Osperier may be an indie horror master, but the filmmaker has “no time to die” for a James Bond film.
“Monkey” author Perkins wrote in a Reddit but That he would not be willing to join the 007 franchise as a director because of its MGM/Amazon ownership. Longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced in February 2025 that All creative control For IP will go to Amazon MGM Studios, with the reported deal for 1 billion dollars. At the announcement, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos asked their social media followers Who will play bond next.
Although no actor has yet been confirmed that having taken over the role (Daniel Craig was the last 007 after a decade -long time), at least we know that Perkins will not direct.
A Reddit user asked Perkins, “Are you open to directing a Bond movie/trilogy? If that is the case, who would you throw like your version of Bond?”
Perkins simply answered: “No, for Fan Jeff Bezos.”
Billionaire Bezos has seemed Support President Donald Trump publiclyWriting that it was “an honor” to participate in Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025. “Excited to collaborate to speed up innovation and super charge of the US economy,” commented Bezos at that time.
And while Bond is out because of Bezos, Perkins revealed another iconic franchise that he would actually like to join: “Star Wars.” This IP is also in flow with a soon -to -be new CEO at the helm, just like with Bond. Kathleen Kennedy, Who has been Lucasfilm -President since 2012expected to retire at the end of 2025, as Puck reported in February. No successor has been announced yet.
Perkins wrote that his ideal film, if budget was no concern, would be “the collected dreams and nightmares from Darth Vader told as short stories. “Given that this is an AMA, there is no clear way of saying whether Perkins was facial or not.
Other projects that Perkins teased to be on their list are “a completely composed biopic about a real person, a neo-futuristic Freudian Western, (and) a movie about someone known who died young and their experience of the afterlife.”
Perkins explained that his visual style was affected by his own favorite films.
“I’m trying to do what I like. I don’t know how else to say it, ”Percins wrote. “In the end, it means starting by copying their idols and influence,” which extends from David Lynch to Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. Do not say that Perkin’s historical cash office hits neon function “Longlegs” is a tribute to Jonathan Demmes “Silence of the Lamb.”
“” Longlegs “is that” silence of the lambs “as Warhol is to soup,” wrote Perkins and gave the last word about the FBI-centered serial murder movie comparisons.
