There’s been plenty of speculation regarding the future of the James Bond franchise since Daniel Craig’s final Bond film “No Time to Die” opened two years ago.
Much of it has been centered on the casting of the new 007 with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Rege Jean-Page, Henry Cavill, James Norton and Callum Turner among the rumored names.
There’s also plenty of discussion about a potential director (Chris Nolan being the frequently rumored one) and the time period/tone of the film which will impact how they cast it.
In a new interview with The Guardian whilst out promoting the new Bond-themed Amazon series “007 Road to a Million,” producer Barbara Broccoli was straightforward in her discussion of where the franchise goes next.
Turns out there’s been little progress. She says it’s “a big, big road ahead reinventing it for the next chapter” and she and half-brother producer Michael G. Wilson “haven’t even begun with that”.
She says the film will have to be modernised reflect the way the world has changed in the nearly two decades since Craig was originally cast:
“I go back to GoldenEye when everyone was saying ‘the cold war is over, the wall is over, Bond is dead, no need for Bond, the whole world’s at peace and now there’s no villains’ – and boy was that wrong!”
With Craig they focused on a “what a 21st-century hero would look like” and got to “mine the emotional life of the character” at a time when the “world was ready for it”.
As the comments suggest, the plan would seem to be to stick to a modern setting as opposed to going back to the Cold War setting of Fleming’s novels.
Finally, she again confirmed in the interview there are no plans for other Bond TV spin-offs beyond this competition series and their focus is on “making the feature films”.
