Jun 12, 2009 by Brian Gallagher

Peter Morgan on Board to Write Bond 23!

Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of EON Productions Ltd and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have today announced that Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale) will be the screenwriters of the 23rd James Bond adventure.

Daniel Craig will reprise his role as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in the film, which will be a MGM release of an EON production. Bond 23 is the latest installment in the longest-running franchise in motion picture history and will be produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. A date for the start of production is yet to be confirmed.

"Peter, Neal and Robert are extraordinarily talented and we're looking forward to working with the three of them," commented Wilson and Broccoli.

Peter Morgan is the award-winning writer of such films as The Last King of Scotland, The Queen and Frost/Nixon, which was based on his play. He has also scripted the upcoming The Special Relationship for HBO and Hereafter for DreamWorks. He will turn his attention to Bond 23 on completion of these duties.

Since 1991, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have collaborated on a diverse range of projects including The Italian Job, Johnny English and the past four Bond films. They recently adapted John Le Carre's The Mission Song and are also working on the upcoming sequel The Brazilian Job.


Sources: MGM

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Comments (115)

  1. Mutant

    Now there's two, that's all we need... clones.

    3 years agoby @zenderFlag

  2. CBF

    WTF Its a chick

    3 years agoby @comicbookfanFlag

  3. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    Do you know how childish it looks just imitating someones profile avatar and name, well this is to whoever is imitating Newkill, plz grow the hell up.

    New kill just, ignore the prick imitating you, don't let him get to you, people actually do it to you because your easy to temper.

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  4. Newkill200

    WTF? Dude, who are you arguing with?

    3 years agoby @roxyrollerderbyqueenFlag

  5. Delgren

    Oh the endless fun I get out of f*cking with you is priceless.

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  6. Delgren

    Like my new avatar!! Now we can be twins!!! YAY!!!!

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  7. Delgren

    Oh Newskill, there's no getting you is there. I guess you out wit us all in the end with your vagina like cunning, and endless movie facts. I guess I'll have to take my tranny ass back to the circus, I'll tell our parents you said hi. Thats right, we were birthed to a couple of tranny's, but allas that means your a tranny too!!! Yay!! My tranny brother!! We've missed you so much!!! Come back to us Newskill we miss you! Don't worry you can bring your little f*ck toy the albino cat with you.

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  8. Newkill3000

    Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were a guy because you had male in your profile. Hey, I've never meant a tranny before, Lmaof. I guess you wanted to be a bond girl.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  9. Newkill3000

    Lol, Is this a picture of you wearing your mothers underwear? Come on man, i don't want to see that sh*t. Hey, I know that middle finger isn't meant towards me, because i be damned if i even think about f*cking a dude. Go send your daddy that picture, bitch.
    Wow, because of me you hate bond now and wish them the worst that's hilarious.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  10. Delgren

    And when Blofeld is the new villain I hope it's horrible, I hope they f*ck it up and destroy your image of your favorite villain. And just so you get this straight, I do suck dick, but that's fine cause I'm a chick and you f*cking loser. So what now, I guess you sucking dick is a lot worst than me sucking dick. Is it tough getting all that c*m out of your facial hair when they splatter all over you? Do you enjoy those humiliating moments when your some one else's bitch?

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  11. Delgren

    Oh it gets better and better. I think you have secret fantasies of watching guys suck and their daddy's dick, and there granddaddy's dick, and great granddady's dicks. Oh wait, whats that Newkill? Your going to tell me to suck my Great Great Great Granddaddy's dick! Oh man you got me their. Oh and that picture joke got me so angry, I was so furious, I said "I can't deal with this pressure anymore, I got to change my avatar before i kill myself." You called it jerk off! Your insults are like tiny daggers through my heart, I can't take their severity.

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  12. Newkill3000

    Wow, Lol, i guess that picture joke most have gotten to your dumbass, delgren. Well, the picture looks like Dick f*cking Tracy in the dark. Which goes to explain another reason why you like sucking dicks. Okay, now, you can go back sucking your grandfathers dick.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  13. Delgren

    Your still the king c*ck sucker as far as I'm concerned Newkill200dickssucked

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  14. Delgren

    Wow, your so good at come backs I just don't know what to do with my self. Oh no I checked out his hair I must be a gay, I must! And what's that I hear, I suck dick too? OHHH NOOO!!!! : o < My dick sucking face!! AHHH TOOO MUUCCHHH DIICCKKKK!!!! AHHHH!!!

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  15. schlike22

    Newkill, I just want to say your posts crack me up. Don't get me wrong, you definetly know your movie stuff. But your insults are priceless. hahaha

    3 years agoby @schlike22Flag

  16. Newkill3000

    Btw, Delgren, your dumbass can believe all the rumors you want. It's not going to happen. But damn man, not only do you suck dudes dicks, but now you check out their eyes and hair. So, just go f*ck your father you piece of camel sh*t. Nough said, bitch.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  17. Newkill3000

    I'm sorry Todd but i have to disagree. Brosnan is not the best. He had it right in Goldeneye, but in Tomorrow never dies and throughout, he just dropped off. He couldn't hold onto it anymore. But Craig, you can tell that guy read up on all those Ian Fleming books. It's like he got inside Fleming's head and picked out everything that will make a good Bond, but that's my opinion. Pierce Brosnan is my second favorite by the way.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  18. Delgren

    Or so you think you are the Movieweb God, more like the Movieweb inferiority complex over-compensating midget. By far Craig is not the best, maybe not the worst, I can't say that, but Connery will always be the only Bond to truly fulfill that role, every one else is just trying to fill those shoes. The closest runner up is Brosnan, Craig though will never be a true Bond, he doesn't fit the profile, you can call me a f*g all you want, i know you suck more dick anyways, but blonde hair, blue eyes, melon head, sorry that doesn't equal Bond.

    Oh and Blofeld is coming, no doubt about it. All the clues are there, and in the books Blofeld is responsible for Bond' wife's death, which leads me to believe they are further driving it home one way or another. I have a feeling that the Dominic Greene character might have been an Emilio Largo replica the same way they changed Spectre to Quantum.

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  19. Mutant

    Craig is much better than Roger Moore and a few others but he's not the best. Average good but not excellent.
    I find that Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond ever. Craig has a lot on his shoulders, no wonder he's trying to shake off the Bond role.

    3 years agoby @zenderFlag

  20. Newkill3000

    F*ck that bitch. I'm not the Czar. I'm the Movieweb God. I told you once already Blofeld is not coming. Get it out of your f*cking heads. Craig is the best Bond ever. You need some f*cking medicine. What now, do you judge the way men look, now? Are you a f*ggot? Why are you paying attention to this guy's head and hair? Get off his dick will you?

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  21. Delgren

    Damn Newskill, take your temper medicine, she has a right to her opinion. Remember your not the Movieweb Czar.

    Eitherway, I thought QoS was much better than the first one, still I can't buy Craig as Bond, his head is like the size of a f*cking melon, and he's too f*cking blonde. I think Blofeld is on the horizon if you ask me, all this lead up to the secret organization and sh*t. I'm looking forward to it.

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

  22. Newkill3000

    Well, boo-hoo. If you didn't like Craig, why are you even on this article go somewhere else. go to the stepfather remake article and talk about that. Slut.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  23. Alyce (Uh-Lease)

    i did not like Daniel Craigs james bond in the first 007 movie he did....and the second wasnt that much better

    3 years agoby @alyceepoohFlag

  24. Newkill3000

    Lol,I've watched those movies so many times that i can play them all in my head. I wish i was his brother. I'd get the woman and the free hotel rooms.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  25. Mutant

    It could be just a family job, one generation after another. It doesn't have to be Sean at all, besides the last actor looks old enough to be the father of the new one.
    You really know your Bond and I remember that scene, Tim smiled weakly. It's really scary that you know Bond that well, I wonder... No it can't be you're his brother.

    3 years agoby @zenderFlag

  26. Newkill3000

    Todd, it's explained very well that both of Bond's parents are dead. Alec Trevelyn was chastising Bond's life because his parents just died in a climbing accident, but Alec died in an execution squad. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say his family. I just meant his mother and father. But I've always wondered if Q, not John Cleese, i mean Desmond, was really James Bond's uncle. Remember in the living daylights, the hotel receptionist said that Bond's uncle was in his room. Since then i've always wondered if they were really related. They seem close.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  27. Mutant

    Most of them did but not all, but who says all of them died. Someone could have lied.

    3 years agoby @zenderFlag

  28. Newkill3000

    No, Todd, he couldn't. James bond's family died in a climbing accident. Bond is an orphan. Goldeneye explains that.

    3 years agoby @newkill200Flag

  29. Mutant

    If Sean Connery came back he would have to play Bonds father. I can see it now.
    M looks at the older James then at the son, she smiles warmly.
    "About time both of you finally came to your senses, my father would have liked to see this reunion but sadly he died a number of years ago".
    The son says "Ah yes, father did tell me about your father. So that's why your called M".

    3 years agoby @zenderFlag

  30. Delgren

    That would be pretty cool. I want to start reading up on Flemming's 'Red Indians', the 30 Assault Unit. It be cool to see something done on his time with unit, and some of their missions in the vein of Munich. Mostly everything made about him during his time in WW2 has been mostly made for TV movies, so it be nice to get something a bit more cinematic. This dude Craig Cabell has a book out on it called "Ian Flemming's Secret War" and another coming out in October, "The History of the 30 Assault Unit". They look worth checking out.

    3 years agoby @delgrenFlag

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