In a rare two-for-one deal, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and Skyfall co-writer John Logan has signed up to write the next two 007 adventures, Bond 24 and Bond 25, which are the last two films on Daniel Craig‘s current contract.
Deadline reports that Logan actually pitched a two-film story arc on the set of Skyfall to longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson and he is already writing them. This suggests that Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have written or co-written every Bond adventure since 1999’s The World is Not Enough, have finally bowed out of the series with Skyfall. Being that Skyfall has overwhelming positive buzz (with a 95% rating at Rotten Tomatoes so far), snatching Logan up for two more films is probably a great move. Deadline even suggests that the films could possibly be shot back-to-back, but that is just speculation.
Along with co-writing Skyfall, Logan has written or co-written a number of successful films, including Gladiator, Hugo, The Aviator, Rango, Coriolanus, Sweeney Todd, The Last Samurai and Any Given Sunday. Producers are hoping to deliver Bond 24 in late 2014, and even if that’s not realistic I hope Bond 25 makes it out in 2017, which would be the 55th anniversary of the first film, or even 2018, which would be the 65th anniversary of the character’s debut in literature. After all, Bond films always seem even more special in anniversary years — as this year’s Skyfall, which marks the 50th anniversary of the film series, has proven.
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