Bond 24 News

Joanne Froggatt, who plays Anna in ITV’s period piece Downton Abbey, has reportedly been in talks with Eon about the Bond girl role in Bond 24. Virgin Media cites the Sunday Daily Star as quoting the usual unnamed source, but a search on the Daily Star website has failed to find the article mentioned. Our friends […]

The latest issue of Empire Magazine looks at the 301 greatest movies of all time, placing Skyfall in 45th place. Empire spoke to John Logan about his involvement in the Bond films, describing Skyfall as “the best time I’ve ever had working on a movie” and saying that he had wanted to be true to Ian Fleming’s […]

Sam Mendes attended BFI Southbank for a screening of Paris, Texas earlier in the week and was naturally quizzed about Bond 24 by attending press. In response he said the screenplay was being written and that it is ongoing, joking “if I told you I’d have to kill you”. You can keep up to date […]

Three Norwegians are among a number of Scandinavian actresses being considered for a part in Bond 24, according to reports. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (Hercules),  Synnøve Macody Lund (Headhunters) and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Borgen) have taken part in screen tests for Bond 24. According to Anne Lindberg, agent of two of the actresses, the film’s producers have auditioned a number […]

After Ralph Fiennes first mentioned shooting would commence in October and a report from Baz Bamigboye shortly after saying filming had been put back until November, Bond 24 scribe John Logan has now confirmed plans to start filming in October. After attending the Penny Dreadful premiere earlier today, Latino Review tweeted the following: Nice talking […]

Sam Mendes was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose for Bloomberg TV, in which he discussed many aspects of his career, including Bond 24. [iframe http://www.hulu.com/embed.html?eid=e5jfpd5cg0xvo4v0v4sdaa&st=1024&et=1131 450 253] Click the play button to watch the section of the interview related to Bond 24 and hear what he had to say. Thanks to HMSS Weblog for sourcing the video. You […]

It is being reported by media in Sweden that two Swedish actresses have been screen tested for the Scandinavian Bond girl role (mentioned here). MI6 are reporting that the two actresses are Ida Engvoll And Disa Östrand, are you can read more about them at the link below: A note: none of this is confirmed […]

While it was recently widely reported that Roger Deakins was not returning for Bond 24 after Kristopher Tapley (HitFix.com) tweeted that Deakins broke the news to him at dinner, it turns out the news had already broken by that stage. [adsense] 48 hours or so before Tapley tweeted the news, Deakins had already been quoted […]

Ralph Fiennes is to star in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman at The National Theatre from February 2015, suggesting his role as M will be limited. [adsense] Fiennes has in the past said that he had “heard” rumours that his character would have a larger role in Bond 24, but given that the play will start during […]

The Press Association has released a video shot (above) at the launch of Bond In Motion earlier this week in which they feature a short segment with Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who comment on Bond 24. Broccoli says they have been working with director Sam Mendes, screenwriter John Logan and Daniel […]