James Bond director Sam Mendes has spoken about his potential future with the franchise. Before joining the long-running spy series adapted from the works of novelist Ian Fleming, Mendes was best known as the Oscar-winning director of 1999’s American Beauty, the feature that also won Best Picture at the 2000 Academy Awards ceremony. His first Bond feature was the 2012 Daniel Craig era outing Skyfall. He then returned to helm 2015’s Spectre. However, the final Craig movie, 2021’s No Time to Die, was helmed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, and the upcoming James Bond 26 has no attached director.