Screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade discuss what it takes to keep the James Bond franchise alive.
Purvis and Wade developed Daniel Craig's arc as Bond over fifteen years and five filmsThey have written seven James Bond screenplays, including all the Daniel Craig films, and their previous collaborations date back over 20 illustrious years.
When, in the late 1990s, the team of Purvis and Wade signed on to write The World is Not Enough, they already had a couple of successful screenplays to their credit. "When we've finished our job on the screenplay, it's basically goodbye Rob and Neal," Purvis says. "With Casino Royale, for instance, Paul Haggis took over. And with Skyfall it was John Logan, but obviously always working with the director."Wade adds that it can get complex. "In the case of Skyfall, John Logan came on after us and then we did a bit more again. Skyfall in particular just kept developing and it developed really well I thought.
"So in that case we were writing our story with no actor in mind but from Ian Fleming's original Casino Royale novel [published in 1953]. We wrote to his conception of the story as faithfully as we could. Daniel then inhabited the role and of course over time we saw what Daniel could do."Daniel Craig was cast as the spy in 2005, making his debut in Casino Royale in 2006"In the two films we'd written for Pierce it was always essentially a continuum of what came before.
The following film, Quantum of Solace, provided a different challenge. Its title came from a Fleming short story of 1959 but otherwise the men had to create a totally new story. The critical delight which greeted Casino Royale was not repeated.ranking all the films from the long-running franchise.
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