May 21, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min · 12 segments
Really, 007! look forward to the 26th James Bond film, taking a journey from pre-production to release... In part 12 we discuss we discuss the appointment of Steven Knight as the writer of the first…
John KellPanelist
Rob ParkerPanelistMath PickupPanelistI think it was last Thursday evening pretty much when I was getting ready to go to bed.
Suddenly there's a screenshot being thrown around from, posted from Amazon, MGM's, uh, social media, but also kind of in partnership with the 007 accounts, which is always nice to see, revealing, like, a, a s- kind of short quote about the casting of James Bond.
And, and actually, I seem to remember after the episode about Steven Knight, we were all fairly sort of almost convinced ourselves that the, they know who Bond is and we're gonna be hearing any minute now.
It did turn out to be probably wrong, which proves we certainly don't know everything.
But, um-I think that's how it should be, isn't it? I mean, these, there are- we've got tidbits that we can work off, but the rest of it is kind of speculation and kind of filling in the gaps ourselves.
Before we talk about w- what's going on, I do want to just say, and this might be kind of flying in the face of what this series is about, the, 'cause we're meant to be marking the progress, but is there something good, guys, about this stage now where we don't know stuff? It-
... 'cause do you think there'll come a point where we'll look back and think, "Oh, how exciting was that time where it wasn't all spelt out for us, and we could kind of dream of this and come up with such and such ideas." Are you getting any joy from not knowing stuff?
Well, I, I think this is as privileged as a position as, you know, because you know that there's something happening, and you know that there's, like-
I, I was watching, um, The Running Man, the Edgar Wright, the new Edgar Wright one, and I was thinking, like, there is a chance, like, Josh Brolin could be in it or something, like in a Bond film or something.
I was thinking, like, I do think the world is more of Bond's oy- Bond world's oyster now, or I, you know.
I, I feel like we, we are in a new era, and I'll, I'll be honest now, like, and I might have said this in previous episodes, in the last, more recent episodes.
When it was still under Eon, I was more of the feeling, "This has to go back to fun.
I think it was last Thursday evening pretty much when I was getting ready to go to bed.
Suddenly there's a screenshot being thrown around from, posted from Amazon, MGM's, uh, social media, but also kind of in partnership with the 007 accounts, which is always nice to see, revealing, like, a, a s- kind of short quote about the casting of James Bond.
And, and actually, I seem to remember after the episode about Steven Knight, we were all fairly sort of almost convinced ourselves that the, they know who Bond is and we're gonna be hearing any minute now.
It did turn out to be probably wrong, which proves we certainly don't know everything.
But, um-I think that's how it should be, isn't it? I mean, these, there are- we've got tidbits that we can work off, but the rest of it is kind of speculation and kind of filling in the gaps ourselves.
Before we talk about w- what's going on, I do want to just say, and this might be kind of flying in the face of what this series is about, the, 'cause we're meant to be marking the progress, but is there something good, guys, about this stage now where we don't know stuff? It-
... 'cause do you think there'll come a point where we'll look back and think, "Oh, how exciting was that time where it wasn't all spelt out for us, and we could kind of dream of this and come up with such and such ideas." Are you getting any joy from not knowing stuff?
Well, I, I think this is as privileged as a position as, you know, because you know that there's something happening, and you know that there's, like-
I, I was watching, um, The Running Man, the Edgar Wright, the new Edgar Wright one, and I was thinking, like, there is a chance, like, Josh Brolin could be in it or something, like in a Bond film or something.
I was thinking, like, I do think the world is more of Bond's oy- Bond world's oyster now, or I, you know.
I, I feel like we, we are in a new era, and I'll, I'll be honest now, like, and I might have said this in previous episodes, in the last, more recent episodes.
When it was still under Eon, I was more of the feeling, "This has to go back to fun.
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