Danny Boyle opens on his only regret after leaving James Bond behind

When Danny Boyle He moved away from the direction James Bond 25 In 2018, it was a surprise and a shock because many fans wanted to see how the franchise would manage.

Now, years later, the Oscar’s winning director is thinking back to that decision and, although not guessing it, he admits that there is something that still lingers.

Speaking with Business Insider, Boyle clarified that the return to Bond is not in the cards, especially now that the franchise has a new home with Amazon. “That ship sailed,” he said.

Boyle therefore revealed that he still regrets to leave behind the script he was developing with his longtime collaborator John Hodge (The duo behind Trainspotting AND T2).

“The script was really good. John Hodge is a wonderful writer.”

This is the part that stings him, not the show of great budgets, who trout the globe or the pressure of following Specter, but abandoning a story in which he and him and Hodge believed.

Before Cary Joji Fukunaga entered and There is no time to die he became Daniel CraigSwan Song, Boyle and Hodge had prepared something that according to what has been reported involved a Russian villain and the death of Bond, which eventually happened in the final film.

According to the report, that element was already cooked in Craig’s contract. So even if the version of Boyle has never arrived on the screen, part of its DNA may have survived.

Boyle’s original grip could have given us a radically different bond ending, one with his visual Flair signature and his subversive narrative. But creative clashes with producers Barbara Broccoli AND Michael G. Wilson In the end he led to his departure.

The broccoli, speaking before the acquisition of the franchise by Amazon, was adamant in protecting the character of the character:

“There have been so many wrong rumors about the future of the bond. Amazon undertakes to keep the spirit of the bond alive and this means that it must be British or from the Commonwealth – and must be male.”

So, while the future of 007 remains wide open and Amazon has undoubtedly plans, don’t expect Boyle to be part of it. His moment of bond has passed, but surely I would like to read that screenplay that Hodge wrote!