Daniel Craig Says 'Bond 23' To Shoot in Late 2010

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Daniel Craig Says 'Bond 23' To Shoot in Late 2010

Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 12:30PM

I'm not surprised by the announcement, but a little surprised at the way we learned about it. Daniel Craig says Bond 23 will go into production in 2010. Again, we knew there was no way the film could be ready by November 2010, which would keep with the two-year gap pattern established with Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. But we also knew there was no way this would wait four years. Three shall be the number and the number shall be three.

But the "official" word came from 007 outside the Schoenfeld theatre in New York, where Craig and Hugh Jackman are performing A Steady Rain. The actors take plenty of time signing autographs, which is always a good sign, and a woman asks Craig about the next Bond movie.

"We start at the end of next year," Craig says matter-of-factly in a video found by CommanderBond.net. Again, no surprise there, but you'd expect the news to hit from somewhere other than a sidewalk of 45th Street.

We've heard more than we actually know about the next Bond movie at this point. There were Danny Boyle rumors, Freida Pinto as the Bond Girl rumors, and talk that 007 could fight Afghan drug lords, among other speculation. But all we know for sure is that writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are returning, and that Frost/Nixon and The Queen writer Peter Morgan will join the fun.

There's no director, and even though you might think every filmmaker in the world would want to do a Bond film, that's not true. As a director, your control is a little limited because the Broccoli family maintains so much control over the series. It's kind of that way with Harry Potter, too, where it's a nice showcase for a director but you're playing with somebody else's toys. And then you move on.

Once a script is in place, maybe not even the final version, a director will come into view. It will almost certainly be a very reliable filmmaker, someone whose work has gained some acclaim in the previous couple years, but we won't get, say, Tarantino. I'd like to see someone like Guillaume Canet, whose French thriller Tell No One gained a substantial worldwide reputation since its 2007 release. But that's just a name that came to mind right now.

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