Spectre: 10 Awesome Things We Learned About Bond 24

5. It's Basically Going To Be A Nolan Bond Film

Even before announcing the title, Mendes was keen to point out that he was there on behalf of the whole crew, playing up the whole thing as a heavily collaborative effort. It's a common misunderstanding that the director is the only power behind a film and, with Mendes getting a lot of Skyfall's much-deserved praise, it seemed like a nice effort to set things straight. To push the point home, Mendes announced Spectre's crew, most of whom are Skyfall alum, setting many worries about whether the film will be a step-down from its predecessor to rest. The most notable returnees are Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have written every Bond movie since The World Is Not Enough, although it's the newcomers that really set the film's tone. Skyfall was compared (mostly favourably) to the films of Christopher Nolan, with Mendes even stating he was inspired by The Dark Knight. The Interstellar director has long shown a love of Bond (the snow dream level of Inception is a de facto 007 movie), and Spectre looks set to take us even closer to a Nolan Bond; new editor Lee Smith is a long-time collaborator with the "New Kubrick" and incoming director of photography Hoyte Van Hoytema, on top of doing the cinematography for Tomas Alfredson's recent movies and Her, also lent his visual eye to Interstellar.