Director Sam Mendes recently spoke to BBC about working on both SKYFALL and the upcoming SPECTRE. In the piece, Mendes asserts that SPECTRE is very likely his last foray into the Bond cinema verse.
"I said no to the last one and then ended up doing it, and was pilloried by all my friends," he said. "But I do think this is probably it.”
…says Mendes HERE, in a piece which continues to discuss life making a James Bond movie.
"You do have to put everything else on hold.”
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"It really is more a lifestyle choice than a job…”
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"I'm happiest rehearsing a play or editing a movie, and when I've finished editing a movie I generally want to be back in a theatre environment again," he said.
Mendes also reveals that SPECTRE feels a bit larger in scale than 2012’s SKYFALL.
"And you really do feel it…”
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“This is a bigger movie than Skyfall. It's shot in more places - we were in Mexico City and Tangiers and northern Sahara and Rome and the Alps and London. It's been an enormous undertaking.”
Finally, Mendes reveals that the SPECTRE ‘theme song’ has been recorded...
“…and it's fantastic and I'm very excited about it.”
He wouldn’t say who recorded that song, but says we "…wont have to wait long" to find out.
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Glen Oliver
“Merrick”
