Skyfall News

With the deadline for first round bidding on MGM having now passed, it’s looking increasingly like the studio will be forced into Chapter 11 and an uncertain timescale for Bond 23 to get underway. While the studio received several bids, unnamed insiders say they will almost certainly require operating MGM without the current debt obligations […]

The first round of bidding for troubled MGM are is due to end at the end of the week according to the Wall Street Journal, with around a dozen serious bidders wanting to pick up the scraps of the studio. The bids are far below the $3.7 billion owed to MGM’s banks according to sources […]

Sam Mendes is on the verge of signing for Bond 23 according to the Hollywood Reporter and reported on MI6 with production possibly starting as early as June, contradicting reports earlier this week that work on the film was on hold due to the sale of MGM. Mendes’ best known film to date is American […]

Bond 23 screenwriter Peter Morgan has apparently revealed that the plot of the next James Bond film will be “shocking” according to an article in Austian news site Kurier. He revealed that he worked on the script between July and October but work has been put on hold at least until February due to the […]

Variety published an article on Sunday regarding the survival struggling studio MGM, crippled by $3.7 billion debt. The studio is currently is the early stages of being auctioned off, with debt repayments suspended for now and one possibility that MGM is broken up and its assets – including the James Bond back catalogue – are […]

Daniel Craig recently appeared on the Regis and Kelly Show, where he discussed his current Broadway role in A Steady Rain. If you fast forward to the 4 mins 40 seconds you’ll hear a little more about the plans for Bond 23.

Daniel Craig has revealed that the filming of Bond 23 will start in 2010 in a video posted on YouTube. Craig and Hugh Jackman were signing autographs at the stage door of A Steady Rain, which they are currently performing on Broadway, when a female fan asked Craig the question we’ve all been wanting to […]

Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions Ltd and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have announced on Friday that Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale) will be the screenwriters of the 23rd James Bond adventure. Daniel Craig will reprise his role as Ian Fleming’s James Bond […]

It was only back in April when Bond producer Michael G. Wilson indicated that any real work on Bond 23 was yet to begin, but the story seemed to be different last week according to an article published by the The Sun, which caught up with Wilson at the Ivor Novello Awards in London.

According to an article on MI6 today, work has hardly started on Bond 23. Producer Michael G. Wilson spoke at the Bradford International Film Festival last week, in which he gave a masterclass on the making of the James Bond films. One of the things he discussed was the pace at which the films is made, which has both positive and negative consequences.