Blowfeld wrote:MORGAN, PURVIS & WADE TO WORK ON BOND, JAMES BOND
LOS ANGELES, CA June 12, 2009 – Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions Ltd and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have today announced that Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale) will be the screenwriters of the 23rd James Bond adventure.
Daniel Craig will reprise his role as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 in the film, which will be a MGM release of an EON production. Bond 23 is the latest installment in the longest-running franchise in motion picture history and will be produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. A date for the start of production is yet to be confirmed.
“Peter, Neal and Robert are extraordinarily talented and we’re looking forward to working with the three of them,” commented Wilson and Broccoli.
Peter Morgan is the award-winning writer of such films as The Last King of Scotland, The Queen and Frost/Nixon, which was based on his play. He has also scripted the upcoming The Special Relationship for HBO and Hereafter for DreamWorks. He will turn his attention to Bond 23 on completion of these duties. Morgan is represented by UTA (US) and Independent Talent Group (UK).
Since 1991 Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have collaborated on a diverse range of projects including The Italian Job, Johnny English and the past four Bond films. They recently adapted John Le Carre's The Mission Song and are also working on the upcoming sequel The Brazilian Job. Purvis and Wade are represented by Endeavor (US), Casarotto Ramsay & Associates (UK).
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Aside form the production diabolical, which I will go in to in just a second, this guy is busy and they are 3rd or fourth on his burner. It also shows that Eon is still pretentious in their crap. I wouldn't but it past them to try to put more political undertones in it.
For how production can be "on" but go nowhere, look no further than P&W's The Brazilian Job.
Production is going to be a problem, everyone but Craig has a lot on their plate. Beyond that the real problem is Money. MGM doesn't have it. They owe close to 3 billion coming up in 2010. Other studios are making moves to force MGM in to bankruptcy. MGM is trying to find new capital by talking about what they have in production. Nobody cares about a RoboCop remake, the Hobbit and Bond are about the only two things they have going for them. If MGM goes into bankruptcy another studio may be partners in Bond, just like how Sony suddenly showed up as Bond CO owner in 2005.