Rumors about Nolan directing two period piece Bond films

I love the early Connery Bonds and I don't think the Nolan versions would sub-plant them in terms of what are my favorites. But I'm fine with a 2023 version of those stories (still as period pieces of course).
Some of these films are now (nearly) sixty years old. Meanwhile WB is going to reboot Potter as a TV show, and it feels like the last movie in the franchise was released just the day before yesterday.

CJB wrote:

To be honest, I've always been in the 'one and done' camp when it comes to Fleming adaptations. Not remotely interested in seeing a new version of Dr No or From Russia With Love etc etc.

Thunderball Mk. II was bad enough...

Where you have a great divergence between source material and EON adaptation (e.g. Moonraker) I could be swayed, but I still wouldn't want them to keep the original name (i.e. take the plot of the Moonraker novel but call it something new... Sunmopper?)

Of course, I don't even need to rabbit on about how a modern studio and writing team would treat source material as "problematic" as Fleming's works. Leave them books alone.

Fair points. I'm not absolutely tits-over-teacups about the idea of remakes, but if further Bonds must be made, it may be the least terrible option available.

Salomé wrote:

I love the early Connery Bonds and I don't think the Nolan versions would sub-plant them in terms of what are my favorites. But I'm fine with a 2023 version of those stories (still as period pieces of course).
Some of these films are now (nearly) sixty years old. Meanwhile WB is going to reboot Potter as a TV show, and it feels like the last movie in the franchise was released just the day before yesterday.

It may be worth noting that DN, FRWL and GF are period pieces insofar as they were shot while Fleming was still alive and writing.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Salomé wrote:

I love the early Connery Bonds and I don't think the Nolan versions would sub-plant them in terms of what are my favorites. But I'm fine with a 2023 version of those stories (still as period pieces of course).
Some of these films are now (nearly) sixty years old. Meanwhile WB is going to reboot Potter as a TV show, and it feels like the last movie in the franchise was released just the day before yesterday.

It may be worth noting that DN, FRWL and GF are period pieces insofar as they were shot while Fleming was still alive and writing.

Those are also very faithful to the books. So are TB and OHMSS, it is the totality of the latter part of the Bond saga that got screwed by EON.

Phantom Commander wrote:

This rumour seems to be spreading, and is apparently based on some insider source from EON who leaked correct info about this and that in the past. Last claim I saw was that Nolan wants to make faithful adaptations of the first two or three Fleming books before taking over as a producer, overseeing the adaptations of the rest of the books. Also read that there is a difference
of opinion between EON and Nolan about having the films set in the 1950s or 2020s.  Nolan also apparently wants to make the call about who gets cast as the new Bond, and the name of Aaron Taylor-Johnson was dropped in that same piece. I do not trust any of this, but they are fun speculations, and just maybe there is something to it?

Making another Casino Royale would only make sense if it was set in the 50s and followed the book as closely as possible. Personally I would love to see the books filmed in order and more or less transformed into movies as they are. There is no way you can be truly faithful to the source material without having them set in the 50s and 60s.

I believe the rumour started on a forum (AJB I think?) by a poster who has since deleted his comment.

A faithful Casino Royale? About damn time!