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As the 60th anniversary run of the James Bond movies continues to roll out, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have been honoured by the BFI and confirmed that they are preparing to “reinvent” Bond.

The character created by Ian Fleming for Casino Royale has been interpreted in many different ways over the decades with humour accentuated in certain performances, and reined in by other actors, but it seems as if this will be a more fundamental reboot. The print versions have done similar in recent years with Jeffrey Deaver penning a modern Bond, the forthcoming 00 novels dispensing with him altogether, and the Dynamite Comics remoulding the character for the 21st century.

“Nobody’s in the running,” Broccoli told Deadline at the BFI Chair’s Dinner celebrating their work on the franchise. “We’re working out where to go with him, we’re talking that through. There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film because, really, it’s a reinvention of Bond. We’re reinventing who he is and that takes time. I’d say that filming is at least two years away.”