James Bond 25 director Cary Fukunaga teases his approach to Daniel Craig’s final 007 movie

Last month the American director was announced as Danny Boyle’s replacement on Bond 25.

Best known for True Detective and Netflix’s Maniac, the 41-year-old filmmaker is far from a “safe choice” by James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli in terms of style.

Whatever Fukunaga and Craig are planning for the actor’s fifth and final outing, you can be pretty sure it won’t be your standard 007 adventure.

Craig clearly wants to go out with a bang, and originally hiring Boyle shows that.

But now with Fukunaga in the director’s chair, is there any inkling of what he’s planning for Bond 25?

Well, the filmmaker has recently given an interview with IndieWire in which he wouldn’t reveal his favourite Bond film but did admit that Sir Roger Moore’s A View To A Kill was the first movie he ever saw.

The director said: “I don’t think you can pick one though because every single one of them has brought their thing to it and it’s nice to have that difference, it’s nice to have the change of the character over time.”

Whatever his method for Bond 25, Fukunaga said can’t wait to explore and play with the franchise’s established genre.

Fukunaga said: “Over the years, you’ve seen a lot of different iterations not only of Bond but of films that have mimicked it or copied it.

“So I think the exciting part actually is going to the original source and being able to play in a sandbox.

“Genres come with tropes and expectations and in the post-modern era, you can deliver exactly what’s expected of the genre, or you can try to twist it in an intelligent way which subverts the genre but still stays faithful to it.”

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The filmmaker added: “So, when you’re drawing from a certain style, you can play with audience expectations while still surprising them — and the nature of creativity is that limitations are often times good things, because when you’re facing the overwhelming vastness of creative potential, to have defined routes to take for a story or style are helpful in determining how far you want to veer from it.”

Fukunaga will start shooting the latest 007 outing with Craig from March 2019 at Pinewood Studios.

Bond 25 will be released in cinemas on February 14, 2020.