Paul Haggis ‘not involved with the film… yet’

[Blowfeld]

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CommanderBond.net tells us that “Casino Royale” writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have handed in the script for the next Bond film – the 22nd jaunt for 007. Meanwhile, Cinematical talked to writer Paul Haggis who said ‘with a peculiar smile that he was not involved with the film… yet’.

[ID]

Here are a couple of people not keen on P&W coming back.

http://www.petitiononline.com/SaveBond/petition.html

[Kristatos]

Here are a couple of people not keen on P&W coming back.

http://www.petitiononline.com/SaveBond/petition.html

They're up to 4 signatures, I see. That's double what it was the last time I looked.

[stockslivevan]

I'll give them one more shot alone at this. DAD wasn't entirely their fault because of Lee Tamahori's tampering of the script. TWINE got butchered from a serious spy thriller to an uneven Moore/Dalton hyrbid by polishers.

I actually think their orginal DAD concept of Bond searching for the insider at MI6 was great, just the director ruined it and tried to make a TSWLM with all the camp, glamour and such the Roger Moore era was known for.

If they do this alone, I'll give them one more shot and hope their scripts don't get tampered with. If they fail, bring on some new writers. As long As Tamahori and Feirstein stay away from the script, we could be in good hands.

[Kristatos]

I'll give them one more shot alone at this. DAD wasn't entirely their fault because of Lee Tamahori's tampering of the script. TWINE got butchered from a serious spy thriller to an uneven Moore/Dalton hyrbid by polishers.

And most of the Bond/Vesper stuff that has been criticised in CR, even by the film's fans, seems to be the work of Paul Haggis. Maybe one day we'll see a film that actually puts one of P&W's scripts up on the screen the way they wrote it. At the moment, they seem to be the fall guys for other peoples' creative mistakes.