Shooting is due to start at Pinewood studios on 6 April, and there had been longstanding rumours that Shatterhand would be Bond 25’s official title.
Barbara Broccoli, who along with her half-brother Michael G Wilson is the lead producer on the Bond movie series, has indicated that Shatterhand is not the title of the upcoming 007 film, currently known as Bond 25.
According to Bond news site MI6 HQ, Broccoli signed a piece of fan art that included the word Shatterhand, adding the words “It’s not” and an arrow.
The name comes from an alias used by series supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Ian Fleming’s 1964 Bond novel You Only Live Twice.