Hot off the back of the news that Christopher Nolan has taken himself out of the running to helm Bond 25, a new frontrunner has emerged in the form of T2 Trainspotting director Danny Boyle.
Boyle and his T2 Trainspotting scribe John Hodge have been set a task to draft an outline of the screenplay over the next few months for the next Bond adventure. The project will then be presented to series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson who will then make their final decision on whether to go with Boyle. If this doesn’t go to plan Broccoli and Wilson will still have 71’s Yann Demange and Hell or High Water’s David Mackenzie as a back up with a script already waiting from Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.
He entered the running after Broccoli and Wilson came to rethink the story idea that he involved Daniel Craig during the 2012 London Olympics. The pair worked together on Boyle’s inventive Bond opening sequence which included a Queen Elizabeth lookalike.
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Boyle has always shown a big interest in working on a Bond project and has made it clear he would be interested in directing Bond 25. He is currently developing a project for Working Title, but with no cast currently attached, there is always the possibility of pushing that movie back to direct the 25th instalment in the series.
Sam Mendes directed the previous two instalments, which became the highest-grossing films in the series, with “Skyfall” bringing in $1.1 billion globally and “Spectre” earning $880 million at the worldwide box office.
Bond 25 is scheduled for a November 2019 release.
