‘Bond’ Producer Says They Have not Even Began on New ‘007’ Period

It has been 2 years since Daniel Craig hung it up as James Bond — however even now, the franchise’s producers have not finished a lot on the subsequent chapter … which is kinda shocking.

Barbara Broccoli — who’s one of many key producers of the Bond franchise, and who holds the rights to all of the movies — made the revelation to The Guardian this weekend … telling them they’re fairly a methods out from selecting their subsequent 007.

She says there is a “massive street forward” earlier than their famed British spy may very well be reinvented for the subsequent chapter.” Much more startling is that she says the execs “haven’t even begun” the method of rebooting the franchise, which they apparently need to make extra trendy.

Broccoli says the subsequent iteration of Bond has to replicate how the world has modified since DC was tapped virtually 20 years in the past … and famous the character had typically been reinvented. She provides, “Daniel gave us the flexibility to mine the emotional lifetime of the character … and in addition the world was prepared for it. I believe these films replicate the time they’re in.”

That is all superb and good … however what’s getting some head-turns right here is the truth that Barbara and co. appear to be dragging their ft on this — a minimum of that is what some Bond followers say.

After all, the timing is objectively on par with how lengthy it took them the final time to recast Bond — Pierce Brosnan‘s final go at it was in 2002, and Craig did not decide up the baton till 4 years later in 2006 … so yeah, the producers appear to love to take their candy time.

There’s additionally all of the strike stuff that is happening in showbiz proper now — so maybe that is additionally holding issues up. In any case, here is hoping they’ll begin zeroing in earlier than later.