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By Simon Reynolds for Digital Spy<\/p>\n
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan has claimed that the James Bond series lacks realism.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/i> <![CDATA[ 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…<\/p>\n
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