10 Upcoming Movies That Are Already Doomed
4. Bond 26
After Daniel Craig's era of James Bond movies wrapped up with No Time to Die in 2021, it was assumed that producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli would wait a year or two and then start ramping up production for the next rebooted iteration of 007. Yet per a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, Bond 26 is basically no closer to happening than it was almost three and a half years ago when No Time to Die was released.
Producer Broccoli, who has the final say on the Bond IP, is apparently at odds with MGM's new owner Amazon, which is keen to expand the world of James Bond into a wider - wait for it - cinematic universe with TV shows and spin-off movies.
Broccoli, meanwhile, remains adamant that Bond should remain an exclusive big-screen event which audiences turn up for every few years, leaving development of a new film at an impasse.
At present, Bond 26 is said to have no story, script, or actor hired to play the part, making it increasingly likely that it will break the record for the longest gap between Bond films - the six years and four months between 1989's Licence to Kill and 1995's GoldenEye.
Even if shooting started tomorrow, Bond 26 probably wouldn't release until mid-to-late 2026 - roughly five years after No Time to Die came out, and an entire seven years after Daniel Craig wrapped filming it, given that the pandemic delayed its release by 18 months.
Then again, would it surprise anyone if the new Bond film simply remained locked in developmental limbo for the foreseeable future?