American screenwriter John Logan spoke to Empire
Online this morning about the upcoming 24th
James Bond film.
Logan, who took the first draft of 'Skyfall' from
Neal Purvis & Robert
Wade and delivered the final shooting script with director Sam
Mendes, has signed
to pen Bond 24 and 25 by himself. Daniel
Craig is contracted for both.
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"Right now the first draft [of Bond
24] is almost done," he told Empire. "I’m
terrifically excited about it! I’ve been working
very closely with Sam Mendes, and it’s been joyous
to pick up from our work on Skyfall and just continue on
with the storytelling."
"The new movie continues the themes
of Skyfall. Some of the characters and themes that we began
to introduce in Skyfall will play out, I hope successfully,
in the next movie." As this is Logan's first clean slate on writing a James
Bond adventure, it will be curious to see which touchstones
from the franchise he may use.
On the subject of what may
be coming back, or referenced, in the upcoming film he
said: "The great thing about Bond is that I have fifty
years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming
novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And
when I’m working on the new Bond I’m constantly
going back to Fleming and the other movies - what
are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances?" |
"One of
the things we learned in Skyfall is that the audience really
enjoyed those, they enjoyed when they saw the Aston Martin,
they enjoyed when we had references to things they grew
up with, either from Ian Fleming or from the other movies,
and that’s always been a part of my thinking about
Bond."
Quick Fire
Craig being involved in the writing process: Daniel’s
very involved. It behoves no-one to write a character that the
lead actor doesn’t want to play, so having worked so closely
on Skyfall, I have my own sense of what I think Dan responds
to, as does Sam, (and producers) Barbara Broccoli and Michael
Wilson of course.
Will Blofeld or Quantum appear: No comment.
Other 00 agents: [Pause] Ah... no comment!
Filming to start in October: I think that’s
the plan.
Topping Skyfall: You ain’t seen nothing yet!
What's in store in Bond 25: I’m just trying to get one
done first! If I survive this one, we’ll see about the
next one!
Will it be a two-parter: Couldn’t comment!
Bond 24 will be released on October 23rd in the UK and November
6th in the USA.
Briefing
SPECTRE (2015) is the new James Bond film and the 24th in the series. It will be the fourth outing for Daniel Craig as 007, and the second film to be directed by Sam Mendes from a screenplay by John Logan, Neal Purvis & Robert Wade. The new MI6 team of Ralph Fiennes (M), Naomie Harris (Moneypenny), Rory Kinnear (Tanner) and Ben Whishaw (Q) are all reprising their roles. The cast will include Lea Seydoux, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott and Christoph Waltz. Production commences on December 8th 2014, with location work as early as 5th January 2015 in Austria. The film will also shoot on location in: Erfoud and Tangier, Morocco; Rome, Italy and Mexico City, Mexico. SPECTRE is scheduled for release on 7th November 2015.
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