Yann Demange, would-be Bond 25 director, has new project

Yann Demange, repored last year as a contender to direct Bond 25, has a new project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Demange ” is teaming up with Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams for HBO’s Lovecraft Country,” the entertainment news outlet reported.

“Demange will direct the first episode of the supernatural racial drama and exec produce it as well,” THR said.

Variety reported in July 2017 that Demange was the top contender to direct Bond 25. The Variety story came out two days after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Eon Productions put out press releases that the next 007 film will come out in the United States in November 2019.

However, last month, Variety and Deadline: Hollywood now said that Danny Boyle was under consideration to direct Bond 25. Deadline’s story said Boyle will direct only if a new story, being scripted by John Hodge, is selected as the way to proceed.

Eon had previously hired veteran 007 film scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to come up with a Bond 25 story. Eon boss Barbara Broccoli, as recently as mid-December, told a THR podcast that Purvis and Wade were working on the Bond 25 script.