Aug. 29, 2025

Denis Villeneuve to Direct JAMES BOND?! | Finally, 007 Might Get Smart Again - Error Code Show

Denis Villeneuve to Direct JAMES BOND?! | Finally, 007 Might Get Smart Again - Error Code Show
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Denis Villeneuve to Direct JAMES BOND?! | Finally, 007 Might Get Smart Again - Error Code Show

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It’s official(ish): Denis Villeneuve, the mind behind Dune, Arrival, and Blade Runner 2049, is being tapped to direct the next James Bond film — and honestly? This might be the biggest shake-up for the franchise since Craig put down the martini. Here’s what we cover:

🧠 What Villeneuve’s style could mean for Bond’s future — more brains, fewer one-liners?

🔫 Will this be a complete Bond reboot or a continuation of the Craig era?

🎥 Why this might be the first time in decades Bond actually tries to be cinematic again

👀 Our dream casting, wild speculation, and why the studio might actually let an auteur do something bold (for once) Let’s be real: if anyone can save 007 from becoming another soulless IP machine, it’s the guy who made sandworms emotional.

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and the whole drama over at Amazon MGM, with

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the Amazon execs fighting with the broccolis

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about the future of James Bond and everything

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else. Oh my God, when are we gonna get another

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stinking Bond? And everyone's like, who's gonna

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head up Bond? Right? We finally, finally have

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an answer. Denis Villeneuve is going to direct

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the next James Bond film at Amazon. So we know

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he's done with Dune after Dune Messiah. Right.

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But this is the guy that did Blade Runner arrival.

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Now is what's going to be three Dune movies.

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I basically haven't seen anything of this guys.

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That's not good. Right. Like. He's going to direct

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the next James Bond movie for Amazon MGM Studios.

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Jay. What do you think of this choice for a director

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for James Bond? When I think James Bond, I do

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not think Blade Runner or Dune. He did direct

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Sicario, which is a great movie. Another great

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movie that's more, I think, in tune with what

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James Bond like how I envision James Bond. Yeah.

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But no, I mean, this guy has like I'm looking

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at it. This guy has a really great resume. So

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I'm sure it's going to be great. Um, I'm, I would

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be kind of interested. Cause all of his like

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very recent stuff, you know, dune later on our

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arrival. I'd be really interested if he, if he

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can like bring on like a different, I don't know,

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style or feeling of James Bond that we haven't

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seen. That makes sense. Like James Bond movies

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are kind of. They're not as bad as Mission Impossible

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movies, but they kind of do all feel the same,

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if that makes sense. And that was kind of what

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happened with the with the the last iteration

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of Bond is they weren't really dark. Right. It

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was very gritty, very realistic. The Daniel Craig

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Bond was not fantastical really at all. My only

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concern with this pick is my personal hope prior

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to this was they were gonna go back to kind of

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like a classic Bond less gritty more fun right

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a guy who likes being the debonair guy who You

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know drinks and hooks up and does the thing and

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you know Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery are

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my two favorite 007s Right and both of them had

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this humor to them Right that Daniel Craig did

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not have right the Daniel Craig Bond was not

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amused ever at anything by anything So I was

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hoping that Amazon was gonna kind of go back

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a little bit and do that Which I don't think

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Denis Villeneuve is going to do right. I just

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I don't see that that being said he is an a tour

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filmmaker You're right, maybe Maybe he will bring

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us a bond we've never seen before. What I hope

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is it's not a retread of this gritty Daniel Craig

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like grumpy ass bond that we've had for the last

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number of years. Or or it just might be some

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of the same. Who knows? Yeah. I thought it was

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an interesting pick. I think it's a solid pick.

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Who's the who's the new James Bond? They haven't

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said yet. They just announced the director and

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you know, Deneval News is going to have some

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say in that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So now that we know

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it was actually a good one. So G .B. News has

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this three front runners for 007. Here are the

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three frontiers. That's a really weird group.

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Tom Holland, Jacob Elordi and Harris Dickinson

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or Timothy Chalamet. I don't like any of those.

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I like none of them. I'm. No. I just don't see

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it. Yeah, I really don't. I don't like any one

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of those. Yeah, I think it just I like it. Just

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help a Twitch chat, but I think he's too old.

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He's 52. Like if if they'd gotten to him. Hell,

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even 10 years ago. Right? Because whoever you

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pick for your bond, you need at least seven to

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nine years because you need at least three movies

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out of them before you change again. And that

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takes seven to nine years. And so I don't think

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Idris Elba at the age of 52 is going to sign

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on for seven years. Ooh, somebody in YouTube

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chat just brought up a really good one. Nicholas

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Holt. That one, I would. Yeah. Mm hmm. I love

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that idea. Absolutely love that idea. Lex Luthor

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and James Bond, what? And Beast? Yes, let's go.

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Nicholas Holt. Oh, I hadn't thought of that.

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That's a good one. And he is British. And he's

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a good actor. So this is really interesting.

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I'm reading this like kind of article from GQ

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about Tom Harle. Yes, which he does. He is young

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like. You could do. A trilogy of James Bond movies

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just fine. I think he could also like maybe bring

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some of that light hearted. Ness of James Bond

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that you're kind of wanting. He's too short.

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He is really short. But something that's really

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interesting is that he is that he pitched doing

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a James Bond origin story. James Bond is like

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a lot younger, I guess, like kind of being changed,

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like trained. He pitched it. It didn't work out.

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And that's actually what gave him the lead role

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of uncharted. But that would be kind of interesting,

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like a younger James Bond. Yeah. who's not really

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all that good and kind of stumbles every now

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and then. It could be somebody in Twitch chat

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saying Holt's too skinny. You can make anybody

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big. Look, seriously, go watch what Hugh Jackman

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does for Wolverine appearances. He is not that

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big normally. Right. He's talked extensively

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about the six to nine months worth of work that

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he puts in to get that big again every time he

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goes back to play Wolverine. Nobody's really

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very few people really naturally that big. Right.

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So, again, Nicholas Holt, you could beef him

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up. But I don't think, you know, I don't think

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Bond needs to be burly per se. I can't think

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of really a burly Bond we've ever had. No. No.

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Yeah. I mean, he's in shape, but. I don't think

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that's a requirement for the character. I think

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Nicholas Holt is my favorite. That's a good one.

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And he's young enough to where he could do it

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for 10 years. You know, that's true. Yeah, he's

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like 35. So signing a 10 year deal to do that

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now, I don't know if his schedules, I don't know

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what his schedule is going to look like with

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DC stuff with him tagged to play Lex Luthor.

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I don't know what kind of deal he signed. with

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Warner Brothers to play Lex, so that could get

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in the way as well, but we'll see. Anyway, I

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thought that was some interesting movie news,

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so I wanted to throw that in there.