Alfonso Cuarón Teases Involvement In The Next James Bond

Alfonso Cuarón, the director best known for Children of Men, Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is now poised to take over the reins of the James Bond franchise, or so it seems. 

Cuarón has been in the rumor mill for the next James Bond film for about a month now. Insider Jeff Sneider first reported the possibility that Cuaron may be the next Bond director. He said that David Heyman was going to be the producer of the next Bond film, which turned out to be true. He was hired alongside Amy Pascal, best known for producing the MCU Spider-Man trilogy and the Spider-Verse films. 

The David Heyman scoop came true, and it sounds like the Cuarón scoop might have as well. The director was at the Paris Cinéma Club doing a masterclass, and he revealed that he is in talks with a studio to reimagine a certain story.

“There is indeed this project under discussion, and I have the desire – if it happens – to revisit this story in my own way.”

There aren’t many characters more iconic than James Bond, and by the sound of it, Cuarón is excited to potentially direct the next film.

 It is curious that he says “in his own way”. Cuarón is a massive director in his own right. When you’ve got as many hits under your belt as he does, there needs to be a certain amount of control over story, character, casting, etc. to really make it your own. The James Bond films have been films of certain traditions that make them what they are, but each iteration of Bond is able to take certain liberties to make it all work together.

The question really becomes how much of that control will David Heyman and Amy Pascal give up to make Cuarón happy enough to sign on. It sounds like they’re in negotiations, and both sides want to make it happen, which is a good sign. It would be a major get for the Bond franchise.

Amazon is also a massive piece of the puzzle. They reportedly paid over a billion dollars to acquire creative control of the franchise. There is a lot of pressure on them to deliver, especially on their first chance at Bond. They’re following up perhaps the most successful Bond in Daniel Craig, so all eyes will be on who they cast.

Whomever they cast will become the first Bond cast in the last 19 years, the biggest gap between Bond castings since the inception of the franchise.

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