As producers attempt to get the next James Bond film back on track, after the abrupt departure of director Danny Boyle, reports have emerged that the series’ longtime writers, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, have been rehired to produce a new script.
According to the Daily Mail, Purvis and Wade have returned to the 25th Bond film, having had their original treatment for the film set aside when producers opted to go with Boyle and a script by him and his regular writing collaborator, John Hodge.
It is not clear what the “creative differences” were that led Boyle to leave Bond 25.
He told the Abu Dhabi publication The National: “I’m supposed to do the next James Bond, playing the lead bad guy.”