Bond 25 questions: The half-time edition

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Principal photography on Bond 25 has been underway for a little over three months. That’s about the halfway point.

So now’s a good time as any for some more Bond 25 questions.

“Are we there yet?! Are we there yet?!”

No kids, we’re only about halfway done.

While it’s only been a little over three months, it has seemed longer.

There are been multiple tabloid stories about how the movie is either doomed or struggling or whatever.

There has also been intense fan debate after the Mail on Sunday said July 13 that Lashana Lynch’s character would get the 007 code number after James Bond (Daniel Craig) retired at the end of 2015’s SPECTRE. That has resulted in an exhaustive, soul-sucking time.

In years past, the filming of a Bond movie was enjoyable for fans. This time out? Not so much.

What happened to the title?

Your guess is as good as the blog’s. This weekend, there were some unconfirmed possibilities courtesy of a tweet by James Bond Brasil’s Marcos Kontze. But nothing solid yet. (If you’re spoiler adverse, don’t click on that link; or if you do don’t complain here.)

What’s up next?

Apparently filming will shift to Italy this month. That’s been reported before and local Italian outlets have written about it previously.

What about the trailer?

Who knows? There was a fan theory that a Bond 25 teaser trailer would be attached to Hobbs & Shaw (released by Universal, which is handling international distribution for Bond 25)

That didn’t happen. This weekend saw a trailer for Sam Mendes’s new movie, 1917, a World War I drama. There apparently was a trailer for Christopher Nolan’s next movie (but it wasn’t available online).

The Nolan film will be released in July 2020, or more than three months after Bond 25. But no trailer for Bond 25 yet.