Daniel Craig offered Sam Mendes the Bond job while drunk at Hugh Jackman's Christmas party. Without permission. He had to call the producers the next morning.
Mendes was the first Oscar-winning director in the franchise's history. His first act was a cast read-through. The production team told him it had never been done before.
That instinct is the whole movie. Mendes ran Skyfall like a stage production that happened to have an action budget. The Silva interrogation is a two-person confrontation. M's testimony is a monologue. The finale is three people in a burning house.
Sean Connery was briefly considered for Kincade, the man who raised Bond. The producers decided against it. Albert Finney got the part, and every scene with him carries the weight of what almost was.
Skyfall keeps landing in Backlot lists. It's on Netflix.
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