Not only is the 25th James Bond film “No Time to Die” the last 007 adventure thriller starring Daniel Craig, it’s also the first one directed by an American: Cary Joji Fukunaga. The 44-year-old filmmaker won the Sundance dramatic directing award in 2009 for “Sin Nombre,” was the first Asian-American director to win an Emmy for directing in 2014 for “True Detective” and earned a Peabody in 2015 for “Beasts of No Nation.”
He joins other cutting-edge filmmakers to direct Craig as Bond including Oscar-winning English director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) who helmed 2012’s “Skyfall” and 2015’s “Spectre” and indie German filmmaker Marc Forster (2008’s “Quantum of Solace”), who had directed Halle Berry to an Oscar for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball” and Johnny Depp to a nomination for 2004’s “Finding Neverland.”
These three are a far cry from the early Bond directors who were British and had worked their way up the ranks...
He joins other cutting-edge filmmakers to direct Craig as Bond including Oscar-winning English director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) who helmed 2012’s “Skyfall” and 2015’s “Spectre” and indie German filmmaker Marc Forster (2008’s “Quantum of Solace”), who had directed Halle Berry to an Oscar for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball” and Johnny Depp to a nomination for 2004’s “Finding Neverland.”
These three are a far cry from the early Bond directors who were British and had worked their way up the ranks...
- 10/8/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Gerard Butler’s screen career of late has been all about saving presidents and warding off geostorms, but “Greenland” throws an extinction event in the actor’s path that’s so apocalyptic, the best he can do is try to get himself and his family to safety.
The fact that a rain of comets has no jaw for Butler to punch makes it one of his more engaging vehicles of late, particularly since director Ric Roman Waugh feels more at home making a disaster epic than he did with his previous collaboration with the actor, the ludicrous “Angel Has Fallen.” It’s a specific skill set to find individual stakes against a backdrop of mass destruction, but the filmmaker finds moments of humanity as the doomsday clock ticks down.
Butler stars as architect and structural engineer John Garrity. Everyone’s excited about the approach of Clarke, a comet that has suddenly appeared from another galaxy,...
The fact that a rain of comets has no jaw for Butler to punch makes it one of his more engaging vehicles of late, particularly since director Ric Roman Waugh feels more at home making a disaster epic than he did with his previous collaboration with the actor, the ludicrous “Angel Has Fallen.” It’s a specific skill set to find individual stakes against a backdrop of mass destruction, but the filmmaker finds moments of humanity as the doomsday clock ticks down.
Butler stars as architect and structural engineer John Garrity. Everyone’s excited about the approach of Clarke, a comet that has suddenly appeared from another galaxy,...
- 12/16/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
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