{"id":295997,"date":"2025-11-20T01:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295997\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:26:10","slug":"campbell-offers-bond-advice-for-villeneuve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295997\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell Offers Bond Advice For Villeneuve"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MGM\/United Artists, EON<\/p>\n

There have been nine James Bond films released theatrically in the past three decades, only three of which are fairly universally acclaimed \u2013 \u201cGoldeneye,\u201d \u201cCasino Royale\u201d and \u201cSkyfall\u201d (though the latter has some detractors).<\/p>\n

New Zealand filmmaker Martin Campbell is responsible for the first two of those, movies that also served as the introduction films for the last two actors to take on the role of 007.<\/p>\n

\u201cDune\u201d and \u201cPrisoners\u201d director Denis Villeneuve will take over the duty of directing for the next film that will introduce the newest actor for the role. With casting expected in the coming months, Campbell was recently asked by Gold Derby<\/a> if he had any advice for Villeneuve and the rest of the creative team.<\/p>\n

Campbell, who isn\u2019t one to beat around the bush, says:<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t break what isn\u2019t broken. It doesn\u2019t need to be a reboot \u2013 it just needs to be a bloody good Bond film! If we released GoldenEye or Casino Royale again next week, they\u2019d feel just as potent. So don\u2019t f\u2014 with it, basically. There\u2019s a lot of fertile ground for Bond, particularly the way the world is at the moment. I just hope that they don\u2019t break what\u2019s not broken!<\/p>\n

There are no established standouts like Pierce. Pierce was a perfect Bond for his time. But Daniel wasn\u2019t Daniel Craig when he got the part, and all credit to Barbara Broccoli for pushing him. So what you\u2019re looking for is another Daniel Craig, someone who isn\u2019t necessarily a star\u2026Frankly, you don\u2019t need a star. James Bond is the star, and the film is the star. They just need to find a terrific actor who looks right for the part.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGoldeneye\u201d has its 30th anniversary this week, Campbell saying the strength of the film was that it brought back the humour missing from the dourly serious Timothy Dalton entries.<\/p>\n

He also says Brosnan did action very well, pointing to the famous shot where Bond barely flinches (42-second mark in the trailer here<\/a>) from a gunshot just inches away: \u201cThe major thing with Bond is an economy of movement, and he understood that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MGM\/United Artists, EON There have been nine James Bond films released theatrically in the past three decades, only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-295997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}