roughly 26 years.
billionaire villain based on Elon Musk and an AI MacGuffin
both extremely relevant to real life anon
It could work; they've already worked together on the disclaimer. By the way, it would be best if Lubeski handled the photography for this film.
Also important is that they need to get a good music band/singer to do the credits song. I nominate Fontaines DC. If you listen to this song, you'll notice Bond motif strings in the background. No more TikTok bitches.
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Mission Impossible already did the AI villain angle and there's not much you can do with a billionaire villain when a billionaire "villain" owns Bond now.
The Mission: Impossible movies since Rebecca Ferguson's departure have been bad. Bond must recover his gadgets and the sense of adventure that characterizes the saga.
MI has outdone Bond since MI4. Now that MI is done so Cruise can pursue Oscar fare, it's Bond's time now. If the guy in the OP is Bond and not some overrated capeshit homosexual, and Cuaron is directing? Bond might be BACK, boys..
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Gadgets haven't worked since the 90s since anything can be a microscopic spider drone or dime sized supercomputer. Genetic blah blah. RFID something something security magic hacker.
What they need are STUNT gadgets like Nolan's Dark Knight. Or like what you see on redbull competitions or the Chive type shit.
Squirrel suits.
Suitcases that turn in to motorized BMX bikes with sick tricks.
A telephoto lens camera, plus suitcase, plus atomic battery in a pocket flask that you combine to make a jetpack.
Suspenders that convert to grappling bungies where Bond does parkour but like with these spider-man style grapples that pull him up to ledges.
They definitely need to bring the jetpack back. But you saying they need STUNT GADGETS is redundant because what else are gadgets for if not for stunts?
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Hacking, explosions, radio shit.
Here's the jet squirrel suit:
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The OG Thunderball jetpack which was sort of lame, like 40 seconds of flight time.
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The iron man suit guys now have this gravity industries jetpack which HAS to be in a Bond movie, it's made in the UK:
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white, handsome and English/German
same age and height as Sean Connery back when he did Dr. No
I'm on board. Nice one, Amazon.
Very interesting finds and thank you for posting them anon but something about these stunt gadgets you posted don't feel Bondian to me. Maybe something more scaled back should be the memo with Bond 26 since Spectre and NTTD used a lot of gadgetry to win back people so it's time for a break with that.
It's still Henry Cavill and you shills do this throw them off the scent shit every time there's a new bond but the zoomers are too young to remember
He looks like he should be a one-off villain in a Bond movie, not Bond himself
Also this is a shill thread Bond is TRASH now and needs much more than a new bond to recover
There's also just MacGuyver shit like his pen is a lockpick, his cufflinks are listening bugs, his belt is a rapelling device.
It would require quantity of gadgets, like his formal wear is an entire field kit. To the point of generating audience laughs from not expecting how far the concept could be stretched.
Not bad at all but it's time for a longer hair Bond like Pierce and Moore. We've had enough buzzcut Bond with that Russian Craig.
You're losing it if that youthful classically heroic looking guy looks like a villain to you. You picked a photo when he was in his early 20's. He's 31 now and obviously looks much more like Bond since he's in the prime of his life.
I thought the Gentlemen guy was the new favorite.
Oh lol is this just a betting market throw thread?
Does this sound like someone who posts here?
Yeah even Bond would have had his hard ass royal marines ensign days where he looked like a merciless killer.
Rumor is they're rebooting his origins to make him younger. Making him a Middle East war veteran or something of the sort. They feel like his Navy background isn't too important which, in the movies, it never was. Probably a good comprimise to justify the youngest Bond since Lazenby.
Suggest current actresses for Bond girls in Bond 26. I'll start.
Very interesting idea. I hope the tone reverts back to classic Bond instead of Bourne rip-off crap we've had for 20 years.
Let's see then, in contrast, what movies are more "classic bond" like as compared to MI or Bourne?
I'd say Fast and Furious goes too far with the absurd illogical wackiness.
There's a set of 2000s action adventure romcoms with like the beach bum matthew mcconaughey type. Classic Bond was already struggling though, giving us the Dalton era to lean into guns and action.
Brosnan used "hi-tech hax0rs" but that was a very short lived vibe and arguably Goldeneye was lightning in a bottle for that vibe.
Actually the Korea part of Black Panther was pretty good.
Maybe there's a kind of action horror like Blade or Constantine that can serve as a template.
Maybe French or Hong Kong cinema.
Even National Treasure pulls that 2000s action adventure romcom vibe (more adventure less romcom).
We haven't had culture for 15 years in the West so it's hard to sense what the vibe for Bond would be.
Ideally, you just do what MI has done for the past 15 years. No fancy stuff, no overtly comedic tone to course correct, just a mish-mash of gritty spy thriller and globetrotting adventure. MI perfected the Bond formula and Amazon should just take their cues from there. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I think taking some visual cues from John Wick/Bullet Train/that sort of movie could add a fresh spin to it, though. In essence, you should keep that GoldenEye/Casino Royale tone and "feel" while adding new but mostly superficial visual ticks that are popular during this time in the 2020's.
Also, Bond should go back to Japan and Tokyo given how futuristic it looks. Dubai and the Arab countries are a must. Some lesser known European countries like Austria or Poland would be also fun to see.
Tokyo is not that futuristic, and I doubt they'd film in Shanghai or Shenzhen, but it is overdue to go to Tokyo, and Dubai needs some Bond love it's a major UK holiday destination.
A cool action scene would be in an amusement park that's twice the size of Disney but was only 80% finished and never opened. So there's tons of functional rides and unopened souvenirs but it's completely empty with sand everywhere.