PURVIS & WADE OUT OF BONDAGE

After writing two Bond films that ended with the Pierce Brosnan era (THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, DIE ANOTHER DAY) and the three adventures that started Daniel Craig's era (CASINO ROYALE, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, SKYFALL), scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade confirmed they're leaving the Bond series, while John Logan has signed up as a sole writer for the 24th and 25th Bond films, set to be released in 2014 and (probably) 2016.

Neal Purvis & Robert Wade in 2006,
on the set of CASINO ROYALE

The writers, actually taking part in the Docca Tribal Film Festibal in Qatar, said: “We’re very happy to have done five Bond movies, I think we’ve gotten it to a good place. I know that John Logan and Sam Mendes have come up with a plot for another one, which takes the pressure off because these films take up a lot of time.”

They've also said that they've considered leaving the series with QUANTUM OF SOLACE, but they've felt tempted to retire in a better way with SKYFALL, one of the most (if not the most) emotionally deep screenplays in the whole Bond series.

In the Bond series, Purvis and Wade worked with writers like GOLDENEYE's Bruce Feirstein and Oscar winners Paul Haggis and John Logan.