Barbara Broccoli, boss of Eon Productions
Barbara Broccoli, the boss of Eon Productions, said in an interview with The Guardian that work on Bond 26 is not yet underway.
Here's the key excerpt:
Producer Barbara Broccoli said there is "a big road ahead" before the character is "reinvented for the next chapter", and that executives "haven't even begun" the process of modernising the franchise.
She added that the next film will have to reflect the way the world has changed in the two decades since (Daniel) Craig was confirmed as the sixth 007 and pointed out that Bond has often been reinvented.
Some observations:
--Broccoli's comments are little changed from the past
In a Sept. 28, 2022 Associated Press video, she said: "We're really at the beginning. We've got to reinvent it for the future. That's going to take some time. We won't start casting until we kind of have a sense of what we're planning to do."
In a Feb. 20, 2023 AP video, she said: "It'll be awhile. We have a lot of work to do before we start casting...We're on the case."
--Eon has reinvented Bond before in less time
It has been about four years since No Time to Die, Eon's most recent Bond film, wrapped production. To be sure, the pandemic had an impact (the movie didn't come out until fall 2021). Still, between 1985 and 1987, Eon changed the tone of its Bond productions to be more serious when Timothy Dalton was cast. And things were reinvented in a four-year period between Die Another Day (Pierce Brosnan) and Casino Royale (Craig).
Eon spent 2022 celebrating Craig's five-film tenure as Bond. In January of that year, Broccoli told a Hollywood Reporter podcast she was in no hurry concerning Bond 26.
"We are living in the present moment and it's a joyful moment, it's a celebratory moment. We're celebrating Daniel's extraordinary achievement over 16 years."
"We want to live in this moment for as long as possible and really applaud Daniel and really enjoy it. At some point later, we'll sit down and think about the future. Right now, I want to live in the present and it's a very happy place to be right now."
--At least one film industry professional may have expressed some skepticism
It's pretty clear there's some bad blood between Eon and director Matthew Vaughn. The latter on a recent edition of the Happy Sad Confused podcast said Eon "is not keen on me."
There was also the following exchange about Eon and Bond 26.
INTERVIEWER: Currently they are about to do their next reboot.
VAUGHN: Are they? (Pause) I actually don't know.
One shouldn't read too much to such a brief part of the interview. Vaughn wasn't asked to expand on that comment. Even if he was being skeptical, Vaughn is hardly an unbiased observer. Still, it was an interesting exchange.
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