Zoe Saldaña Would Considering Directing One of the World’s Biggest Action Franchises

Zoe Saldaña has ambitions to leap into the motion style as a director, and one massive franchise that might be of curiosity to her could be that of James Bond. Because the Bond franchise prepares to unveil information of who will succeed Daniel Craig within the function of Britain’s most interesting spy, Saldaña has curiously thrown her hat within the ring as somebody seeking to scale the heights to direct a Bond film of the long run.

Talking on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, Saldaña mentioned her love of crime and motion motion pictures, impressed partly by her love of Michael Mann’s Warmth and Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer, and revealed that she would like to make an motion film as her directorial debut. As per Variety, she additionally made a notice that the Bond franchise has been lacking a girls’s contact within the director’s chair, suggesting that she would undoubtedly contemplate taking over that problem in some unspecified time in the future in her profession.

“I’ve by no means seen a girl direct James Bond. I like The Equalizer. I watch crime reveals, and, so, possibly sooner or later. I’ve all the time been drawn to heist themes. Warmth is a movie that I want to look at not less than yearly and analyze it, and the way in which that Michael Mann simply pairs all of it collectively, the way in which that everyone carried out it. So I’d love to start out with an action-heist form of factor.”

Zoe Saldaña Has an Spectacular Resume in Entrance of the Digital camera

Though Saldaña clearly has loads of concepts about the place she want to see her profession go subsequent, her journey up to now has been one which many actors might solely dream of. Regardless of making her function movie debut again in 2000, and having early roles in massive motion pictures resembling Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Terminal, and Vantage Level, it was in 2009 that her breaks started to fall thick and quick. That yr, she took on the function of Uhura in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, and made her first look in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise as Neytiri.

A number of motion pictures on, and he or she took one other large leap with the function of Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy. That function would finally lead her to an achievement that’s in all probability not going to be overwhelmed by anybody apart from her, as her roles in Avengers: Endgame and Avatar: The Method of Water made her the one actress to have appeared in all three of the very best grossing motion pictures of all time, all of which topped $2 billion on the field workplace. Fairly a powerful feat for an actress nonetheless very a lot within the prime of her profession.

Saldaña will subsequent be seen within the musical crime comedy Emilia Pérez, by which she performs a lawyer serving to a Mexican cartel chief endure intercourse reassignment surgical procedure to flee authorities, and the second season of the Taylor Sheridan collection, Particular Ops: Lioness, which follows Saldaña’s CIA officer Joe as she balances her skilled and private lives within the fashionable world the place a battle on terror is her most important focus. Subsequent yr, Saldaña will return to the function of Neytiri in Avatar: Hearth and Ash, which is presently slated for launch on December 19, 2025, and will very properly give the actress her fourth $2 billion field workplace earner if the Avatar spell has not worn off by then.