Posted on 02/15/2023 3:34:25 PM PST by coalminersson
The 26th official James Bond film is unlikely to be in cinemas before 2025, according to the series’ producer, Barbara Broccoli.
Speaking at a dinner to honor Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G Wilson after the presentation of their BFI Fellowships, the gatekeeper of all things 007 (and daughter of Cubby Broccoli) said they had not yet cast the actor who will replace Daniel Craig in the tux.
“Nobody’s in the running,” she said in a speech first reported by Deadline. “We’re working out where to go with him, we’re talking that through. There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at least two years away.”Craig departed the series after five films, bowing out with last year’s No Time to Die. That film concluded Craig’s run with a finality unusual for the film, something which fueled speculation over the likely future of the franchise, with some suspecting the films would have to return to Bond’s childhood or early spy years for more stories.
The sale of studio MGM to Amazon has also meant the intellectual property rights over Ian Fleming’s character exert a looser grip than in previous years. Broccoli and Wilson are producing a new reality series, 007’s Road to a Million, which will be Amazon Prime Video’s debut TV show.
Broccoli has previously confirmed that the new Bond will be male, after calls for the character to undergo a Doctor Who-style reinvention. Key runners and riders remain Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page and Richard Madden..........
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Richard Madden could do it. Loved him in Bodyguard.
I think he’s shooting season 2.
I have not seen a Bond film in like 15 years, it is unlikely I will again unless Christopher Eccleston is cast.
A couple of decades ago, UA (or their then current owner) bought all rights to Never Say Never Again and the 1967 Casino Royale from Columbia, so now all of Bond's film & TV rights are owned by Brocolli & UA. That's why they were able to make the Craig Casino Royale.
The Fleming estate still owns the literary rights, and has been licensing new Bond books for a while now.
I don't consider the 1967 Casion Royale to be a real Bond film, though Never Say Never Again qualifies.
“They could pull a “Grantchester” and be both anachronistic and depressingly gay”
Thank you for the perfect description of Grantchester. Really did make me LOL.
Invent your own hero and leave Bond alone.
Bond died.
It’s over.
Yeah, that might just work out real well.
Dont care, they just invent new ways to destroy everything.
But who the heck is watching them? Can’t be the old fans.
There hasn’t been a “James Bond” since Sean Connery....
Thanx
I think Barbara Broccoli identifies as female LOL.
Yes. A Rue Paul character so it can have sex with both sexes seamlessly.
Tom Hardy would make a good Bond. 👍
Just watched a documentary about the music for the Bond movies on Amazon.
Very Cool.
Looking forward to what comes next. An excellent franchise.
If the new one isn’t about a super confident macho man who foils foreign spies with feats of bravery with beautiful babes at his side while engaging in gratuitous sex and violence, who will go to see it?
James Bond will under a gender transition while saving the planet from climate change.
And they’ll start with a remake of Goldfinger in which the laser goes a few inches higher.
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