Bond 23 will start filming late 2010 according to Daniel Craig

The 23rd James Bond film (AKA Bond 23) will start production in late 2010, 007 star Daniel Craig told fans Thursday outside the stage door for his Broadway play, “A Steady Rain.”

“We start end of next year,” he said in a video posted to YouTube - reports Access Hollywood.

Click here to watch the video online (via YouTube.com)

Unlike many media and fan outlets, MI6 stated that Bond 23 would be released in late 2011 before the last outing "Quantum of Solace" was released in theatres. It means a three year gap between films for fans of the series, something which happened once during the Pierce Brosnan era (between "The World Is Not Enough" in 1999 and "Die Another Day" in 2002).

The additional year between films should give MGM time to sort out their financial situation.

Bond 23 is being written by regular Bond duo Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, and "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon" scribe Peter Morgan. David Arnold will compose the score for his sixth 007 movie. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have yet to confirm a director.



The actor has played the debonair spy in two Bond films so far, franchise reboot "Casino Royale" in 2006 and last year’s "Quantum of Solace," both huge box office hits.

Daniel, currently acting alongside fellow big screen hero Hugh Jackman in “A Steady Rain,” will next be seen in theaters as Red Rackham in Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.”

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