After 2012's Skyfall, Sam Mendes, an Oscar winner for 1999's American Beauty, took his time, but ultimately decided to tackle a new Bond adventure, Spectre, which hits theaters November 6. When asked by The Hollywood Reporter why he decided to come back for another film, Mendes said, "It was a much more difficult process for me to decide to do the second than to decide to do the first. But I had a bit of time to think about it and about the narrative." He then added, "The thing that lured me into Skyfall was a lot of the mythology of Bond, the iconography of Bond from the '60s and '70s, and I felt like there was an opportunity with Spectre to perhaps reimagine on a more epic scale some of the darker characters and organizations that had haunted Bond in in the early part of the franchise."