Currently in the spotlight, with the release of a new Netflix production, this big-budget film director has indulged in some confidences about a project that might interest him: making a 20-year-old James Bond!
His name is everywhere right now: Zack Snyder! He has just produced one of the new hits on the Netflix platform: Rebel Moon. We know him for many franchises like Justice League or Batman V Superman for example.
Many media have been paying attention to him for several days, including the very serious American media The Atlantic which devotes a long portrait to the filmmaker. Zack Snyder addresses many topics, including the burning question of superhero fatigue.
In this regard, he says that he himself experiences a form of fatigue, adding that, according to him, comic book adaptations are currently in a “dead end“, and that it is no longer interesting to make films centered on a single subject or character. “No one thinks they will continue to make films independent of each other anymore.“.
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The Atlantic then questions him about the place of licenses in cinema. “How many big licenses are there in cinema?“, he emphasizes. Before wondering about… James Bond! Saying that he might be tempted to get hold of it! “It might be cool to see a 20 year old James Bond.” he told the journalist from The Atlantic. “Be interested in your humble origins. And the traumas that allow you to one day become James Bond one day.” And to conclude: “There must be something to say about it“.
Let us point out that the idea of a young James Bond has already been mentioned in the past. There was indeed talk of casting a younger actor to play him, but this hypothesis was quickly swept aside.
“We’ve tried to lean into younger actors in the past. But try to visualize it: it doesn’t work.” said producer Michael G. Wilson. “Remember, Bond is a veteran. He has experience.”
“He is someone who has lived through wars, so to speak. He was probably part of the SAS [Special Air Service, unité de forces spéciales des forces armées britanniques, ndlr] or something like that. He’s not a kid just out of high school who can be thrown into the deep end like that. That’s why it works with a thirty-year-old.“
Perhaps this confidence from Zack Snyder could revive the idea of a rejuvenated James Bond. To be continued.