The first look at the Denis Villeneuve film, starring Timothée Chalamet and Oscar Isaac, debuted this week.
You might remember Dune as the extremely long book that some of your friends in high school were into, or perhaps as the utterly bizarre 1984 David Lynch film starring Kyle MacLachlan.
The epic Frank Hebert novel is getting another adaptation, and this time it’s in the hands of Denis Villeneuve, the utterly fantastic director who’s given us Sicario, Arrival, and Blade Runner: 2049 in the span of a few years.
This version of Dune will feature flavor of the month Timothée Chalamet alongside Oscar Isaac, and if the first trailer is any indication, it will also feature Villeneuve’s stunning command of the sublime when it comes to creating a shot.
Whenever movies return, I look forward to seeing it.
Here are things we learned from the trailer for the new James Bond film, “No Time To Die.”
The first trailer for the new James Bond film, No Time To Die, was released on Wednesday morning. Daniel Craig is back as Bond, but this time the film is being directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who you might remember from the first season of True Detective.
The film won’t be out until April 8, 2020, but in the meantime, we can enjoy this trailer and try to pick it apart to see what, exactly, we can learn from it. Other than that James Bond will shoot bad guys.
Let’s get to the trailer, then after the jump we’ll discuss four things we noticed.
Here’s what we learned:
1. Madeleine Swann is back and driving the plot
We last saw Swann in Spectre, and Lea Seydoux is now back to give the plot something to hinge on. Apparently she has a big secret, and it’s going to break James Bond when he finds it out. Which, sure!
This was always going to be the tough thing about the recent transformation of Bond from “cool guy with basically zero emotional depth” to “sad, broken man” that we saw once Craig came into the series. At a certain point, there’s only so much depth there. The last two films really dove into his past, his parents, his internal strife, and now … they gotta find something else for him to deal with emotionally. So it’s Swann!
3. Cary Joji Fukunaga is borrowing imagery from previous films
Fukunaga is stepping in as the director of this film, and let’s just say he’s borrowing liberally from the last few films. The characters, the image of Bond trapped under the ice, the motorcycle race upon rooftops, Bond on an isolated island escaping his responsibilities, the use of fluorescent light … we’ve seen all of those in Skyfall, Spectre, Quantum of Solace, and Casino Royale.
Are these merely reference points? Meta statements on the infinite nature of Bond? This idea that he’s living out the same plot over and over again? We shall see!
4. Lashana Lynch is our new 00
Lynch is here as our new 00 agent, and seems to be there to kick ass and drop one liners about how old Bond is. I’ll take that. That sounds good to me.
