The trades are really playing catch up today. Earlier today 007 star Daniel Craig was asked on camera in New York outside his play “A Steady Rain” (co-starring Hugh Jackman) when the next Bond movie — dubbed “Bond 23” for now, because of its edition # in the series — would be happening. Craig responded that the movie would begin filming at “the end of next year.”
And in fact, the trades are essentially acting as bloggers now and making a report about this exact same quote and occurrence, but of course, not linking anyone. We always thought the trade boycott was rather silly because Variety and THR would actually confirm rumors or advance the story with new news as most good news outlets did at the time, which was always fair game to move forward, but this is just slightly odd and probably going to ruffle some of the thin-skinned feathers out there.
Considering the names we’ve heard of late — name brand directors and writers from both sides of the Atlantic that are in soft talks or consideration — we could really advance this story ourselves. But then someone would get rather pissed at us and then well, that’s that. The Broccoli family — Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, along with wife Dane and children Michael and Barbara, aka the producing dynasty behind all these films — are definitely sniffing around, so shooting end of year makes sense.
Decisions could be made in the next several months or very shortly. We’ll see.