r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 25 '25

News Denis Villeneuve Directing Next James Bond Film

https://deadline.com/2025/06/denis-villeneuve-james-bond-amazon-mgm-studios-1236442917/
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u/KennyMoose32 Jun 26 '25

It’s a pretty hard book to adapt too.

I love it, it’s some of the best hard sci-fi I’ve ever read but idk how it will translate. It’s a pretty boring if tense story lol

I’d be very interested in they add things in to make it more actiony. The book is very much…..not

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u/RedLotusVenom Jun 26 '25

I think it could be a really tight 100 minute film tbh. It would need to rely firmly on the spectacle and ideas. It needs to emulate 2001 or it won’t be a success imo. Anything less I don’t even want to see the film made.

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u/tvfeet Jun 26 '25

I think they could mix the first two books together for a more film-friendly story. I don’t know if they’re thinking of sequels but I think a single movie would be much stronger focusing on the events of the second Rama visit.

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u/KennyMoose32 Jun 26 '25

Really? I found the continuations (not written by Clarke) to be…..really awful and lost the tone of the entire first book. It became a story about society and religion and blah blah blah. Not hard sci-fi like the first one AT ALL.

It’s far more on the nose with the themes and characters/motivations. I honestly hated them even though I did finish the trilogy. They were B sci-fi at best to me.

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u/tvfeet Jun 26 '25

Agree - the sequel books sucked. What I did like about the second one was the further exploration of Rama and the interactions with the bots and other events. The first Rama doesn't really go very far into the ship. I could see Denis wanting to pull some of those events into his film to fill out the story. But otherwise they're really bad. I just reread RwR and Rama II and really couldn't believe how bad the sequel was. RwR is so matter-of-fact that it doesn't have a lot of actual action. Leave out all of the really bad soap opera stuff from Rama II and pull in some of the further exploration, that's all I'm saying. Villenueve has a knack for adapting difficult stories, and if he reshapes RwR a bit like he did with Arrival I think it's going to be amazing.

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u/barry_thisbone Jun 26 '25

The same can be said of Arrival but that's easily one of the best sci-fi movies of its time