I think he is the next man in line to direct a bond flickkk!
since the next one could be a lighter one with lot of style. guy can add intrigue, style and panache. He might have to get the story bit deep and intricate though!
shareI doubt it. He is not bad and enjoy his work, BUT he is not very elegant as a director. Too much slow mo cams as a signature (Bond style doesnt mix well with slow mo) Even Sherlock Holmes would have been better without the slow movement scenes. They are neat but in the right project....definitely no Bond.
Also he tends to go in the other direction as well. Sudden rushes, or loooong and distracting flashbacks with voice overs full of names and information that you end up getting lost, etc. He usually make the films a bit non linear.
Goldfinger was an elegantly directed film. Update that elegant linear style to todays standards and you have Casino Royale. If Ritchie would have done CR it would have been very jammed with slow mo scenes. Very distracting.
Just the other day I was watching again Goldeneye (ALSO directed by Martin Campbell) and I was amazed at how elegant his filmmaking/story telling was. The films holds well in the Bond series by pure style. Bond style.
Instead, Die Another Day, with the modern filmmaking, rushed-cams and editing, looks soo cheap (SciFi channel cheap).
I know that ritchie last two films look amazing (both Sherlock films) but that usually is the job of the Director of Photography, so in my book Ritchie still has to do a cool "classic" film, not a "movie". Where filmmaking does the story telling without gimmicks.