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It’s all of the discuss of the city in Hollywood that David Heyman and Amy Pascal are in talks to supply the subsequent James Bond movie underneath Amazon MGM Studios.

This would be the first time an official 007 film has ever been overseen by somebody apart from the Broccoli household at EON Productions, who bought their inventive management to the streaming large in a close to $1 billion deal.

The newest hearsay is that four-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón has pitched his “new take on 007” to Amazon MGM, who’ve already assembled a 007 writers room.

The Mexican filmmaker is greatest identified for guiding Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Gravity and Roma.

He’s not made a film because the latter seven years in the past, having been targeted on his Apple TV+ collection Disclaimer, so might Bond 26 be his subsequent?

Hollywood insider Matt Belloni stated on The Town podcast: “It’s an informed, speculative pick. And it is not Chris Nolan. I think the fact that he’s tied up for the next year and a half on The Odyssey, I just don’t think Amazon wants to wait that long. I think Jeff Bezos says, ‘Give me my Bond movie now,’ and they just cannot wait. The fact that they went directly to these producers suggests […] they want to move pretty fast on this. I think it’s going to be Alfonso Cuarón. I’ll tell you why. He has a long relationship with David Heyman. They go back to Gravity. They go back 21, 22 years to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. They’ve worked together a long time. They’re friendly. I have heard that there are some talks, that there is a take, and that they are serious. Now, it’s not like he’s negotiating or anything like that, but my prediction is that Alfonso Cuarón will direct the next James Bond.”

Interestingly, the director revealed final yr that he turned down a 007 film underneath the Broccolis within the Daniel Craig period.

According to Variety, Cuarón stated: “Ages ago I was offered a Bond film. And I said, ‘Yeah, cool. Maybe Bond. I am going to do one.’ And then when the process started and I was going to shoot all the dialogue and stuff, there was a [separate] team doing all the action scenes. It kind of felt very weird. I was troubled about the idea of doing it. I had dinner with Joel Coen, and I said, ‘Joel, what do you think of Bond?’ And he said, ‘Oh cool, I enjoy Bond.’ I said, ‘Would you do a Bond film?’” According to Cuarón, Coen replied: “It probably falls into the category of a film I want to watch but not do. There I learned the lesson that some films I prefer to watch and not do.”

However, time has handed, and provided that inventive freedom is now out there at Amazon MGM, maybe he’ll dive in for a reinvention. Considering how extremely praised his Harry Potter movie and Children of Men are, with their colder, darker vibes paying homage to a Nolan film, he could possibly be a wonderful various to the Oppenheimer director.