CommanderBond.Net received some interesting comments from Bond movie scribe Neal Purvis today. The man spoke at a lecture on the whole collapsed Halle Berry-led, "Jinx" movie spin-off controversy and why it didn't happen. The answer? Money of course:
"We spent two months with Stephen Frears on it and it’s all down to the studio. Halle Berry was very happy, Stephen and the producers were happy and we were happy – but the studio didn’t want to make it. It was going to cost $80-90 million and Charlie’s Angels and Tomb Raider hadn’t done well, so they didn’t want to risk it"
Meanwhile Angelina Jolie spoke out this week to <a href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/featuresnews.php?id=3809" target="_blank">Coming Soon</a> about recent rumours of a third "Tomb Raider" and the possibility of her returning as Lara Croft - the answer wasn't great for fans of the franchise: "I just don't feel like I need to do another one, because I felt very happy with the last one. It was the one that we really wanted to do," she told us. "In the first one, I was kind of frustrated, but I was trying something new, and then with the second one, I felt like that's how we wanted to do it". Jolie is also unsure about playing Catherine the Great in the upcoming Russian-set epic "Love and Honor" movie.
Thanks to 'GakMan'.
