Jul 21, 2015 09:00 AM EDT
Why Did Director Sam Mendes Said that SPECTRE Would be His Last James Bond Film?

The Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes, who directed James Bond 2012 Skyfall and Spectre, revealed that Spectre the new James Bond movie, which reunited director Sam Mendes and actor Daniel Craig is likely to be his last James Bond installment. Director Sam Mendes, who took 007 Skyfall to the new box office heights.h

The 49 year old director Mendes talked about his plan with the long-running British secret agent series, "I don't think I could go down that road again." "You do have to put everything else on hold." the director added, "More like a lifestyle choice than a job." "This is a bigger movie than Skyfall," he said of the new movie. "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."

Director Sam Mendes sounds vaguely familiar, as he said something similar after he finished directing the 2012's James Bond movie Skyfall.' Having said that, when Mendes was given time to work on some theater projects, he eventually went back to direct the James Bond 'Spectre.'

Director Sam Mendes stated, "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." and the director added, "It feels almost, even though we've just finished shooting it, like one big experience and it was a fantastic life-changing thing," he said. However, he described the process as an "enormous undertaking," adding, "It really is more a lifestyle choice than a job."

It is expected that the James Bond producers wanted director Mendes to come back for Spectre as the 24th official entry in the film franchise, since Mendes made Skyfall the highest-grossing Bond movie of all-time.

Spectre is a direct sequel to the last three of Daniel Craig James Bond movies. And Spectre is slated to hit theaters on October 26 in the UK, and the film's worldwide release will be on November 6.

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