Friday, January 08, 2010

Unnatural selection

Brow Beat : Beauty, American Beauty: Sam Mendes Directs James Bond

Slate has some mildly amusing fun with the announcement that Sam Mendes (!) is in talks to direct the next James Bond.

Presumably, this may at least mean that we don't get a repeat of the hypershakes and hyper-editing of Quantum of Solace. (My son saw some of it on TV recently and said, quite unprompted by his Dad, "it's too fast". Smart boy.)

However, whether it will also mean a Bondian mid-life or sexual identity crisis is another matter.

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