James Bond: John Logan Talks About His Future

Making the rounds at at the TCA press tour for the upcoming cable series Penny Dreadful--Skyfall scribe John Logan was asked about the status of Bond 24.

He did confirm to IGN that the next two films will continue what "Skyfall," established-The return of the classic elements--characters like Miss Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Q (Ben Whishaw) to a tone that's more humorous yet keeping the contemporary edge of the Daniel Craig era of the franchise:

"My goal is to write a great movie that's appropriate, to build on what we did on Skyfall, but make it its own unique animal. The themes, ideas and the characters from Skyfall can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. So I think there's resonance from Skyfall in the new movie.

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was Diamonds Are Forever, when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces. I love all the elements, from the books -- mostly from the novels; going back to Ian Fleming is where I started with Skyfall -- and there's certainly elements of the movies and the novels that we've brought into the new movie, as they did into Skyfall."

Since EON now owns the rights to the character of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the central nemesis during the Sean Connery-era, Logan was asked about the new film's villain and whether Blofeld would make an appearance.

All Logan would say was: "You know, I think our villain's appropriate to the story we're telling."