MGM spokesman expands on the James Bond 21 delay announcement

Following yesterday's official announcement that production of the 21st James Bond film will be delayed, and the previously announced release date of November 18th 2005 missed, and MGM spokesman explained more about the situation to Yahoo News.

"At the moment it doesn't look like we're going to make our start date just based on the fact that we haven't found a director yet," said the MGM spokesman.

"We want to get the elements right and not be shoe-horned into a release date," the MGM rep said. "It just depends on when we find the next director and settle on him and how quickly we can ramp it up and go."

MGM declined to say whether Brosnan would return.

"Currently he's not under contract to play James Bond," the studio spokesman said. "Once we get a director then I think we can get into casting."

Thanks to `yush01` and `Jim` for the alerts.

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