Spectre Sam Mendes

Current James Bond director Sam Mendes has revealed that he will not be making anymore 007 films after the upcoming movie SPECTRE, which arrives in cinemas in October. 

This isn’t the first time that Mendes has declared that he will not be directing another Bond film, so he may still change his mind yet:

“I said no to the last one and then ended up doing it, and was pilloried by all my friends,” he said whilst speaking on the BBC Radio’s Test Match Special. “But I do think this is probably it.”

 Mendes did a superb job directing 2012’s SKYFALL and his forthcoming Bond film, SPECTRE is in post-production. Both movies have taken five years to make, so now the prolific director is reluctant to put all of his energy into another Bond installment. 

“I don’t think I could go down that road again,” he said. “You do have to put everything else on hold. It really is more a lifestyle choice than a job,” he said.

His discussion also revealed one of his other big passions in life:

“I’m happiest rehearsing a play or editing a movie, and when I’ve finished editing a movie I generally want to be back in a theatre environment again,” he said. “It feels like home, it feels controllable after the chaos of a movie set. But it won’t be long before I want to do another film, and I’m very fortunate to be able to go back and forth between the two.”

SKYFALL was a box office smash making £700m ($1.1bn) at box offices worldwide and this time they have up the ante even more with what SPECTRE has to offer. It has been filmed in locations including London, Mexico, Italy and Morocco, and the cast and crew totalled more than 1,000 people.

Spectre

“This is a bigger movie than Skyfall. It’s shot in more places – we were in Mexico City and Tangiers and northern Sahara and Rome and the Alps and London. It’s been an enormous undertaking.”

The theme songs to Bond are as renowned as the films themselves and the new one for SPECTRE is complete, but Mendes refuse to reveal who has recorded the track:

“I can say that the song’s been recorded and it’s fantastic and I’m very excited about it,” he said. “You won’t have to wait long.”

Daniel Craig will make his fourth appearance as the MI6 agent and completing the casting ensemble is Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux, Andrew Scott, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci and Ralph Fiennes.

SPECTRE will hit UK cinemas October 26th in the UK and November 6th in the US.

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