MGM confirmed in November 2012 that John Logan had been hired to write Bond 24 and Bond 25.Blowfeld wrote:I believe this was confirmed back in 2013. Spectre is the first of Logan's scripts, for which they had to beg P&W to come back to "polish".
Here's a chronology of events before and since:
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