English comedian and filmmaker, Joe Cornish has expressed his desire to make a Bond movie. While the filmmaker was promoting his Netflix series Lockwood & Co. with the cast, he was revealed that it was his fantasy to work on a Bond film.
Joe Cornish Wants to Make the Next Bond Movie
In an interview with HeyUGuys, Joe Cornish was promoting his upcoming Netflix series Lockwood & Co. with the cast of the series. The interviewer concluded the session by asking everyone what series, character, or franchise they wouldn’t turn down if offered. Cornish was quick to answer that it would be a Bond movie.
“I would do a Bond film. I think I know where Bond should be going… Well, I know where I want Bond to go, so I would love to do it. That would be my fantasy to do a Bond film.”
Previously, Joe Cornish worked as a screenplay writer for Marvel’s 2015 Ant-Man. However, he did not work on the following instalments of the movie. In an interview with The Playlist, Joe Cornish revealed why filmmaker Edgar Wright and he had exited the Ant-Man franchise.
“When Edgar and I first met Marvel, they were in offices above a BMW showroom in Beverly Hills. It was around the time of Ang Lee’s ‘Hulk,’ and [Jon] Favreau hadn’t even started working on the first ‘Iron Man.’ Superhero movies were not a thing… I guess because VFX hadn’t evolved to the point where they could put what was on page on the screen. So, they always felt like they were reaching for something they couldn’t achieve.”
Joe Cornish also stated that both Edgar and he had been working on Ant-Man for very long before the film was made.
We worked on [Ant-Man] for something like eight years, on and off. And in that time, the landscape changed completely. The technology changed completely. Audiences fell in love with superhero movies. All the stuff that people loved in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s in comic books were suddenly translated on screen in a really direct way that had never happened before.”
He further revealed that Wright’s creative vision started to clash with MCU‘s franchise and they eventually ended up parting ways.
“That kind of overtook us in the sense that Marvel didn’t necessarily want the authored movie that Edgar and I wanted to make because, at that point, they had this behemoth on their hands. They had this universe where the movies had to integrate. Edgar is an auteur. Edgar Wright makes Edgar Wright movies. In the end, that’s why it didn’t happen, I guess.”
Whether Joe Cornish will be the one to direct the next Bond movie remains to be seen. There’s certainly going to be a large beeline for directors and actors wanting to get their hands on the superhit franchise.
