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"Skyfall director Sam Mendes has admitted that Christopher Nolan&amp;#039;s Batman trilogy inspired him while making the latest James Bond movie. The Oscar-winning British director described Nolan&amp;#039;s superhero blockbuster The Dark Knight as a &amp;quot;game changer&amp;quot;, adding that it gave him the belief to make a 007 outing with more complexity.   &amp;quot;In terms of what Chris Nolan achieved, specifically The Dark Knight, the second movie, what it achieved, which is something exceptional\u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 it was a game changer for everybody,&amp;quot; he told The Playlist. &amp;quot;What Nolan proved was that you can make a huge movie that is thrilling and entertaining and has a lot to say about the world we live in, even if, in the case with The Dark Knight, it&amp;#039;s not even set in our world. &amp;quot;That did help give me the confidence to take this movie in directions that, without The Dark Knight, might not have been possible.&amp;quot;  Mendes also revealed that he wasn&amp;#039;t a fan of the Pierce Brosnan Bond films, but became interested in the series again when his Road to Perdition star Daniel Craig was cast in Casino Royale. &amp;quot;I was on record as saying that I didn&amp;#039;t think he was good casting,&amp;quot; the filmmaker said. &amp;quot;Then I saw [Casino Royale] and was blown away and was suddenly interested again and eager to see the next one.&amp;quot; Skyfall will open in UK cinemas on October 26 and November 9 in the US. Photo gallery - 50 years of James Bond in pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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