FROST/NIXON's Peter Morgan Joins Writing Team For Next 'BOND' Film

Variety is reporting that "Frost/Nixon" playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan has signed on to the writing team for the upcoming James Bond 23.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, co-writers of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, will once again return as well. Daniel Craig will reprise his role as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in the film, which will be a MGM release. They have not yet announced a start date for production on this. "Peter, Neal and Robert are extraordinarily talented and we're looking forward to working with the three of them," producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli remarked to film website FirstShowing.net. To read more on the upcoming actioner at Variety go here, to read more information about Bond 23 on First Showing click here.

Peter Morgan also wrote Tom Hooper's upcoming "The Damned United," which also stars Sheen as legendary English soccer coach Brian Clough; Universal-Working Title's remake of the Brit miniseries "State of Play," starring Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck; and an upcoming adaptation of John le Carre's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" for Working Title.

Frost/Nixon was a collaboration between Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Films, with Academy Award® winners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard joining Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner as producers. Joining Langella and Sheen as the colorful real-life personalities who provide the men counsel is a formidable roster of actors including Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.

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