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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Sam Mendes: the next James Bond film should be directed by a woman

Sam Mendes at this year’s Toronto International film festival.
Sam Mendes at this year’s Toronto International film festival. Photograph: Canadian Press/Rex/Shutterstock

Sam Mendes, the director of Skyfall and Spectre, has said he thinks it would be “wonderful” for the next James Bond film to be directed by a woman.

Mendes, who is currently promoting Empire of Light, set in a seaside cinema in the early 1980s, told Deadline that he felt the franchise’s future lay in furthering the transformation already hinted at by its executive producer, Barbara Broccoli.

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