Christopher Nolan recently spoke about his love for James Bond films and in particular, 1969’s “On Her Majesties Secret Service,” a type of one-off Bond that starred George Lazenby, in a hiatus period for Sean Connery who went back to the series after Lazenby didn’t really connect with audiences (it still did great, just not as well as its predecessor, “You Only Live Twice” — Connery would return for 1971’s “Diamonds Are Forever”).
Of course everyone seems to have missed this and are all a flutter about the fact that Nolan has said “Inception” is influenced by Bond (which he already said). Making it worse, people have picked up on the fact that Nolan recently told the BBC, what he essentially told Empire months ago, “I’ve loved the Bond films since I was a kid. For me, they’re always about the expansiveness of cinema. The first Bond films set up infinite possibilities about the world they create. I’d love to do a Bond film.”
But we don’t see it and we don’t see it ever actually happening. Nolan has his own original projects and his own world, why would he need to be involved with the Broccoli producers who’ve only recently started treating the films as popcorn art. Tarantino wanted to make a Bond film too,but his ideas were basically way too out there for the Broccolis.
We think these quotes are more in the “I would love to direct a Bond movie… theoretically, if I were able to do exactly what I wanted to do with it” vein and that’s probably not going to happen, not even for Christopher Nolan.
Look, it’s fun to talk about. But we’d do see Nolan seriously pursuing it. It’s Friday, chill out and don’t get your hopes up too high. Clearly he’s been reticent about his involvement in a franchise and has only returned to “Batman” when he had a clear idea of what he wanted to do (and each time he made a personal picture in the interim, once it was “The Prestige,” now it’s “Inception”). At ease Internet.
