Here's a disappointing, but not surprising story. Duncan Jones is currently hard at work on this third directorial outing, the big budget blockbuster take on the videogame Warcraft. It's due in cinemas at the end of 2015, and it sees the Moon and Source Code director with an awful lot of work to undertake.
Perhaps inevitably then, it's now meant that he's had to drop a terrific-looking project that he'd been attached to for a while. For Jones had been attached to a biopic of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, that was going by the title of Fleming.
John Orloff - whose work includes Roland Emmerich's Anonymous - has penned the script for the movie, which its producers remain keen to get moving next year. As such, The Wrap reports that whilst Jones was still keen to make Fleming, they couldn't wait for him to finish on Warcraft. Duncan Jones has thus now left the project.
The Fleming team are on the hunt for a replacement director "who can hit the ground running and start casting next year". When we find out who that is, we'll let you know...
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