Tag: Steven Knight

Who Should Be the Next James Bond?

You don’t find many movie characters that are as iconic as James Bond. At this point, the torch has been passed from actor to actor and reboot to reboot for several generations, and the character has been redefined more than once. After Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time To Die, Daniel Craig has relinquished the role and is passing it on after having been the longest-tenured actor in the role (even though he doesn’t have the most films under his belt).

But what comes next? There are so many questions right now. Will the character’s next adventures take place today? Will they be standalone adventures? Will it even be the same character? And, hey, who should actually be the next James Bond? So, please do join me in this article as I try to answer some of those questions, or, at the very least, give my opinions on the matter. I have thoughts.

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Serenity (2019) | REVIEW

Matthew McConaughey in Steven Knight’s Serenity — PHOTO: Aviron Pictures (Still image from trailers).

Directed by Steven Knight — Screenplay by Steven Knight.

Steven Knight’s Serenity follows Baker Dill (played by Matthew McConaughey), a fishing boat captain living on the relatively secluded Plymouth Island. Dill is obsessed with catching a tuna that he nicknames ‘Justice,’ and when he isn’t smoking, fishing, or drinking, he spends time with Diane Lane’s character, ‘Constance.’ One day, Dill’s ex-wife Karen (played by Anne Hathaway) shows up and begs him to take her new husband, Frank (played by Jason Clarke), out on the water and have him killed for abusing her and Dill and Karen’s son. As Dill contemplates whether or not he should do it, he starts to question the nature of his own reality. Since this isn’t a new release, and since I’d like to address the craziness of this film directly, this is going to be more of a spoiler review, best read after you’ve seen the film.

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