James Bond Writers Hit a Wall Over One Problem Stalling 007’s Return

If the latest Bond chatter is real, the next 007 movie has one problem Q can’t fix: the last guy exploded. Literally. And now the people building the new era of Bond are trying to figure out how to follow that.

What the rumor mill says right now

• Denis Villeneuve is said to be the pick to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios. He’s busy with Dune: Part Three at the moment, and there’s no casting yet.
• Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) is reportedly writing the script.
• The whisper going around is that Amazon MGM Studios is steering creative on this one in a way that’s different from the usual Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson-led approach. Again: that’s the rumor, not an official line.

The headache: Bond is very, very dead

Radar Online claims the team is wrestling with a major story problem: Daniel Craig’s Bond didn’t just disappear at sea or retire to Jamaica in 2021’s No Time to Die. He was definitively killed on screen. That was a bold swing at the time; it also makes the handoff to a new movie complicated if you want to keep continuity.

'Writers are tearing their hair out. Bond didn’t just vanish off a cliff or fake his death — he was blown to pieces on screen. Everyone agrees it was a massive mistake because Bond is supposed to be eternal. They are now stuck trying to find a believable way to resurrect him, and it is proving almost impossible.'

That’s an unnamed source talking to Radar. File under unverified, but you can see the logic: Craig was never expected to come back, yet the franchise still has to decide how to move forward after such a final ending.

The obvious escape hatch: reboot, like always

It’s entirely possible — and honestly, the most sensible move — that the next film just casts a new Bond and doesn’t bother explaining anything that happened to the last one. The series has hit reset before without getting tangled in continuity knots, and fans are generally fine with it.

One Bond author agrees the ending painted them into a corner

Anthony Horowitz — who has written three official 007 novels — told Radio Times in September that blowing up Bond was a mistake. He pointed out that the character was poisoned and then 'blown to smithereens,' and asked, how do you get around someone being 'dead with a capital D'? In his view, Bond is a mythic, communal character who should feel eternal, which that movie complicated.

So, what’s real here?

None of this has been formally announced. Treat it as rumor until proven otherwise: who is directing, who is writing, how the franchise handles the Craig finale — all of it. Radar Online is the source of the 'creative headache' report; this round of chatter was first picked up by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.