The new James Bond movie title may have been revealed if reports in the British newspaper The Mirror are to be believed. According to the red top, the 25th 007 adventure, and follow-up to box-office smashes Skyfall and SPECTRE, may be called ‘Shatterhand’. They say that the film will see parts of it based on the 1999 thriller novel ‘Never Dream Of Dying‘ by US author Raymond Benson, who also wrote Bond books Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day and The World is Not Enough.
New James Bond movie title to be Shatterhand?
The same report over at the news outlet is that the new film could see James Bond taking on a blind super-villain, though they add that Christoph Waltz and Dave Bautista will be reprising their roles as their two villains from SPECTRE after provisionally agreeing to do the next blockbuster.
An ‘insider’ told the newspaper: “Bond scriptwriters feel it could be the perfect follow-up to Spectre. They are hoping to film in Croatia next year.”
Other expected locations include the south of France and Japan. Will it film/ take place at the Cannes Film Festival? Here’s the full plot of Never Dream Of Dying from the source material:
A movie is a perfect hiding place for crime, as Bond finds when he uncovers how a film producer is a front for an international crime conspiracy. The Union – already encountered in the latest two Bond adventures High Time to Kill and Doubleshot – reveals its connections to the Cannes Film Festival and the Corsican mafia. Before he has finished, Bond will have to save the producer’s exquisite movie-star wife, confront Le Gerant, the brains behind the Union – and settle a score from many years ago.
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‘Shatterhand’, 007 25, or whatever the new James Bond movie title will be, will be released in the UK in late-October 2019. We’ll bring you more news as it comes in.
