‘Bond 25’ Reportedly Getting A Script Polish From ‘Fleabag’

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It’s been a bit tough going for the movie presently nonetheless often called Bond 25, aka the subsequent 007 image. Last 12 months director Danny Boyle abruptly left the manufacturing; he was finally changed by True Detective Season 1 auteur Cary Fukunaga. Lately, although, the information has been promising, delightfully outside-the-box. There’s the rumor that Rami Malek, scorching off his Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar win, could play the villain. Now there’s discuss that Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the brains behind Fleabag and Killing Eve, is doing a script polish, to make it funnier, sharper, and hopefully extra Waller-Bridge-esque.

This declare comes from The Guardian, saying Waller-Bridge — within the midst of an prolonged journey to America, partially to carry out her beloved stage model of Fleabag in New York City — met with Daniel Craig. The present James Bond is, like many people, reportedly an enormous fan of the writer-performer’s work, together with Fleabag, wherein she stars, and Killing Eve, wherein she doesn’t.

During their meet-up, Craig mentioned the Bond 25 script, which is being written by Scott Z. Burns, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade — the latter two Bond film screenplay vets. According to The Guardian’s supply, the actor felt their script wanted some “polishing,” and that Waller-Bridge would add “more humour and the offbeat style of writing she is best known for.”