Craig reprises the role of the playboy MI6 secret agent in the upcoming 24th James Bond film, as will Skyfall director Sam Mendes who recently took a break from making films to focus in stage theater production. The director decided to accept the film after a series of offers from the producers of the franchise.
Mendes, was able to shed some light on what the story would be in Bond's upcoming installment, as he told Vulture:
"Hopefully we'll reclaim some of the old irony, and make sure it doesn't become pastiche. I can't do shtick; I'm not very good at it. Unless it kind of suddenly makes sense. Does that make sense? I sometimes wish I hammed it up more, but I just can't do it very well, so I don't do it."
Also slated to return are 007's fellow agents MI6 secretary Miss Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), weapons and gadgets wizard "Q" and Ralph Fiennes who could possibly serve as the new "M", who will serve as Daniel Craig's Bond's boss in future films.
Empire magazine also had a chance to get John Logan, writer of the new Bond movie to provide details on its plot:
"Right now the first draft is almost done. I'm terrifically excited about it! I've been working very closely with Sam [Mendes), and it's been joyous to pick up from our work on Skyfall and just continue on with the storytelling. The new movie continues the themes of Skyfall. Some of the characters and themes that we began to introduce in Skyfall will play out, I hope successfully, in the next movie."
He also revealed that though the franchise isn't limited to the Ian Fleming novels, it doesn't mean that the new movie plot will not have some of its source material from taken from the novels.
"The great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances? One of the things we learned in Skyfall is that the audience really enjoyed those, they enjoyed when they saw the Aston Martin, they enjoyed when we had references to things they grew up with, either from Ian Fleming or from the other movies, and that's always been a part of my thinking about Bond."
The as-yet untitled new James Bond movie is expected to begin production in December.
