9 Upcoming Movies Studios Have No Confidence In

8. Bond 25

The Movie

The 25th James Bond film, which will also serve as Daniel Craig's fifth and final time playing 007.

Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, Beasts of No Nation) will direct, while in addition to Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris and Ralph Fiennes reprising their roles, Rami Malek and Billy Magnussen have reportedly signed on as the villain and a CIA agent respectively.

The working title is "Shatterhand", though with an April 8, 2020 release date pencilled in, we're probably not far off an official title announcement.

What's Wrong?

Daniel Craig's Bond films have suffered through an eyebrow-raising number of production issues, with Quantum of Solace memorably being cobbled together on the eve of the 2007-2008 WGA Strike, while Spectre was continually re-written during shooting, with studio execs well aware that the third act was a bust.

Though Bond 25 only started second-unit photography a few weeks ago, the film already bears many hallmarks of a troubled production, least not that original director Danny Boyle bailed amid creative differences, resulting in Bond vets Neal Purvis and Robert Wade being brought in to rework his script.

Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement late last year, and regular Steven Soderbergh screenwriter Scott Z. Burns was hired to work on the screenplay as recently as February. Just this past week, it was then confirmed that Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) had also been brought in to fix the script.

Given that Daniel Craig and the rest of the main cast are set to join principal photography imminently, it's not a great sign that anyone, least of all MGM, is happy with the shape the movie is in creatively.

There's no chance in hell it bombs at the box office regardless of how it turns out, but it definitely gives just about everyone a moment for pause, that this may not end up the fond farewell to Craig's Bond we're all hoping it might be.