SPECTRE director Sam Mendes and actor Daniel Craig photographed at the announcement of Bond 24 event (Image courtesy: AFP)
London:
British director Sam Mendes has said he probably would not work on any more James Bond films after the latest instalment SPECTRE.
"I said no to the last one and then ended up doing it, and was pilloried by all my friends. But I do think this is probably it," Mr Mendes told BBC.
Daniel Craig will be making his fourth appearance as the British spy in SPECTRE.
"It feels almost, even though we've just finished shooting it, like one big experience. It was a fantastic life-changing thing," the director said.
The 49-year-old filmmaker had also directed the stage production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory between work on Bond films Skyfall and SPECTRE.
"I'm happiest rehearsing a play or editing a movie, and when I've finished editing a movie I generally want to be back in a theatre environment again," he said.
"It feels like home; it feels controllable after the chaos of a movie set. But it won't be long before I want to do another film. And I'm very fortunate to be able to go back and forth between the two," he added.
SPECTRE was filmed in London, Mexico, Italy and Morocco, and more than 1,000 people worked on the movie, he said.
"And you really do feel it. This is a bigger movie than Skyfall. It's shot in more places. We were in Mexico City and Tangiers and northern Sahara and Rome and the Alps and London. It's been an enormous undertaking," he mentioned.
SPECTRE also stars Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes and Andrew Scott.
In the film, agent 007 will battle the Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, or SPECTRE, and arch villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld played by Christoph Waltz. This character first appeared in Ian Fleming's Thunderball and has been featured in several other Bond films.
Mr Craig earlier starred as agent 007 in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall.
SPECTRE will release in the UK on October 26 and will hit screens in the US on November 6.
"I said no to the last one and then ended up doing it, and was pilloried by all my friends. But I do think this is probably it," Mr Mendes told BBC.
Daniel Craig will be making his fourth appearance as the British spy in SPECTRE.
"It feels almost, even though we've just finished shooting it, like one big experience. It was a fantastic life-changing thing," the director said.
The 49-year-old filmmaker had also directed the stage production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory between work on Bond films Skyfall and SPECTRE.
"I'm happiest rehearsing a play or editing a movie, and when I've finished editing a movie I generally want to be back in a theatre environment again," he said.
"It feels like home; it feels controllable after the chaos of a movie set. But it won't be long before I want to do another film. And I'm very fortunate to be able to go back and forth between the two," he added.
SPECTRE was filmed in London, Mexico, Italy and Morocco, and more than 1,000 people worked on the movie, he said.
"And you really do feel it. This is a bigger movie than Skyfall. It's shot in more places. We were in Mexico City and Tangiers and northern Sahara and Rome and the Alps and London. It's been an enormous undertaking," he mentioned.
SPECTRE also stars Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes and Andrew Scott.
In the film, agent 007 will battle the Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, or SPECTRE, and arch villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld played by Christoph Waltz. This character first appeared in Ian Fleming's Thunderball and has been featured in several other Bond films.
Mr Craig earlier starred as agent 007 in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall.
SPECTRE will release in the UK on October 26 and will hit screens in the US on November 6.
