Bond 24 News

Last week website Schmoes Know published an article claiming they’d had a hot tip that Blue is the Warmest Color actress Lea Seydoux was in the running for the main female role in Bond 24. The anonymous source is “very trusted”. They also cited a previous article from March, in which they quoted a casting […]

British music paper NME is reporting on a story that appeared in The Sun stating Adele has turned down the opportunity to record the theme to Bond 24 and the producers are looking at other choices that include Sam Smith. The Mirror seems to be the first to put forward Smith as a likely choice, […]

A location in Norway has been scouted by filmmakers for Bond 24, according to our friends at James Bond Norway. Australian filmmaker and facilitator Jason Roberts confirmed to Dagbladet newspaper that Eon Productions has assessed Svalbard as a possible location. In the past Roberts has contributed to a number of productions such as The Golden […]

Baz Bamigboye has repored in the Daily Mail this morning that Bond 24 has finally got the green light to start shooting in late November/early December following a script revamp by long term Bond scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The pair were brought in to reword John Logan’s script after Sam Mendes and Daniel […]

Photo: “Piazza Quattro Fontane 270deg Pano” by R Bitzer licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 The president of Roma Lazio Film Commission has revealed to Italian media that the producers of Bond 24 are in talks for permission to shoot a key car chase in Rome. Luciano Sovena revealed that the chase would take place along Rome’s Via […]

Bond 24 stunt coordinator Gary Powell uploaded a photo to Instagram on Sunday taken on board an executive jet. UPDATE: The photo has been removed. The photo is interesting as Alexander Witt (Left, Second Unit Director of Photography) and Callum McDougall (Right, Executive Producer) can clearly be identified. While no details are known, it seems […]

Sam Mendes attended an event at Windsor Castle on Tuesday night organised by Films Without Borders, in which he spoke about how the Olympics changed his approach to editing Skyfall, as well as Bond 24. Interviewed by Films Without Borders supporter Prince Edward, Mendes spoke about his first experience of Bond in Live And Let […]

Alexander Witt has been confirmed as Director of Photography on the second unit by the website of The Murtha Agency, which represents him. Witt previously worked on both Casino Royale and Skyfall , since when he has worked on Hercules, Cinderella and is currently shooting Terminator: Genesis. Witt also worked on XXX, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of […]

Screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are on board Bond 24 and filming is delayed until December, if a report by the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye is to be believed. He also says that Sam Mendes and his team have started scouting for locations. Bamigboye turned out to be right on the money with a […]

Our friends at MI6 are reporting that Bond 24 is to be shot on film rather than digitally as was Skyfall. The report comes via their forums, where one user repeated the claim from a user on Skyfall cinematographer Roger Deakins’ own forum that the filmmakers were returning to film for Bond 24, stating “I know […]