James Bond 24 remains scheduled to shoot this year - and here's the latest news on Daniel Craig's return...
The 24th James Bond film, which will see Daniel Craig taking on the role of 007 for the fourth time, is still due to go before the cameras this year, ahead of its release in the UK at the end of October 2015. It would be fair to say they're cutting this one a bit fine, but production is set to start before 2014 is out.
John Logan has penned the screenplay for James Bond 24, along with 007 regular scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. And we're now hearing that Jez Butterworth has been giving the script a polish too.
Butterworth did uncredited work on the Skyfallscript, and - in consultation with Daniel Craig and returning director Sam Mendes - he's done a bit on tinkering here too. Talking to The New Yorker, all Butterworth would say of his work on the latest Bond was that "you know, like Bond doesn’t have scenes with other men. Bond shoots other men - he doesn’t sit around chatting to them. So you put a line through that."
Elsewhere in the world of James Bond, the New York Post is reporting that the person singing the next James Bond song has been chosen. And that would appear to be British singer Sam Smith. His representative, when asked about reports that he was negotiating with the Bond team over the song, told the Post that "that is not confirmed." Lana Del Rey had apparently been in the running too. Smith would follow Adele of course, who won an Oscar for her Skyfalltitle track.
Finally in the world of Bond (for now), Mark Strong has denied reports that he's set to play the villain in the new film. The rumour sprung up, apparently, when Strong and Daniel Craig were spotted together, but Strong has put the record straight. "Daniel is a very good friend of mine. We've known each other for years and he's a godfather to my eldest child. The reason these rumours came about is because recently we went on a walking tour together in the Atlas Mountains," he clarified.
So there we have it. More on James Bond 24 as we hear it...
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