Bond 24 News

This isn’t really news; Ralph Fiennes has confirmed he’ll be returning as M in Bond 24, saying he is “looking forward to it very much”, according to an article in Metro quoting Yahoo Movies (which I’ve been unable to source). The Metro piece then goes on to trot out the normal tabloid nonsense about Bond […]

Barbara Broccoli told reporters at an event in Ireland “we’ll come here. Ireland is gorgeous. I’d love to come here and make a Bond film.” Broccoli and John Logan, who co-wrote Skyfall and is currently involved on Bond 24, attended an Institute of Directors event at the weekend in support of the film industry in […]

The Daily Mail is reporting that Naomie Harris is to get more of the action in Bond 24. According to Baz Bamigboye an unnamed “executive close to the production” told him that Moneypenny is to be more of a sidekick to 007 rather than be desk bound as Sam Mendes, Daniel Craig and the producers, […]

Daniel Craig and wife Rachael Weisz, who are appearing together on Broadway in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, were recently interviewed (separately) by Vulture.com and, naturally, one of the subjects that came up with Craig was James Bond. He talks briefly about Skyfall, in particular the use of humour, and says that he’d like more of the […]

The world’s media has whipped itself into a frenzy following the claim by The Sun yesterday that Bond 24 would be based on Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks The story appears to be completely baseless, without even the usual anonymous source quoted. Let’s face it, The Sun is doesn’t exactly have a reputation for […]

It has been officially confirmed today that Sam Mendes will direct Bond 24, which will be released in October 2015. The announcement was made through a press release on 007.com, which you can read here.

Attending the premiere of his stage version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory last night, Sam Mendes preempted any questions about Bond 24 when he told Hey U Guys “I don’t know yet” and “I won’t make any decision until this is open. It’s taken a long time to get this open and this has […]

Sam Mendes has reportedly ruled himself out of the running for the top job at the National Theatre, something that has been rumoured for a few months, saying that it would get in the way of his film career. The current top dog at the National Theatre, Sir Nicholas Hytner, steps down in 2015 and […]

A few days there was widely reported that Spanish acress Penelope Cruz had been signed for Bond 24, of which we were extremely sceptical, and would thus become the oldest Bond girl to date. Of course, Cruz in the wife of Javier Bardem, so the story was a bit too neat, and anyway it is […]

Several reports have appeared online stating that Penelope Cruz has been signed for Bond 24, with an unnamed source “close to the production” quoted as saying that the producers have tried to sign the Spanish actress before; Cruz is married to Javier Bardem, who played the villain of Skyfall. Source: Yahoo