The Name’s Haggis, Paul Haggis

Well, here's a twist we didn't see coming. Casino Royale's producers have employed a new writer to redraft the script, and it's none other than Crash and Million Dollar Baby scribe, Paul Haggis. He has taken over scribing duties from two-time Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (who penned The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), but being Oscar nominated and with a sleeper hit on his hands with Crash, Haggis is a busy boy these days, and the real question is when is he going to fit Bond into his schedule? Flags Of Our Fathers, Haggis' second screenplay for Clint Eastwood, is now filming, and Clint doesn't mess about with his scripts, so presumably the writer is not having to do any further work there. It's less certain his duties on The Last Kiss (the remake of a European film, starring Zach Braff and Jacinda Barrett) would be so complete. He's also set to make himself comfortable in the director's chair once again for Honeymoon With Harry (which, you guessed it, he wrote), and then he's signed on to write and produce Death And Dishonour, another military film for Warner Brothers. So with all this going on, when is Paul going to find the time to pen a Bond film? Well the short answer is, we don't know. There are several possibilities