Writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade talk about their work on DAD

09-Jul-2002 • Die Another Day

The Sunday Express S:2 magazine (UK) featured an interview with "Die Another Day" writers Purvis and Wade this weekend:

On minor script change
`within moments of sitting down...one of their mobiles goes off. It is Michael Wilson... He wants to make a change to a scene in the film, currently being shot at Pinewood Studios. "Typical," signs Purvis. "You have a day off, then the actors don`t know what to say.." He and Wade retreat to a corner of the bar where they hastily improvise some new dialogue for a scene in which 007 plunges from a helicopter..`

On Pierce Brosnan
`Pierce is very approachable. He is on first-name terms with most of the crew and often hangs out with them during breaks in filming. A lot of Hollywood stars aren`t like that, they just troop from the trailer to the sound stage and back again with a ridiculously large entourage.`

On DAD
`Where do you go for glamorous locations when 007 already lays claim to being the world`s best travelled secret agent? How do you top stunts such as GE`s vertical-inducing bungee jump?...But the pair are happy with the way DAD has turned out,"It`s a grown-up Bond movie".

Reflecting on their career
`They earned pin-money coming with storylines for pop videos, and were even flown out to Italy to meet a producer who wanted to make a film about Elton John kidnapping the 11 greatest footballers in the world to play them against his own team of robots. This, they say,"was a low point among low points".

On writing Bond 21
`of course they would like to write the next Bond film..but Wade diplomatically answers:"You can`t presume anything in this business."

Thanks to our regular tipster `Durex` for the alert.