Danny Boyle Calls His Exit From ‘Bond 25’ A ‘Great Shame’

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The debate over who will take over the mantle of James Bond from actor Daniel Craig after Bond 25 rages on, however a minimum of we all know who the director is. Cary Fukunaga has been exhausting at work on the undertaking since September, a month after Danny Boyle exited the undertaking over “creative differences.” In a brand new interview with Empire journal, the latter provided some transient (however insightful) feedback about his departure from the movie.

“What John [Hodge] and I were doing, I thought, was really good,” he mentioned of his work on Bond 25 with the Scottish screenwriter. “It wasn’t finished, but it could have been really good”:

“We were working very, very well, but they didn’t want to go down that route with us,” he defined on his departure. “So we determined to half firm, and it might be unfair to say what it was as a result of I don’t know what Cary [Joji Fukunaga] goes to do. I obtained a really good message from him and I gave him my finest needs… It is only a nice disgrace.”

Despite the “shame” of his and Hodge’s departure, which Boyle feels partially as a result of they by no means obtained the change to complete what they’d began, the director stresses that “has no ill feeling towards Fukunaga or the project’s current iteration.”

Since Fukunaga got here on board, Bond 25 has gone via a number of rounds of script revisions and slight delays. Even so, a number of main updates have come alongside — just like the potential casting of Oscar-winner Rami Malek because the lead villain. In the meantime, Boyle and Hodge will simply should take their unfinished script for 007 Hours elsewhere.

(Via Empire)