Osgood Perkins could also be an indie horror grasp, however the filmmaker has “No Time to Die” for a James Bond movie.
“The Monkey” auteur Perkins wrote in a Reddit AMA that he wouldn’t be keen to affix the 007 franchise as a director due to its MGM/Amazon possession. Longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson introduced in February 2025 that each one inventive management for the IP will go to Amazon MGM Studios, with the reported deal being for $1 billion. Upon the announcement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos requested his social media followers who ought to play Bond subsequent.
Whereas no actor has been confirmed but to take over the function (Daniel Craig was the newest 007 after a decade-long tenure), we at the least know for positive that Perkins is not going to be directing.
A Reddit consumer requested Perkins, “Are you open to directing a Bond film/trilogy? If that’s the case, who would you solid as your model of Bond?”
Perkins merely replied, “No, as a result of fuck Jeff Bezos.”
Billionaire Bezos has appeared to publicly help President Donald Trump, writing that it was “an honor” to attend Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025. “Excited to collaborate on accelerating innovation and supercharging the American financial system,” Bezos commented on the time.
And whereas Bond is out due to Bezos, Perkins did disclose one other iconic franchise he would truly need to be part of: “Star Wars.” That IP can also be in flux with a soon-to-be new government on the helm, very similar to with Bond. Kathleen Kennedy, who has been the Lucasfilm president since 2012, is anticipated to retire by the tip of 2025, as Puck reported in February. No successor has been introduced but.
Perkins wrote that his supreme movie, if price range was no concern, can be “the collected goals and nightmares of Darth Vader instructed as quick tales.” Given that is an AMA, there isn’t any clear approach to inform if Perkins was being facetious or not.
Different tasks Perkins teased to be on his checklist are “a completely made up biopic about an actual individual, a neo-futuristic Freudian Western, [and] a film about somebody well-known who died younger and their expertise of the afterlife.”
Perkins defined that his visible fashion was influenced by his personal favourite movies.
“I attempt to make what I like. I don’t know the way else to say it,” Perkins wrote. “That finally means beginning by copying one’s idols and influences,” which vary from David Lynch to Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. Simply don’t say that Perkins’ historic field workplace hit Neon characteristic “Longlegs” is an homage to Jonathan Demme’s “Silence of the Lambs.”
“‘Longlegs’ is to ‘Silence of the Lambs’ as Warhol is to soup,” Perkins wrote, giving the ultimate phrase on these FBI-centered serial killer movie comparisons.