Christopher Nolan says it would be “an amazing privilege” to direct a James Bond movie

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Christopher Nolan has said it would be “an amazing privilege” to direct a James Bond film.While appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Oppenheimer director was asked by host Josh Horowitz if he’d like to try his hand at the iconic spy franchise.“The influence of those movies in my filmography is embarrassingly apparent.

It would be an amazing privilege to do one,” Nolan said. “At the same time, when you take on a character like that you’re working with a particular set of constraints.”The five-time Oscar nominee went on to stress, however, that any filmmaker attempting to take on the Bond legacy must approach it with the “right attitude”.“It has to be the right moment in your creative life where you can express what you want to express and really burrow into something within the appropriate constraints because you would never want to take on something like that and do it wrong,” he said.Nolan added that he felt a similar responsibility when directing his trilogy of Batman films.

However, he stressed that if he were to be involved in any potential Bond project, he must be afforded an appropriate level of creative freedom.“You wouldn’t want to take on a film without being fully committed to what you bring to the table creatively.

So as a writer, casting, everything — it’s a full package,” he said. “You’d have to be really needed and wanted in terms of bringing the totality of what you bring to a character.