Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan has written things like a sexy trilogy about British Prime Minster Tony Blair (the final part,”The Special Relationship,” coming relatively soon) “Frost/Nixon”, and or c0-written things like “The Last King of Scotland,” “The Other Boleyn Girl” and of course part II of the T.Blair triptych “The Queen,” which scored him his second aforementioned Oscar nod.
It doesn’t really scream action, but he’s been hired to help write the next James Bond film, colloquially called ‘Bond 23’ because it’s the 23rd film in the ongoing, never-to-end-as-long-as-it-makes-billions McSeries. But that’s what Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are for. They helped write the last four Bond films and routinely team-up with someone much, much, much smarter than they are. They bring the brawn, XYZ, in this case, Morgan, brings the brains. Or at least, we assume as much considering their screen credits mostly consists of Bond films and Bond als0-ran spoof films. Presumably this means they’ll give the film some political MI6 edge? [THR]
