Bond producers are looking to nail down a villain before casting the next 007
, the duo offers some insight into the storytelling process, which begins with assessing possible Bond villains—both personal and geopolitical.
“We always sit down with our writers, and we start by thinking about ‘What is the world afraid of?’” Broccoli says. “We start by thinking about, ‘Who’s the Bond villain?’ We try to focus on that as the sort of uber story, and then we want to also look at Bond’s emotional life, and what he’ll be facing personally that he hasn’t had to deal with before. So he has two big issues in the films—one is the geopolitical one and the other is the personal one.
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