When talking about what it is like to work on Bond as a writer, Haggis told ComingSoon, "Bond is just pure imagination; you just get to have fun. It's escapism and it's fun, but I try to ground him as a human being."

He was also keen to draw a distinction between his vision of Bond's character and the one that shot and bonked his way around the world in previous decades, "My Bond is an actual assassin; when he kills someone, he kills them with a knife, they're bloody and he pays a price. He denies that he pays a price, but he does."

"When he sees a woman who witnesses something horrific, and he sees her taking a shower, he doesn't just go in there and f*ck her, like the old Bond would have done. He sits there with her, and she says, 'I can't get this blood from my fingernails.' So he helps her get the blood from her fingernails; that's what he does, that's my Bond. So it's a different guy; it's a guy who's much more like these guys, these heroes (in 'Valley of Elah')."

Above: Paul Haggis

"As soon as we knew that Marc Forster grew up in Switzerland and would direct the next James Bond film, we had to offer our services", said André Brice of the Swiss film commission (Film Location Switzerland). "Still nothing is definite, but the chances bode well", he added.

It would not be the first time that the world's most famous secret agent had visited one of the well-known mountain ranges or a Swiss city. Both "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "Goldfinger" have shot in the country.

Forster recently commented that due to the heavy use of the country in O.H.M.S.S, filming scenes there may add nothing new - but added that decisions are far from complete,

Right: The iconic scenes in O.H.M.S.S. may work against Switzerland's chances of featuring as a location in Bond 22