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By Simon Reynolds for Digital Spy
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan has claimed that the James Bond series lacks realism.
The Queen and Frost/Nixon writer, who was hired to pen a script for the 23rd franchise instalment before MGM’s financial problems postponed the project, told indieWire that he struggles to “still believe a British secret agent is saving the world”.
He said: “I do think there’s an absence of social reality in the Bond films. If they fix that – which I so hope they will – where you can actually believe in him [and] he isn’t just a person in a dinner jacket. He’s a creature of the Cold War.”
Morgan added that he was “encouraged” by director Sam Mendes’s attachment to the project: “He wouldn’t put his name to a load of nonsense… He wouldn’t want to do a Bond film and make it a panto.”
Morgan, who said that he only penned a treatment and not a full script for the Daniel Craig spy movie, admitted that he wasn’t confident about seeing any of his work make it to the big screen.
“I suspect that if they start again then they’ll start entirely again,” he commented. “I think that there was momentum behind my idea for a moment and I suspect that moment has probably gone.”
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