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The biggest problem with modern James Bond movies is the villains, according to The Bourne Identity & Andor's Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy, the creator of Andor, feels that James Bond is due for a villain overhaul
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We all have our favorite Bond villain, and Andor creator Tony Gilroy would like to add at least one more villain to the pile. However, he isn't holding his breath on it happening any time soon.
In an interview with The Playlist, Tony Gilroy elaborated on the pitch that he and director Steven Soderbergh put together and presented to Barbara Broccoli, longtime stalwart of the franchise. “...I don’t want to really talk about this—but I had a [good] villain," Gilroy began. "The problem with the Bond [franchise] is that they can’t get a good villain that works. In my opinion, they haven’t had a villain that worked in a very, very long time. And that’s the whole problem, the rest of it takes care of itself.”
Gilroy didn't elaborate on what the last good Bond villain has been, so we'll speculate in the absence of information. Rami Malek's character, Lyutsifer Safin, in No Time To Die definitely looked cool and had a beautiful villain lair that I wouldn't mind living in since sunlight doesn't agree with me. But that's probably it for the character. I don't remember anything about Spectre aside from it beginning with a wonderful one-take tracking shot in Mexico City and then the rest of the movie crashing and burning after that. An absolute waste of Christoph Waltz. Skyfall features a delightfully damaged (literally) Javier Bardem with one hell of a dental prosthetic holding his cheek in place. The only thing about Mathieu Almaric's villain in Quantum of Solace that stood out was that we share the same last name, extra "e" and everything, implicitly confirming what I've always felt about my anglicized surname (it's weird, unnecessary, and probably shouldn't exist in real life, just like a Bond villain). And then the Craig era took off with Mads Mikkelsen's unforgettable turn as Le Chiffre.
Like anyone, I have my biases, but I'm willing to bet that Gilroy thinks positively of Javier Bardem's Raoul Silva from Skyfall and Mads Mikkelsen's Le Chiffre. Considering the excellent array of villains in Andor, I don't doubt that Gilroy could have come up with Bond's most memorable foe yet.
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