Cary Fukunaga in an interview with ET Canada said that he was honored and excited to be working with Daniel Craig on James Bond 25.
The production of James Bond 25 has been rather maligned as of late after the abrupt exit of the previous director Danny Boyle and his creative team and the subsequent delay of the movie.
However, the legendary spy rebounded this week after Cary Fukunaga was announced as the films director. And fans couldn’t be more excited. Citing the director’s previous work on Beasts of No Nation and True Detective the Bond fandom at large had confidence that Fukunaga’s gritty, character driven directorial talents would be well suited for Craig’s incarnation of Bond.
Fukunaga, in an interview with ET Canada is equally enthused. When asked if he is feeling knowing that he will be directing Daniel Craig as James Bond, he responded by saying that he was excited and honored. The Tweet that contains the interview is embedded below.
Reaction from the new @007 director Cary Fukunaga https://t.co/WVAcb2VoPG pic.twitter.com/9cyL05i2eY
— ET Canada (@ETCanada) September 21, 2018
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Production on the 25th James Bond film is set to begin on March 4, 2019, at Pinewood Studios. Details on the project are currently unknown, though it is set to be Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 after having played the character in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre.
James Bond 25 is scheduled to be released in theaters on February 14, 2020.