Yahoo News Danny Boyle opens up about leaving Bond 25: "It could have been really good"
Last August, the next James Bond movie was hit with the sudden departure of Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle.
Dropped by the film's producers, Boyle left Bond 25 under the official guise of "creative differences", that catch-all term for any sort of disagreement on a project.
Now, after months of speculation, Danny has opened up about the (apparently mutual) decision for him to walk away from the film – and how it was a "great shame".
Reflecting on what happened, Danny admitted that although his vision wasn't finished, "it could have been really good".
"We were working very, very well, but [the producers] didn't want to go down that route with us," he told Empire. "So we decided to part company, and it would be unfair to say what it was because I don't know what Cary [Fukunaga] is going to do."
Referring to his successful partnership with screenwriter John Hodge, Boyle continued: "What John and I were doing, I thought, was really good. It wasn't finished, but it could have been really good.
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"You have to believe in your process and part of that is the partnership I have with a writer... Those fundamental partnerships are vital."
With a new team in place, and presumably a whole new direction for the film, not much is known about the repeatedly delayed project, other than it's expected to be Daniel Craig's last outing as 007.
The film's name is another part of the mystery, but recent reports from Production Weekly seem to suggest that Bond 25's working title is the intriguing Shatterhand.
The next Bond movie is currently scheduled for release on April 8, 2020.
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