According to THR, Bond 23 is plowing ahead at full-steam and could even start filming this June. The script is being penned by Bond veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the screenwriting team behind The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, and Quantum of Solace, and The Queen and Frost/Nixon scribe Peter Morgan. And Daniel Craig will be back as the suave superspy, Bond, James Bond.
Doing press for Quantum of Solace, Craig offered his perspective on where the franchise stands and where Bond 23 could be headed. "I think we've finished, we've tail-ended these," explained Craig when asked if we'll see a Bond in Bond 23 who's as vulnerable as the Bond of Quantum of Solace. "These movies stand up alone. They're two very separate movies, two stylistically separate movies, but we've completed the circle in these movies. We can do anything."
And Craig said he'd love to see the return of Q and Moneypenny. "I think though you offer it to the best actors you can and you say to them, 'Forget what's happened. Reinvent it. Tell us what you think these characters should be.' That's where it should come from because what they do is a given. How they are is a given."
