“We can’t go yet, dear. I have to help out on the script rewrite.”
Bond 25’s script is being “endlessly” rewritten by a committee, the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye wrote in a story published Thursday night.
The committee consists of “director Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and 007 himself, Daniel Craig,” Bamigboye reported.
Bamigboye quoted a source he didn’t identify as saying Waller-Bridge is “writing a re-write of a re-write…‘They have an outline of plot, but dialogue is all last-minute. It’s not the way to make a movie.”
Efforts to devise a Bond 25 script began in 2017 when 007 film veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade were hired. For a time, the production shifted to screenwriter John Hodge when Danny Boyle was hired as director in 2018.
A few months later, Boyle exited and Hodge followed him out the door. Fukunaga, who often writes his own scripts, was hired to replace Boyle. Scott Z. Burns and Waller-Bridge subsequently were hired to work on the Bond 25 story.
Bamigboye has a record of coming up with 007 film scoops that were later proven correct. Among them was the fact that Purvis and Wade were brought back to begin Bond 25’s scripting.
A Bond 25 sequence was filmed in Norway in March. Principal photography began late last month.
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Baz Bamigboye, Bond 25, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Daily Mail, Daniel Craig, Danny Boyle, John Hodge, Neal Purvis, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Robert Wade, Scott Z. Burns |
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A troubled production isn’t a guarantee for a bad movie, but it’s almost mindboggling how EON have been able to get themselves into almost the exact same situation that made Spectre into such a mess. They’ve had four years to write a single script, and still they’re scrambling to get pages in as the film is shooting!
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