Barbara Broccoli, who along with her half-brother Michael G Wilson is the lead producer on the Bond movie series, has indicated that Shatterhand is not the title of the upcoming 007 film, currently known as Bond 25.
According to Bond news site MI6 HQ, Broccoli signed a piece of fan art for India Grace that included the word Shatterhand, adding the words “It’s not” and an arrow. This would appear to set to rest rumours that the working title under which Bond 25 had been listed in industry publication Production Weekly would become its official one.
Shooting is due to start at Pinewood studios on 6 April, and there had been longstanding rumours that Shatterhand would be Bond 25’s official title. The name comes from an alias used by series supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Ian Fleming’s 1964 Bond novel You Only Live Twice.
The much delayed release has been pushed back to April 2020 amid reports of extensive script rewrites. Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z Burns has been hired to rework the screenplay for Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as 007. Original director Danny Boyle dropped out in August 2018 after “creative differences” with the producers, and there have since been script drafts by Paul Haggis and the series’ writing team Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.
