Despite an on set injury suffered by star Daniel Craig, looks like production on “Bond 25” is moving right along on the island of Jamaica.

If you’ll recall- back in April, there was a live announcement from Goldenye Jamaica at Sir Ian Fleming’s villa where Fleming actually wrote all of the novels and the very first Bond film Dr. No was filmed, sharing some scant details about the upcoming production. 

Today, the 007 production released a new video (1:00) teasing some of the Caribbean locations and beautiful editing we can expect from the Cary Joji Fukunaga -directed film.

Barbra Broccoli said that Bond is not on active service in this film, he’s on vacation. “He starts his journey here, we’ve built a house for him here.” They confirmed some casting rumors; Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Lea Seydoux, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, as well as franchise newcomers Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah, and offered a non-update on the actual title- which for now will remain “Bond 25“.

We also got confirmation shortly there after that Phoebe Waller-Bridge was indeed on script duty for the film, joining Neal PurvisRobert Wade, and Scott Z. Burns.

“There’s been a lot of talk about whether or not [the Bond franchise] is relevant now because of who he is and the way he treats women. I think that’s bollocks,” Waller-Bridge said. “I think he’s absolutely relevant now. It has just got to grow. It has just got to evolve, and the important thing is that the film treats the women properly. He doesn’t have to. He needs to be true to this character.”

“When I saw his Bond for the first time, there was a wryness to his performance that I really loved. So, I was really excited about writing dialogue for him,” she continued. “I mean, the script was there. It’s already there. I think it’s unfair to say that I’m writing the script. I just want to make sure that when they get those pages through, that Lashana, Léa and Ana open them and go, ‘I can’t wait to do that.’ As an actress, I very rarely had that feeling early in my career. That brings me much pleasure, knowing that I’m giving that to an actress.”

“Bond 25” currently has a release date of April 8th, 2020.


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