A new Nicolas Winding Refn movie is in the works. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Spectre) will write the new film, which may be The Avenging Silence.
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Bond 24 has a couple of new writers. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade will help John Logan with the script. The trio previously wrote Skyfall together.
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Last year, we got the surprising but not unwelcome news that Nicolas Winding Refn would be revamping Barbarella for the small screen. Now he's being joined by some other big cinematic names. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have co-written the last five Bond movies including Skyfall, have just signed on to write the script.…
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Kojak was a big presence on TV in the '70s, with Telly Savalas starring as the title detective from '73 to '78. Savalas anchored the show with strength and a rakish charm, sucking on lollipops, spouting the catchphrase "Who loves ya, baby?," and solving crime in the middle of what might have been New York's…
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We just talked about the Black List script Ezekiel Moss, which has Philip Seymour Hoffman set to direct, and now there's another Black List script with a high-profile talent attached to direct. Park Chan-wook, who made the original Oldboy and recently finished his English-language debut Stoker, will make Corsica 72. The script is by Neal Purvis…
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The twenty-third James Bond film, which once again stars Daniel Craig and is directed by Sam Mendes, is called Skyfall. As it turns out, in one sense, the title has a very nearly literal implication. In the culmination of a chase scene that winds through and beneath London, the villain Silva, played by Javier Bardem, causes an…
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Confirmed details on Sam Mendes' Bond 23 are still scarce, but it seems screenwriter John Logan may have let slip a very useful detail about the villain. At a talk earlier this week, Logan hinted that iconic Bond baddie Ernst Stavro Blofeld just might be making an appearance in the upcoming film. Logan didn't go…
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Here's a bit of wild speculation about Bond 23 -- or possibly not so wild, depending upon how much faith you place in various online translations and reports. Hint: in this case, be cautious. But let's lay out the steps that have lead some to suspect that the twenty-third James Bond film may be based…
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Briefly: We still don't know very much at all about the twenty-third James Bond movie, other than that it will shoot this fall with Daniel Craig and Judi Dench reprising their roles as James Bond and M, respectively, under the direction of Sam Mendes. Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan are writing, and there…
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Briefly: Daniel Craig is all over the place this week thanks to the new posters and trailers for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but he is still the star of another massive franchise with a global fanbase. Today there is a tiny bit of James Bond news, as Sony, EON Productions and MGM have…
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In the absence of any news on the James Bond front, take this story as a substitute: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who wrote Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, have been hired to write an original action thriller that might have vague Bond-like overtones. It also has a more serious, political bent, which could…
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Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions have finally made the first official Bond 23 announcement by naming Peter Morgan as the latest 'credible' screenwriter to team up with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade on spy-scripting duties. As if there was any doubt, they also confirmed that Daniel Craig will reprise his role…
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