Cillian Murphy as 007?
The annual Academy Awards mark the end of one year of cinema and the beginning of another. The presentation of these awards, in fact, closes a cycle of films, themes, stars, and as soon as it is finished the entire film industry turns to the future. What are the new projects? What can we expect from the Oscar nominated and possibly winning personalities? It is therefore the right time to bring it back to the table the next James Bond film, whose production is slow to start. The big question is: who will be the future interpreter of James Bond for the 26th 007 film?
Nearly three years after Daniel Craig’s departure from the role, the mystery remains complete, with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson keeping the development of the next James Bond film under wraps. There are prestigious names, those that persist too long to be taken into consideration, like Tom Hardy and Henry Cavill, there are young stars like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Harris Dickinson… And there is a new one: Cilian Murphy. This, at the height of her career after winning the Oscar for her performance in Oppenheimerit would in fact be according to Sun sourcescaught the attention of the producers of the famous franchise.
Cillian is the darling of Hollywood right now and this would be the definitive role. It would also be a way to elevate the franchise with an actor at the top of her game.
The actor denies the rumor
When asked about this rumor to which he would send the actor Peaky Blinders on Her Majesty’s Secret Service, former role holder Pierce Brosnan explained that “100% matched“.
However, the main interested party intervened stating that he was “probably too old” AND “this train had passedTrue denial or falsehood? It’s hard to say, but the mention of his age is based on a fact. Until then, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli had indeed indicated that they were looking an actor in his thirties take over from Daniel Craig. However, if it were confirmed that Cillian Murphy is being monitored, then everything would still remain open. At 47, and even if technology could save him a few years, Cillian Murphy would play an already mature James Bond. The problem wouldn’t be so much the first new film as the subsequent ones, given that up until then the 007 actors had been involved in several films, for a role interpretation with a very physical dimension that could then last over a decade…
Although Cillian Murphy has all it takes to play James Bond, and a priori he would be very attractive for the role, considering that realistically he seems like that unlikely. Unless a certain director who he is very close to is also involved…
Christopher Nolan, the right time?
The other issue, after that of the interpreter of the character, is that of production. And when we mention Cillian Murphy, another name appears in the background again: Christopher Nolan. The filmmaker, also at the top after his first Oscar for best film and the Oscar for best director Oppenheimer, is a big fan of the 007 saga as well as a big fan of Cillian Murphy. He actually directed it six times in the trilogy The dark Knight, Start, Dunkirk and so Oppenheimer. And Cillian Murphy proved in the latter that he can deliver a great success the main role of significant production.
So, can we dream of a new Murphy – Nolan partnership to bring the new James Bond film in front of and behind the camera? Recently, Christopher Nolan stated that he would not be the director of the next 007 film, meaning that the rumors linking him to the future film were not based on “no truth“. But a few months earlier, he had made it clear that his wish was intact.
It has to be the right time in your creative life to be able to express what you want and at the same time immerse yourself in those constraints, because you never want to take something like that and do it the wrong way. (…) This has been a topic of discussion with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson for years. I love the character deeply and am still very excited to find out what they do with him. Maybe one day it will happen…
Would this “good time” come? Although neither the producers of the saga nor Christopher Nolan have expressed their opinion on the subject recently, we know that production of the 26th James Bond will not begin before 2025. To date, Christopher Nolan has not yet said what his next film will be. . Another element to take into consideration, Death can wait was released theatrically by Universal Pictures, which also distributed Oppenheimer after the separation between Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. This is not under contract with Universal Pictures. But he’s never been closer, literally, to where James Bond’s big-screen future is partly taking shape.
The more time passes, the more likely it is…
For a director obsessed with time, the equation must undoubtedly amuse Christopher Nolan. The stakes for the next James Bond are very high. Each change of interpreter corresponds to a restart, a new direction of the saga, and with this news comes significant risks. Spectators will return to theaters in sufficient numbers to make a film profitable, the cost of which should, as with the previous ones, greatly exceed the 200 million dollars ?
With OppenheimerChristopher Nolan has proven once again that he is the safest bet of the moment at the box office, managing above all to come close billions of dollars in revenue with a historical arthouse film about a physicist, partly in black and white. The more time passes, the greater the risk that young audiences will turn away from James Bond, especially if the chosen interpreter is not very popular. Therefore, the longer the production of the 26th James Bond takes, the more The Christopher Nolan option becomes precious, knowing that he is the master of the “auteur” blockbuster. And perhaps he is the only director capable of guaranteeing excellent performances at the global box office…
So, if it seems very unlikely that Cillian Murphy will take on the role of 007, on the contrary the probability of seeing Christopher Nolan sitting behind the camera of a James Bond film increases a little more with each passing day. .
Source: Cine Serie
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