Bond 24: 5 Reasons Why Sam Mendes Should Return

2. It's How Business Used To Be Done Older Bond fans remember the bygone era of John Glen, the director with the most consecutive entries on his resume. After serving as a film editor/Second Unit director on three separate Bond films, Glen was given the chance to first direct with 1981's For Your Eyes Only, and continued to direct each installment up to (and including) License to Kill. Through his tenure in the series he'd worked with three different Bonds and in a time-frame spanning 20 years ('69 - '89), which exposed him to three decades worth of style and pop culture that would serve as the backdrop for each of the installments he'd worked on. The point to all of this is John Glen, while some of his entries are among the worse end of the Bond series, developed a taste for the continuity of the character and how it should evolve as time went on. He knew the series well enough that when he had to chance with the times, that's all he had to worry about. We're already almost one decade into the new Bond regime, and by time we get to 2016 it'll be time for Daniel Craig to leave series as he's planned. If we could get Sam Mendes to stick around for at least those two installments, we'd have a director helping to grow the series as he grows his understanding of said series. Even better, if Mendes could stick around for one, maybe two more after Craig, he could get the next set of players on equal footing and secure the franchise for another 50 years. Better still, the usual two year gap in productions could give him the chance to pursue his normal prestige baiting fare that he's so accustomed to; which would ensure that he kept working and never got bored. Overall, Sam Mendes has a chance to not only keep the Bond franchise running strong, he also has a chance to out Nolan Christopher Nolan himself.