OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR SAM MENDES MAY DIRECT NEXT JAMES BOND MOVIE
5 January 2010
Daniel Craig again will play James Bond.
BY NICK ALLEN
The London Telegraph
Oscar-winning British director Sam Mendes is in talks to direct the next James Bond film.
Mendes, 45, who directed American Beauty and Jarhead, is likely to be in charge of the 23rd film featuring Ian Fleming’s secret agent.
Sam Mendes won an Oscar for best director for American Beauty.
Daniel Craig will once again play Bond and production could begin as early as June, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The movie is expected to be released in 2011 and the writers will include Peter Morgan, the writer of Frost/Nixon.
The previous Bond film Quantum of Solace, was directed by Marc Forster and released in 2008.
It took nearly $600 million (£360 million) in global ticket sales.
Mendes had a glittering career as stage director, including being artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse in London, before directing in Hollywood.
The first film he directed, American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey, was a huge critical and commercial success.
He won an Oscar for best director and the film grossed more than $350 million (£210 million)
In 2008 he directed Revolutionary Road starring his wife, the actress Kate Winslett.
Details of a plot for the latest Bond movie have yet to be released.
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