After lots of speculations and numerous high profile names being rumored as contenders for directing the 25th movie in the James Bond series, it looks like the MGM studio finally found their guy. Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, and Slumdog Millionaire) recently spoke with Metro.us and revealed that he is currently working on a script for a new James Bond movie.
“We are working on a script right now,” said Boyle when asked if he will be director of the next installment in the franchise. “And it all depends on that, really. I am working on a Richard Curtis script at the moment. We hope to start shooting that in six or seven weeks. Then Bond would be right at the end of the year. But we are working on them both right now.”
“We’ve got an idea, John Hodge — the screenwriter — and I have got this idea, and John is writing it at the moment,” – he added. “And it all depends on how it turns out. It would be foolish of me to give any of it away.”
Boyle also declined to discuss when and where the next Bond movie could be filmed.
Danny Boyle was one of the main candidates for the director’s gig, with MGM being very keen on the 61-year-old for some time now. According to the reports, Boyle was also among the favorites to direct 2012’s Skyfall and 2015’s Spectre.
The 25th James Bond movie entered development in 2016 with Sam Mendes, director of the previous two movies in the franchise, announcing that he won’t return to direct another one. Although there were some speculations that current Agent 007 Daniel Craig could follow his footsteps and leave the franchise, that didn’t happen. Craig expressed his desire to return to Bond 25 in October 2016 and then confirming his involvement in August 2017. The studio has set 8 November 2019 as the initial release date for the movie.
