There is a continuous debate about who should be the next James Bond, but not who should direct the next movie. After Daniel Craig concluded his time as the MI5 spy, it’s time for a new actor and director to transform the franchise and take it to new and interesting places.

Through the years, most James Bond directors were technicians without their own vision. They knew how to create spectacular action scenes, but the development of the characters or the composition of the frame weren’t their main interests. Over the last twenty years, that has changed. With Craig as Bond, directors with a specific point of view became interested in directing the character. Sam Mendes did it, Danny Boyle almost did it, and Cary Fukunaga ended Craig’s saga with his own spin on the character. Who should be next? Let’s get our martinis (shaken, not stirred), untie our tuxedos, and talk about some directors we think would do a great job directing the globe-trotting, sexy, action-packed franchise:

Cristopher Nolan

     Warner Bros. Pictures

The director of movies like Inception and The Dark Knight would be a perfect candidate for the new Bond movies. He has the chops as an action director, he knows how to work inside a multi-million-dollar budget movie, and understands how to change and renew a franchise. He did it with Batman and could do it again with Bond.

If you don’t think about all the time traveling and time loop shenanigans, Tenet is the best audition tape ever for a Bond movie. It’s a shame John David Washington is not British, because he could’ve been a great lead. In all his movies, Nolan has proved he has the mastery to create incredible action sequences, the imagination for attention-grabbing stunts, and the eye for traveling to spectacular places. Add some martinis and cool gadgets, and that could perfectly define a James Bond movie.

Steve McQueen

After directing movies like Hunger or Shame, McQueen would give the Bond franchise a different look and flavor. As a bold storyteller and critically acclaimed director, his movie could offer a new perspective on the character; one that reflects the differences between the spy created during the British Empire and the 21st century. Showing how the spy has to keep evolving and being remodeled for our times should give the film and actor some new ideas and emotions to play with.

Widows proved McQueen can use his voice and lend it to adrenaline-fueled scenes, giving hidden depths to its protagonists and with a great villain (we haven’t had one since Javier Bardem in Skyfall). All those ingredients would make for an interesting James Bond movie.

Olivia Wilde

     United Artists Releasing

With only two movies under her belt (and we haven’t even seen the second one yet), this could look like a strange pick. But, Olivia Wilde has already proven she has the directing chops for a big franchise. In Booksmart, she showed inventiveness, empathy, and an all-in philosophy that could do wonders for our favorite spy. Watching the trailer for Don’t Worry Darling, you can see she knows how to do action and how to direct intimate scenes. Both are a must in Bond movies.

In the past, Barbara Broccoli has said that Bond will never be a woman, but could be directed by one. Olivia Wilde could be that first-time woman director, adding a female perspective to the franchise and, maybe, showing a different side of James Bond.

Rian Johnson

     Sony Pictures Releasing

Rian Johnson always plays with popular genres and changes the ideas we have of them to create something new and unique. He has done it with noir movies (Brick), whodunits (Knives Out), and time travel (Looper). He could do the same for the spy genre and James Bond.

When he directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he showed that he can work on big tent pole movies, and also that he’s not afraid of changing things that some fans feel are sacred; creating the most interesting movie of the new saga. If the Bond franchise wants to keep being relevant, maybe a bit of change is not such a bad idea, and Johnson would be the perfect director for it.

Quentin Tarantino

     The Weinstein Company

As one of the most iconic directors of the 21st Century, who has always been interested in pop culture, Quentin Tarantino directing a James Bond movie would make a lot of sense. In the past, he has acknowledged that he had an idea for Casino Royale and even pitched himself to Pierce Brosnan (over martinis, obviously) for directing his next James Bond movie.

Tarantino knows how to do incredible action sequences and would probably have thousands of homages to the older Bond movies and the spy genre itself. He should probably have to cut back on the gore and the faulty vocabulary, but would be a unique creator for the franchise. We haven’t seen a Tarantino movie set in the present since Kill Bill, and it would be pretty fun seeing what he’s able to do with all Q’s gadgets and all the tech at his disposal. Maybe we could even have a scene with Bond talking about pop culture or British cinema while eating a Big Kahuna burger? For now, we can only dream about that.