As well as overseeing the upcoming Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful, Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator) is busy writing the scripts for Daniel Craig’s next two spy adventures in Bond 24 and Bond 25 and IGN caught up with the Skyfall scribe, during which they managed to grab a few comments about the next 007 movie, which will see Sam Mendes returning to the director’s chair for Craig’s fourth outing as Bond.
“All I can say about Bond is that I’m happily writing it [otherwise] Sam would rappel through the window and kill me. My goal is to write a great movie that’s appropriate, to build on what we did on Skyfall, but make it its own unique animal. The themes, ideas and the characters from Skyfall can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. So I think there’s resonance from Skyfall in the new movie. I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was Diamonds Are Forever, when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces. I love all the elements, from the books – mostly from the novels; going back to Ian Flemming is where I started with Skyfall – and there’s certainly elements of the movies and the novels that we’ve brought into the new movie, as they did into Skyfall.”
And as for the chances of Bond’s nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld returning to the franchise now that the producers have settled their long running legal dispute Logan refused to confirm or deny his inclusion, simply stating that, “You know, I think our villain’s appropriate to the story we’re telling.”
Bond 24 is set for release on October 23rd, 2015 in the UK and on November 6th, 2015 in North America.
Originally published January 19, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
