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A “more vulnerable” James Bond to fire Daniel Craig

2021-10-01T06:41:41.810Z


The director of 'No time to die', Cary Fukunaga, points out that “the interesting thing about the 007 films is that they reflect the time in which they were made”. The film is released after more than a year and a half delay due to the pandemic


In 2016, after leaving the project to adapt

It,

Stephen King, for creative differences, Cary Fukunaga (Oakland, 44 years) learned that Danny Boyle was to turn the new Bond had collided with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

If the British advocated a talkative and funny secret agent, the guardians of the essences of 007 preferred something more serious for the end of Daniel Craig within the saga.

And I decided to email Barbara.

I said if we could talk about Bond.

Two years later, we signed, and today ... For me it has been a privilege to be the director of the last appearance of Daniel in the saga ”.

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The video call interview with Fukunaga is carried out without having previously seen the film, which opens this Friday around the world. After the initial greeting in Spanish, he warns: "If you don't mind, even though I can chat in Spanish, I am more fluent and elegant in English." And he begins by remembering something about his career: “It seems to me that it was yesterday when I presented

Sin Nombre,

and along the way I have made bigger and smaller films, although all with themes that matter to me ”. That happened in 2009. And now he is the new defender of 007, who at the beginning of the footage has lost even that license number, which is carried by the secret agent played by Lashana Lynch. How much has Fukunaga from James Bond managed to change? And how much has the world around you changed? “There's something very interesting about James Bond movies, and it's how they reflect the era in which they were made. When Daniel entered the series, he brought a humanity that took him tremendously away from the character that Pierce Brosnan played. I have not changed much, because he is already emotionally touched by the previous films, he lives retired from active service. But the world has kept moving forward and the film reflects on its place in this new world. "

Therefore, Fukunaga did not hesitate to underline in an interview in

The Hollywood Reporter

that in a couple of films, and mentions them,

James Bond against Goldfinger

and

Operation Thunder,

the character played by Sean Connery rapes a woman. “In 60 years everything has changed so much ... Then he did not stop before the refusal of a woman. In Bond's DNA there will always be flirting, and don't forget that he is a ruthless murderer, a spy without moral qualms, but now he is wounded, humanized ... That is where my exploration goes ”, he says.

With this reflection, and after having obtained the approval of the Chinese censorship for the premiere in that market, won't it have built a lighter Bond, more for all audiences? “Let me remember Casino Royale, which impressed me a lot in 2006. There was already all the humanity of the character as we had never seen it before. He was violent, of course, but at the same time vulnerable. And I was interested in continuing on that path, such as how far he could show himself to a woman he falls in love with, how far would he lower his guard. I hope I got closer to Casino Royale. " He was not alone on the trip, and on the writing team was Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator of the Fleabag series, the second writer to collaborate on the Bond saga. "I was the one who proposed his name,and I want to clarify that I did it because she is a great scriptwriter who would contribute her talent ”. He says it because of the different voices that qualified that movement as a move to have the #MeToo movement in his favor.

“I only signed for one delivery. Luckily, I don't have to decide who will be the new Bond, or if an actress will be. I have neither thought about it nor will I be present in that debate "

Fukunaga is not an upstart without a résumé. Following

Jane Eyre

(2011), he directed the first — and unsurpassed — season of

True Detective

and

Beast of No Nation

(2015), Netflix's first effort to enter the awards race. With the platform he repeated in the

Maniac

series

(2018). When he finished

No time to die,

with the water around his neck, thinking about the first release date, April 2, 2020, he did not stay hand over hand. While the 25th Bond film became the first blockbuster to postpone its release due to the pandemic, Fukunaga rebounded

Good Joe Bell,

with Mark Wahlberg; has collaborated on the scripts of the series

A Soldier of the Great War

and has finished filming the

Masters of the Air series,

an Apple TV sequel to

Blood Brothers

.

Meanwhile,

No time to die

suffering several moratoriums on its premiere.

"Except for a couple of shot adjustments, we haven't touched it," he recalls.

"There were times when I got impatient, but hey, the world had more serious problems to deal with than the release of an entertainment movie, no matter how important it was to me and the fans."

No time to die

ran the possible danger of being released on the internet. "Fortunately, the producers defended the theatrical release," says the filmmaker, the first American to direct a film in the series. The film was shot on Panavision for IMAX theatrical release; However, in May Amazon bought Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, holder of the distribution rights, for 8.4 billion dollars (6.910 million euros). “I can't imagine a Bond movie made just for platforms. And less with the producers who safeguard it ”, the brothers Broccoli and Wilson. “They have supported me. Even in details like sending a political or social message through the plot ”. For instance? “I prefer that the public discover them. It is not an activist film, although it does contain comments about the world in which I shot it three years ago ”.

The filmmaker was only hired for one movie: "Barbara doesn't want to know anything more about the following films, or who will play Bond, or who will direct him, she just wants to celebrate Daniel's farewell with a big party."

So he laughs when asked: is there a future for a black or female James Bond?

“I only signed for one delivery.

Luckily, I don't have to make that decision.

I have neither thought about it nor will I be present in that debate ”.

Source: elparis

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